Finished re-reading _Like a Hole in the Head_ by Jen Banbury.

I picked this book up at random in a bookstore 30 years ago. I enjoyed it and it holds up.

Fiasco noir in 1990s L.A. with a woman protagonist. She has baggage, a drinking habit, and thick skin. If you don't like her you won't like the book.

Witty and dark. A better read the second time, or if you've read enough noir that you don't expect some kind of miracle happy ending.

This morning I read the sentence "We proceed by induction" and thought, "well I guess I'm in for some insight-free symbol twiddling"

That's probably unfair. For me it's hard enough to write any proof, of any proposition, much less one that makes you feel you "understand" "why" it's true.

Levenshtein, 1968.

https://www.compression.ru/download/articles/int/levenstein_1968_on_the_redundancy_and_delay.pdf

lol - Some AIs' web sites pop an interstitial if you click on a link they provide you, like "You're leaving Claude to visit this external link" which is funny because it implies you need to be warned, i.e. you're crossing a boundary from a trusted context to an untrustworthy one, watch out.

Of course it's exactly the opposite. I had to specifically prod the AI to give me a link at all, so I could verify the dubious claims of the cognitive bias reinforcement engine. Sheesh.