@kgeographer
Karl Grossner, PhD. Geographer, nomad (still), co-instigator and former technical director of whgazetter.org. #place, wannabe #stoic, looking into ecoregions and culture with AI-ish methods. In transit, East Bay, CA.
I use Claude Code within my favored IDE PyCharm under a Plus account and review everything proposed to be written. Long sessions can hit limits, and I can stop for a bit or fund a paid ‘extra’ pot. Quality problems rare & always reversible. An unreserved 👍 on CC capabilities.
I’ll be in Buenos Aires on this #NoKings day, expect to find a #SinReyes event
Leaving in a few days for a seven week stay in Argentina. First time in South America, the missing continent for me. So I rented The Motorcycle Diaries tonight and the inveterate motorcycle road tripper in me is jealous. Eduardo Galeano is on Kindle for the flight, much to learn.
from @jasonheppler.org
"Generative AI is really bad at doing history. But it can enable me to do good history."
jasonheppler.org/2026/03/09/v...
💯 Have lots to say, but too busy implementing complex project-specific geo-statistical methodology w/Claude. Key: I drive the bus, b/c I can.
But I heard he was once a cage fighter, and seems pretty buff. GOP will see that as sufficient.
DOGE, ChatGPT, and the NEH...gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
But I heard it is not a war
Ken Paxton will be promised something substantial and will go away.
The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.
Had to visualize that
Context
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines".
www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
Must be readin' my mail
What a shame I missed it.
Oaktown baby
Outstanding
Back in the day we heard that the Wide World of Sports was about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." They left out the joy of performing with everything you've got. Saw a lot of that, and what a salve it was.
ha! point taken. fwiw, the left is my prompt Claude responded to. I just now asked, were you giving me an answer I wanted to hear, and got a convincing 'no' reply with receipts. For me, "horses for courses" is a governing principle re: AI/LLMs, languages, libraries, frameworks.
cheeky Claude: “the people doing the most epistemically careful thinking about what LLMs actually are and what they’re good for tend not to be the loudest voices. They’re too busy being uncertain in productive ways.“ 💯 w/exceptions
Claude explained TypeScript concisely and had this evaluation wrt my work: “For your own work — freelance DH consulting, spatial data, NLP pipelines — Python remains the right home.” Also…
Before I google TypeScript (heard of it, resist new langs) I’ll ask Claude to school me on it, and ask what the implications of its use would be or might have been for the 5 codebases I have going now
If you go, bring a cane, @algreen.house.gov style
He Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...
Tried to imagine Donald Trump giving dap to Devin Booker at the All-Star Game as Obama just did - or even being there - and it broke my brain. #NBA #AllStar
Please forgive the crop of your photo @leilanavidi.bsky.social, couldn’t resist
Berkeley, CA sign needs to lose a couple of lights
The lid I can sorta understand, but the seat?
Color palettes from photos of nine locations across the US Southwest, east to west from Santa Fe to the Bay Area
I like to think color palettes are attributes of places, and plan to use them in artworks. So I wrote scripts for selecting and saving them from my travel photos. From right to left, on mostly small roads from Santa Fe to the East Bay, CA.
