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I see ChatGPT has Skills finally

good question, you can ask for sources, and as it turns out this data is all public and published by authoritative sources.

Generally: have it double check with you, look at the code and reasoning process behind it. All faster and easier than making the map from scratch yourself.

NOT TO BE ADDRESSED DIRECTLY

“Alternative names were used to address bear because people wanted to avoid the dangerous beast and believed that the real name would act as a call for it.”

“Back to the break room with you Gemini!”

though the stylization might just come down to RLHF and tokenization constraints

yea the llms do a pretty poor job of even replicating the Wake’s style, let alone fractal layered meanings

I’m glad I came across one, it was new for me. It seemed amped up for spring, raising its neck and agitated in the way that makes you feel your being-in-the-world

Mutt.—Just how a puddinstone inat the brookcells by a riverpool.

Jute.—Load Allmarshy! Wid wad for a norse like?

Mutt.—Somular with a bull on a clompturf. Rooks roarum rex roome! I could snore to him of the spumy horn, with his woolseley side in, by the neck I am sutton on, did Brian d’ of Linn.

the Deacon

In Finland the chicken isn’t finger-lickin’ good but something else

UK seems well represented. One of their team is named The Blue Tits. Heard there were some American men swimmers? I’ve only seen the women race so far

Women swimmers in a frozen river racing in their lanes as judges and teammates look on

Winter Swimming World Championship 2026 happening in Oulu, Finland

ran across a Portuguese birder who had a Pygmy Owl just moments before…pics to prove it too. Same redpoll flock I had earlier mobbed it which alerted him. Alas I missed it

My partner may have come out as a soul-believer. I’m working on her still lol

Whooper!

tough to bird in winter with no open water 🧊…really debating hitting up some forests farther out for Siberian Jay but $50 uber both ways is rough

Willow Tit, Coal Tit, Fieldfare, Eurasian Siskin

fresh batch of lifers
(photo credit: Merlin app)

And some still insist there's no value to generative models 🤦‍♂️

Sorry these aren’t mine. Just the ebird default pics from Merlin app. But, beautiful birds. I’ve been looking for Bohemians in Cedar flocks for forever and bang here are 20-30 Bohemians. Helps to be closer to the Arctic circle

forced to day drink in Finnish divebars. Is this vacation? And what day is it really?

ngmi

buy more synths wagmi

hmm missed some kinda thrush right now. Guess it was a fieldfare? I’ll have to hunt one down tomorrow

Great Spotted Woodpecker Bohemian Waxwing Eurasian Bullfinch

in Finland and got some lifers today :)

reading now 🫡

a little side note in the sci-fi that is the 2020s is that a notable LLM from Europe is called Baguettotron 😂

the voice dictation might be worth a shot

yea it’s not a search engine and not a magic genie and kinda a person but with different blind spots and biases. Very normal technology

I think it was a simple python env thing but he was too flustered with the whole thing for me to really help. And as the resident AI guy I had to listen to it. (I tried to give some helpful tips and refrained from saying “skill issue”)