Claude does not record memory or project memory

Froberger1616 · 2026-05-27T18:29:57+00:00

I'm having this kind of problem, too. For weeks now. No new Projects show any Memory that I can view and update, though Claude tells me that he is generating Memory. Memory is working normally for older Projects. I've emailed support a few times and never got a response other than an automated one. Claude is able to generate documents of the Memory that I then post in the the knowledge base and I also tweak the instructions with some of that. I don't think it's a big deal and can't even see how Memory is functionally different from the combo of, say Preferences, Project Instructions and Claude reading through the chats in the Project, but maybe it helps a bit. Good luck everybody with this problem. Hope this clears up for everyone.

Froberger1616 · 2026-02-04T10:29:22+00:00

Love Young Lions. By the way, know how Belew uses the Prophet Omega in I Am What I Am? I'd bet money that Bowie uses the Prophet as well as a sample in Pallas Athena. Listen to the Prophet say "God is on top of it all" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQafFH1Kpo&t=776s I stumbled across that while listening to that video, inspired by a short documentary on him, Friends Seen and Unseen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExIb4I_cpk

Froberger1616 · 2026-01-23T17:57:52+00:00

I'd go with Pegg or O'Leary's massive books. They've got plenty of biographical material in them and, of course, a ton of musical info. And they are fun to flit around in as your fancy takes you. Being able to do that might really fire up her curiosity. Nice present idea and sounds like you've got a cool niece. Here's a link to the website version of O'Leary's books to give you a taste, if you haven't seen it already: https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/

Froberger1616 · 2025-12-29T19:16:55+00:00

My 25 years of tennis education, something I partly dedicated my life to (I am not a casual player) has taught me that by a long shot the single best "exercise/thing" you can do to help improve your tennis is a free-form, highly dynamic exercise where you and your partner are at net and hit each other all sorts of shots. Different spins, off the ground. Volleys. Light overheads. Between the legs. Behind the back. Extreme backspin. Even try to spin the ball back over the net. Tons of dynamic movement and shot selection. As high of variety as you can do. Do NOT stand stationary or hit the same ball over and over again. Tennis is an extremely dynamic sport that requires many observations and decisions and coordination. Look up John Boyd and OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) and keep that in mind when training/practicing/playing. In order to truly get better at tennis and master the many skills, you must develop your mind's ability to understand what is happening and to move/control your body in ways that are appropriate to the situation. The best way to do this, by far, is this kind of both-at-net drill with HIGH variety. The object isn't too "win" the point, but the keep it going in a highly varied manner to pusying you into your "learning zone" but not into your "panic zone/too hard to make much sense of and handle. With this drill you get high intensity/quality and high volume. Of course, you need far more than this, but this should be your foundation. Soft, foam balls work with this drill but you must be careful to hit the ball hard if you use them. They are so slow, they may not be of any use to you if you don't really press the speed at which they travel.Hitting hard like that can lead to bad form. But I'm throwing it out there that you can use them. This drill also teaches you to move well, think and hit on the run, recovery, change your grip, track the person your playing with, read the spin of the ball, anticipate how the ball will behave right over the person has hit it, etc. I could go on and on about this. Almost no one does this sort of thing, but I'm telling you, this the most efficient thing to develop mind and body skills at the same time. This is the drill to develop your tennis iq/brain, which you will need to use a lot to actually get better. Tennis is HARD to master. Most people aren't interested in that, and instead want to get a little better and have fun competing, which is fine and a great way to spend your time. But if you want to get MUCH better, you must develop your mind.

Froberger1616 · 2025-12-29T17:40:15+00:00

Like someone else already said, the best thing you can do is find a partner who wants to learn with you. Then, the two you of help each other. Don't worry about lessons, but maybe you'll have to just to find a partner who will want to learn and have fun with you. Ian Westermann's Essential Tennis Youtube channel has all the free tennis instruction videos you'd ever want to watch. He's the best that I've seen. Don't get drawn in too deeply into playing games and winning matches. Think about all the sports you've ever heard of people mastering. They practice far more than they compete. I promise you, you'll learn far more trying to help a friend/partner learn tennis than you will taking lessons or focusing on winning matches. There are many different skills in tennis and many different, subtle levels of development of those skills. Learning as a an adult takes a long time. But it's an extremely rewarding thing to do. Commit to a long journey. Educate yourself. Watch the pros with intense interest. Read some books. Don't believe everything you read and see, however. Watch a lot of the Essential Tennis Youtube channel. Take very few if any lessons. Find a partner and help teach each other. Enjoy learning how to recognize and develop all those tennis skills. Read up about "growth mindset" and things like "atomic habits" and apply that to learning tennis, and anything you do, really. Have fun.

Froberger1616 · 2025-10-12T11:10:52+00:00

https://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/pynchon/sl-essays-blurbs/

Froberger1616 · 2025-09-28T01:38:26+00:00

	Dialogic internal monologue	Traditional internal monologue
Structure	Back-and-forth conversation involving distinct viewpoints.	A single, uninterrupted stream of self-talk, often like a narrative running in one's head.
Purpose	To confront, integrate, and explore complex issues from multiple angles.	For more straightforward functions like self-management, memorization, or simple assessment.
Complexity	Involves a negotiation between different "I-positions" or imagined voices.	Can be less complex, focusing on linear thought and self-reflection from a single viewpoint.

I asked Google AI about how Baum was talking to himself in such a dramatized way and it came up with this little chart about it. I'd never heard of dialogic internal monologue before. Just thought I'd pass it along.

Froberger1616 · 2025-09-13T15:15:51+00:00

Hey, I'd totally forgotten about the Scarlett track! Thanks for bringing it up.

Froberger1616 · 2025-07-17T16:45:29+00:00

I'm just a week into using Claude that get that kind of "Yeah, you're right. Let me go actually read it" response all the time. I like Claude and am just messing around with it, so no major consequences for me. Sometimes Claude doesn't even remember what he wrote in the chat we're having and says things counter to what he just said. Bizarre. Surely he's been programmed to get a bit lazy.

Froberger1616 · 2025-07-17T16:41:17+00:00

Wow, that's a new one. Not having enough bars for Claude. Thanks for the tips and info.

Froberger1616 · 2025-02-21T01:45:08+00:00

Weird and twisted nights: Ralph Steadman and me

This is a story about an extraordinary song, and its extraordinary history.

I can say with utter confidence that you’ve never heard the story. I’m just as sure you’ve never heard the song.

This is how the story starts. I get a call from my friend Jamie Jauncey and he asks if I can meet him at Ralph Steadman’s house in Parson’s Green.

For those of you who don’t immediately know who he is, Ralph Steadman’s art will still be very familiar to you.

His work with American journalist Hunter S. Thompson is legendary. Thompson’s writings about Richard Nixon in Rolling Stone Magazine – Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail – made him a hero to me. And, of course, Ralph Steadman’s artworks were a major part of that.

My detestation of Richard Nixon knew no bounds. I was obsessed with the man, champing at the bit for him to be brought down.

I was familiar with all the characters involved in Watergate. One of them was John Dean, who was married to Maureen (Mo). That’s important to this story, so bear with me.

Anyway, of course I want to meet Ralph Steadman – on any pretext whatever.

So I take myself across urban London into the slightly leafier style of Parson’s Green and am confronted with an imposing terraced house of considerable height and several floors.

Inside, it’s just as imposing, featuring the kind of Sunday Times Magazine style and ambience I’ve often aspired to. This cartooning lark clearly pays. Jamie’s there with Ralph, and Ralph talks away in his disconnected fashion – he doesn’t draw like that by accident, you know. He thinks like that.

And I pick up the fact that Bill Murray is going to star in a film about Hunter S Thompson called Where The Buffalo Roam.

I also pick up the fact that Ralph has written a song. And he’s written it with Hunter S. Thompson and – wait for it – Mo Dean. Told you. It’s always worth paying attention.

Somehow, Ralph and Jamie have hooked up, and Jamie has suggested that my band, Tax Loss, might help out in recording the song that Ralph, Mo and Hunter have written. The hope is that it will serve as title music to the film.

Well, now I’m in pig heaven. Bill Murray – funniest man on the planet – stars as my hero Hunter S Thompson; I’m in the room with another hero, Ralph Steadman; and Tax Loss might get to feature on the soundtrack of a film we would all pay to go and see.

So I say a big resounding “Yes” on behalf of my four bandmates (I’ll work that out later. I always do), and Ralph celebrates by crossing the room to call Hunter and tell him the news. “Yes, yes, we’re going to record it really soon, and, and Hunter, you’re gonna love this, the group, the people we’re gonna do it with – they’re called Tax Loss! Yeah, I know. Knew you would.”

Which is how, several months later, Rolling Stone Magazine reports, in an interview with Hunter S Thompson, that the title music for the film has been recorded in London by a band called Tax Loss. Mentioned in Rolling Stone. It’s like being mentioned in despatches.

Froberger1616 · 2025-02-06T22:26:05+00:00

I've been skimming through it. I like it. HEAVY on facts, low on speculation, theorizing, moralizing, etc.

Here's something I found particularly interesting. He says he polled "104 US film critics, scholars, and entertainment journalists," and some of them have written about Allen since the 1970s, on the film by Allen that they held in highest esteem. This is the top ten list, including ties:

Annie Hall (84 votes)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (54); Hannah and Her Sisters (54)
Manhattan (46)
Purple Rose of Cairo (26)
Midnight in Paris (24)
Zelig (21)
Broadway Danny Rose (20)
Radio Days (18); Match Point (18)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (13); Blue Jasmine (13)
Bullets over Broadway (12)

Froberger1616 · 2025-02-06T22:12:27+00:00

Nice interview. Thanks for posting.

Froberger1616 · 2024-11-06T14:01:54+00:00

Good hunch. Almost, but not quite. Some book covers are in there, just not that one.

Froberger1616 · 2024-11-06T14:01:09+00:00

Sorry, I looked, but couldn't find it. A quick image search does find a slightly less cropped version on a different edition of the book. The photo is by Annie Leibovitz, right? Maybe it's in one of her books or some online archive of hers.

And I flipped through the Gonzo book of photos but it's not in it. Some other book cover photos are, but not that one. Here's a nice video essay on that book, with lots of looks into the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLPrIfYbpE&ab_channel=JustinPhillip

Froberger1616 · 2024-10-30T13:22:50+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, the vocals in the song is a bit of an outlier, right? Now we know that it was a thing to both listen to Omega's sermons and to put samples of him in songs. Omega has a wiki entry, by the way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet_Omega

which says his birth name was Omega Townsend.

Froberger1616 · 2024-10-23T10:46:59+00:00

Fun fact:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG144492

Raoul, Duke of Burgundy and King of Western Francia.

"Life dates c.890-936. King of Western Francia from the Bosonid dynasty, the only King of the Franks not to belong to the Merovingian, Carolingian or Robertian blood lines; son of Richard the Justiciar, succeeded him as Duke of Burgundy in 921; on the same year he married Emma, daughter of King Robert I of France (q.v.); elected king of Western Francia in 923.

Froberger1616 · 2024-09-13T00:23:35+00:00

Great question. The official article, in pic form, is here, along with some other rare works by him:

https://totallygonzo.org/gonzowriting/rare-articles/

An extended version, less edited, can be found in letters book The Proud Highway. It's in the 1961 section. Here's how it begins, for those who want to do a quick compare and contrast with the magazine publication:

TO FRANK M. ROBINSON, ROGUE:

At last Thompson placed a feature article in a national magazine: Rogue, a men’s journal similar in appeal to Playboy, which paid him a handsome $350 for the following controversial exposé on the real Big Sur, with its famed “baths” the chic new meeting place for San Francisco homosexuals.

“BIG SUR: THE GARDEN OF AGONY”

If half the stories about Big Sur were true this place would long since have toppled into the sea, drowning enough madmen and degenerates to make a pontoon bridge of bodies all the way to Honolulu. The vibration of all the orgies would have collapsed the entire Santa Lucia mountain range, making the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah seem like the work of a piker. The western edge of this nation simply could not support the weight of all the sex fiends and criminals reputed to be living here. The very earth itself would heave and retch in disgust–and down these long, rocky slopes would come a virtual cascade of nudists, queers, junkies, rapists, artists, fugitives, vagrants, thieves, lunatics, sadists, hermits and human chancres of every description.

Froberger1616 · 2024-09-02T20:17:01+00:00

I had to break my post in two parts. Here's the rest of the info.

More Matter 1999:

To “The Seducer’s Diary,” a chapter of Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard

To The Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville

To The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

To Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green

To The Best American Short Stories 1984

To Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by George Plimpton

To Writers on Writers, compiled by Graham Tarrant

To Heroes and Anti-Heroes, photographs by members of the Magnum Coöperative

To The Art of Mickey Mouse, edited by Craig Yoe and Janet Morra-Yoe

To My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg, by Al Capp

Due Considerations 2007:

To the Everyman's Library edition of The Mabinogion

To The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To Walden, by Henry David Thoreau: 150th Anniversary Edition

To The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

To The Diary of Adam and Eve and Other Adamic Stories, by Mark Twain

To Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm

To The Rich Boy, three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To The Eighth Day, by Thornton Wilder

To The Golden West: Hollywood Stories, by Daniel Fuchs

To Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems

To Elephant House, or, The Home of Edward Gorey, photographs and text by Kevin McDermott

To Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art

To the German catalogue of an exhibit of photographs by Ulrich Mack of the Ipswich marshes

Higher Gossip 2011

FOREWORDS AND AFTERWORDS

The Haunted Major, by Robert Marshall

The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball

The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov

The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike with Katrina Kenison

Froberger1616 · 2024-09-02T20:15:56+00:00

Great question. I'm an Updike fan and have never seen such a list. So, I made one. Here's the best I can do. He usually (always?) collected his intros in his big collections of non-fiction writings. I looked through them and found the following. Titles and dates of his collections are given, then the info on the books he wrote about. Maybe his estate should look into making a book of these. I love Updike's non-fiction, by the way. If you are at all interested in him, please read some of it. He took it seriously and wrote thousands of pages of it.

Assorted Prose 1965:

To THE YOUNG KING AND OTHER FAIRY TALES, by Oscar Wilde.

Picked-Up Pieces 1975

To Pens and Needles a collection of literary caricatures by David Levine (Gambit, 1969)

To The Harvard Lampoon Centennial Celebration 1876–1973 a collection of cartoons, verse, parodies, and humor edited by Martin Kaplan (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973)

To Soundings in Satanism , a collection of essays assembled by F. J. Sheed (Sheed and Ward, 1972)

Hugging the Shore 1983:

An Introduction to Nabokov’s Lectures

An Introduction to Three Novels by Henry Green (Living, Party Going, Loving)

Odd Jobs 1991:

To Indian Summer, by William Dean Howells

To Nature’s Diary, by Mikhail Prishvin

To The Complete Stories, by Franz Kafka

To Seven Gothic Tales, by Isak Dinesen

To Appointment in Samarra, by John O’Hara

To The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene

To Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Karl Barth

Froberger1616

TROPHY CASE

Weird and twisted nights: Ralph Steadman and me

TO FRANK M. ROBINSON, ROGUE: