It’s better to take a day to automate what is easily done in an hour otherwise.

Reasoning, tokens, teach me to fish, content tokens is the fish.

May be they were designed to test human’s machine-ness and not machine’s human-ness.

Squirrels always win. Even if someone has the skill, literally no one has the heart to defeat them :). They are the enemy that you love!

Relaxing winter break
Reading book while the rain pours
Sipping oolong tea

Open weight LLMs will have an edge right there. Even if they are less capable, it's easier to do more upfront work and not deal with LLM version upgrade every 6 months.

Let me offer a different perspective. Instead of defining the area as a topic (ai, math, gardening), you could define the area as a person (i.e. Sean Carroll) and compile the year-end best-of-Sean-Carroll list. You may be surprised to learn how many people are interested in it :)

I have completely switched to digital. I can read without glasses and in the dark :)

Looks interesting. Did you read the deadwood version or kindle?

Todo list is where creative energy goes to die :)