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links, etc Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again : Short Wave : NPR this feels like a deeply underrated development. kind of like norman borlaug’s wheat.

links, etc Traffic Altercation - SNL - YouTube one of the best skits i’ve seen in ages. saving here for ref.

links, etc Prompt Engineering | Lil’Log this is a great introduction into prompt engineering. there’s a lot to unpack here. candidly, i have been mostly skeptical of much of the recent announcements and activity associated with AI. not that it doesn’t work for the vast majority of language oriented use cases, but that the behaviors and the outputs would still require that we confirm the results and that we’ve unleashed infinite bullshit generators upon the world....

links, etc Hiltzik: The truth about Lilly’s insulin price cuts - Los Angeles Times you really should pay attention to the markets when you’re evaluating the apparent “good” that a corporation is engaging in.