[first published 30.11.2024 Substack] After some heavy days of oven heat, we are now in a ‘rain event’. Back to the grey. I don’t mind. The rain comes and goes in sky-high veils, blowing across the yard and the cliff-face beyond. The little birds (the littlest bird left home and like a bad mother, I… Continue reading heat-seeking (leeches, westerns and the ‘long-term’ game)
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wrestling with why (LLMs and AI)
[first published 20.11.2024 on Substack ] Had to buy a new washing machine. Could’ve gone back to the glory days of scrubbing denim jeans in the bathtub, wringing them out by hand (it made them nice and soft, and was good exercise though time-consuming), but because I live somewhere damp and misty (see no. 1!),… Continue reading wrestling with why (LLMs and AI)
wrestling with a mosquito net (mist and small birds)
[first published 15.11.2024 on Substack ] It’s misty here in the cool temperate hills of NSW, Australia. Cool, temperate – both words sitting carefully in some kind of restraint, a withholding. And this caution is folded around me these days – like an enormous swathe of tulle I can’t quite figure out how to fold… Continue reading wrestling with a mosquito net (mist and small birds)