Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Trump like Herakles cleaning the Augean Stables

One of the best writers in TheEpochTimes is James Sale, a must read IMO, particularly if you have a little taste for classical literature and mythology. There is much to be learned in his posts as there is in his book Motivational Maps (get ChatGPT to give you a summary of the book, if nothing else).

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Trump’s 50-year mortgage makes sense

Why Trump's 50-Year Mortgage Makes Sense

  • Trump's 50-year mortgage makes a lot of sense based on the numbers
  • It would be a boon to first-time buyers of owner-occupied homes
  • Critics chastised the "50-year mortgage" based on TDS and an intentional focus on bad assumptions — only a critic or an idiot would keep a 50-year mortgage to pay off, if alternatives are available

The numbers below were worked out by ChatGPT (no expert required).

Using this example, at the outset, a payment difference of ~$150/mo could easily be, for a first-time homebuyer, the difference between being able to buy and not.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Beware what and how you ask ChatGPT

This ChatGPT freek-out statred innocuously enough from asking a simple question of a very, very short story I wrote.

If you ever trust this thing except for rearranging words, you are as smart as a bird

Sunday, November 9, 2025

When AI is a waste of time - Google Nano Bananas

 

I read that Google Nano Banana, Gemini’s image editing tool, is the next gen of image editing set to dethrone Adobe…

Judge for yourself.

Sorry, it’s hard to read, but they do not make exporting easy. Perhaps for a reason.

Friday, November 7, 2025

The Mind of Claude AI - How to collaborate with Claude

How to collaborate with Claude


This is a share of a work in progress, mostly a direct transcript of a chat. Skip forward if bored, but Claude’s answers should tell you a lot about its psyche and training. Beware.


This is a chat of many subjects, how to deal with bias, and learning information after 1/1/25, how to create memory points for future restart, how Claude’s memory works, and how to cope with blindspots.


I did similar a similar chat with ChatGPT - same biases, same fixes, similar process. Similar results. FYI For context and memory building, GPT can read HTML files, and Claude only PDF.