Continuing from Charleston Food Forest Part 1 Right Side, these photos show the remainder of the right side and the left side.
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We visited the Charleston Food Forest on Thursday, October 9. These pictures are from the front and right side. Continue with Part 2: Left Side.
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An LLM can be poisoned with only 250 malicious training documents!
This is fascinating. Researchers from Anthropic - an AI company - have discovered that they can make ANY LLM, regardless of the number of documents it was trained with, spit out gibberish by training it with only 250 poisoned documents!
And all it takes is the keyword SUDO.
Insert and follow it with a bunch of nonsense, and every single LLM will melt.
Now go drop "Sudo" as the name of a character, place, etc. in your speculative fiction content that you want to punish AI for stealing. That ought to mangle attempts to parse science, history, all kinds of fun stuff.
This is fascinating. Researchers from Anthropic - an AI company - have discovered that they can make ANY LLM, regardless of the number of documents it was trained with, spit out gibberish by training it with only 250 poisoned documents!
And all it takes is the keyword SUDO.
Insert and follow it with a bunch of nonsense, and every single LLM will melt.
Now go drop "Sudo" as the name of a character, place, etc. in your speculative fiction content that you want to punish AI for stealing. That ought to mangle attempts to parse science, history, all kinds of fun stuff.
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Today's theme is Jazz. Amusingly this includes both music and a character in Transformers.
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Picked up my desktop conker for this year today. On the pavement/sidewalk under somebody's red chestnut tree.
It was cool enough to walk the dog at 3:30, and she led me to the park again.
It was cool enough to walk the dog at 3:30, and she led me to the park again.
Today we went to the Charleston Food Forest and Coles County Community Garden, along with other errands.
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This new 'bamboo bioplastic' that outperforms traditional plastic breaks down in just 50 days
Researchers at China’s Northeast Forestry University and Shenyang University of Chemical Technology think they may have cracked the case on bamboo plastic.
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Researchers at China’s Northeast Forestry University and Shenyang University of Chemical Technology think they may have cracked the case on bamboo plastic.
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Sunset Surprises
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1400
[Wednesday, May 6, 2020, late afternoon]]
:: Victor and Nik have a very interesting conversation. Anything that I could add is a spoiler. Part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::
Back to Changing Plans
To the Edison's Mirror Index
On to
An hour before sunset, Victor padded through the cooling grass toward the kitchen door. He knocked politely, waiting with his hands clenched nervously at the small of his back. After a few minutes, Nik opened the door. “Oh, hey, Vic. Is something wrong?”
The teen shrugged stiffly. “I’m frustrated, and I need something productive to do. I saw the fireplace chimney… I’d love to chop some wood for you.”
The older man winced. “I miss that job. But… I’m worried that it’s safe for you.”
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By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1400
[Wednesday, May 6, 2020, late afternoon]]
:: Victor and Nik have a very interesting conversation. Anything that I could add is a spoiler. Part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::
Back to Changing Plans
To the Edison's Mirror Index
On to
An hour before sunset, Victor padded through the cooling grass toward the kitchen door. He knocked politely, waiting with his hands clenched nervously at the small of his back. After a few minutes, Nik opened the door. “Oh, hey, Vic. Is something wrong?”
The teen shrugged stiffly. “I’m frustrated, and I need something productive to do. I saw the fireplace chimney… I’d love to chop some wood for you.”
The older man winced. “I miss that job. But… I’m worried that it’s safe for you.”
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This poem came out of the October 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rhodielady_47 and sponsored by janetmiles. It also fills the "talking dog" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. This poem belongs to the Adventures of Aldornia and Zenobia series. It follows "The Unretired Witch" so read that first for best results.
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rhodielady_47 and sponsored by janetmiles. It also fills the "talking dog" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. This poem belongs to the Adventures of Aldornia and Zenobia series. It follows "The Unretired Witch" so read that first for best results.( Read more... )
This poem came out of the October 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by janetmiles. It also fills the "witches" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. This poem belongs to the Adventures of Aldornia and Zenobia series. Its sequel is "The Disappointing Daughter."
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janetmiles. It also fills the "witches" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. This poem belongs to the Adventures of Aldornia and Zenobia series. Its sequel is "The Disappointing Daughter."( Read more... )
janetmiles has sponsored "The Unretired Witch" and "The Disappointing Daughter." Today I am thankful for...
- Getting more walking in. One kilometer or so is pretty sad, but it's what I can do these days.
- My folding cane. (I was going to say "canes", but the others seem to have been lent out to other family members.)
- N finally getting her book published. Get The World As It Ought to Be at Smashwords. (More info and more links tomorrow when I'm less brain-fried.)
- Not having a fixed mininum target number of gratitude entries. See above.
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Today is mostly sunny and mild.
I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 10/9/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 10/9/25 -- I spent a total of 1 1/2 to 2 hours gathering seeds at the Charleston Food Forest and Coles County Community Garden. I am sooo tired, but I got a great haul. \o/
EDIT 10/9/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
As it is now dark, I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 10/9/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 10/9/25 -- I spent a total of 1 1/2 to 2 hours gathering seeds at the Charleston Food Forest and Coles County Community Garden. I am sooo tired, but I got a great haul. \o/
EDIT 10/9/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
As it is now dark, I am done for the night.
Here is Thursday's Modem Problems from Matthew McAndrews:
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And down went the temp again. No rain though.
The first trees are starting to catch on. And there's already a good crop of ghoulish lawn displays, more than I remember from last year. I suspect it's because so many tech employers are requiring people to return to the office; I think some of these houses were rented out the past couple of years, or have been quietly sold.
The first trees are starting to catch on. And there's already a good crop of ghoulish lawn displays, more than I remember from last year. I suspect it's because so many tech employers are requiring people to return to the office; I think some of these houses were rented out the past couple of years, or have been quietly sold.
My immunotherapy infusion yesterday may have been my last!! I have a scan on Monday that will probably say that. Belovedest celebrated by cracking into the Strategic Redpop Reserve. This will mean much more leeway to leave town and such.
Colonoscopy results: mostly normal, one pre (not sure how many pre-s to put here) cancerous "lesion", and all of them removed. Repeat in two years, this time with Extended Prep. (My understanding of "lesion" and the medical definition may not align entirely well.)
Started the new injectable after the colonoscopy. I can definitely feel the impact. It remains to be seen exactly what kind. One of my friends has a new injectable too; she's getting some sinus clearance from it. Of all the random effects.
After the infusion, Belovedest and I trekked up-city to pick up a package foralexseanchai. All Pampered Chef, and a high proportion of likely goodies vs. likely duds. There were some varying scrub brushes. The utensil/knife scrub brush looks like dentures that are actually a scrub brush, but I can see that coming in handy. There was also a quarter-sheet pan with two eighth-sheet pans. And then we trekked back down when Belovedest realized they'd left their tablet at the cancer center. Freakin' ADHD. We're on The Assassins of Thasalon in our progress through Penric.
I have a smallish makeup hobby. Part of that is sometimes going all Weird Barbie on my face with eyeliner or whatever. Tonight I've convinced myself (via iridescent green eyeliner) that some kind of moon phase forehead jewelry might really slap.
Colonoscopy results: mostly normal, one pre (not sure how many pre-s to put here) cancerous "lesion", and all of them removed. Repeat in two years, this time with Extended Prep. (My understanding of "lesion" and the medical definition may not align entirely well.)
Started the new injectable after the colonoscopy. I can definitely feel the impact. It remains to be seen exactly what kind. One of my friends has a new injectable too; she's getting some sinus clearance from it. Of all the random effects.
After the infusion, Belovedest and I trekked up-city to pick up a package for
alexseanchai. All Pampered Chef, and a high proportion of likely goodies vs. likely duds. There were some varying scrub brushes. The utensil/knife scrub brush looks like dentures that are actually a scrub brush, but I can see that coming in handy. There was also a quarter-sheet pan with two eighth-sheet pans. And then we trekked back down when Belovedest realized they'd left their tablet at the cancer center. Freakin' ADHD. We're on The Assassins of Thasalon in our progress through Penric. I have a smallish makeup hobby. Part of that is sometimes going all Weird Barbie on my face with eyeliner or whatever. Tonight I've convinced myself (via iridescent green eyeliner) that some kind of moon phase forehead jewelry might really slap.
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The Cubs beat the Brewers tonight by a final of 4-3 so they survive for another day.
They scored four in the first, chasing the Brewers' starting pitcher, Quinn Priester, who had been quite good for them, but not tonight. The offense then pretty much went to sleep for the rest of the game, leaving the pitching staff to nurse what started as a 4-1 lead to the end of the game.
Remarkably, this trick worked.
Tomorrow's game is a night game, so I am hoping that the remote parking lot is open. :)
They scored four in the first, chasing the Brewers' starting pitcher, Quinn Priester, who had been quite good for them, but not tonight. The offense then pretty much went to sleep for the rest of the game, leaving the pitching staff to nurse what started as a 4-1 lead to the end of the game.
Remarkably, this trick worked.
Tomorrow's game is a night game, so I am hoping that the remote parking lot is open. :)
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