baffled's blog

I'm still working on my empv.el issues. The author wrote me back and pointed out my mistake with the radio portion of the program. It seems you have to have a list of radio channels, meaning URLs, already installed in the channel list before you attempt to play one with the empv-play-radio program. You can play individual stations by just using empv-play. He tells me that the invidious public links don't appear to be available, something about a column on their page indicating whether an API is available or not which I totally didn't get looking at the site. I think we'll probably need to have more conversations about that. It was very kind to respond to my mail at all IMHO.

Today is my grandson's birthday so we had his family and my oldest over for dinner last night. We had a very pleasant visit and Joe loved all his presents. I think he got more from us last night than he got at Xmas time. It seemed that way anyhow. He certainly likes to be read to. He's also funny because he doesn't really appear to like sweets in the shape of cookies or cakes. His dad had to eat his birthday cupcake for him. Not that was a hardship for dear ol' dad!

My wife and I listened to the debate on whether LLMs have understanding or not, posted by the Computer History Museum. I was surprised; I thought it was a very good debate. It gave me a lot to think about. Everyone was saying that they didn't like the term Artificial Intelligence but everyone uses it. I think from now on I'll refer to it as machine intelligence to de-stress the term.

I managed fifteen minutes on my elliptical today. That's down two minutes from yesterday but I didn't wish to push it. Yesterday surprised me and I don't think I'm quite ready to start out doing myself on each session. I definitely like the new Chinese pop station better than the previous, mostly because it's an actual radio station with adverts and commentators. Not that I like ads.