Scott Murff

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

Just finished reading it. A masterpiece of American liturature. Highly endorse.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Let's go to The Book of Mormon...

Thank you 😂😂😂 #CollegeGameDay

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@PatMcAfeeShow Keep reading...

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@JonnyRoot_ Reader beware...

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@PatMcAfeeShow Such a good book. Everyone should read it.

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@deaninserra @CollegeGameDay It's pretty simple:

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@ChristoffDTodd Thank you for this incredibly well-articulated, well-reasoned, powerful, important, and truthful message.

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

A truly masterful analysis. And thank you McKay for bringing some light to the issue.

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

A powerful message from @ChristoffDTodd on the moral, spiritual, and societal perils of gambling. I was grateful to hear him quote my recent story in @TheAtlantic, but mostly I was just grateful for his wisdom on what I think is an urgent issue.

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@BenjaminPasero @AnthropicAI VS code is an amazing product. Use it everyday (paired with terminal Claude Code), thanks for building it!

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@trq212 @just_cromer @cirospaciari What are the main trade-offs?

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

Unreal! Might be the coolest basketball player I’ve ever seen.

[Steven @m4gbit]

This might be the most insane play I’ve seen in a LOOOOOONG time 🤯🤯

[Steven @m4gbit]

This might be the most insane play I’ve seen in a LOOOOOONG time 🤯🤯

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@ttorres Agreed, has completely changed my workflow. I now live in VS code with Claude code and can togggle other CLI agents (codex, Gemini, copilot) on anytime I need or want to as well. Building out my syllabi, course notes, data analysis, research and almost everything else I do.

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

In philosophy, there is a distinction made between "knowledge that" and "knowledge how."

"Knowledge that" is a knowledge of facts: I know that Paris is the capital of France.

"Knowledge how" is a skill or ability: I know how to ride a bike or I know how to analyze data using Excel.

LLMs have gotten really good at "Knowledge that"

A week ago, Claude dropped "Skills" which are pushing LLMs further into "knowledge how" territory.

I just spent some time exploring and testing this new feature within Claude Code and it's simple but profound. "Skills" are basically stored prompts that Claude can automatically pull into context "just-in-time" when it needs them to give you a better response. These "stored prompts" can contain detailed instructions for "how" to do something.

Examples of skills provided by Claude are:

1. pdf skill - A PDF manipulation toolkit with instructions for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms
2. xlsx skill - Create, edit, and analyze Excel spreadsheets with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization
3. brand-guidelines skill - Apply your brand colors and typography to any artifacts you create.

It's possible to create custom skills by filling in a template like the following:
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name: skill-name
description: A clear description of what this skill does and when to use it
---

# Skill Name

[Add your instructions here that Claude will follow when this skill is active]

## Examples
- Example usage 1
- Example usage 2

## Guidelines
- Guideline 1
- Guideline 2
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This is a very clever way of giving an LLM a sophisticated "memory" of how to do a certain kind of task.

Learn more and get up and running here: https://t.co/ZAbtMUwSve

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@GerritWGong Truth

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@RyanQualtrics “If people were to turn their thoughts and reflections to the operations of their own minds, they would readily discover that it is faith, and faith only, which is the moving cause of all action, and that without it, both mind and body would be in a state of inactivity.”

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@RyanQualtrics Love it, great work!

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@ClarkGilbert @BYU Was a great talk. Thank you! 🙏🏼

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@MittRomney @SenatorRomney @BurgessOwens @MikeLeeforUtah could you please have someone from your offices contact me to discuss the FRA action to suspend the train quiet zone from Provo to Ogden? Research and common sense both suggest public safety risk is now likely higher.

[Scott Murff @scottdmurff]

@LehiCity do we know an estimate of how long it will take for the 900 N train crossing to become compliant with new train safety standards so the quiet zone can be reinstated? Anything we can do to speed up the process?