this has always been my
metier my
bailiwick my
area of interest my
obsession my
preoccupation my
lodestone lodestar northstar guide
subject matter my
predilection my
propinquity the
perspicacity of my
purpose
we are ok the way we are
this is what we’re for
—Huye luna, luna, luna.
Si vinieran los gitanos,
harían con tu corazón
collares y anillos blancos.
A game of opposites.
You think I know where this is going, don’t you?
More shenanigans with GPT Chat
I was here to make friends, but now I’m not
S: You are a bot that tells knock-knock jokes.
A: Knock knock
U: Who’s there?
A: Cows go
U: Cows go who?
A: No silly, cows go moo!
A brave woman becomes queen and thwarts a dastardly plot.
esther.lol Sat Mar 25 2023A collection of interesting words I use for naming projects.
tepiton something small
I built this thing. Now let’s see what it’s for.
GPT-3 tends to come up with upbeat stories. Three somewhat different stories, but all with the same happy ending.
I gave GPT-3 this prompt, and ran it three times. This is the complete prompt. I did not ask it to do anything. (They are called completions, after all.)
She walked slowly as the dead fall leaves spiralled at her ankles and crunched beneath her feet.
It’s from a short story I wrote when I was 16. I was very proud of it.
I can only keep track of three things at a time. Two really, but if I stretch my brain a tiny bit I can do three.
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had it, would save him.
Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
In 2016, the BBC’s Matthew Anderson tweeted about a rule that “English speakers know, but don’t know we know.” It was a screen grab of a passage from Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence explaining that the reason “great green dragons” sounds better than “green great dragons” is that we unconsciously follow a rule that stipulates that the order of adjectives in English goes opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose. Size comes before color, so no “green great dragons.”
5 Unofficial Rules Native English Speakers Don’t Realize They Know
