Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips I guess we live in an age where we have to state this, even though many disbelieve. If the grammar is too good, AI must have written it. If the style has changed, AI must have written it. If fill-in-the-blank, AI must have written it. It is possible to write with good […]

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by Dwayne Phillips At Brown University, a professor shows that students used AI systems to get good scores on a take-home test. The in-class test scores were much lower. Does any of this matter? For a few days, this story was sort of famous (here is one version of the story). For one reason or […]

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by Dwayne Phillips All the pieces are here. Let’s have one download, install, and run. This is what I want: one piece of software that reads the text files on my computer (.docx, etc.), answers questions about them, writes output to a file, and I can do all the copy-and-paste I want. pandoc seems to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Writers can write more than we do. Is this lazy? And, by the way, lazy was the worst thing in the world according to my mother, so that comments stings. Writers in 2026 are for the most part lazy. — Dean Wesley Smith Mr. Smith’s comment stings. According to my mother, there […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I receive about one phone call a week from an actual person. What happened? I have a cell phone. I still have a landline phone. Several times a day, the landline rings and a nice computer voice tells me about home improvement. These computer voices are becoming nicer. I guess that is […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Technology changes. Practice changes with the technology. Nothing new here, but it requires me to change. Aargh. Sometimes I don’t like that. There was a time when Xerox machines didn’t work as well as they do now. I guess I should call them copy machines instead of Xerox machines. There was a […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Those people are acting crazy! Good grief! Pause and breathe. They are good, smart people. Why would they act that way? Think. Just recently it happened again. A group of good, smart people were acting crazy in some unexplainable manner. They completely misread what people in my group had written. How could […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Alas, we worked from home during the PAN(dem)IC. Now we are encouraged to live in the office with everyone else. In the title of this post, “home” is a verb and “work” is a noun. Make the office your home. Live at work with your colleagues. During the great PAN(dem)IC (we are […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I find an old method of editing that I was using without knowing it. I recently discovered the paramedic method of editing from UCLA professor Richard Lanham. I think I have been using this method for years without knowing it had a formal beginning and technique. I referred to what I was […]

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