Monday 08/18/2025
Took the standard walk starting early, finished it by picking up a prescription at CVS right at 9am. Then, since I have got John taking over some of the management of the AV group, including attendance at the monthly Event Coordinators meeting, I didn’t have to go to that, and could head straight out to FOPAL where I spent 2 hours processing about 8 boxes.
Back for a late lunch. I have the iPad and the ForScore app working correctly now, and today arrived another purchase, a little foot pedal device. It connects by bluetooth to the iPad, and I can set it on the floor and step on it to make the pages of music turn. So I don’t have to take my hands off the guitar to turn to the next page.
After supper I got a start at editing a video from the book talk on last Monday which I had been conveniently ignoring until Gigi called me to ask when it would be ready. Real soon now, as we used to say in the software development biz.
At 7:30 I went up to 11 where Patty was showing the movie her, about a guy who falls in love with an AI. Except when the movie was made 10 years ago, they weren’t using the term, so “Samantha” is called an OS. It’s a very well-made movie. The early stages of the romance between the guy and his computer could be–probably are being–played out today with LLMs (see here and here for a start). The later part where (spoiler) the AIs start evolving real intelligence? Not happening. Not with the present technology.
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