Lately, I have been working on a series of small archiving projects. I have been gathering 35 years of digital data, and organizing it locally, mostly in Obsidian. I’m working toward a single, text-based archive that can serve as the source of a personal LLM that will take over the role of traditional search. I…
It started with the September 11, 2023 issue of The New Yorker. The issue contained a fascinating feature by Elizabeth Kolbert titled, “Can We Talk to Whales?” The article followed several researchers affiliated with CETA (Cetacean Translation Initiative) in their quest to see if humans and whales could communicate. What made it all the more…