It turns out that our up-and-coming robot overlords are just fifth graders who need to relax and work through some things. A recent study of AI Large Learning Models says that you’ll get better responses from AIs on math word problems by prefacing your prompt with “take a deep breath… Continue reading
This innocuous-looking meme came up on a friend’s feed recently, with the caption “I need to know”: My immediate thought was, “They aren’t, though!” The reality is so much cooler than that, and this joke actually asks a really interesting question with an even cooler answer. So, first of all,… Continue reading
If you’re just joining us, since April of this year I’ve been documenting my ADHD experience in the hopes that it will help anyone who’s struggling with similar issues. I began by talking about my symptoms and what I tried before admitting it might be ADHD and seeking treatment. Then… Continue reading
A lot has happened in the social media world in the past eight months. Since I originally posted my roundup of microblogging Twitter replacements, some major players have joined the game, while others have fallen by the wayside. Twitter hired a new CEO, for all the good it seems to… Continue reading
A month and a half ago, I posted about the beginning of my ADHD treatment journey. A couple weeks later, I posted an update, detailing my mixed results with Strattera (Atomoxetine). So, a little more than two weeks ago, I talked with my prescriber about my experiences. I essentially told… Continue reading
Two weeks ago, I posted about the beginning of my ADHD treatment journey, and I talked about my first day on Atomoxetine, a sNRI medication for ADHD that is also sold under the name Strattera. Unfortunately, after some initially hopeful results, the rest of my titration has been fairly unremarkable.… Continue reading
I’m thirty-eight years old. Over the past several years, I have been noticing problems with my mental state that could be described as ADHD. I’ve had trouble with alertness, attention, focus, motivation, executive function, energy levels, mood, and cognition that I didn’t have before at this level; and those things… Continue reading
Back in December, I decided to leave Twitter and joined Mastodon: the federated social network that’s not owned by any one person or company. Shortly thereafter, I tweeted for the final time on Twitter. I had originally intended to test out several options for replacing the newly-Elon-Musk-purchased social network; but… Continue reading
In the last post, we talked about the attempted breakdown of the OGL. But that particular part of the saga appears to be at an end; so, without further ado, I present you… Act VI: Open Gaming Strikes Back Honestly, no one expected this. After a really bad initial response… Continue reading
Act I: The Good Old Days In the far-distant year 2000, gaming company Wizards of the Coast (publishers of Dungeons and Dragons, among other things) published the third edition of the popular role-playing game. Along with the new rules, they made what would become a watershed decision in the hobby:… Continue reading
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