Last week at an event I got to hear Michael Dempsey from Compound talk about "in-distribution" (familiar) and "out-of distribution" (novel) ideas, and how AI plays into this. He wrote it up as an essay yesterday (with a great lede):

"The human condition is romantic. We tightly guard and appreciate the idea that we are all unique, each with our own novelty running through our veins and shooting out of each electrical charge from our neurons firing. We as humans are connected because we have both thought what others have thought and only think what no others have ever thought.

The concept of some form of heightened superintelligence threatens this. LLMs broadly take the collective thoughts of humanity and shine a mirror on those writing prompts, spitting out an answer that could lead to a given person learning that perhaps so many others have thought everything we have thought. And we will likely learn, that that's okay in some regards"

https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/in-distribution-vs-out-of-distribution

How novel are your thoughts? 

Such a fascinating read 👇🏻

Running

Another day. Back in the heat of Asia. 🥵 

What’s with the new casting?

The streak continues. 

Day 371 on Salt Spring Island 🇨🇦🍁🏃🏻‍♀️

yoga

Haven’t taken a public class in years. Feels good to be back 🙏🏻

Nature

Day 365 of my run streak! 

Never thought I’d be doing this for a year straight, and yet here we are with 3 races and 3 FKTs. Grateful that I get to do this. ♥️

Design

For people starting out and designing websites… what’s a good learning resource or tool?

Seattle

Day 353 

Those hills are no joke. 🫠 Also loving these island traverses. This is my 2nd and so far my longest run ever. It’s actually 12.2 miles don’t know why Strava didn’t register it all.

words

Because Past Lives still haunts me. Anyone with thoughts on it?

Philosophy

Found this fascinating. 

We’re faced with having to make loads of decisions everyday and some are definitely harder to make than others. 

Sometimes it boils down to deciding between who you are and who you want to be. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Found this fascinating. 

We’re faced with having to make loads of decisions everyday and some are definitely harder to make than others. 

Sometimes it boils down to deciding between who you are and who you want to be. 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_avomQoFMu/?igsh=MWxmbXQ1cmRjY2Y4cA==

Books

I have absolutely adored these children’s books from Kobi Yamada. The philosophy behind it, the inspiring words, the concept, and illustrations are beautiful. 

Children’s books written as adult reminders ♥️ 

Highly recommend having these around your house.

Great day for a ballgame ⚾️ 

Would have been better if we won 🥲

Found this inspiring: 

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/10/high-return-activity-raising-others-aspirations.html

DYK: that there are Puget Sound Pilots that help steer ships into the sound once they get here? They’re the only ones allowed to do that. 😳 

Got to witness a pilot hoping on board yesterday! Pretty cool.

knitting

First big project! Excited for the next one (a tank top then maybe a sweater) and curious what other people are working on?

Productivity geek, yoga teacher, aspiring knitter.
Mission: Do one new thing each month 

Andidandy

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