Tuesday 11/19/2024
In the morning I drove out to buy a few things at the market. Did a little guitar practice. Then the writers meeting. I had nothing to share, but others had interesting takes on the topic “bucket list”. I’d really given it some thought and had nothing. I don’t have a bucket list, any unattained achievements. Shows a lack of ambition, I guess.
I spent the whole afternoon doing something I hadn’t done for years: coding. And installing UNIX software, issuing command lines in the Terminal app to create directories and so forth. All this because I want to try using one of the large language models, Claude, via its programming interface, rather than via the simple web page at claude.ai. Why? I have a vague sort of idea for an application. We’ll see. Anyway I opened an account and then accessed Claude via running simple program I wrote in Python. Took several hours and forced me to recall a lot of UNIX trivia that had moved to the back shelves of my mind.
Codgerville 