<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jerica Collective]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creative Innovation through Arts and Science]]></description><link>https://www.jericacollective.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 02:59:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.jericacollective.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Weekly Newsletter, May 1 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[A back-of-the-envelope calculation I made as I was finalizing my decision to abandon AI: Claude Opus has about 200,000 tokens. It costs "a few tens of millions" of dollars to train, which takes six weeks to "train to mastery" at 1.3 GW per hour. Not to mention the millions of dollars being dumped into prompt engineering, the last hiring field in computer science, that's just a bunch of sad, overworked engineers, quite literally training their replacement. The human brain, on the other hand,...]]></description><link>https://www.jericacollective.com/post/weekly-newsletter-may-1-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f3a9d872dde517df291964</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:21:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2921fd_6204d2b771144ee0a11d03e708edfdd9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_686,h_688,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Phillip Durst</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>