Monthly Archives: September 2025

Learning a New Language

Posted on September 6, 2025 by way0utwest

This week, there are two interesting articles in the newsletter. The first is a markdown getting started article, which helps you learn how to format your documents. At first, I wasn’t sure I liked markdown, but I’ve come to prefer … Continue reading →

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Guidelines and Requirements

Posted on September 5, 2025 by way0utwest

I saw a post from Brent that Microsoft had changed the default memory guidance. At first glance I read this as they’d changed the default values, which would be interesting. However, this is a guideline, set to 75%. I also … Continue reading →

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Advice I Like: Praise

Posted on September 5, 2025 by way0utwest

Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while they are alive when it makes a difference to them. Write it in a letter they can keep. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is … Continue reading →

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Concerns over AI Chat Privacy

Posted on September 3, 2025 by way0utwest

One of the major concerns for using GenAI tools is who is reading the data you submit as a prompt, and will this data be used in future training of the model? In other words, could someone using a future … Continue reading →

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