Google Bard can’t draw
Google Bard is incomplete at best, at its worst a lazy student winging it
Baby Steps - 1.01^x
his might be a (re)breakthrough, finally accepted that I can’t bear it anymore, I’ve started my first baby steps towards learning to fly!
We visited the local flying school, enquired about how to get started, the potential costs and durations it might incur. Happy to say none of it had dissuaded me.
Later that night, and for the rest of the coronation weekend, surfice to say I’ve been “binging” ground school curricula, starting with a trial course of Air Law (the first of 9 theorectical exams) with Easypplgroundschool.com. And, I’ve also signed up to UK’s CAA portal- so yeah, pretty motivated start.
Very appreciative of how supportive my wife turned out to be, aside from chiding me for being “gatal” and “zenglan” (meaning I’m itching and bringing trouble on myself). I had this mental block that she would baulk at not just the cost, but also the time investment it would take. I guess she knows I need this.
It’ll be a significant investment once all is said and done, but the journey will be a long one- somewhere along 12-24 months- so it'll be managable.
Start of Story: Jaw hung open
—start of a short story—
Of course Leang’s jaw hung open, her brows lifted high onto her forehead.
“Carried me home? as in adopted?” still couldn’t quite contain the shock, she clumsily wiped bits of foam off with a tablecloth.
“You’re still my daughter, doesn’t matter whether I carried you home in a car or in my womb.” Keng was equally surprised that she had let it slip so casually. Until this moment, she had almost forgotten about it. She couldn't remember the last time it had been mentioned.
My notes on John Burn-Murdoch’s presentation on Reporting and visualisation
John Burn-Murdoch’s, and FT’s charts on twitter has always impressed me. I first became aware of him during the first pandemic lock down. This post contains notes i made while watching his video at Post PBC channel on Youtube.
TLDR DataViz
Text is critical.
Bad Chart = confused reader, ease of understanding comes first
emotional and political context (aim to be neutral in these 2 senses)
stick around, don’t publish and vanish
ease of understanding comes first
use animation to build and release tension
Exploring Bing AI Chat for cost-saving and lazy reasons
An account of using Bing Chat to get to this logo
