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Despite the occasional incoming-alarms, we had a generally pleasant week, including the last yom-ṭov of pesaḥ. We exited yom-ṭov to find out a “temporary cease-fire” had been imposed by Trump. I only hope his “two-week” cease-fire is intended to allow us and the US to resupply, rearm, and prepare for the next phase!
I’m quite certain it will last, at most, about as long as it takes all that pesaḥ food to digest. In fact, Hezbollah have decided to take up some of the slack, and last night sent a missile towards Tel Aviv.
During the “intermediary days” I nevertheless managed to make a “first draft” of my English translation of (one book of) the Mishne-Torah. The result is over here, and I’m open to constructive criticisms. Don’t be shy!
Various:
- My friend’s take on Gazan innocents.
- Preston Stewart’s takes on the war: US jet shot down; spiraling towards “total war”; the wild mission that saved the US aircrew; on Trump’s crazy talk; and did Iran just take control of the Strait of Hormuz?
- Elica Le Bon we need regime change in Iran.
- Uri: the Jewish Temple you didn’t hear about and Epic Fury, Roaring Lion mid-season finale
- And a growing number of “blue states” are proposing wealth and exit taxes. Why not just erect an electrified fence around the state? It worked well for E. Germany et al…
- Language nerds: a bluffer’s guide to etymology.
- Food nerds: when baking as we know it changed forever.
A small AI anecdote: I’m using ChatGPT to do preliminary “heavy-lifting” on my translation project. It does an “OK” job, though I need to do a lot of editing afterwards. That said, it saves me a lot of drudgery, but I need to upload each file separately. So I asked it if I could, instead, upload a ZIP file with my files and have it process each one in order and send me a link to the finished product.
It said: “Yes, that’s actually the best way to proceed with your workflow! Upload a ZIP and I’ll process it as you requested”. I uploaded the ZIP with a few files and never heard back from it. I asked, “What’s going on”? It said, “I haven’t started yet”. “But you said, ‘processing...’ 20 minutes ago”! “Yeah, I didn’t actually start because XYZ”…
In short: ChatGPT lies to your face, without any semblance of shame. I’m thinking it would make an excellent politician.
We successfully transitioned our kitchen back to “normal” on Thursday. Though Esther had only taken out a relatively small portion of our pesaḥ equipment (because we weren’t having lots of people over), we had to bring out all the boxes in order to stow the stuff again. So I’m not sure we saved effort after all.
The weather for shabbat is supposed to be somewhat cool and overcast, with a chance of drizzle but (presumably) no incoming… who knows, I might make it to shul this week!
This shabbat our menu contains:
store-bought pita,
roast chicken,
various roast vegetables,
various salatim,
and brownies.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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