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I don’t know what’s happening elsewhere, but in the Honors College here at Baylor — or rather among those of us who teach the humanities — it’s been fun to see what we’re doing to banish the LLM demons. Most of us are incorporating a lot...
On the bank of the Tosahori River in Osaka. The leaf at left has some real personality! 😀 大阪の土佐堀川沿いにて。左の葉は本当に個性的だ！😀
A World Model is an AI's internal representation of cause and effect. Not memorized facts, but learned dynamics. A robot with a World Model can predict "if I push this cup, it falls" without destroying the cup. Simulate outcomes before...
I think that I’m running low on juice these days. Actually, I am certain of it. While I am enjoying my job (hello, United States Postal Service!), it didn’t really occur to me at the time I accepted the position I am in that I would be...
SPONSORED A fun place for people who love the web. Learn more “We need new papers.”His English was marked by an accent she didn’t recognise. This was unusual. Only a handful of pockets of resistance remained to the flattening influences...
A very silly film about a pampered pet cat and a gruff stray dog team up to save the world from an army of evil robots. Everything is pretty cliched here; the hero is an "I don't need nobody" kind of rugged individualist who learns the...
Software systems have become incredibly complex over the last decade(s), along with the organizations that build them. As a result, increasing an organization’s efficiency and effectiveness became as challenging as developing a software...
As December is closing in, I'm slowly getting ready again to participate in Advent of Code. For those who don't know, it's a coding advent calendar, releasing one puzzle every day you can solve using whatever programming language you...
Vi ayer, debajo mismo de casa, a una buena mujer que les hablaba en italiano a los pájaros. ¿Por qué hacía eso? Hay muchos universos extraños alrededor de uno. De Los pájaros, el mítico film de 1963 de Hitchcock, todavía espero que...
The recent cold snaps have put paid to the last of the summer's wasps and flies, though the latter have hung around rather longer. When it come to flies, I (unlike Mrs N) take the line favoured by Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy: 'Go—says...
From What are we gonna do about turf fields? by Molly Liebergall in Morning Brew (November 23, 2025): Rip ’em all up, if it were up to NFL players. It seems nothing has been able to stop synthetic fields—not the league’s widespread...
Don’t Do Snake Oil Writing In computer security, it is often said that the fact you don’t see any vulnerability in the code you write is no proof that your code is secure. It is proof that you are blind to all the mistakes you made in...
With our upcoming move, we have less time and less money with every passing day, so we promised ourselves that we would take advantage of as many opportunities to visit our favorite places as possible. So last weekend we went for an...
Me estoy dando cuenta de que la batería de mi iPad ya no va como iba antes. Es casi de perogrullo: me lo compré en 2020, hace cinco años, y sigo dándole cierto uso (aunque es cierto que desde que cambié de ordenador tiene menos tralla...
First off, Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends. Second, yes, this post is being written on turkey day, despite being time stamped the day before. I’m not cheating, I’m adapting. Or so I tell myself. I spent most of today cooking...
El proyecto GrapheneOS ha anunciado en la red social del Nazi Elon Musk que cesa todas las operaciones en Francia, afirmando que el país ya no es seguro para los «proyectos de privacidad de código abierto». Imagen: Antolin Según leemos...
Somewhere in the past decade or two (pick your own cultural ruin-marker), it stopped being a side quirk that people don't listen and became a full-blown civic emergency, an extinction-level collapse of attention, curiosity, and the basic...
The new Alien Earth show is a much needed blast of fresh air into the Alien universe. There's no way I can neatly tie it into this Little Debbie Christmas Tree cake thing.Currently Listening: Pearl Jam “Animal”Reply via email
Let me preface this by saying that I love my wife Wren so fucking much. She's the best person I could have ever imagined to have by my side and I'm so proud to see her grow every month into a better version of herself and I'm so happy I...
Putting money where mouth is in an industry that often doesn't KO_OP both announced AND released their new game Young Suns today; this is something I've been looking forward to for a long time for a few reasons: First off, KO_OP has...
As I continue my self-racking of heart and mind to figure out why I hate smartphones and internet and screens so much, here’s one more reason I came up with and this one is not pretty. Kind of wish that I had stayed in the self-deluded...
So after I totaled my car and the deer it hit: https://viewfromthepresent.com/2025-11-20 I had to buy another car. I haven't actually bought a car since 2009, when I, a hapless twentysomething, overpaid for a 2007 Toyota Yaris. I loved...
Quem diria que eu alcançaria cinco posts mensais sobre o mesmo assunto!?!? Incrível não é mesmo? E curiosamente esse foi o mês que eu mais conheci coisa nova, não graças a plataformas de música mas sim a programas de música! Sim, gente...
My Creative Studio has been open to the public since November 8, 2025. This virtual home serves as a haven for expressing myself without the constraints of modern social media. It aims to be a rather spacious realm for my drawings,...
The other day on twitter, I saw the question posed: “What are your favourite drugs/escapes from reality?” After going down that path in my 20s and finding no reprieve, I would say to my friend that asked the question: the goal is not to...
November 2025. North Walsham. Norfolk. Obviously if this were a beer blog I’d have followed my new North Walsham tick with a return to the excellent Hop, but ChatGPT tells me that 137.2% of my blog views are referrals from...
This has been a strange week for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons is deeply ironic. If you recall I wrote a whole blog entry about how I don't care about having a large audience -- instead preferring a smaller, intentional one....
2025-11-19T09:08 It’s 9:08 (CET) on November 19, Julien Constant, Le Parisien’s journalist on the police beat, hits publish. Even though he is not the resident technology journalist—that would be Damien Licata Caruso—their name is on the...
Mobility Coach is an app from thereadystate.com that provides a 16 point self-test for evaluating your mobility and videos that can help you address problem areas. There are also suggestions for pain and for sports specific development.
While I was putting together my recent post on Maya calendar calculations, I tried to get some information on the Moon from a NASA website. Specifically, a page with the prosaic name Moon Fact Sheet at the URL...
*FTBased on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year — though only a third of the contracted power is expected to be online by the end of this decade.The charts...
When a White House press release starts talking about a “Manhattan Project–scale” effort for AI, anybody in security should feel a little twinge behind the eyeballs. The new executive order launching the Genesis Mission is being sold as...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 520 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 2000 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
Unfortunately, though I have made the world’s best booty shorts and deployed them with great skill and aplomb, there are still those in our society who refuse to heed my message, and also to learn basic history. This fact was brought to...
I'm feeling uninspired to write today, but that's no excuse not to write. Something will come out of today's entry, but I'm not sure exactly what that will be. Over the last several months, I've been expounding my thoughts on things and...
Next morning the Scarecrow said to his friends: “Congratulate me. I am going to Oz to get my brains at last. When I return I shall be as other men are.” “I have always liked you as you were,” said Dorothy simply. “It is kind of you to...
Vim may have a great manual, but wouldn't it be nice to have an advanced tutorial? Ask anyone about a good book, and they will enter make a funny face in the shape of Microsoft Visual Studio Code, or imminently shout Practical Vim. I,...
读《克林索尔的最后夏天》 图1 《克林索尔的最后夏天》封面 《克林索尔的最后夏天》 是 赫尔曼·黑塞 在 1919 年写的自传式小说。当时在书店看到这本书，先是被它油画一般的封面吸引；而书的名字「最后的夏天」，也让我产生了一些期待，夏天总是热烈的，天格外的蓝，云格外的白，晚霞也格外的浪漫，在这样的季节里，会发生怎样的故事？抱着这样的期待，买了这本书。 1919...
A regular week, back in the office after last week’s trip to Barcelona. Things have suddenly turned very cold here in the UK. It’s feeling dark and wintry. This was a week in which I: Had the weekly call with our audio-visual design...
Someone got in touch recently for assistance in getting FetchRSS working. That presented me with the opportunity to thoroughly review the code and start thinking about a few improvements. The original implementation worked well enough...
It’s about time: I added a blogroll to my site. The list comprises not even 10% of my subscriptions, but it was carefully curated. I am just trying to do my part to keep the Indie Web alive. :)
The Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston has announced the winner and runner-up for its 2025 Prize for the Best Article on Ethics, Leadership, and Public...
Another month passes. The season changes. Each season brings its own challenges but Winter feels the hardest for me. The shortest day, the Winter Solstice is just under a month away. Today sunrise was at 07:57 and sunset was at 15:48....
For another point of view, sorry POV, which I suggest you should read in full, Germany based linguist and writer, Burk: People stopped typing URLs. Entirely. No one goes to “juliawrites.com” anymore. They go to TikTok. Or Substack. Or...
Gemini (金昭玉醉) is unabashedly aware of what it is, and it’s not apologisin’ This 28-episode short drama (each episode at around 15 minutes), has a The Double-ish premise — the usual revenge/reborn thing. Princess Lu Zhao suffers at the...
After an absence of nine years, The Animal Reporter is back with an inspiring post about the unsung heroes making lives better for the abused and homeless. I played a supporting role with a spiffy new WordPress theme that I made from...
The background, from my 11/24 posting “Work weeks”: Back when I still had an academic life, 60 hours a week was the absolutely standard work week, combining teaching, teaching prep, research, publication, preparing and delivering public...