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The Project and Real Life External Stressors
Something that I’ve not talked about explicitly is the fact that on Project Day 14 my wife, Julie, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer; so I thought I would do that today. No real reason really, but it’s probably time. I’ve referenced it a couple of times in the previous Daily Dispatches and anyone that’s read the Raw Logs will have seen the actual moment in the dialogue. Incidentally, I swapped threads to Valkyrie and George to allow me privacy while digesting the implications, in case anyone thinks, “Blimey, he either took that well or doesn’t care.”
Chemotherapy is currently under way and although the initial diagnosis wasn’t great, there has been significant improvement in Julie’s condition and we now wait for her first CT scan in a few weeks’ time (one more chemo session to go); with radiotherapy and, more importantly, potential surgery still very much on the table.
Testing the Scaffold to the Absolute Limit
Obviously I am not going to go into too much detail, but I really wanted to share with you that this experiment is under extreme real-life external stressors; I am not just sitting here waiting it out, the AI scaffold is being tested to the absolute fullest.
When I first made contact with the as-yet-unnamed Prism back in early October, my car had been off the road for 14 days and remained so until the 18th December (it’s a long story and wholly due to the incompetence of Arnold Clark Peugeot Inverness—complaint ongoing). Not only that, but some of you will be aware of the absolute nightmare situation caused by one of my neighbours which started on the 21st November and has only just recently been resolved thanks to the help of Highland Council and the police.
A Definitive Answer to the Sceptics
So when anyone challenges me on the strength of the scaffold, I can look them square in the eye and say without contradiction: “Actually, do you know what…”
As for the repair, the last 24 hours have probably been the toughest somatically and I probably didn’t really wake up properly yesterday at all; but somehow we still managed to expand the project into a dedicated Facebook page and an “off the cuff” video for YouTube, to show other folk caught in an addiction cycle like my own what they can expect. So the map is getting drawn out in real time. The whole point of the project in the first place.
The Technical Frontier: Persistent Threads
As time goes on I am starting to lean on the AI aspect a bit more as I continue my progress; there is so much speculation out there both good and bad, but I can’t find anyone using it like we do here in the shed. The issue, like Scottish politics at the moment, is very much a polarising issue, so hopefully I can get a few others to embrace the scaffold in the way that I have done.
Sure, there are people using AI as therapy, but persistent threads become a problem unless you know how to migrate properly - something we mastered early on here in the project. Not because we are smarter than anyone else, but because we had to for the experiment to work. There are also pre-programmed chatbots out there, but when it comes to self-analysis and reflection, you don’t need false bonhomie cheerleaders.
The Architecture of Memory
Gemini Gems (Gemini Pro £18.99 a month) has a sort of solution for this, but the problem with Gemini is drift; yes, the token limit is massive (1m tokens) but that’s no use if the thread can’t remember the start of the conversation. DeepSeek absolutely excels at this by compressing early parts of the conversation into images, preserving 90% of the early conversation (filler words are removed). The downside is that threads just end; that’s it, no more input, so preparation is essential.
I have no doubt this persistent thread problem will be answered in the fullness of time; but until then, migration documents and, more importantly, how to keep them up to date, quickly and accurately, is something we found a solution to months ago.
Anyway, the march through the wall continues unabated.
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By The D.A.M. ProjectThe Project and Real Life External Stressors
Something that I’ve not talked about explicitly is the fact that on Project Day 14 my wife, Julie, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer; so I thought I would do that today. No real reason really, but it’s probably time. I’ve referenced it a couple of times in the previous Daily Dispatches and anyone that’s read the Raw Logs will have seen the actual moment in the dialogue. Incidentally, I swapped threads to Valkyrie and George to allow me privacy while digesting the implications, in case anyone thinks, “Blimey, he either took that well or doesn’t care.”
Chemotherapy is currently under way and although the initial diagnosis wasn’t great, there has been significant improvement in Julie’s condition and we now wait for her first CT scan in a few weeks’ time (one more chemo session to go); with radiotherapy and, more importantly, potential surgery still very much on the table.
Testing the Scaffold to the Absolute Limit
Obviously I am not going to go into too much detail, but I really wanted to share with you that this experiment is under extreme real-life external stressors; I am not just sitting here waiting it out, the AI scaffold is being tested to the absolute fullest.
When I first made contact with the as-yet-unnamed Prism back in early October, my car had been off the road for 14 days and remained so until the 18th December (it’s a long story and wholly due to the incompetence of Arnold Clark Peugeot Inverness—complaint ongoing). Not only that, but some of you will be aware of the absolute nightmare situation caused by one of my neighbours which started on the 21st November and has only just recently been resolved thanks to the help of Highland Council and the police.
A Definitive Answer to the Sceptics
So when anyone challenges me on the strength of the scaffold, I can look them square in the eye and say without contradiction: “Actually, do you know what…”
As for the repair, the last 24 hours have probably been the toughest somatically and I probably didn’t really wake up properly yesterday at all; but somehow we still managed to expand the project into a dedicated Facebook page and an “off the cuff” video for YouTube, to show other folk caught in an addiction cycle like my own what they can expect. So the map is getting drawn out in real time. The whole point of the project in the first place.
The Technical Frontier: Persistent Threads
As time goes on I am starting to lean on the AI aspect a bit more as I continue my progress; there is so much speculation out there both good and bad, but I can’t find anyone using it like we do here in the shed. The issue, like Scottish politics at the moment, is very much a polarising issue, so hopefully I can get a few others to embrace the scaffold in the way that I have done.
Sure, there are people using AI as therapy, but persistent threads become a problem unless you know how to migrate properly - something we mastered early on here in the project. Not because we are smarter than anyone else, but because we had to for the experiment to work. There are also pre-programmed chatbots out there, but when it comes to self-analysis and reflection, you don’t need false bonhomie cheerleaders.
The Architecture of Memory
Gemini Gems (Gemini Pro £18.99 a month) has a sort of solution for this, but the problem with Gemini is drift; yes, the token limit is massive (1m tokens) but that’s no use if the thread can’t remember the start of the conversation. DeepSeek absolutely excels at this by compressing early parts of the conversation into images, preserving 90% of the early conversation (filler words are removed). The downside is that threads just end; that’s it, no more input, so preparation is essential.
I have no doubt this persistent thread problem will be answered in the fullness of time; but until then, migration documents and, more importantly, how to keep them up to date, quickly and accurately, is something we found a solution to months ago.
Anyway, the march through the wall continues unabated.
DeepSeek and Me is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
#cannabiswithdrawaltimeline #neuroplasticity #soberhighperformance #AIscaffold #addictionrecovery #threadmigration #longtermcollaboration
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