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I let Claude manage my WordPress blog

I’ve had this site since 2003. In all that time I never really learned WordPress. I knew just enough to keep things running, and every time I wanted to change something, like a menu, a layout or a colour, I…

AI and Work: Five Scenarios, Ordered by Severity

What could happen to European societies, including the one I live in, if current AI impact trends continue under different labor-market scenarios? Everyone has an opinion, but what do economists say? This post organizes economists’ views on AI and work…

Playing Shadowrun with ChatGPT

I read an article by a guy who used ChatGPT4 as the dungeon master for a solo compaign for Dungeons & Dragons. Just him and ChatGPT. The chatbot fully played the role of a human dungeon master! It sounded really…

Good Book, Bad Program

Programming is like writing a book. Both programs and books are written in a language, e.g. Datalog or Tagalog, but the similarity goes deeper than that. Imagine that you must write a book with the subject "a man walks his…

Our Sagawind 20

Through hulls on Sagawind 20 This year we bought an old sail boat from 1979 – a Sagawind 20. My first order of concern is to check the location and state of the through hulls, which are perhaps the most…

Frk. Slimas Fornemmelse for Snot

Af Kostas Kefaloukos Danmark er et lille halvkoldt land, halvlangt mod nord. Det er ikke så koldt at der er særligt meget sne. Til gengæld blæser det meget og regner hele tiden. Disse vejrforhold gør at danskerne ofte bliver forkølede…

Terms used in shipping

Now that I work in shipping, it is necessary to learn a bunch of new terms. Shipping is regulated under Admiralty Law and there are traditional documents and parties involved. Knowing what these are is crucial to understanding shipping. Legal…