Yeah, I think it’s fascinating to read Claude’s transcripts while it’s working. It’s crazy how you can give it a two-sentence prompt that really is quite complex task, and it splits the problems into chunks that it works through and second-guesses until it’s confident (and usually correct).

Your verbal faculties are bad at math. Other parts of your brain do calculations.

LLMs are a computer’s verbal faculties. But guess what, they’re just a really big calculator. So when LLMs realize that they’re doing a math problem and launch a calculator/equation solver, they’re not so bad after all.

For a brief moment on September 10th, 2001, the CIA took a relaxing spa day.

Dude chickens are the best. Some of them can be wicked smart too. I miss mine.

And I highly recommend sharpening your knives with a sharpening stone or whetstone. It makes such a huge difference to how fun it is to be in the kitchen.