I might be broken,,,

Fun fact: Football season started.  How do I know?   My messenger has been beeping all day long as Kayaky Friends are discussing the games on today,,,

I honestly couldn’t give a fig leaf about it.  Never been a football person, or a sporty person for that matter.   Bicycle races when a teen, were more my speed, then in recent years, watching kayak races, like this one.

What Jess can do on moving wild water STILL blows my mind,,,   And I learn so much just watching and extrapolating what is going on UNDER the deck (she has the advantage of hips, but the control of legs and hip have just as much to do with controlling the  boat as the upper body and paddle do.)

But yeah,,, Football season has kicked off and I’m like ‘yawn,,, and?”  LOL

I must be broken.   Here is why I say that.   I spent this evening playing with Grok, not for conversation but as a research assistant.    ChatGPT just wasn’t hitting the mark for me (more on that later)   Grok on the other hand has been unleashed and the questions I asked were not just answered (VERY FRIGGIN WELL AT THAT) but backed by links of research, LISTS of links,,, Once question came back with over a 100 links of historical evidence.   It would take me weeks to find that amount of information.   

Good or bad thing?    Good for now, but it could be bad as well.   I know when I was in HS, and had to do research papers for classes, I was required to list my source, in detail.   Y’all that grew up then know of what I speak, but for the young’uns, that means that I had to list the source; book, paper, news source, whatever, what page it was found on, the dates of publication, even the Dewey numbers.   And we would have to ‘pull quote’ for validity as well.      This took TIME, LOTS OF TIME.   

In three questions, Grok pulled enough source material to fill a thesis,,,    Took about 20 minutes and most of that was my typing questions.   That first question took the longest to answer but it was quite a deep one, and it brought forth the most links.       It could be bad because I didn’t ‘pay my dues’,   I know I won’t remember any of those links, I didn’t follow them, just read the synopsis Grok generated to evaluate my next question.     So, yah, it could be a bad thing as well.  

BUT, I think its also a good tool to firm up or dissolve ‘theories’ or thought lines.   I can now say that one thing that was in my head has been dissolved because Grok pointed out there was some semantic tom-foolery in place.   (Persian Bible, if you are curious. It is Persian, it ain’t a bible,,,)

Its a tool.   the more I play with them, the more I see that very aspect, not the “goonna replace everybody” hype that is being spread.    The Skilsaw certainly didn’t replace carpenters, and the computer didn’t replace secretaries. (though, AI might,,,   Its certainly easier to call help desk and deal with AI over some robotic voice that asks for numeral entries to direct your call,,, Ask me how I know that one!)   

Deep dive tonight, and yes, I will be putting up another page on that new page, just not tonight.  More thinks involved and I wanna look through those links for reinforcement of my argument (which I think is valid, currently, but I could be wrong: hence, why I am not writing it out yet.) 

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Didn’t do much today, cleaned house, cleaned the yard of random clutter that Cozzie has dragged in as ‘toys’ (he aint’ happy with me right now.  I took those toys to the burnpile and did what you do there.  He watched the whole time, pouting,,,   He still has purchased toys, just not piles of trash,,,)   Started to mow, but realized I couldn’t see where I had just mowed so why bother,,,   Next week.   I won’t have the new batteries in until the 9th, so another weekend free ahead of me. (Free-ish,,, I’m sure I will get caught up in something,,,Buffalo is still running, but thats not to say she won’t feel left out on the money spending thing. )

Speaking of Buff: she crossed the 330000 mile mark today.   Another month and she will be 1/3rd of a million miles on the clock.     Old Girl is mindblowing to me.   She’s only 23 FFS!   Shes been to the moon and back and is making a repeat trip.

Tomorrow was slated to be domestics day, but I think I am going to hold off ’til Muhnday.   Sleep in, maybe hit the lake, zen out for a day.   No dawgum, no kittums, just Ol Dio and Mama-Nature.  Take a tarp to keep ol Sol offa my sensitive hide when I find ‘my spot’.    Will see.

Y’all take care and enjoy the long weekend.  

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