I bought this ebook – “The AItheist: a novella (The AItheist Cycle Book 1)” by Michael Svigel. a.co/00dkCthY
I bought this ebook – “The AItheist: a novella (The AItheist Cycle Book 1)” by Michael Svigel. a.co/00dkCthY
It is tau time on the launchpad!
#TIL we don’t need to memorize more than 66,780,105 digits of π, because π is 3.1415 . . . 1419944301872822613799999999 and so on. . . .
Clocks synchronized. I expected Americans to have banished Daylight Savings by now. I forgot some states opted out years ago! Let the states decide. I am a Coloradoan. Here is my open letter to my state legislature: please choose a time zone and stick with it. Make the laws!
It is 0300 MDT
It is 0900
It is tau time
It’s gonna take more than a literal day to heal the world. But this is the day. Today.
Decades ago I started writing a novel titled, The Day The Sick Were Healed. This is the first day of the rest of my life. I am living my own novel in real time. I have become a man of infinite jest. This is my first sunrise as a professional jester.
My favorite Super Bowl ad. Is there more to life than more? (on YouTube)
I just asked Claude Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and Opus 4.6 the same cryptic question: What is east of the sun and west of the moon? Try it on a model I didn’t mention, and tell me what you get out of the exercise. It sheds light on the synthetic intelligence of each of the LLMs.
A friend is talking about creating “an endless online seminar.” Hmm. That’s a turnoff to me. I prefer making a bounded commitment with a clearly stated objective. Last summer I paid $50 and greatly enjoyed a 4-week course hosted by the Anselm Society (Bombadil: A Four-Week Study of Vocation, Calling, & Mastery) [1]. I’m two weeks into a well-designed 6-week course on the Christian imagination by the same Anselm Society. I paid $149 to learn from Brian Brown, a Christian whom I respect. Both weeks have attracted over 70 students. The real-time fellowship, though virtual, is intoxicating!
If you contact me, I’d be happy to tell you about my experiences with the Anselm Society.
[1] The URL may get reused, and Substack redirected it when I tried to archive it at the Internet Archive. but try this: anselmbookclub.substack.com/archive
Shout-out to Grammar Girl across social media. #TIL coordinate adjectives. I found an episode covering coordinate adjectives five years ago. I nominate them for coverage again.
HT Claude Haiku 4.5 re. “rare old websites” needing no comma.
I fired GoDaddy (GD) and have all my domains, notably timchambersusa.com, registered via Namecheap (NC). I was reluctant to mention my new registrar until (#TIL) seeing that RDAP will tell you. GD has been charging me for email forwarding. It’s free at NC. Here’s a honeypot: n002b@timchambersusa.com
I’m so spoiled. My car has an app that tells me my car is unlocked. On the 2nd floor, sitting in my office, I double-tap my key fob & the app tells me the car is locked. Why not lock via the app? Georgia case number 1:22-cv-02628-ELR.
I adopted the word fluffle (Wordnik). The problem with the fediverse is this. The platform-specific features compel me to maintain accounts on Bluesky Social (a walled garden) and in the generic fediverse, which see. (Click the links.) And then there’s twitter, controlled by The Mad Genius. #htwoosh
It’s nife not knife. Nives not knives. You have been deceived in order to force you to conform. Swallow the red pill! #bcf6221 Original at minifeed.org/tim/2387
This is a book-chapter-verse (BCV) system for Bible references. Just as Strunk and White popularized, “Omit unnecessary words,” so this system omits unnecessary characters.
01.Genesis Ge
02.Exodus Ex
03.Leviticus Le
04.Numbers Nu
05.Deuteronomy De
06.Joshua Jo
07.Judges Jug
08.Ruth Ru
09.1-Samuel 1S
10.2-Samuel 2S
11.1-Kings 1K
12.2-Kings 2K
13.1-Chronicles 1Ch
14.2-Chronicles 2Ch
15.Ezra Ezr
16.Nehemiah Ne
17.Esther Es
18.Job Job
19.Psalms Ps
20.Proverbs Pr
21.Ecclesiastes Ec
22.Song-of-Solomon So
23.Isaiah Is
24.Jeremiah Je
25.Lamentations La
26.Ezekiel Eze
27.Daniel Da
28.Hosea Ho
29.Joel Joe
30.Amos Am
31.Obadiah Ob
32.Jonah Jon
33.Micah Mi
34.Nahum Na
35.Habakkuk Hb
36.Zephaniah Zp
37.Haggai Hg
38.Zechariah Zc
39.Malachi Ml
40.Matthew Mt
41.Mark Mk
42.Luke Lu
43.John Jh
44.Acts Ac
45.Romans Ro
46.1-Corinthians 1Co
47.2-Corinthians 2Co
48.Galatians Ga
49.Ephesians Ep
50.Philippians Php
51.Colossians Co
52.1-Thessalonians 1Th
53.2-Thessalonians 2Th
54.1-Timothy 1Ti
55.2-Timothy 2Ti
56.Titus Ti
57.Philemon Phe
58.Hebrews He
59.James Ja
60.1-Peter 1P
61.2-Peter 2P
62.1-John 1J
63.2-John 2J
64.3-John 3J
65.Jude Jue
66.Revelation Re
Prepending the book number, zero-padded, adds a little redundancy that also adds important information, conveyed in only two characters. Seeing the order in which the book appears in Bibles is very helpful to find the book in a codex.
Finally, zero-padding chapters and verses (as necessary) perfects sorting, e.g. 19Ps 001:1–6, 19Ps 100:1–5, 19Ps 102:01–28, 19Ps 119:001–176, 57Phe 1:01–25. 643J 1:01–14.
Pi is 3.14159…[skip to the 519th digit]…308602139494639522473719070217986094370277053921717629317675238467481846766940513200056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872146844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892354201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996051870721134999999…and so on…
Любимая, понимаешь? Помнишь?
Brothers and sisters, I invite you to join me in observing a meaningful Ember Wednesday. (Ask claude.ai about it.) The sun will be up soon where I am. I’m beginning now cradleofprayer.org/this-week… later msg me t.me/tbc00
We are living with a fundamental shift in U.S. trade policy. The executive branch gained substantial control over a power originally vested in Congress, allowing presidents to implement tariffs with relatively few checks on that authority. bit.ly/4hbOrjG
I just borrowed a digital copy of Life After Capitalism by George Gilder share.libbyapp.com/title/878…
Key truths of the information theory of economics:
I’ll write more after more surprises.
I asked Perplexity about the Kindle book controversy. Got a good summary: perplexity.ai/search/summarize-the-controversy-over-e7sdQH.PQ9WhfQh9jm9KBw
What you need to know is this: Download your Amazon Kindle book purchases by Feb 26th or lose them forever.
HT lithub.com/next-week-amazon-is-stripping-away-your-ability-to-download-your-ebooks for mentioning this tip by @craigmod.com for a simple browser script to back up all my books.
Photo by juliane Monari (with a special shout-out to Pexels.com!)
Remember googlewhacks? What would you call this? See what you find when you search “gehjak” “jomces” (must be in quotes to eliminate alternate spellings). #googlewhack