In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Out in a minute to get laundry done.
Also about yesterday my boss seems was surprised that I could hold a philosophical conversation with her husband about time. He had taken a quick course up at UBC. Guest speaker was teaching it. I agreed with a lot of what she said.
Sounds like they're a regular Dunning and Kruger.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
I know. I know. It just always seems to shock them that I can understand these concepts and discuss my thoughts rationally and logically.
The other was music. I explained a couple of stories from two Chris deBurgh songs. I love Chris deBurgh. One was a "Spaceman came Travelling". In that the suggestion is the star of David wasn't a star but a spaceship in orbit over Bethleham. The other was "Patricia the Stripper." And a stripper was arrested, she was taken to court but after hearing the case. The judge threw it out and everyone went back to the club along with the cops. The song is set in 1924. I posted "Discovery" on here and explained that to him. Even quoted and sang a bit of it. Sang the chorus of "16 Tons" that was originally by Tennessee Ernie Ford. "you load 16 tons, and what do you get. Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store."
Had to remind him that "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was sung by Gordon Lightfoot and not Stompin' Tom Connors. Also explained how he got the nickname stomping. A little Johnny Cash history. She knows the Beatles as she talked about "Help from My Friends". Don't think she likes the song because "gasp" it talked in one line about getting high.
Honestly it is like they wander around in their own world.
Yeah... They do, but in the end I think we all kind of do that. Sometimes we just allow other people into our own orbit for maybe just a little while or maybe for the long haul.
Sometimes you've talked about them (her, specifically, to be honest) and I'd think "what a bitch"... But the more you talk about her, I think she's really got a soft spot for you. But she's not a soft lady, you see... so she doesn't really want to let you know that.
Wow... Chris deBurgh. I know one song by Chris deBurgh. It is the one song that everybody knows by Chris deBurgh. I liked it. It still reminds me of a beautiful young lass who I know wishes she still looked like that, but I always hope looks better than I do in 2026.
You're pulling out the Deep Cuts with that knowledge.
I'm sure they love having conversations like that.
I don't even know who Stompin' Tom Connors is, but I know who sung Edmund Fitzgerald. It's not on my playlist, but If You Could Read My Mind and especially Carefree Highway have been on it since high school when my English Teacher introduced us to a bunch of cool stuff before our time.
I've done that before... Haha!
I rememeber arguing with this girl that the Red Hot Chili Peppers did a song called "Epic". We argued about that all night. But there was no internet back then. No "Google It!". I had to apologize to her and eat crow the next time I saw her after I realized it was a band called "Faith No More".
Whoops!
I also told a girl I worked with at my first job that I didn't listen to Death Metal when she was wearing her Greatful Dead T-Shirt.
The first construction crew I worked with, the head guy there told me all the time "boy... you've really lived a sheltered life".
Annoyed me at the time, but he wasn't wrong.
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My god.... I've already written over 500 lines of python code without writing a single line of python code or even knowing a single python command.
"Oh, you want to do that? That's way beyond Batch File capability. You're going to want Python. Here... Install this program so you can run python scripts on your computer simply by double-clicking them as if they were batch files.
...
Oh... You want to create a "Confidence Structure" with thresholds of tolerance on how confident the matches are so we can filter out all of the ones that we know are good, while prompting you with Y/N questions to verify all of the ones under that threshold? No problem!
Oh... instead of doing one individual piece of something on an individual per-folder basis, you want to tie all of this together and do this on a "Regional" scale? You got it, dude!
Oh... You want to completely recreate the entire original file structure for every discareded result based off of the 2nd list being much smaller and the stuff not used being redundant? No problem perfect mirror with all of your desired changes in the original, and all the unnecessary stuff completely removed in the same structure as before but separate. And a 3rd folder for all of the ones that need manual intervention now that you've said N to the Y/N question? Sure!
This is flipping amazing.
This is 8 hours of a rap-sesh with a talking computer that will end up probably saving me several weeks of work by the time it's through.
I'm just thinking now... What else can I do with this newfound superpower?
I feel like Neo waking up from the training program and saying "I know Kung-Fu".
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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I'm just laughing as I re-read that to myself about the "You got it dude!".
I bet you if I asked it to reply to me as Raphiel from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, it would keep writing this awesome code for me but would start bugging me that it was Pizza Time.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Sigs... I'm telling you... This is crazy.
Not only have I built about 750 lines of python code tonight from nothing, but I've taught this thing to create and continually update a blueprint of everything it would need me to paste into a new session to start off a brand new session with all of the work and context it would need to start back up as if we never lost the connection or my power didn't go out.
And I'm using a dumb, free version of AI that anybody can start using simply by typing in a single word into Google search.
I've got it doing things for me I didn't even imagine could be put into code and had to be done manually. When I notice changes our code has made I either figured what happened right and it confirms I was right or it tells me the flaw in my own logic and what exactly the Math is doing behind the scenes for me.
It's amazing.
What would I have done with the last 2 years if I had spent 2 weeks playing AI Whisperer with this thing even half as seriously as I worked on my project?
I'm not going to regret that, but as this night has gone on I really do wonder if I can tweak this thing to the point where I could have trusted the code to do everything I wanted to without screwing anything up that I didn't catch along the way.
It feels like fully developing a part of my brain that was always there but never had the tools it needed to fully express itself.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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SIX, all that time you spent coding wasn't wasted bc you learned concepts. And that allows you to ask the right questions.
Asking the right questions and directing or redirecting the ai to do what yu need to be done is more than half the battle.
So good for you that you found a good tool! And even better that you know how to use it!
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Over here I called in crew to trim all the trees and shrubs on the property. It was a huge job bc we have a lot of big tree and a lot of shrubs that needed being cut down to size. I was impressed with the boss. When we did a walk thru and I pointed out all of the things that needed doing he correctly IDd almost of the trees and shrubs, including the feijoa and the coffee trees (!) that I have in pots. The only one he missed on was the oak, which he IDd as a black oak but is really (or was sold to me as) an Island oak. Close enough!
Happy with the job they did. They trimmed A LOT off the trees but they left good structures. Now dear daughter and I need to do the finishing cleanup touches when the weather cools down. And the pines won't be shedding literally binsful of pine needles every week!
And since it's been so blasted hot we've been working indoors. St Vincent de Paul hauled away 12+ boxes a couple of weeks ago. I set dear daughter up for her cash recycling and been after her to take care to rinse and sort it on a continuing basis instead of letting it build up. I set up another giveaway box to accumulate more items as I find them (already have a few items), and now I need to find largish bins for scrap metal (steel/ pot metal; brass/ bronze; and aluminum) since we have a scrap metal recycler down the street. Also been on dear daughter's neck to sort out some of the jumbles she has lying around, and going to replace the hooks that she had on her door so she can have a place for her clothes.
Got bad news about my last surviving uncle. My aunt and uncle are in their 90s, so good on them for living that long! But uncle landed in hospital with near total kidney failure. He's on the mend, but his kidneys are never going to recover anywhere close to 30%, so he and aunt have to move from their assisted living to a place that has nurses and doctors on staff.
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BRENDA it's nice that somebody paid for your slurpee! Things like that don't happen often enough. And SIX, given how you looked back then. I bet someone thought you were homeless! If only they knew...
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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SIX, all that time you spent coding wasn't wasted bc you learned concepts. And that allows you to ask the right questions.
Asking the right questions and directing or redirecting the ai to do what yu need to be done is more than half the battle.
So good for you that you found a good tool! And even better that you know how to use it!
That's a good way to look at it. Though I think I probably would have had the logic down already to have gotten similar results with how good this thing is able to read what I want done based off of my descriptors. I don't know if our conversation in total has been cut off in the beginning of our 2nd session, but I know the first session is lost if it's not still in the 1st tab that was failing on us but still allowed me eventually to ask it to give me a concise reply of what to post in a new session and not lose our progress.
Other than how it was replying on a "human" level, which didn't take long to get it to do again in the 2nd session, we didn't miss a beat of where we were at on the code with that done. And now on the second session our code needs to be broken up into 2 parts, and our "blueprint" which I need to feed into a new session if ours drops or flakes out to derive that code is now 5 parts long.
These aren't things it was offering to do originally. When the code got too long to post in a single response, it didn't know to split it up on its own because of the size limits. But I noticed the first time it happened and knew why it did, and it said from now on the code would be split into 2 parts, that it should now know to split it into 3 parts when it needs to and that I should let it know if it fails at that and when we should start splitting it into 3 parts.
So now every time it posts updates to the 2 parts of the code, it will also post all 5 parts of our blueprint updated with whatever changes it needed to update in there as well.
I think I've probably understood enough about the logic of coding to have gotten AI at the point it's at in its free state on Google today to do this sort of stuff 20 years ago. But 20 years ago all I had was the ability to try to search coding forums for similar issues people had solved and try to cobble code I only barely understood together and might work after hours of trial and error tweaking it. And that's just one thing. I'll get this thing to write 20 or 30 more lines of code for me that just works by writing out 2 or 3 paragraphs of what I want as if I was writing a post here about what I did today on my house.
Really... I view this as having a personal translator on hand, 24/7.
At some point it started replying a specific phrase about what I'm doing. I know it's got "STEM" in the name, and it's brought that up whenever I bring up a concept to add to the code that brings another temporary file into the mix while we're working. So at some point when we had our part of the code that requires me to manually intervene and approve or disapprove certain items (which we'd narrowed down from a total of over 1,000 items in this test case to only 24 that would need my attention), we now created a temporary cache file which will allow me to only need to approve those items one time during testing, and when I'm ready to run the entire thing from scratch all I need to do is delete that temporary file and then I'll approve/disapprove one last time before the code is actually run.
Oh... and it's good I was running this all on a single test folder because when I finally got through the approval process on the last 24 items (whittled down to that with all of the code changes and rules we've made to this point), it just ran the code on me after the last approval and made a lot of changes to the files and moved a lot to sub-folders of my design. OOPS! It didn't know not to do that because I never asked it to. So now I've got a break in the pro
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Back and done for today and I wonder how someone could wig out because someone left a pen at their place. That was my boss this morning. She called because I had left a pen at the house yesterday. She was all set to get it back to me when I said I have my laundry to do. She said "Oh, you have other pens?" Yes, I always have at least 2 in my pack back. Unlike them that can hardly ever find a pen in that house when I need to write something down.
That's funny, Brenda.
I don't think she was pissed off about you leaving it there. It sounds like she's living in a pen desert and doesn't realize she could walk right down the street and probably find a place selling them within walking distance.
It sounds like she really thought that was an emergency for you and you were completely lost without your pen.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
No, I don't think she was either. It was just strange that she was so worried that I didn't have another pen. In my place here. I keep a pen by my computer, I have another one for my writing and another pen that I am using for doing a book filled with puzzles. Also have a package of pens for when the ones in my back pack die.
But yeah, I find one pen that she had been using then I go back to use it and it disappears. So, I start hunting for another one if I do find another one it usually doesn't work.
I finally fixed my pen situation, Brenda. I took HUNDREDS of pens and pencils and markers from my folks when they moved out of state. And they all sat in a big dumb box buried deep inside my curio cabinet bottom under other things and never got used. And any time I needed a pen or pencil I couldn't find one anywhere.
I spent some time there sitting on the ground with all of them and throwing away the half of them that no longer worked, then I threw a bunch more away when I realized they had quite a few really nice pens and mechanical pencils in there. I probably still have 100 pens and pencils, but they're all good, and I know where the backups are (in a MUCH smaller box) when I need them. I got a pen, pencil and sharpie in my junk drawer, on the bedside table of the master bedroom I never use, and I've got about 5 of each in one of my decorative boxes on my curio cabinet, as well as about 50 sharpened pencils in the garage on my workbench.
And I know one day, one way or another, every single one of them is going to end up in my garage or in my basement work room and I'll wonder just how the hell that happened.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Good for you SIX. I've got a box of pencil crayons sitting on a top shelf in bedroom closet and it may have some pencils in it. I know at one time it had my dad's discharge papers in it. I must have needed them for something and couldn't get them back into their regular box and they ended up in there. I was going through it to see what was in it. Strange.
That house I swear is where pens, markers and mushrooms go to die. You don't want to know what she does to mushrooms that she buys. It is so cruel to the mushrooms.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, all that time you spent coding wasn't wasted bc you learned concepts. And that allows you to ask the right questions.
Asking the right questions and directing or redirecting the ai to do what yu need to be done is more than half the battle.
So good for you that you found a good tool! And even better that you know how to use it!
*****
Over here I called in crew to trim all the trees and shrubs on the property. It was a huge job bc we have a lot of big tree and a lot of shrubs that needed being cut down to size. I was impressed with the boss. When we did a walk thru and I pointed out all of the things that needed doing he correctly IDd almost of the trees and shrubs, including the feijoa and the coffee trees (!) that I have in pots. The only one he missed on was the oak, which he IDd as a black oak but is really (or was sold to me as) an Island oak. Close enough!
Happy with the job they did. They trimmed A LOT off the trees but they left good structures. Now dear daughter and I need to do the finishing cleanup touches when the weather cools down. And the pines won't be shedding literally binsful of pine needles every week!
And since it's been so blasted hot we've been working indoors. St Vincent de Paul hauled away 12+ boxes a couple of weeks ago. I set dear daughter up for her cash recycling and been after her to take care to rinse and sort it on a continuing basis instead of letting it build up. I set up another giveaway box to accumulate more items as I find them (already have a few items), and now I need to find largish bins for scrap metal (steel/ pot metal; brass/ bronze; and aluminum) since we have a scrap metal recycler down the street. Also been on dear daughter's neck to sort out some of the jumbles she has lying around, and going to replace the hooks that she had on her door so she can have a place for her clothes.
Got bad news about my last surviving uncle. My aunt and uncle are in their 90s, so good on them for living that long! But uncle landed in hospital with near total kidney failure. He's on the mend, but his kidneys are never going to recover anywhere close to 30%, so he and aunt have to move from their assisted living to a place that has nurses and doctors on staff.
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BRENDA it's nice that somebody paid for your slurpee! Things like that don't happen often enough. And SIX, given how you looked back then. I bet someone thought you were homeless! If only they knew...
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
I'm sorry about your Uncle and Aunt but yes 90s is a good, long life for sure.
It is nice just surprising. I have had over the last few years had people ask me if I need help. I just thank them and say I'm alright. Some will ask me a couple of times too.
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Out in a minute to get laundry done.
Also about yesterday my boss seems was surprised that I could hold a philosophical conversation with her husband about time. He had taken a quick course up at UBC. Guest speaker was teaching it. I agreed with a lot of what she said.
Sounds like they're a regular Dunning and Kruger.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
I know. I know. It just always seems to shock them that I can understand these concepts and discuss my thoughts rationally and logically.
The other was music. I explained a couple of stories from two Chris deBurgh songs. I love Chris deBurgh. One was a "Spaceman came Travelling". In that the suggestion is the star of David wasn't a star but a spaceship in orbit over Bethleham. The other was "Patricia the Stripper." And a stripper was arrested, she was taken to court but after hearing the case. The judge threw it out and everyone went back to the club along with the cops. The song is set in 1924. I posted "Discovery" on here and explained that to him. Even quoted and sang a bit of it. Sang the chorus of "16 Tons" that was originally by Tennessee Ernie Ford. "you load 16 tons, and what do you get. Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store."
Had to remind him that "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was sung by Gordon Lightfoot and not Stompin' Tom Connors. Also explained how he got the nickname stomping. A little Johnny Cash history. She knows the Beatles as she talked about "Help from My Friends". Don't think she likes the song because "gasp" it talked in one line about getting high.
Honestly it is like they wander around in their own world.
Yeah... They do, but in the end I think we all kind of do that. Sometimes we just allow other people into our own orbit for maybe just a little while or maybe for the long haul.
Sometimes you've talked about them (her, specifically, to be honest) and I'd think "what a bitch"... But the more you talk about her, I think she's really got a soft spot for you. But she's not a soft lady, you see... so she doesn't really want to let you know that.
Wow... Chris deBurgh. I know one song by Chris deBurgh. It is the one song that everybody knows by Chris deBurgh. I liked it. It still reminds me of a beautiful young lass who I know wishes she still looked like that, but I always hope looks better than I do in 2026.
You're pulling out the Deep Cuts with that knowledge.
I'm sure they love having conversations like that.
I don't even know who Stompin' Tom Connors is, but I know who sung Edmund Fitzgerald. It's not on my playlist, but If You Could Read My Mind and especially Carefree Highway have been on it since high school when my English Teacher introduced us to a bunch of cool stuff before our time.
I've done that before... Haha!
I rememeber arguing with this girl that the Red Hot Chili Peppers did a song called "Epic". We argued about that all night. But there was no internet back then. No "Google It!". I had to apologize to her and eat crow the next time I saw her after I realized it was a band called "Faith No More".
Whoops!
I also told a girl I worked with at my first job that I didn't listen to Death Metal when she was wearing her Greatful Dead T-Shirt.
The first construction crew I worked with, the head guy there told me all the time "boy... you've really lived a sheltered life".
Annoyed me at the time, but he wasn't wronNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME