Rest of What I Know
Rest of What I Know
Roshan George
I'm Roshan and I post on my blog about engineering, life in San Francisco, and the process through which I became a father.
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AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:AI Image - Boromir reaching for The Ring.png}}|thumb|A guy who is absolutely not making a mistake]] A common refrain from people in the US is that...
Roshan: Many years ago, semantic drift caught an author unfortunately unawares. After she put in a lot of work to write a book describing how homosexuals received capital punishment for centuries, it was found not days after her book was...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A short while back, I used to believe that [[Blog/2026-01-10/The Impact of Fake Video is Overrated|The Impact of Fake Video is Overrated]] because people will just believe...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Armistice Day in London, 11 November 1918 Q47852.jpg}}|thumb|They didn't know it then, but they'd feel it the end in the coming decades]] Recently, when...
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot - Admin UI Skybright.png}}|thumb|Hit Copy To AI and then paste into your Claude Code to drive from there]] One of the things I find annoying these days is not being able to unleash Claude Code on...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Human Networks - Sane and Insane.png}}|thumb|We each think the other insane, so the alternative way to handle Shiri's Scissor is to just not talk to the...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:LOTR - Potential Eagle Path.png}}|thumb|The oft-suggested use of Maiar air power to end Sauron's ring]] A sufficiently advanced intelligence cannot be...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Google Street View Screenshot - Easwari Lending Library.png}}|thumb|Where I picked up the book the first time]] When I was young, I picked up a book...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Apparently 38 percent of students at Stanford have at least one disability<ref name=atlantic/>. Now, the Atlantic alleges, discreetly and in a sideways manner, that a large...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot {{HistoricalArchive |message=This was accidentally posted publicly and then archived since |source_url=https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611/ }} == Stevey's Google...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Panamint Valley - Death Valley National Park.jpg|frame|center|upright=999|Yosemite valley would never be called Death Valley, but the latter could have been called...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Semantic Inflation]] is the phenomenon experienced by words intended to represent extremes where overuse reduces their significance until references to those extremes have...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot About ten years, Y Combinator attempted to have the Hacker News community pick a startup for them to fund for one of that summer's Fellowship Three. Some users warned that the...
Roshan: There is much Internet folklore about bugs where the issues seem like they could not be real or are simply a lay user mistakenly drawing relations between things incorrectly where these relationships are [[Veriphenia|nonetheless...
Roshan: [[Veriphenia]] is a phenomenon where a pattern that appears to be coincidental or superstitious turns out to be genuine. From Latin veritas (truth) and Greek phainein (to appear): "true appearing." === Contrast With Apophenia ===...