Tuesday 03/11/2025
Today is housekeeping day so I tidied up first. Then because I felt guilty for not writing anything for the last 3 writers meetings, I made myself sit down and think of something to with the prompt, “shout out — whatever’s on your mind”. So I wrote about the hype storm around AI, how hard it is to tell actual progress from hype, and gave a very pessimistic view of the future of an AI bureaucracy. Others wrote interesting things too.
Then headed out for a 1pm appointment at the CVS in Mountain View where I had made an appointment for a Covid shot. Unfortunately the nice young nurse there was a stickler for the rules. She checked and found my prior shot was 10/24/24 (which I knew) and that was two weeks less than six months ago. The CDC recommends a booster at 6 months, so sorry, can’t give you one early. So I wasted that trip. (They didn’t have generic zantac, either.)
Got in a couple of hours of music practice through the day. At an early supper and met with Mickie at 6pm to drive down to CHM to hear Sal Khan talk about his new book. Mostly he talked about the AI tutor they have added to Khan Academy. It wasn’t a great talk, and I was bothered by the sound reproduction in the big auditorium at CHM. It was kind of diffuse and echo-y and hard to understand.
Codgerville 