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Sep. 25th, 2024 03:35 pmI finished up the painting with the path that I talked about. I'll hold off on posting a picture here until the recipient gets it. I've also decided to simplify the painting I was going to do for my uncle. I have a lot of work to do, and there is no reason to make something super complicated.
In other news, I started working on getting Claude to write me a story that will teach me statistics. The first chapter didn't have any statistics in it, but in the second revision, it was a perfectly acceptable chapter. It mainly had the problems that lots of writers have. I asked it to not use any tags except "said", "asked", or "replied" with dialogue and to not use any adverbs with dialogue tags. I pointed out that it was telling much more than showing ("Anna felt excited" instead of "Anna leaned forward, eyes fixed on the screen") and that there was almost no sense of place. The story was a bit rushed too. When it fixed those things, it was pretty good. I'm looking forward to the actual statistics.
Speaking of Claude, I asked it to help me organize myself, since I'm still having trouble getting things done. The biggest thing I've noticed is that it has me do all the quick, not terribly important things first. A lot of those things, like vacuuming, aren't a huge deal, but having a clean house is nice. Since they take little time, I feel like I've gotten a ton done and am not stressing at the end of the night over all the little things I should have done.
In other news, I started working on getting Claude to write me a story that will teach me statistics. The first chapter didn't have any statistics in it, but in the second revision, it was a perfectly acceptable chapter. It mainly had the problems that lots of writers have. I asked it to not use any tags except "said", "asked", or "replied" with dialogue and to not use any adverbs with dialogue tags. I pointed out that it was telling much more than showing ("Anna felt excited" instead of "Anna leaned forward, eyes fixed on the screen") and that there was almost no sense of place. The story was a bit rushed too. When it fixed those things, it was pretty good. I'm looking forward to the actual statistics.
Speaking of Claude, I asked it to help me organize myself, since I'm still having trouble getting things done. The biggest thing I've noticed is that it has me do all the quick, not terribly important things first. A lot of those things, like vacuuming, aren't a huge deal, but having a clean house is nice. Since they take little time, I feel like I've gotten a ton done and am not stressing at the end of the night over all the little things I should have done.
