Some of Mark s thoughts and ideas
There s a lot of talk about the shortcomings of LLMs. They don t actually reason. They re expensive, especially when running in a loop. They re quite slow at doing things. There s a narrow category of use cases that LLMs excel at, one of which is sifting through the noise . The noise is everything we have to process [ ] The post Effective use-cases for LLMs first appeared on Aggressively…
I spent 6 nights in Grand Teton NP in a campervan, and one night in Yellowstone! Hot takes: We rented a campervan. It’s expensive but nice! Grand Teton is amazing Overall I highly recommend staying at Signal Summit Campground, it s our absolute favorite. It s much smaller, very quiet, out of the way from the freeway, [ ] The post Grand Tetons and Yellowstone 2026 first appeared on Aggressively…
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A few weeks ago, I changed my Slack channel sections. I’m now more responsive and engaged, while also feeling less stressed. How? By sorting my Slack channels by urgency, or how often I want to read them. What Projects Team Alerts Sibling Teams Announcements SF Office Social Noisy Versus How Often Read Now Read Hourly [ ] The post Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What” first…
status.href.cat now reports and notifies me if my home power/internet goes down! The other day, PG E and my landlord emailed me about a power outage. The elevator system needed a technician to reset it. All the e-key readers in the lobby no longer work. This got me wondering, how long was the power out for? [ ] The post adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat first appeared on…
A few months ago, I trialed a new probiotic deodorant that uses GMO ed bacteria to fight odors. It worked REALLY well. I applied the cream once and it worked very well for a week, and still had noticeable improvements to my normal body odor after a month. I did not need to use deodorant at [ ] The post I modeled for swap.care, a probiotic deodorant. It works really well! first appeared on…
If you re looking for a nice non-profit job running community cooking and nutrition classes in San Francisco, check out 18 Reasons! They re hiring! Here I am, teaching a class of elderly seniors how to balance eating nutritiously with their various medical and health needs. The post Featured: 18 Reasons Community Porgrams Coordinator! first appeared on Aggressively Paraphrasing Me .
I was trying to set up a new retool instance on docker when I encountered a 401 Unauthorized error: I had just signed up for a new docker account and had not verified my email yet. Docker will return 401 Unauthorized if your email is not verified. I ve hit this issue a few times before, [ ] The post docker compose up -> 401 Unauthorized first appeared on Aggressively Paraphrasing Me .
I found a poster with a math puzzle that points to a reward website. I couldn t figure it out, so maybe the prize is still available! Here it is all typed out: Stop here if you want to work on the puzzle yourself! My Breakdown Below is everything I figured out before I got stuck. [ ] The post Can you solve this AI/Math puzzle and get a prize? I couldn’t. first appeared on Aggressively Paraphrasing…
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