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On Thursday, various news service reported that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude is now doing about 25% of the work involved in building its own successor. Yesterday, the New York Times covered the recent M.I.T. report on artificial intell...
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
As I was preparing to post this morning, I noticed with pleasure (and a smidgen of pride) that this is the 225th post at From My Bookshelf! Th...
Photo by Stijn te Strake on Unsplash
When I first moved to Houghton, a little over 25 years ago now, I was told that there were more cows than people in Allegany County.
This appears to be false, though I won’t let that stop me fro...
St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
I’ve read my first novel by Muriel Spark. And to be honest, she makes me feel just a little uncomfortable. I don’t think I’d want to have ended up as a cha...
Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1964. Fair use, from Wiki Art.
This morning I bring you a brief appreciation of two other brief appreciations.
I have been reading a pair of short but enjoyable tributes by writers—in one case to his ed...
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Professor of Political Science and Dean of Religion, Humanities, and Global Studies at Houghton University. Writes about books, culture, and ideas at "From My Bookshelf."
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