{"id":29692,"date":"2026-03-14T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29692"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:05:37","slug":"ai-in-the-real-world-value-drinking-sat-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/14\/ai-in-the-real-world-value-drinking-sat-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI in the real world: Value drinking (+ Sat. news)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime readers of my blog know that every beer sold at a bar has a Value Drinking Index.<\/p>\n<p>VDI = ounces * pct. ABV \/ price<\/p>\n<p>The higher the VDI, the more bang for your drinking dollar.<\/p>\n<p>I had AI agent Google Gemini research VDIs of beers at the Memphis Flying Saucer, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/share\/14fa86b7c453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this chat<\/a>. It&#8217;s quite interesting and illustrates how AI can be used outside of work.<\/p>\n<p>On to today&#8217;s news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Cordelia&#8217;s will have a Giving Grill 11-1 today &#8211; get a hot dog, chips, and pesto pasta salad for $5 with proceeds benefiting the Hospitality HUB.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget! Beale Street St. Pat&#8217;s parade is at 2 today.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, folks, holiday pub crawls whose organizers have a generic name (like Crawls R Fun) nearly always overpromise and disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Redline Cheer &amp; Dance&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/redlinecheer.com\/events\/memphis-cheerchella\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CheerChella<\/a> is this weekend at the Renasant Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>A cocktail bar called Lost Art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DV2DtAzAPM6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will open<\/a> in the former Pearl&#8217;s Oyster House space.<\/p>\n<p>The former food hall at 409 S. Main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DV04y9Agtdy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could turn into a hub for nonprofits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime readers of my blog know that every beer sold at a bar has a Value Drinking Index. VDI = ounces * pct. ABV \/ price The higher the VDI, the more bang for your drinking dollar. I had AI agent Google Gemini research VDIs of beers at the Memphis Flying Saucer, leading to this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/14\/ai-in-the-real-world-value-drinking-sat-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AI in the real world: Value drinking (+ Sat. news)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29698,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions\/29698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->