Sleep

LLMs (large language models) are changing the world. Widely used LLMs were built by training algorithms to predict the next word based on the preceding word sequence. (Technically, LLMs operate on “tokens,” not words. Words and tokens are related but distinct. A typical LLM would probably represent the word “isn’t” with two ordered tokens, the first representing “is” and the second representing “not” because whether someone says “isn’t” or “is not” is basically irrelevant.) ...

A few updates: I normally sleep on my side, and a single piece of tape sufficed. But following hernia surgery in August, I needed to sleep on my back. I found I needed two pieces of tape when sleeping on my back. When I haven’t shaved, the tape I use sticks poorly. The longer my facial hair grows, the more likely the tape is to come loose during the night. ...