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Hello, loves! Let’s move on_key_press out of DungeonView. Down to 146 lines, from 226 just a few commits ago. I think I’ll just do it unless something interesting comes up. Here it is going in: def on_key_press(self, symbol: int,...
Well, that's done! They finished everything just before the rain arrived, so we got lucky. There was some smokiness returning as well, and the weather seems to have pushed that out too. They've got to let those walls cure a bit and then...
If you'd look at my calendar for the past 2 and a half months you'd think I was some important figure or something. Things are happening, some for choice, some unwillingly, but they are all happening this year. And in the midst of all...
Poststratification uses population data on X to estimate E(Y) via E(E(Y | X, R = 1)), where R = 1 are survey respondents who provide Y and X. When the inner expectation “E” is estimated via Multilevel Regression, this is called MRP. The...
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In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 2020, fewer than ten wolves were still being tracked....
About: Alman is a simplified dialect of German designed to reduce the complexity of the language while maintaining mutual intelligibility with Standard German. It systematically eliminates several complex grammatical features: • Gender...
Cory Doctorow's notion of enshittification not only really caught on but has been durable. If what I see and hear is representative, many people (including tech people) still think about software this way: software is getting worse and...
I'm trying to build out a course on agent skills. For a while I've been looking for something more substantial and stable to sink my teeth into (similar to what I did with API documentation), and I think agent skills just might be it.
Stella's Lounge (2019)I must be in a funk because I plugged the Mac Mini back in and I'm typing on it now. I just didn't feel like thinking about the computer and macOS does a better job of being an appliance when I need one. The Linux...
Bumped into a few people on this evening's dog walk. One of them wasn't even on land.50 words · 1 image
Backpacking is about more than gear and permits. Drawing on the Babylon Fire and the recent Bears Ears reduction, here are on some thoughts on why stewardship also means caring about the future of our public lands. Read More ... Continue...
When winter settles over your beehive home, the pace of life in the hive slows to a crawl. The surviving workers cluster together around the queen and gently buzz their muscles to maintain a safe internal temperature. The hive burns...
I started a newsletter. Well and a business but we’re talking about the newsletter now, OK? Because what the world needs now is a new newsletter like… well you know how the song goes. It’s called “Now what?” and it’s for folks who try to...
Kudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned internal model, where they encountered problems sufficiently severe they were forced to take the model offline to work on new mitigations and defense-to-depth. And...