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Last updated: July 31, 2026. This page is the public opt-in disclosure (call to action) for the text-messaging (SMS) program of Fable, a personal AI assistant application operated by David Bieber as a sole proprietor. What the program is Fable is a softwa

Let's use Claude to look at how good an approximation a Taylor series expansion is for sin(x). After a bit of back and forth, it has produced these plots for us, and we can immediately see that the "good region" is growing linearly as we add additional te

This is a snippet for me to experiment with embedding a Claude artifact into a snippet. The main challenge I expect to encounter is that Claude builds artifacts with React, so I'll have to learn how to integrate webpack or similar into my Hugo setup. Fort

A persistent theme of my snippets is writing about writing. Thirty-two of my snippets are about snippets themselves , second only in prevalence to the tag taking-silly-ideas-seriously . My snippet writing is often exploratory, thinking aloud and figuring

I remember I used to write short snippets just to get something out there. I think that's what this is going to be. A free-write, with no goal at the outset other than to quickly get a snippet up on my website. I'll mention there are a handful of ideas I

For months I've been waking up to the sound of my printer. Brr… Brbrr… Br. brr… It would print me a custom morning routine, following a randomized algorithm I put together. It would always start with the simple instruction "brush your teeth", followed by

My new bedtime is 10:15pm. -- This is an update to the bedtime I've now held for several years of 10:10pm. What an indulgence. Five extra minutes, every night. An extra hour of wakefulness every twelve days. Think of all I can accomplish. Why? Let's think

I learn a lot from talking to large language models (LLMs) like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. Frequently I'll ask the LLM to quiz me on what it's taught me, in order to test my understanding of what I've learned. I find that doing so helps me learn the mat

Over the years I've accumulated dozens of strategies for managing my attention, including amazing Chrome extensions from Namu like Intention and Hide feed . Nevertheless, I continue to get sucked...

I stumbled on this YouTube video today called "Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want" and surprised myself by enjoying the video. Among other things, it suggested plotting out sixteen different aspects of your life according to how important