AppleWorks 6

I know nothing of AppleWorks 6 or FileMaker Pro 7.  However, I was spending time recently going through old digital photos and came across some pics of stuff I was decluttering when my Dad moved from independent living to assistant living back in 2018.  I did the quickest of searches and find that AppleWorks 6 came out in 2000!  My Dad really liked to hold onto any manual for any product he owned.  You never know when it will come in handy.

Comparing LLM responses

LLM Responses compared I thought a nice exercise would be to take a relatively simple prompt and assess how the Closed and Open models currently available compare.  This is the prompt that I used: <PROMPT> I’m taking my daughter to an oral surgeon today to...

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Bill Gates, not a jerk billionaire

Bill Gates has announced he's giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs.  Here's the announcement from Gates Foundation There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them.  A have an internal screed about...

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Gemini = Lazy Google?

Now my mind is just equating Gemini to Lazy Google.  For example, I wanted to modify the footer of tquist.com website.  But what footer and where do I modify this?  In the pre-Gemini (or LLM) days I would have typed my question into Google search and looked for...

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AI Musings 5-5-2025

 I am struggling to determine the best way to compare the big three LLMs. Side by side comparison of the same prompt is logical but yeesh, not sure I’ll have the time for such detailed analysis. Another thought I’ve had is to use a different one for time periods and...

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AI Musings 5-2-2025

I have been trying to use the top 3 (in my mind at least) LLMs regularly. I feel most likely to grab Copilot as Microsoft has so nicely put a cool looking rainbow colored icon on the taskbar of Windows.  I scratch my head a little as I don't recall allowing Microsoft...

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AI limitations – let’s change a Google Voice number

TQuist had a Google Voice number for a long time.  I never used it well, and then I neglected it, and then it was releasted back into the wild.  I confirmed earlier my previous number has been assigned to some else, which makes sense due to my inactivity.  So I want a...

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