Yesterday we had a thoroughly enjoyable day in Bristol, helped considerably by good weather and by one of those intuitive promptings which occasionally tells me that I should be somewhere. I have learned over the years not to dismiss these feelings too quickly. Françoise had some practical objectives. She wanted to buy a new pair of shoes and also look for materials for her painting. My own...
Are you familiar with ChatGPT? ChatGPT stands for: Chat — because it is designed to communicate conversationally. G — Generative: it generates new text and other content. P — Pre-trained: it was trained on large amounts of information before being made available for conversations. T — Transformer: the type of neural-network architecture on which the model is based. So GPT = Generative...
I have been questioning what part, if any, of news, never mind mainstream news, should play in my life. So much is lies or obfuscation. Can we learn to say what we believe without fear of consequences. I am republishing this article as a shining example of the psychologist and writer Jordon Peterson. I recommend his site from which this article is taken....
For some months now I have been bothered by the barking of dogs near my home. I sometimes wonder whether their owners realise just how intrusive persistent barking can be, particularly in what is normally a peaceful part of Midsomer Norton. There are two dogs in particular that bark at me on sight whenever I walk down the road. There is another that apparently spots me through the curtains and...
https://rumble.com/shorts/v7er1lq Check this one out, sweet hearts, and be amazed. The number of a number of people I see apologising after crying is quite incredible. It just shows how messed up our understanding of the human body is. I have always believed that crying has a great therapeutic benefit and here I stumble across a thought that confirms the very thing. Having said that I find it...
Thoreau and the Art of Stepping Away On July 4, 1845, while America celebrated its independence, 28-year-old Harvard graduate Henry David Thoreau walked into the woods outside Concord, Massachusetts, and began an experiment that would change how we think about living. He built a small cabin near Walden Pond, planted beans, chopped wood and kept a journal. He stayed for two years, two months and...
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