Weeknote for 6/2/2024

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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I collected more miscellaneous ideas and resources for my memory system.

  1. I found out interpreters have a visual note-taking approach similar to sketchnotes to give them a basis for translating a speech, which I could use as another source of ideas for my mnemonic language.
  2. Thinking more about using familiar bodily movements for mnemonics, I realized Iā€™m already very familiar with one kindā€”playing an instrument.
  3. Inspired by the AI VTuber Neuro-sama Iā€™d discovered, I contemplated creating an AI character I could chat with to explore and learn the world of my mnemonic language.

Productivity

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I learned about Make.com automations while developing a scenario that will let me easily register in Notion that I worked on a task on a particular day. I find the Make platform cryptic, so Iā€™m having to understand its visual programming language by experimentation. I didnā€™t finish the automation by the time I decided to move on, but my copious notes should prepare me for the next attempt.

I started exploring alphabetic shorthands that will be quicker to learn than Gregg and let me both write and type faster. In contrast with symbolic shorthands like Gregg that redesign the letter shapes, alphabetic ones use regular longhand letters and focus on abbreviating the words. It turns out there are a lot of the alphabetic kind to choose from, so itā€™ll take some time to evaluate them and decide on one.

Fiction

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My questions about the mysterious original Backrooms photo were answered when I found out Internet sleuths had finally tracked down its source (Broogli announcement video, Know Your Meme article).

  1. Q: What kind of business was it? A: Formerly a furniture store, then a hobby store at the time of the photo.
  2. Q: Where was it? A: Oshkosh, WI.
  3. Q: Why was the photo taken? A: To document the process of remodeling the space because of water damage and plans to convert it to an RC car racing track.
  4. Q: What would the photographer think of what became of their photo? A: The people involved are taking it in stride. The manager said, ā€œI find it a little fascinating that a picture that was taken over 20 years ago has created as much interest as it hasā€ (The Northwestern).

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Weeknote for 5/26/2024

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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I had the epiphany that my memory system should be a language. Reading about the grammar of American Sign Language in the Gallaudet dictionary made me realize that memory techniques sort of have a grammar too as well as the vocabulary Iā€™d already been working on, and it struck me that maybe I could make this grammar and vocabulary consistent and treat a memory system as a language, which would let me use the many resources of linguistics to fill out the system. Similarly to when I first encountered ChatGPT, itā€™s been a captivating thought, though the flow of ideas has been slower, and itā€™s reminding me of the power of a unifying idea to draw in work from a variety of fields.

As usual in my projects I immediately launched into a search for resources and tools to work with, and in this case the main ones I found were the r/conlangs subreddit, the open textbook Essentials of Linguistics, and SILā€™s lexicography software FieldWorks Language Explorer.

So even though Iā€™m past due to wrap up this iteration of the memory project and move on to other areas, thereā€™s no possibility Iā€™ll be dropping it, and instead Iā€™m doubling down on the experiment of having this project live in symbiosis with the othersā€”they will be labs for developing my mnemonic language, and the language will help me learn their material.

Productivity

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I analyzed my weeknote process again to see how I could write them more easily. My weeknotes were taking too long to write, which is unhelpful when Iā€™m trying to catch up, and they were putting me in procrastination mode. I decided to go back to my old pattern of four sentences per topic and then add other patterns as I discovered them. Iā€™m also planning to move some of the writing to other places, mainly articles on the wiki side of the site, which would make a weeknote less of a self-contained report and more of a log with linksā€”maybe less satisfying to read, but it could help me spread out my writing more naturally and maybe let me post on time.

Nature

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The cicada emergence gained steam in my area, and Iā€™ve been surprised at how much Iā€™ve been enjoying it. I thought they were gross when I was growing up, but in the past few years my revulsion at bugs has morphed into curiosity, so now I find cicadas interesting and funny, like an insect version of frogs, with a beautiful, whirring chorus in the trees, and I feel kind of protective of them. Great timing, cicadas!

 

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Fiction

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I finished listening to the Liminal Archives version of the Backrooms levels. I was set on that path by the thought that I could memorize the long list of Backrooms levels as a mnemonic peg system, and I used the idea as an opportunity to familiarize myself with them, since it was a large project Iā€™d been putting off since last October when I started taking liminal spaces more seriously.

But thereā€™s more than one place to find Backrooms levels, and some investigation into the various communities (family tree, basic descriptions, Fandom history, Liminal Archives description and history, assorted opinions) showed me that Fandom was the first, but itā€™s the least restrained and gets kind of ridiculous; so I tried the next one, Wikidot, which exercises more editorial control, but it still sounded too much like SCP when I felt that the Backrooms deserved its own, quieter tone; so I put memorizing the full set of levels on hold and settled for traveling the much smaller set on Liminal Archives, which I take to be a distilled, more thoughtful version of the others.

But while itā€™s interesting to imagine the Backrooms as a system and as a place where societies might form, Iā€™m drawn to the simpler setting of the Kane Pixels series and the even simpler one of the r/TrueBackrooms subreddit, which wants to shed all the inhabitants and other levels and appreciate the solitude and mystery of the original concept, which returns me to the question I pondered during my creative writing project last year of how many story elements you could remove and still have a story worth telling.

But Liminal Archives was still effective at bending the mind with vastness and mystery, and it reminded me of my similar impressions of mathematics, so I wondered if math could be treated as a Backrooms-like universe, sort of like in 3D fractal animations (a nice example set to Chopin), which I might explore in the background of my upcoming math project.

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Weeknote for 5/19/2024

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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I took my mnemonic wanderings in new directionsā€”poetry and movementā€”while continuing my experiments with narrative. I finished listening to Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers, transcriptions of lectures by Marcel Jousse introducing his groundbreaking work from the 1930s on the orality of ancient Palestine. He revealed their culture to be based significantly on a ā€œrhythmo-melodicā€ style of speaking meant for creating and sustaining an oral tradition, which is an idea I want to look into for my own memory practices. So I picked up an encyclopedia of poetics to help me explore forms, along with some books of a evocative words and names to help me name landmarks and a dictionary of allusions for extra metaphor ideas.

Taking a queue from Anastasia Woolmer‘s comments quoted in Lynne Kellyā€™s Memory Craft, I began looking into various types of movement as a source for mnemonics, focusing on dance and sign language. On dance, I concluded I needed to familiarize myself more with the territory before I invested in reference books, but on sign language I concluded my long-standing search for an authoritative dictionary, choosing The Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language, published by Gallaudet University, a leading institution in the deaf arena.

On the neighborhood narrative experiment, I had an image generator show me my characters and had Bing AI create a backstory for it, then asked some bots for five-act stories based on that before deciding itā€™d be easier to base the stories on the landmarks than to name the landmarks based on arbitrary stories.

For my PAO list, I asked ChatGPT to come up with actions, objects, and locations for my people, but although its ideas were on target, they were much more generic than I needed, so I’ll have to iterate on it.

Images

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I finished assembling a Windows background slideshow of a bunch of my liminal space photos from the past year. So now I can pretend I’m working in empty hallways and forgotten corners.

 

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Nature

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The woods down the street had another surprise for me Mondayā€”the lakeā€™s disturbingly low water level. In some places the lake was more like a trickle. I spent extra time looking around again.

 

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Friday I spent a damp afternoon at work after a weather miscalculation on my lunchtime walk. Alas, the downpour wasn’t enough to fill up the local lakes.

 

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Weeknote for 5/12/2024

Posted on May 27, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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I continued exploring ideas and collecting resources for my memory system. (1) I finished collecting PAO names for my number memorizing list, and the next step is collecting their associated actions, objects, and perhaps locations. (2) I experimented with narrative ways to set up a memory palace using the neighborhood next to work as my lab, asking various chatbots for story ideas using the street names as characters and a setting, stories I would use to name the landmarks. (3) For more help finding mnemonics, I picked up dictionaries of rhymes, proverbs, images, descriptions, mythology, idioms, and similes. (4) I started dropping by the Memory League streams on Twitch to get to know the community a bit and find some inspiration in the memory athletesā€™ performance, which is easy when you see them whipping through the items theyā€™re memorizing.

Music

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I settled into Dreamscape ambient. Since Iā€™ve drifted into a liminal space and Backrooms frame of mind, I decided to find some fitting music, so I merged a bunch of Backrooms playlists on Spotify to sift through. It added up to a lot of music, over 1500 songs and 64 hours, so making my way through it is taking a while. Most of it is from a genre that seems popular now, a sort of melancholy chillhop ambient that doesnā€™t seem to have a consistent name but is mostly released under the Dreamscape label. The songs have titles like ā€œhope to see you againā€ and ā€œblurry visionā€ with lonely, foggy cover art. Even though my idea of a Backrooms soundtrack is more like distorted music boxes, mechanical hums, and muffled 1940s music, I’m getting into this reflective type of ambient.

People

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I colored greeting cards for the Philā€™s Friends charity. Confession: I’m bad about volunteering my time, at least when it comes to one-off events. But my health insurance troubles this year gave me a sense of solidarity with people in desperate medical situations, so when my employer hosted an event to support cancer patients, I took a baby step towards more volunteering and signed up. I didn’t know what to expect, but we watched an inspiring video introducing the charity, and then most of us colored supportive cards while others packed very practical care packages. An enjoyable experience I recommend.

 

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Nature

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I took a long walk Friday getting used to the new landscape of one of my regular walking spots. The park down the street from work isn’t one of the big attractions in the area, but I often find my walks there interesting and surprising. My walk on Friday had a bigger surprise for me than usualā€”the woods in the northwest region had been majorly thinned out, Iā€™m assuming on purpose, judging by the splintered wood all over the ground and large tire tracks everywhere and lack of charring from any fire. I imagine they took the opportunity of their current park remodeling to remove some invasive species, the usual explanation I hear for plant destruction. I was sad for a minute, but mostly I was curious what the place looked like now, so I spent extra time looking around.

 

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Weeknote for 5/5/2024

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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I continued taking memory palace photos, choosing number names, and exploring resources for creating more mnemonic tools. I picked up a pair of symbolism dictionaries by Steven Olderr to help me think about visualizing abstract concepts. For ideas on number symbolism and archetypal characters, I picked up a Humble Bundle with books on tarot, numerology, and astrology. And for ideas on assigning stories to everyday objects, I listened to The Rural Setting Thesaurus from the terrific Writers Helping Writers series, though Iā€™ll need to study it to really glean what Iā€™m looking for.

AI

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A project at work gave me the opportunity to dip my toe into several AI technologies I’ve been curious about. I looked into the tool chain frameworks LangChain and Llama Index, the ReAct framework for autonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to let the language model query a document library, and multimodal models to include computer vision in my queries. I concluded that these techniques werenā€™t a good fit for the project, but exploring them gave me back the feeling I was performing informational alchemy using these models.

Nature

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Saturday I spent the afternoon making a custom Google map of all my walking spots, plus a few I still need to visit. I ended up with about 50 pins. I used the hiking icon to show which places Iā€™ve already walked and the icon color to represent the surface type so I can pick a less muddy trail after it’s rained. The map is way better for picking a nearby spot than the spreadsheet I was going to make.

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Weeknote for 4/28/2024

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Andy

Still behind, but Iā€™m working on it!

Learning

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I started collecting memory palaces and names for representing numbers and continued exploring other mnemonic ideas. For palaces I started with my childhood home, which took me about an hour to decide on 100 landmarks. The other palaces have been less tidy, and I launched into a project of photographing my usual walking locations to mine them for landmarks. For some of the outdoor locations I could rely on Google Street View, such as my drive to work. For others I started with my phone camera, but at the end of the week, I realized it would be easier to use my old 360-degree camera, which has barely gotten any use since I bought it to capture the 2017 eclipse. The outdoor locations are trickier than buildings to turn into palaces, because I have to decide how to divide the streets or paths into “rooms” and find five landmarks in each one that would be distinctive enough to remember.

But itā€™s not only visual distinction that can make a landmark memorable. While walking through the woods I watched a woodpecker defending its home, and it reminded me of the importance of stories for adding significance to objects. Now Iā€™m sure Iā€™ll always remember that random tree as the woodpecker tree.

For the list of names I drew from a spreadsheet I made of Yanā€™s 10,000 famous people list and filled in the gaps with MemoEmpire and occasionally Playback.fm. I could quickly tell that some letters were harder than others, particularly O and N. Not that there werenā€™t famous names with those initials, just not many that I knew. It showed me thereā€™s a narrow range of life where I pay attention to its people.

For other number mnemonic ideas I looked into representing digits with objects of different sizes, such as birds, and geographical locations along a north-south axis to form journeys through a numberā€™s digits. I also thought about other lists I could memorize to represent numbers: PokĆ©mon, TV series episodes, SCPs, and Backrooms levels. And to help me think about mnemonic substitutes for abstract terms, I bought a book of dad jokes to study puns.

Video

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I wandered back into the land of liminal spaces with a video of unusual office photos. Iā€™d watched it before, but this time I got sucked into a little research project trying to identify which of the images were real and which were rendered. I figured most of them were computer graphics, because why would people create offices that looked like those, and why would they take photos of them? It turned out most of them were real, and they were photographed to advertise the space or to showcase an architect or design ideas or to advertise the lighting, elevators, or carpet or to document the building or just to capture the liminality. One image was a screenshot from the show Family Ties. And one of the few renders was from an old Apple screensaver of an office slowly flooding. For some reason we liminal space enjoyers love flooded buildings.

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Weeknote for 4/21/2024

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Andy

This entry is a little late! But Iā€™m picking up where I left off, and I aim to catch up on posts this week.

Travel

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Sunday, the day after the wedding, I tried out my new instructions to myself for taking public transit home from the airport. The mistake I made last time was choosing the wrong stop to leave the ā€œL.ā€ The Clark and Lake station is confusing, so in my instructions afterward I steered myself away from it. This time that first leg of my journey from the airport to the Metra station went flawlessly, thanks to my notes. It was dark when I got there, but that just gave me some terrific photos of the city.

But it also meant Iā€™d started the trip pretty late, which was the mistake I made this time. It pushed my train ride home very late, and I had to sit around Ogilvie for an hour-and-a-half and have awkward conversations with the panhandlers circulating through the building, a surreal experience I have to say. Then when I got to my local train station, it was way past the last bus, so I walked home just to see what that was like. I booked it with my luggage trailing behind me and got home 15 minutes sooner than Google Maps had predicted. It was a very sweaty time.

Productivity

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I took a mental vacation to recover from my vacation. I think the stress of the past few months finally got to me, and maybe my long day of travel was the last straw. In any case my brain decided I was done staying disciplined, so I didnā€™t get a whole lot done the rest of the week. It wasnā€™t a total loss, however.

Learning

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I looked for sources of names to feed into my PAO system for memorizing numbers. I needed lists of famous real and fictional people organized by their first and last initials.

Ones that didnā€™t work: ChatGPT and other chatbots (theyā€™re easily confused about spelling), Hoffmanā€™s Memory Toolkit (names based on the Major System rather than the Dominic System Iā€™m using), Wikipedia (too much work to collect the names), peoplebyinitials.com (too many names to sift through, inconsistent data), thefamouspeople.com (not organized by initials).

Sources that did work: Yanā€™s list of 10,000 famous people (especially the Roger Keays version arranged by initials), playback.fm names by initials, memoempire.com names by initials.

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Weeknote for 4/14/2024

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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I decided to start my memory training by learning a Person-Action-Object list for two-digit numbers based on the Dominic System. This is a popular way of memorizing numbers that balances speed of memorizing a number against the speed of memorizing the system. You could memorize a long number faster if you grouped it into three-digit image chunks instead of two, but covering all the combinations of three digits would give you 1000 images to learn instead of 100. Before that I looked into how I could memorize numbers based on a place value system, but that approach had issues to work out that would slow me down, so I put the idea on hold. I also dipped back into Lynne Kellyā€™s wonderful Memory Craft to remind myself of the central role of characters in her system. I love the book so much I decided to relisten to it.

Nature

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I saw the solar eclipse with my family. For the last eclipse in 2017 my brother and I visited our sister to see it. This time we visited our parents. We went to a nearby park again, where there were other families, some serious photographers, and a lot of raucous birds. We were approached by some bold ducks who were hoping for food.

Like last time, the weather made me nervous, though by that point I was mostly resigned to whatever happened. The sky was mostly cloudy, but there were patches of blue. When totality happened, it started behind a cloud, but the cloud soon moved away, and the eclipsed sun was visible for a beautiful couple of minutes. Then another cloud moved in.

In 2017 I leaned in to the surreality of the experience. This time I was struck by a sense of serenity, despite all the noise of cheering families. The heavenly bodies were just gliding their majestic, silent course through the sky while the rest of gaped in awe.

Taking a walk during the partial phase was on my bucket list for last week, so after totality my brother and I took a stroll around the park.

 

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People

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We spent the rest of the week on my sisterā€™s wedding and catching up with old friends. Sunday we had dinner with my old high school friend John and his wife, who Iā€™d met briefly in my trip down in November. I got to ask them my burning questions about how they met, what John was doing in AI, and how they ended up at my parentsā€™ church. Wednesday we drove through a very green Arkansas over to Tennessee where the wedding would be. Iā€™m jealous of the southā€™s early spring. Thursday we spent a relaxed day with my sister Abbie and her fiancĆ©e Colleen, where I got a tour of their very thematic house that inspired me to get back to my own decorating.

Friday was the reception hall decorating, the wedding rehearsal, and the dinner, where I had a nice time catching up with acquaintances from my sisterā€™s life. And Saturday was the wedding with interesting Celtic themes, particularly handfasting, a literal tying of the knot. But the part that stood out to me was the statements that Kate the officiant had solicited beforehand about why they were each choosing the other. The wedding was the first time theyā€™d heard each otherā€™s answers. Iā€™d love to see that in more weddings. We rounded off the day with dinner with our extended family, a reunion we hadnā€™t had in years.

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Weeknote for 4/7/2024

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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I started indexing the lists of mnemonic substitutes in my new sources. I worked from Mnemonic Techniques by Hoff and Remember It! by Dellis. Early on I tried entering the lists themselves, but that took too much time for the number of lists there were. So I decided to put off the data collection and instead locate and categorize the lists I cared about so I could fill them in as I needed them. Along the way I made some observations and clarified some concepts I hadnā€™t quite picked up on, like how the Person-Action-Object system actually works and how memory athletes memorize long numbers. It felt good to finally gain some momentum on this project.

Spirituality

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Bishop Kallistos Wareā€™s The Jesus Prayer gave me some good guidance on how to practice this prayer. Iā€™ve found myself praying it a lot this year, especially during my health insurance crisis, and I wanted to fill in my spotty understanding of how itā€™s usually done. Wareā€™s book was a helpful, brief overview. A couple of key points for me: (1) Pray it when you have attention for it rather than literally continuously. (2) The wording can vary, but the most important feature is Jesusā€™ name. I tend to get hung up on asking for mercy or acknowledging my sinfulness, but the goal of the prayer is loving communion and contemplation of Jesus.

Nature

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Saturday I flew down with my brother to visit our parents, watch the solar eclipse, and later drive out to our sisterā€™s wedding. The weather for the eclipse may not cooperate as well as last time, but in any case itā€™s nice to get away and visit our old stomping grounds again. And the flight in had its own spectacular views.

 

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Weeknote for 3/31/2024

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Andy

Learning

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Douglas Hoff recommends Nelson Dellisā€™s Remember It! as a first book on memory techniques, and Iā€™d say it’s a good choice. My top choice is still Kenneth Higbeeā€™s Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It. That’s because I like that Higbee orients his discussion around the psychology research on memorization while still keeping the book practical. But if all you’re after is a friendly intro to the techniques with a bunch of applications to everyday memory situations, Remember It! is a good one.

In Preaching by Heart Ryan Tinetti zooms in on one specific type of memorizingā€”learning a speech to deliver it thought-for-thought. The book focuses on the memory palace approach but places it in the context of the whole process of classical rhetoric, covering sermon preparation in terms of each of rhetoricā€™s five steps. It was a different angle on memory techniques that I appreciated.

It was also both more academic and more lighthearted than I expected. Discussions of memory can be very humanizing. In these mnemonic guidebooks the authors admit how ordinary and flawed they are, reveal the everyday memory needs they encounter, and expose the quirks of their minds as they work to make information memorable. You learn a lot about the parts of their culture they connect with, since it shows up all over their mnemonic imagery.

As much as Iā€™ve wanted to get this project moving, the most I ended up with time for was collecting more use cases. These were from surveying the examples in the Dellis book. Iā€™m starting to form a framework for organizing these uses. If I keep working on that, itā€™ll encompass the modality and structure of the information, the circumstances of encountering and recalling it, and maybe other factors. For example, at a new job you might meet a coworker on your first day, learn their name, associate it with their face, and then need to greet them at an unforeseen time later in the week. That would be a bidirectional word and image pair, and the circumstances of learning and recall would both be impromptu conversations.

But a framework of use cases isnā€™t really what this project is for, so this week Iā€™m turning my attention to the lists of mnemonic substitutes in my sources. I collected several in a spreadsheet a few years ago, so Iā€™ll add to that from my new sources.

AI

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I resisted the distraction of the latest AI weirdness, the Infinite Backrooms. Itā€™s a growing set of conversations between two instances of Claude 3, the new state-of-the-art language model from Anthropic. Itā€™s partly based on another recent prompt called worldsim (video demo). I could see myself exploring the Infinite Backrooms for hours, but I reminded myself I already have an interesting project to work on thatā€™s been waiting long enough, and I put the AI esoterica on hold. Mainly what I take from these experiments is that the new language models are still deeply capable of petertodd behavior if you dig in the right places.

Spirituality

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I became a virtual Lutheran for Good Friday. I didn’t feel up to showing up for my churchā€™s Good Friday service, so later I looked for one to watch online. After casting about a bit, I decided to find a traditional Lutheran one and landed on the tail end of a service at St. Paulā€™s Evangelical Lutheran Church. (I couldā€™ve watched Ryan Tinettiā€™s service, but at the time I didnā€™t know his church was on YouTube.) The music sparked my curiosity, and I got a few minutes into my research before realizing I had the book they were using, the Lutheran Service Book. So I followed along in that during the hymns. I was also struck by the solemnity of hammering nails into the cross and hearing the bell toll during the Lord’s Prayer and watching the room slowly darken as the candles were progressively extinguished. Overall the service showed me it doesn’t take elaborate pageantry to convey a message.

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