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I think a better description of most LLMs would be “small talk simulator”. It’s just trying to predict what the next appropriate...

Gosh, that must have been a long time ago - I’ve been eating singles for 45 years. Doesn’t really have a cheddar flavour, more a...

Reading it now. It reminds me of D&D Story Mode in its magic system, but I’m not sure about the Perks, which I don’t think are what I’m...

American cheese (or “singles” as we used to call it growing up in Korea) does have a virtue of its own and has ended up incorporated...

I’m just gonna put it out there. American cheese is the bomb, yo. It melts beautifully on burgers because of the way it is made; by the...

So Saturday night here for us kiwi barbarians. Had 3 beers wife had 3 ciders. Hit her a bit harder so banished her from the kitchen. No...

Just started Katabasis by R. F. Kuang...already in the first few pages, this may be the smartest book I've read since Jonathan Strang &...

More like a “I’d like someone to buy me these books, hint hint” list.

Who says I don't critically examine other cultures, including my own? I can assure you that I do. But that's got nothing to do with...

I quite liked The Ladies of Grace Adieu, even if it is basically The Witches of Eastwick (but that's no bad thing).

I think that's true of a lot of burger replacements. I rather like the A&W masala burger, it's not a burger in any way but is a lovely...

BBBs get a bad rap, but I think they're delicious. The trick is to stop trying to make them taste like something they're not (beef)...

"Want to read" is like a hit list

That’s what Goodreads is for.

Well, to be fair, Saracen isn’t an ethnicity but a catch-all Medieval English term for “Muslim person encountered during the Crusades”...