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Last Pepper Harvest 2024
Prepped the pepper bed for winter. Poblanos, jalapeños, and datils, with one zulu. The zulus, a black sweet pepper, were interesting, but the flesh was rather thin and the peppers were pretty small. Next year will plant the other peppers but not the zulus. Will try to find another sweet pepper that does well in…
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
I read this book on a recommendation from my son. I don’t usually read fantasy and am more of a fan of hard science fiction, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Review of The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, the first book in The First Law trilogy, masterfully blends sharp…
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Raspberry Pi AI Kit
I recently purchased an AI kit for the Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.com/products/ai-kit). Sounded interesting, though I am not quite sure yet what I am going to do with it. I had not used the Raspberry Pi 5 in a bit, so it took me a little while to remember how to connect to it from my…
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Mount Washington
I found this blog interesting. As a kid, we hiked Mount Washington every summer, though we hiked up Tuckerman’s Ravine. Looking forward to hiking up with my grandchildren when they are ready.
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Using AI To Analyze Books
I asked my son, an excellent writer, for his comments on my blog post “The Comfort Crisis” (https://deangelis.tech/2024/04/15/the-comfort-crisis/), which used AI and my notes and highlights to analyze the book. Our conversation helped clarify my thinking, but raised more questions. My initial concern was that I might be doing the book’s author a disservice by…
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The Comfort Crisis
To generate the following analysis of The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, I read the book on Kindle and highlighted passages and took notes. I read the notes and highlights a short time later. Then I fed these to ChatGPT with a prompt that asked for an analysis that emphasized my highlights and notes. The…
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Wooden Bowl
I am working on carving a wooden bowl out of a piece of maple with an angle grinder. This is the first time carving, and really the first time using an angle grinder. I did not know that there were grinding and sanding discs for the grinder, and it has been interesting experimenting with them.…
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Night Stand
I am building a set of nightstands for a cabin in Vermont. The first one is completed. Got more comfortable with the biscuit joiner for the top and shelf. Second time doing a drawer, but this time with sliding hardware. The drawer was not wide enough, but a piece of 1/4″ plywood filled the gap.…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Here are my highlights and notes: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Pirsig, Robert M. Part I Note – Chapter 1 > Page 3 · Location 108 I have read this book before at least two times. Why read it again? I remember starting the sequel, Lila, which I do…
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Using AI To Analyze Books I’ve Read
I have read an enormous number of books in my 68 years. Most of them I barely recall. Probably not a waste of time, but certainly not optimized. I now read mostly digitally and highlight passages. I also try to make notes as to why I highlighted a particular text. So, I input my highlights…
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