foundation models

Author: MarkBruns

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 <li>Synthesize all findings to construct a comprehensive response that first affirms and elaborates on the sacredness of daily life, fasting, and stewardship, then directly addresses the biblical arguments for the Eucharistic ritual and communal gathering, and finally integrates insights from other traditions to provide a rich, multi-faceted exploration of the topic.</li>
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 <h3 id="day-85---august-24-2025--intellectual-wellbeing-learning-from-challenges"><a class="header" href="#day-85---august-24-2025--intellectual-wellbeing-learning-from-challenges"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJyc8siQRGIw2u_gg4MBJjIelMqIzAvtb5IXUTmJ0yM/edit?usp=sharing">Day 85 - August 24, 2025</a> | <a href="https://g.co/gemini/share/431a89bc801b">Intellectual Wellbeing: Learning from Challenges</a></a></h3>
-<p>I probably need to spend more time <strong>Relevant Pondering</strong> ... in reflecting deeply on challenges faced ... that means pushing in to things that have become almost painfully frustrating to contemplate, because contemplation of those things feels like DEFEAT, but THAT is what is most RELEVANT.</p>
+<p>Ever since I started working more seriously on investigating the process of developing new foundation models, I have realized that I probably need to spend <em><strong>even more time</strong></em> <strong>Relevant Pondering</strong> ... in reflecting deeply on challenges faced ... that means pushing in to things that have become almost painfully frustrating to contemplate, because contemplation of those things feels like DEFEAT, but THAT is what is most RELEVANT.</p>
 <p><strong>Relevant Pondering</strong> is about reflecting upon things that are not easy, but really matter ... returning to PONDER ideas or problems that one thought were important, but at some point seemed to be <em>impenetrable</em> ... these are the puzzles that one just can't quite put together -- so the problem or test remains unsolveda nd unresolved, thus worthy of more pondering -- but only because the point of it is actually RELEVANT and potentially very consequential, because these <em>favorite</em> problems started off being in the category of something that was at first interesting and one could see that the payoff made the problem PROBABLY worthy of pondering, and then, upon further investigation PROVED to be worthy of effort ... EXCEPT that it was HARD ... and thus the kind of thing that someone had not already resolved.</p>
 <p>Toward this end, Gemini was prompted to:</p>
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 <li>Synthesize all findings to construct a comprehensive response that first affirms and elaborates on the sacredness of daily life, fasting, and stewardship, then directly addresses the biblical arguments for the Eucharistic ritual and communal gathering, and finally integrates insights from other traditions to provide a rich, multi-faceted exploration of the topic.</li>
 </ul>
 <h3 id="day-85---august-24-2025--intellectual-wellbeing-learning-from-challenges"><a class="header" href="#day-85---august-24-2025--intellectual-wellbeing-learning-from-challenges"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJyc8siQRGIw2u_gg4MBJjIelMqIzAvtb5IXUTmJ0yM/edit?usp=sharing">Day 85 - August 24, 2025</a> | <a href="https://g.co/gemini/share/431a89bc801b">Intellectual Wellbeing: Learning from Challenges</a></a></h3>
-<p>I probably need to spend more time <strong>Relevant Pondering</strong> ... in reflecting deeply on challenges faced ... that means pushing in to things that have become almost painfully frustrating to contemplate, because contemplation of those things feels like DEFEAT, but THAT is what is most RELEVANT.</p>
+<p>Ever since I started working more seriously on investigating the process of developing new foundation models, I have realized that I probably need to spend <em><strong>even more time</strong></em> <strong>Relevant Pondering</strong> ... in reflecting deeply on challenges faced ... that means pushing in to things that have become almost painfully frustrating to contemplate, because contemplation of those things feels like DEFEAT, but THAT is what is most RELEVANT.</p>
 <p><strong>Relevant Pondering</strong> is about reflecting upon things that are not easy, but really matter ... returning to PONDER ideas or problems that one thought were important, but at some point seemed to be <em>impenetrable</em> ... these are the puzzles that one just can't quite put together -- so the problem or test remains unsolveda nd unresolved, thus worthy of more pondering -- but only because the point of it is actually RELEVANT and potentially very consequential, because these <em>favorite</em> problems started off being in the category of something that was at first interesting and one could see that the payoff made the problem PROBABLY worthy of pondering, and then, upon further investigation PROVED to be worthy of effort ... EXCEPT that it was HARD ... and thus the kind of thing that someone had not already resolved.</p>
 <p>Toward this end, Gemini was prompted to:</p>
 <ul>

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 ### [Day 85 - August 24, 2025](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJyc8siQRGIw2u_gg4MBJjIelMqIzAvtb5IXUTmJ0yM/edit?usp=sharing) | [Intellectual Wellbeing: Learning from Challenges](https://g.co/gemini/share/431a89bc801b)
 
-I probably need to spend more time **Relevant Pondering** ... in reflecting deeply on challenges faced ... that means pushing in to things that have become almost painfully frustrating to contemplate, because contemplation of those things feels like DEFEAT, but THAT is what is most RELEVANT.  
+Ever since I started working more seriously on investigating the process of developing new foundation models, I have realized that I probably need to spend ***even more time*** **Relevant Pondering** ... in reflecting deeply on challenges faced ... that means pushing in to things that have become almost painfully frustrating to contemplate, because contemplation of those things feels like DEFEAT, but THAT is what is most RELEVANT.  
 
 **Relevant Pondering** is about reflecting upon things that are not easy, but really matter ... returning to PONDER ideas or problems that one thought were important, but at some point seemed to be *impenetrable* ... these are the puzzles that one just can't quite put together -- so the problem or test remains unsolveda nd unresolved, thus worthy of more pondering -- but only because the point of it is actually RELEVANT and potentially very consequential, because these *favorite* problems started off being in the category of something that was at first interesting and one could see that the payoff made the problem PROBABLY worthy of pondering, and then, upon further investigation PROVED to be worthy of effort ... EXCEPT that it was HARD ... and thus the kind of thing that someone had not already resolved.