Kristin Piljay 🌲

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A new year. A new beginning. A month of change. A low winter sun glows in the redwood forest. This was taken in January 2022. Wow, how time flies.

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I've found a potential path to follow for a new career. I'm studying AI Ethics. I'm taking a course on Coursera called Ethical Issues in AI an Professional Ethics. There are some writing assignments and if you take the course with no college credit, you get peer reviews and also review 4 assignments for your peers. I wrote my assignment on my own and it's very obvious, but when I reviewed other's assignments, some were very obviously written by AI. One was so blatant (and the submitter was anon) that I just flagged it as AI. they didn't even TRY to make it seem like they wrote it. Kind of ironic in an ethics course on AI. 😆 It's a lot cheaper to take it for noncredit (just the Coursera fee), but you do still get a certificate. If you take for credit, then the professor reviews it. Seems all kind of absurd. If you really want to learn the subject, you should write it yourself. A few seemed authentic with maybe some AI help (I reviewed 4 of them).

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Will Durant

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How can this possibly be the president of the United States? Sounds like a 10-year-old. I have been baffled for the past 10 years on how anyone could have possibly voted for this lunatic. I remember laughing in 2015 when he was running for president, never thinking that could be a reality. This is a reality show here. That's what he has turned the US into. I feel like I don't want to watch it anymore. I just can't even bear it.

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Tree Tuesday. Some tree silhouettes with the sunset and moon.

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So who is familiar with this? I just discovered it today. Just launched last month. Backed by Fidelity. https://mystonks.org/

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A snowy mountain for Mountain Monday!

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Spiral Sunday. Always love a spiral. This one is inside a library.

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Can’t miss Foggy Friday! From a sunset past on top of a butte.

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I'm feeling that lust to wander again. This pic from my trip to Italy last October, taken by my friend on the steps at Atrani.

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Well, guess what? I have another ancient Bristlecone Pine tree for Tree Tuesday! But for me, I guess every day is a tree day. Many of the trees in this area of high winds lean like this one. Some of them are even basically laying on the ground. It's to be expected when the name of the area is called "Windy Ridge."

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Captured a little sun star next to a Limber Pine, which is a similar slow-growing, long-living tree like the Bristlecone Pine, which grows at high altitude locations. This was around 10,700feet and I photographed it on the Limber Grove trail.

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Another Bristlecone Pine for Sunday. It was totally silent up there on this high altitude windy ridge. These trees are very interesting in how they have adapted to thrive in harsh environments: high altitude, very cold, windy and very dry.

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Another day, another ancient tree. Bristlecone Pine on Windy Ridge.

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Black and white version of the Bristlecone Pine I shared earlier today.

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ITAP of a Bristlecone Pine.

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Tree Thursday and sharing one of my pics of a Bristlecone Pine I shot yesterday.

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Tree Tuesday and it's a double tree day. Tomorrow, I'm headed up to the mountains to photograph Bristlecone Pine - gnarled ancient trees. Wish me luck with conditions!

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Echinacea flower

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