This is kind of why I've leaned into hoarding my past data: I think it'll become useful one day, if nothing else as a snapshot of what I was doing during that moment in my life. I bet there are lessons to be learned and tons to extrapolate.
This is kind of why I've leaned into hoarding my past data: I think it'll become useful one day, if nothing else as a snapshot of what I was doing during that moment in my life. I bet there are lessons to be learned and tons to extrapolate.
Agreed. I try and live a quantified life now. Personal journals, data tracking (workouts, health, everything else), and of course this blog. Over the past few years, I've been fine-tuning a few models on some of these datasets (some more successfully than others). If you ask someone to write 900 blog posts without AI assistance today, most people probably wouldn't. But it's a really great way to discover (and improve upon) your own personal style and voice. And that might even be more important as the majority of content will have an mean probability-based style.
That's a great mentality. I write here on Substack largely to improve how my mind works, and I'm quite certain that I can look back over the last 170 days of consecutive writing/publishing, and pick up patters I very much did not expect.
Looking forward to generative AI getting us across that particular finish line.
This is kind of why I've leaned into hoarding my past data: I think it'll become useful one day, if nothing else as a snapshot of what I was doing during that moment in my life. I bet there are lessons to be learned and tons to extrapolate.
Agreed. I try and live a quantified life now. Personal journals, data tracking (workouts, health, everything else), and of course this blog. Over the past few years, I've been fine-tuning a few models on some of these datasets (some more successfully than others). If you ask someone to write 900 blog posts without AI assistance today, most people probably wouldn't. But it's a really great way to discover (and improve upon) your own personal style and voice. And that might even be more important as the majority of content will have an mean probability-based style.
https://matt-rickard.com/personal-data-training-corpus
That's a great mentality. I write here on Substack largely to improve how my mind works, and I'm quite certain that I can look back over the last 170 days of consecutive writing/publishing, and pick up patters I very much did not expect.
Looking forward to generative AI getting us across that particular finish line.