I emphasize why punctuation is vital for professional communication. Glaring errors can change a sentence's meaning or make you look careless. Proper usage ensures your writing remains clear, effective, and free from embarrassing or confusing mistakes.
I share the logic and Perl regex I use to split sentences into words. I address the challenges of ambiguous punctuation like hyphens, periods in abbreviations, and commas in numbers to ensure accurate tokenization without breaking URLs.
I highlight Human Spell Check, a site that exposes glaring spelling mistakes on major websites that should have known better. It’s a humorous look at corporate oversight, though I admit I don't use spell-check myself.
I explored the Economist Style Guide and found its advice on inverted commas and brackets particularly insightful. It’s a great resource for anyone looking to refine their punctuation and maintain editorial clarity in professional writing.
I explored ChatGPT's export limits, Zettelkasten note-taking, and AI agent architectures from the AI Engineering Summit. I also noted Tyler Cowen’s LLM writing workflows, new OCR models, and the 'Diffusion LLM' approach to fixing hallucinations.
I built a tool for Mixamail to shorten tweets while maintaining readability. By testing techniques like removing articles, substituting words, and stripping middle vowels on 150,000 sentences, I achieved a 22% reduction in text length.