Philip Teale

Anthropic continues to crush it with these guides. This is a good example of what context engineering involves.

I asked ChatGPT to recommend books and essays based on everything it knows about me. Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde was its first rec, something I never would have read, and a perfect choice. Super personalized recommendations are great.

I have lived through so many trends in academia (1990s-2000s deconstruction post modernism, cultural studies, queer theory, OOO) but since 2009, the impetus has come from Silicon Valley. Even though social justice activism has almost replaced scholarly ambitions for younger scholars, Digital Humanities MOOCs, and now AI are the top down mandates... See more

date idea: go to the library and research a topic together with your partner, for an hour, then present your findings to eachother. Afterwards go home and watch a movie about it. You’re welcome <3

What if the non-obvious implication of AI is that it ends up getting us back in offices? And reinvigorates community by destroying social media? Pickle enables people to pretend they're sitting at their laptops on video calls, even if they're on the sofa, in a hammock, etc). From just $24/mo, from a 5-minute training... See more

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