I’m a week late but what the heck. I love talking on the phone and am sad that it’s going the way of the dodo bird. If I could figure out how to add a photo I would include one of my rotary dial wall phone with the super long cord in our kitchen( good for cooking and talking). We had a lot of fun with the phone when our daughter was young and her friends would ask to us the phone ….we always directed them to the rotary phone and silently giggled as they tried to figure out how it worked. “But it doesn’t have buttons” was the most common remark. Even this tidbit is dated. I’ll have to find a nine year old to try it.
I find it remarkable that ChatGPT managed to be so eloquent, not to say poetic, by just predicting the word most likely to follow the word just chosen. Maybe AI and LLMs have got more compehensive in their 'thinking' since that was their method.
I recall a Punch cartoon from days of old (if not olde) showing an arctic, or antarctic, explorer walking off into the storm on his hands. Comment from his commander, back in the tent: "he's hamming up what could otherwise have been a gallant gesture."
Perhaps you've read Paul Theroux's favourite travel book, "The Worst Journey in the World" by Cherry-Garrard. It documents in great detail a journey in the winter to collect the eggs of Emperor Penguins. This was a few years prior to Scott's journey to the South Pole. Sandy Horodezky
“Failure is a kind of success if it is eloquent enough “There’s the rub I had many professional failures without eloquence.
I accept them with a sort of philosophical shrug.You can’t practice law without mistakes..And if you have a lot of cases mistakes happen.
I’m a week late but what the heck. I love talking on the phone and am sad that it’s going the way of the dodo bird. If I could figure out how to add a photo I would include one of my rotary dial wall phone with the super long cord in our kitchen( good for cooking and talking). We had a lot of fun with the phone when our daughter was young and her friends would ask to us the phone ….we always directed them to the rotary phone and silently giggled as they tried to figure out how it worked. “But it doesn’t have buttons” was the most common remark. Even this tidbit is dated. I’ll have to find a nine year old to try it.
I find it remarkable that ChatGPT managed to be so eloquent, not to say poetic, by just predicting the word most likely to follow the word just chosen. Maybe AI and LLMs have got more compehensive in their 'thinking' since that was their method.
I recall a Punch cartoon from days of old (if not olde) showing an arctic, or antarctic, explorer walking off into the storm on his hands. Comment from his commander, back in the tent: "he's hamming up what could otherwise have been a gallant gesture."
Perhaps you've read Paul Theroux's favourite travel book, "The Worst Journey in the World" by Cherry-Garrard. It documents in great detail a journey in the winter to collect the eggs of Emperor Penguins. This was a few years prior to Scott's journey to the South Pole. Sandy Horodezky