Intro
Weather has completely lost its mind and probably has no idea what it should supposed to do. As a result, couple of the succulents in our balcony decided that late February is a great time to blossom.
As a bonus, during the weekend my back decided to show how much it hates me in a really clear way and all symptoms point out to sciatica. That’s why this week I’m making all my plans to make sure I sit on my desk as little as possible.
Greetings from Sangarius. Hope you’re all doing well.
Mission Control
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- Recording and publishing the new episode of Tuhaf Gelecek podcast.
- Working on the contents of one lecture and one training as much as I can.
- Juggling things and plans around to create more rest time for myself.
From Last Week
- I was a guest expert on Turkish news TV channel Halk TV to talk about age restrictions on social media and AI.
- The segment was planned for 40 minutes but CHP leader decided to talk too much and I was left with 15 minutes. Which is better than nothing considering his rally speeches are the reason my appearances were cancelled twice in the past.
- I also talked gave comments on age restrictions on social media for a news article in Turkish.
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No Status, Just Rest
No status report for this week for the obvious reasons. But you can see the confused succulents I mentioned above.
Song of the Week
I think Mor ve Ötesi by far the most special band for me. Recently I’m seeing lots of YouTubers doing “reacting to music from X country” type of content doing Turkish rock videos and always use a song from this concert for reasons you’ll clearly understand once you start listening. Instead of choosing one song, I put a link to the playlist for the whole concert for you to enjoy.
Reading Log
“Classification uses Claude. Draft generation uses Claude. Billie’s entire personality uses Claude. I’m paying Anthropic to generate menacing emails on my behalf. This is what we built AI for, apparently.”
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do – Last Week in AWS Blog
“Here we confront one of the great ironies of the Tractatus. Many books include passages which, despite their authors’ best efforts, simply do not make sense. Wittgenstein may be involved in a mirror image of this: that is, the Tractatus may include many passages which, despite its author’s best efforts, do make sense!”
A.W. Moore · A Tove on the Table: Versions of Wittgenstein
“There is a particular kind of thinker, one who becomes more entrenched in their single big idea about how the world works even in the face of contrary facts, whose predictions become worse, not better, as they amass information for their mental representation of the world. They are on television and in the news every day, making worse and worse predictions while claiming victory, and they have been rigorously studied.”
Range – David Epstein
Outro
That’s all I have for this week. Make sure you listen when your body complains to you and ignore until it’s too late like I did.
Take care and I’ll see you around.
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