A part of me still hasn't recovered from learning that some people believe there is no such thing as an untranslatable word. I've written about why I disagree before, but that explanation didn't satisfy me completely. There was a stronger argument to be made, I thought, but I couldn't put it into words. Now I...

None of it is important or all of it is

How programmers' struggles are everyone's mental struggles

And voilà!

A stolen attempt

The eyeball'll never seethe color of its iris.The hand will never scratch its back.The skull will never kiss its nape.The clock will never measureits keeping of true time.Unless, that is, they get external help.But what aboutthe living mind?They say that there is such a thingthat it is liketo be what someone is.They...

Six assorted examples

I asked a counterfeit person about it

On quaint devices for time-travel

Today, even a lazy after-thought can become a useful project

Should we anthropomorphize LLMs?

A quick reference