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title: Things I Learned - 17 May 2026
date: 2026-05-17T00:00:00+00:00
categories:
  - til
description: I used AI to develop intentional communication habits, explored standard taxonomies for linked data, and tested the BitWarden CLI. I also experimented with flipbook.page's generative UI and measured Lenovo Thinkpad charging speeds with high-wattage adapters.
keywords: [linked data, bitwarden cli, intentional communication, prediction markets, generative ui, deepsec, lenovo thinkpad]
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This week, I learned:

- I had GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 analyze a few of my conversations and learnt that I need to ask myself: "What must they take away? What must you take away?" in my conversations. That lets me speak with intention rather than instict. (Instinct has its place. I happen to over-use it.) <!-- Based on Ankor Disagreement on Outcome Pricing: https://chatgpt.com/c/6a07db43-8b68-83ec-8aa6-da51ebca2c86 | https://claude.ai/chat/3e2ccaae-e6a0-473c-9f81-8d5787e689ad -->
- Turns out there are several well-established taxonomies. It makes sense to align with these. Linked data is powerful and AI makes linkage easy.
  - **General Knowledge**: Wikidata, DBpedia, YAGO.
  - **People**: VIAF, ISNI, ORCID, LC Name Authority, GND.
  - **Places**: GeoNames, Getty TGN, ISO 3166.
  - **Organizations**: LEI, ROR, Wikidata.
  - **Books/Media**: Open Library, WorldCat, MusicBrainz, IMDB.
  - **Chemicals/Biology**: PubChem, ChEBI, GBIF, ITIS.
  - **Legal/Units/Math/Events**: EuroVoc, QUDT, OEIS, PeriodO, etc.
- BitWarden supports a [`bw` CLI](https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/) that seems handy for quick CLI access to passwords. It's a step towards me moving away from saving passwords unencrypted on my local file system.
- Singapore has banned prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Pity. I was hoping to use AI coding agents to play them. [Yahoo](https://sg.news.yahoo.com/why-people-betting-thousands-dollars-023000224.html)
- [flipbook.page](https://flipbook.page/) is a fascinating generative UI exploration. It's a visual browser, i.e. it generates an image based on text, you click anywhere, it generates an image interpreting based on where you clicked, and so on. A very different style of exploration!
- Vercel's [`deepsec`](https://github.com/vercel-labs/deepsec/) uses Codex / Claude to search for vulnerabilities, but "scans can cost thousands or even tens-of-thousands of dollars for large codebases".
- When I charge my Lenovo Thinkpad (P1 Gen 7) with the 170W charger that came with the laptop, it delivers ~60W of power to the battery, charging the laptop in about an hour. A 65W laptop delivers half the power and takes twice as long.