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• ham11a

  Published: Aug 22, 2024 |  at  11:06 PM

  Part 1 of V.2—Final scene of play; "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will..."; Hamlet tells Horatio how he escaped ship and death in England.

• InstructGPT and How LLMs are Trained

  Published: Apr 15, 2023 |  at  06:53 PM

  Notes on Ari Seff's January 2023 video on InstructGPT, prompt engineering, and RAG.

• Turing Award Recognizes Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

  Published: Apr 4, 2019 |  at  02:47 PM

  A brief history of neural networks from 1986-2014.

• Uffizi Day 3–A New Theory for the Tooth Puller

  Published: Apr 7, 2015 |  at  10:22 AM

  More thoughts on Caravaggio.

Recent Posts

• Productions of Hamlet, Revision 1

  Published: Apr 7, 2025 |  at  09:21 PM

  Updated thoughts on Hamlet productions.

• Ulysses

  Published: Apr 4, 2025 |  at  09:05 PM

  Goodbye, little buddy.

• ham02a

  Published: Mar 20, 2025 |  at  07:05 PM

  Part 1 of I.2—Intro of King Claudius, Laertes, Prince Hamlet, and Queen Gertrude.

• ham02b

  Published: Mar 19, 2025 |  at  01:07 PM

  Part 2 of I.2—"Seems, madam, I know not seems..."