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“Advances in AI will enable the creation of a personal agent. Think of it as a digital personal assistant: It will see your latest emails, know about the meetings you attend, read what you read, and read the things you don’t want to bother with. This will both improve your work on the tasks you want to do and free you from the ones you don’t want to do […]. Company-wide agents will empower employees in new ways.” - and then employees could be “virtualized” too.

• Paper: Darwin’s notebook/logs ; are LLMs new notebooks? Backup of binary data on paper, 4.2kB/sheet.

• Random: Tiling patterns which do not repeat itself. Ghost in the xbox. Slow learning. Accenture cuts 19k jobs. Light time-reversal.

• AI: WTF ChatGPT on the way to do.. a lot more. Curated offensive AI. AI whispering - 7 steps to good prompts. GPT seems to understand. Cloning oneself with ChatGPT. Sparks of AGI. NeRF changes to photogrammetry / someone to follow. ChatGPT x Wolfram. Good read on the Age of AI.

• Life: Pond (and ecosystems) as brains. Imaginal discs. Talking plants. Vertical farming is tough. Life scientists leave academia.

• Consumed: La haine.

• Others: London. Progress on lit3. Wacs.

• Pending: pyZines ; nuAPIs. Good decorators.

Each page has room to record your bike rides, for you or your descendants decades from now to read. I recently found my fishing journal from the early '70s, with notes on bugs, fish, and friends. A single sentence can trigger more memories of the day than what it says. Journals are like time machines, and I'd never have found it if it were on a floppy disc or CD, and I'd never have read it if it were in the Cloud. What seems bland when you write it down- "Dreary weather, my feet froze, I got a flat a mile away and walked home... " - will seem epic in thirty years. Make of it what you will, and go to town... on your bicycle.