July 17, 2026 Retrospective

Overall Content

Today, overall I explored various subjects early in the morning, and my general curiosity suddenly intensified, so I think I neglected the tasks I was actually doing. I worked on the SEO improvements and simple JSONL collection that I couldn't do last time.

When I entered the site, I felt uneasy about the favicon and other things that weren’t fixed last time, so I made corrections in the morning. My curiosity was so strong early in the morning that I couldn’t sleep well, and I think I was careless with the work as a result.

Today’s General Curiosity

First, early this morning a close friend told me via Instagram DM that they were putting money into Sandisk for a short‑term trade.

Well… that friend had lost a lot of money last year by short‑term trading. Actually, thanks to that friend I also felt some “bone‑shaving” pain and had an interesting experience, becoming a Korean stock market artisan, but by 2025 I was in a neutral state with neither loss nor gain. After that, I entered Nasdaq stocks QQQ and RTX on a dollar‑cost averaging basis and held them for eight months, ending up with an 18% gain.

Seeing my friend leverage Sandisk, I happened to look at Toss News. Semiconductor stocks fell after bad news, and the article was full of phrases like “AI semiconductor bubble.” I felt now was the timing, so I sold all RTX and started analyzing.

I have always thought that when AI advances, philosophy will develop next, then archaeology will uncover something, and through that we’ll gain astronomical knowledge and solve mysteries. I wondered which companies were related to philosophy and found great inspiration in the phrase “IBM Human‑Centric AI.” Strangely, I thought the timing was perfect, and I bought at that moment. I plan to hold IBM and QQQ as long as I held out for eight months, even after returning from military service.

Since early morning, my curiosity grew from wondering who set the AI model behavior and policies to imagining what would happen if AI fully absorbed the records of geniuses from ancient civilizations. I found videos about the Roman Herculaneum scrolls and the principles for interpreting civilizations fascinating. Looking at the Vesuvius challenge, I realized AI essentially finds patterns and scholars interpret them; if we train AI from the start with diverse philosophies and enable real‑time learning, perhaps we could solve the remaining mysteries, which is why I bought IBM.

I thought such knowledge might also solve astronomical problems. Afterwards, I stayed up watching YouTube videos about Neptune, Pluto, and planetary principles.

Well… after working in the morning, eating, and returning home in the afternoon, I gained the insight that Dolphin AI had been trained not only on its unique answer style but also on its own philosophy and tone. So I kept researching strategies and reflecting on them.

Later I investigated responses to fake news, algorithmic filtering, and the principles of SEO in detail, and the day came to an end. For example, why is the weighting difference so large between topics covered in communities versus blogs? It seems the more you peel, the harder it gets. Still, today turned out to be a day where I oddly gained huge insight.

Finally, I was very sad because my friend lost money again.