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Here my previous post about encapsulation, the primary purpose of which is to argue for the importance of the concept. Here are some realistic, important violations of encapsulation: Using a system that requires the properties or...
Headed onto my roof before 5am (thank you, early sunrise) for a few minutes to catch this color.
A knife. He took a freaking knife. Haris shook his head while panting uphill. The knife, suspended from a string on his backpack, slapped his side, spurring him on. “Who are you kidding? You buy your bread pre-sliced,” he said to...
I just realized that I was ordained as a Dudeist priest 10 years ago, in July 2016. I guess missing such a milestone is appropriate for it.
Hi all, I’ve been extra excited about the great feedbac/participation here at TAoN lately.For example, as most of you know, I published the most recent Icebreaker as a stand-alone post to encourage responses. The question is about...
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Fotos tomadas el 12 de agosto de 2026 alrededor del Behmstraßenbrücke. Berlín. Cámara: Ricoh GR IIIx. Comentar · Me gusta · Newsletter · Office Hours
So one thing I find really interesting right now is the difference in how it seems OpenAI and Anthropic are approaching the market. I see Anthropic as primarily, this is an oversimplification, but I think Anthropic is primarily going...
I was working on my taijiquan haiku series and then lost steam. Part of it was the double haiku’s weren’t all as strong as each other. I decided since that was holding me up to simplify and do one haiku per each. Again these are in no...
I’m reading Kate Kelley’s Proto-Elamite: Writing and Society in Early Iran (see this post), and I thought this passage (pp. 15ff.) was of enough general interest to post: Throughout the twentieth century, the archaeology of early Iran...
i am looking forward to it. i used to avoid buying nice food, because it felt wasteful - food ends after consumption (obviously), and i tried to stick to more "sensible" investments. after having been working through my fear of death for...
Hi everyone on this blazing hot Friday. I’m joining #WeekendCoffeeShare again. It’s 7:30PM as I start typing this post, so I’ve had my last cup of coffee for the day and will likely be off for a bit before publishing this post to have my...
In a slightly surprising move to me, KPop Demon Hunters is coming to the Criterion Collection this November. While familiar with the films' insane popularity, my only exposure to it was my buddy's daughter fast forwarding to the end to...
This site is a one-man show, more or less. As a result, the two biggest obstacles for more posts going live more frequently are my free time and my desire to take the research as far as I possibly can. You would not believe how many...