16 YEAR UPDATE: Things To Do Before I’m 30

2008/29 year old Jason was awfully ambitious with these things to accomplish before I was 30:

  • Write another novel.
  • Record an album.
  • Go to the beach.
  • Catch a major league baseball game.
  • Visit Yankee Stadium (I’d have to do that this year anyway)
  • Graduate.
  • Get back in touch with old friends.
  • Learn to dance.

Since then there has been no novel, no album, no visit to Yankee Stadium, I’ve been just as bad about keeping up with old friends, and dancing? Nope.

I have gotten to the beach a few times though.

Does Offering ChatGPT a Tip Cause it to Generate Better Text? An Analysis

In my previous blog post about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, I demoed the power of ChatGPT system prompts. System prompts, a notable feature present in the ChatGPT API, allows developers to control the “persona” of the LLM output, including special rules and constraints.

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How social media algorithms ‘flatten’ our culture by making decisions for us

If you opened Facebook, Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago, you’d likely see posts from friends and family, in chronological order. Nowadays, users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an algorithm. Passionate about plants? Sports? Cats? Politics? That’s what you’re going to see.

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