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  "title": "Miscellanea for 2025-05-13",
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  "html": "<ul>\n<li>Hello world!</li>\n<li>I'm in a weird place with this current AI wave in the tech industry. Drafting up some thoughts, maybe they'll turn into a post? I started just riffing here, but the riffing kept expanding, so I think I should give it some time to cook.</li>\n<li>And, indeed, I went ahead and posted a separate entry on <a href=\"https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/13/thinking-about-llms/\">what I'm thinking about AI and LLMs</a>! Maybe too many words that no one will read, but I wanted to get it out of my head for future noodling.</li>\n<li>None of what I wrote there about AI &amp; LLMs is particularly novel - in fact, the post is probably about 2 years behind the times. It's just that I think I needed to get it written down to get my own head straight. And maybe to refer to it later?</li>\n<li>Also, this AI stuff <a href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-hypen-em-dash-ai-writing-1235314945/\">makes me self-conscious about my love of em dashes</a>, which predates the popularity of LLMs for generating text? This shell command says I've used at least 172 of them around here: <code>find . -type f -name \"*.md\" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -o \"—\" 2&gt;/dev/null | wc -l</code></li>\n<li>I can tell you exactly where I picked up my love of em dashes: Ayn Rand's <em>Atlas Shrugged</em>, sophomore year of high school. It was a conscious decision to adopt them. My opinions on that book have changed, but my use of em dashes remains insufferable.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/macieklamberski/feedsmith\">feedsmith</a>: \"Robust and fast parser and generator for RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RDF feeds, with support for Podcast, iTunes, Dublin Core, and OPML files.\"<ul>\n<li>Well, that's relevant to my interests. Might be worth replacing my half-baked RSS template on this blog with that, at least.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
  "body": "\n- Hello world!\n- I'm in a weird place with this current AI wave in the tech industry. Drafting up some thoughts, maybe they'll turn into a post? I started just riffing here, but the riffing kept expanding, so I think I should give it some time to cook.\n- And, indeed, I went ahead and posted a separate entry on [what I'm thinking about AI and LLMs](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/13/thinking-about-llms/)! Maybe too many words that no one will read, but I wanted to get it out of my head for future noodling.\n- None of what I wrote there about AI & LLMs is particularly novel - in fact, the post is probably about 2 years behind the times. It's just that I think I needed to get it written down to get my own head straight. And maybe to refer to it later?\n- Also, this AI stuff [makes me self-conscious about my love of em dashes](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-hypen-em-dash-ai-writing-1235314945/), which predates the popularity of LLMs for generating text? This shell command says I've used at least 172 of them around here: `find . -type f -name \"*.md\" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -o \"—\" 2>/dev/null | wc -l`\n- I can tell you exactly where I picked up my love of em dashes: Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_, sophomore year of high school. It was a conscious decision to adopt them. My opinions on that book have changed, but my use of em dashes remains insufferable.\n- [feedsmith](https://github.com/macieklamberski/feedsmith): \"Robust and fast parser and generator for RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RDF feeds, with support for Podcast, iTunes, Dublin Core, and OPML files.\"\n\t- Well, that's relevant to my interests. Might be worth replacing my half-baked RSS template on this blog with that, at least.",
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