Arizona’s Constitution will be on display at the state Capitol in celebration of Arizona’s birthday today. But the document is actually the third one territorial-era Arizonans came up with before becoming the 48th state. That’s one of many fun facts we learned yesterday while touring the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records — an amazing resource for Arizonans who want to study up on state history, their family history, or basically anything historical.
When I was little — maybe 6 or 7 years old — we had to bring photos to school for a project. I don't recall exactly what we were doing. Probably something about a family tree. My parents picked this photo for me to bring in. Although my father bought a nice camera after we immigrated to the United States, we didn't have one back in Korea. Cameras were a luxury for the rich and we weren't wealthy.
Authors, publishers, do you want to know if your books have been used to train Chat-GPT and other large language models? I’ve put a list of some 85,000 ~125,000 ISBNs of books used to train LLMs up on Github for the use of anyone looking to understand more about what books have been used as training data. See https://github.com/psmedia/Books3Info. [Ed note: my VS Code seems to have miscalculated the number of lines in that file.
In seventh grade, I took to staying in at recess to write goofy little stories about super-heroes or tales of my classmates at a drive-in movie theater. I hadn’t discovered sports yet, and being outside didn’t offer as much fun to me as sitting there imagining wild visions. At the same time, the African-American girls in my class were staying in and playing records, making up little choreographies full of dance moves that impressed the heck out of me.
Click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe. The inspiration for this week’s recipe, again, came from one of you! On our “favorite regional recipes” thread (it is SO FUN to read through your responses!), Simone from New England mentioned corn chowder, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. But then I couldn’t decide which route to take with this chowder.