By P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
Newsletter: Triptych
I currently have access to all three of the top performing LLMs: ChatGPT 4, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini Advanced. I already subscribe to ChatGPT pro,
I built my first personal homepage in 1992, soon after it became possible to do such a thing. Sadly, over the years, putting up your own website has
In 2019, I wrote a blog post titled “How I Started Going to the Gym” based on Alex Hutchinson’s book Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? That
In his novel Tremor, Teju Cole writes: “when a man’s existential satisfaction depends on not knowing something he very much will find a way to not
I’ve been following Eric Topol since the pandemic and find him to be a very level headed thinker about medicine, so I was surprised when he strongly
Is music a commodity? Albums were designed to be one. There was a period where people would buy albums and go home and consume them the way they
This post started when someone shared this Letterboxd List of Taiwanese Noir Films from the 1980s on Bluesky. Then I read (in the description of
[Skip ahead to Part Two if you just want to read about Bluesky.] Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, the platform has experienced rapid decline. Musk
“Bilingual” in Taiwan means English + Mandarin. Putting aside the way this sidelines Taiwan’s other languages, I’d like to question the emphasis on
There has been a lot of discussion about the Google engineer, Lemoine, who thinks that the glorified chatbot, LaMDA, is sentient. Anyone who has
My teaching workflow, which allows me to quickly sign in and access my lecture notes on a school computer without any password or USB drive. (Link
I recently finished the book 《Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia》by @cathompsn and really loved it. It is the kind of book I’ve wanted to read for