I recently saw a fascinating preprint of a paper testing GPT-3.5, currently the best public large language model, against the bar exam, the two-day test required to become a lawyer in the United States. As someone who has passed the bar exam and who is very interesting in programming, this intrigued me. I knew language processing had come a long way, but the bar exam requires months of study after years of law school to pass. Surely many seeing the rapid progress of GPT envision AI reaching th...
MTN DEW® Fruit Quake is Mountain Dew's 2022 Christmas flavor. To preface this, I should probably say that I do not like fruit cake. Yet I do like fruit, fruit-flavored drinks, and novelty foods, so I was quite excited to try fruit quake regardless.
Upon trying Fruit Quake, my first reaction was, "This is terrible." It was hard to note any distinguishing tastes, so I will admit that it is unique. I then had to text my friend about how gross it is before continuing, but I eventually finished i...
The purpose of blockchains is to establish unchangeable records of digital assets without any trusted party. "Unchangeable" sounds good to prevent fraud, so some county recorders who seem to understand nothing about the law or technology, like Cook County's Karen Yarbrough, who thought blockchain made sense for government deed records, try to force blockchains onto physical property. But even on its face, this application of blockchains makes zero sense and only exists to appeal to the unwitti...
Pastors and other clergy members are a key part of churches and communities, however they sadly have below-average pay typically. While living off of the charity of their congregations may demonstrate and strengthen their faith, it does necessitate gifts. Often congregants feel other missions are more important than an increase in standard-of-living for the pastor, so gifts specifically designated for the pastor are sure to be appreciated. However, this is something the United States tax law d...
I'm a lawyer, so I have a lot of files. There's always new clients coming in, so I keep needing more and more files. Obviously to identify these files, I print labels to stick on them. We use the very nice Avery 5166 Permanent Filing Labels for our files. These are quite nice as they and come on a standard letter-size paper with a template. Often times others have to print a list of labels for envelopes which you can't just print your list directly onto the envelopes. Thanks to the inventi...
As I lay out in my (not) famous weight loss book, calorie control is key to any weight loss program. To accomplish this, I am/was a big fan of MyFitnessPal. It has an easy way to log calories on my phone or the web with a good searchable database, and it used to have a magical barcode scanner. I even got my cheapo smart scale's app to sync with MyFitnessPal through Google Fit so I don't even have to type my weight anymore like some plebeian.
However, it also has some veeerrryyy question...