Uncle Jed’s Soapbox

  • The Happiest Place on Earth to Extract Maximum Value From Your Neural Architecture

    Author’s Note: The author identifies as neurodivergent. This essay was developed collaboratively with Claude (Anthropic) as a writing tool, beginning with an exploratory conversation that worked through the underlying ideas before arriving at a draft. The author reviewed and edited the final text. Using AI as an organizing and drafting partner is, for some of…

  • The Phoenix rises…

    Ok, we are going to try the blog thing again. To catch you up, dear reader, let us review how we got here. Social media was fun, but toxic. There is a wierd process that happens, you accept a “fringe” friend request, meaning someone who doesn’t quite fit the line you had mentally drawn in…

  • My favorite picture in a long time

    From left to right, that is me, Whiteface Mountain, and my friend Beth Wolfgram. I took this picture while Beth was out for a bike ride, but there is more to it than that. I was volunteering as staff for the 2022 IRONMAN Lake Placid, while Beth, as you might have guessed by the number…

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