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Updated thoughts on Hamlet productions.

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

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

Part 3 of I.2—begins with soliloquy "O that this too too solid flesh..."

Part 4 of I.2—Horatio and Hamlet discuss the Ghost and end Act 2.

Initial thoughts on versions of Hamlet from stage, movies, TV.

Part 1 of I.4—Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus on the Platform waiting for the Ghost.

Part 2 of I.4—Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus encounter the Ghost.

Part 1 of I.5—Ghost tells Hamlet about his murder.

Part 2 of I.5-Aftermath of Hamlet's talk with the Ghost.

Part 3 of I.5—Horatio, Marcellus swear silence to Hamlet through end of Act I.

Part 1 of II.2—The traveling Players come to Elsinore.

Part 2 of II.2—First Player's speech on Priam.

Part 3 of II.2—Hamlet's Hecuba soliloquy that begins "Now I am alone / Rogue and peasant slave / Make mad the guilty, appall the free".

First experiments with vim motions in the browser.

Part 1 of III.4—Hamlet talks to Gertrude in her bedchamber.

Part 2 of III.4—Ghost enters and exits Queen's bedchamber.

Part 3 of III.4—End of Act 3. Hamlet leaves Queen's closet dragging Polonius' body. Only one person has died since the play started!

IV.1—Gertrude tells Claudius that Polonius is dead.

IV.2—Hamlet toys with R+G about location of Polonius' corpse.

IV.3—Hamlet brought to Claudius; they verbally spar about where Polonius' body lies; Claudius commands that Hamlet be sent to England; Claudius tells audience that he is sending Hamlet to his death.

IV.4—Hamlet encounters Fortinbras' army.

Part 1 of IV.5—Gertrude sees that Ophelia is mad; Laertes returns full of rage; Laertes sees Ophelia; Claudius convinces Laertes to be patient and they will avenge Polonius together.

Part 2 of IV.5—

Part 3 of IV.5—

Part 4 of IV.5—

IV.6—Very brief scene where Horatio receives letter from Hamlet about the pirate ship.

Part 1 of IV.7—Claudius and Laertes receive letters from Hamlet; Gertrude arrives to tell of Ophelia's drowning.

Part 2 of IV.7—

Part 3 of IV.7—

Part 4 of IV.7—

Part 1 of V.1—Gravedigger and Other Man discourse over Ophelia's grave;

Part 2 of V.1—Hamlet and Horatio come upon Gravedigger

Part 3 of V.1—Hamlet talks to Horatio about dead lawyer's skull

Part 4 of V.1—Hamlet and Gravedigger "How absolute the knave is!..."

Part 5 of V.1—Hamlet discovers Yorick's skull, dead for 23 years

Part 6 of V.1—Hamlet on Alexander the Great; King, Queen, and Laertes enter with Ophelia's funeral procession

Part 7 of V.1—Laertes leaps into Ophelia's grave; Laertes and Hamlet grapple; "Woot weep, woot fight, woot fast, woot tear thyslef?"; end of Act V, Scene 1

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.

Part 2 of V.2—

Part 3 of V.2—

Part 4 of V.2—Hamlet accepts challenge; Horatio says Hamlet will lose; Hamlet replies "I do not think so"; Horatio offers to cancel duel; "We defy augury / ...special providence in the fall of a sparrow... / The readiness is all".

Part 5 of V.2—Hamlet apologizes to Laertes for graveyard scuffle in V.1; swords are handed out and inspected before duel.

Part 6 of V.2—Claudius announces richness of pearl; Hamlet and Laertes begin duel; Claudius drops poisoned pearl in cup.

Part 7 of V.2—"Our son shall win..."; Gertrude drinks from the poisoned cup; Laertes stabs Hamlet for first time; Hamlet takes envenomed rapier and stabs Laertes.

Part 8 of V.2—Gertrude dies; Laertes confesses "No medicine in the world can do thee good / In thee, there is not half an hour's life".

Part 9 of V.2—Claudius dies; Laertes final speech before dying; Hamlet's final speech.

Part 10 of V.2—Hamlet dies; Horatio's final speeches; Fortinbras takes command.

MQLs, SQLs, Opps, etc.

Leads and Prospects are NOT always synonymous

Textbook; Chapters 1—4.

Textbook; Chapters 5-7.

Textbook; Chapters 8-10.

Textbook; Chapters 11-13.

Textbook; Chapters 14-16.

Textbook; Chapters 17-19.

Textbook; Chapters 20-22.

Textbook; Chapters 23-25.

Jeff and Seymour review the dramatic changes at OpenAI.

Textbook; Chapters 26-28.

Textbook; Chapters 29-31.

Jeff and Seymour talk about AI in movies and the new Humane AI Pin.

Jeff and Seymour talk about recent updates from OpenAI, rank image generators, and Jeff's AI workshop.

We discuss Seymour's impressions from the September AI Conference in San Francisco.

Seymour and Jeff are back from summer break to discuss Microsoft's September event, Llama-2, and 4 waves of AI adoption.

Chinese dynasties.

Miscellaneous Chinese words and Taiwanese history.

Using python and sed to report 中文 statistics.

We talk about the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, Inflection AI's Pi chatbot, and other news.

The valley is abuzz discussing an AI strategy memo that is purported to have leaked from Google.

What is the best way to organize internal AI teams at large companies?

Seymour and Jeff discuss the EPD framework and how that applies to product development for LLMs.

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

Seymour and Jeff discuss audio generation and connect that to a larger conversation about generative AI and depfakes. Plus vim!

Gordon Moore passed away which leads to a discussion about Moore's Law and the present and future of AI chips.

Podcast episode where we discuss recent articles about generative AI by Rodney Brooks, Bill Gates, and Thomas Friedman.

New episode about launch of OpenAI's GPT-4, addition of genAI to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace office suite, and the power of efficient open-source LLMs.

Image generationg and generative AI continue to get attention by general publications like The New Yorker.

New Stepfunction episode exploring image generation as opposed to the usual text generation from LLMs.

Jeff tries out an analogy for top-down symbolic AI vs. bottom-up machine learning.

We talk about the behind-the-scenes at OpenAI that led to ChatGPT's surprise viral success.

Seymour and Jeff launch the first episode of Stepfunction - A Podcast About Generative AI.

A brief history of neural networks from 1986-2014.

Product idea involving generative adversarial networks.

More on generative adversarial networks with an example.

Intro to GANs and why this architecture has been so interesting.

Really exciting paper on how AI is a stacking technology that improves other technologies--in this case improving efficiency of data structures.

Exponential growth in microprocessors, the web, and....AI?

Multiple retrospectives on how people invented deep learning over the last half-century.

Two stories about what leads to successful adoption of machine learning in the executive suite.

Constantly moving the goalposts of what counts as automation and AI.

Gary Marcus posits that AI claims are overhyped.

François Chollet brief and clear explanation of deep leaarning.

The analogy that the brain is like a computer is a dangerous one, and blocks the progress of AI.

Short link to Brynjolfsson and McAfee.

Self-driving cars aren't one thing; perhaps it's many different products like trucking versus commuter cars versus...

Augmented intelligence might be a more useful term than artificial intelligence.

Is studying linear algebra in 2016 like learning about Internet protocols in 1994?

What can the history of RDBMS's teach us about the likely adoption of AI?

Deep Mind and why 2016 was a breakthrough year for deep learning.

Machine learning

Joan of Arc at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

Joan of Arc at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

Joan of Arc at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

Visiting he Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

Frederick Douglass' 1876 speech at the unveiling of the Freedman's Memorial; the "Lincoln Memorial" before 1922.

More on Gerrit von Honthorst.

Michelangelo's David in Florence.

Musical instruments in the Accademia Galleria in Florence.

More thoughts on Caravaggio.

More notes on visiting Florence.

Interpretation of Caravaggio painting at Uffizi museum in Florence.

Notes from visiting the Uffizi museum in Florence.

Notes from visiting the Uffizi museum in Florence.

Short note

Short note

150 years since Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.

Disruption theory as applied to consumer brands generally and luxury brands in particular.

Steve Jobs on ideas vs. execution in building products

Quick note about Benedict Evans' annual presentation.

A good brand acts as a beacon when you are lost in a sea of competing marketing messages.

Thoughts on email and communications as Gmail turns 10 years old.