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St Swithen Got up at the usual time not a bad day. Dot and Little Jane came about 10.30a.m. Spent a happy day with Jane. Nothing of importance to report.
Use 'external' ML models for affinity prediction such as Boltz-2 (see P2025 preprint)Build their own ML models for affinity predictionCoordinate with OpenBind (for example, by adopting methods for affinity measurement used in that...
The internet didn’t become broken overnight, it drifted from being a network of communities into a marketplace dominated by platforms whose purpose is extracting value. This is the logic of #dotcons most of us invested our lives and...
We all know that moving to LLMs and agents has caused the feeling of losing touch with parts, or maybe even all, of a code base. This isn’t just something that is problematic for managing and handling the translation from business logic...
Victoria is like the hanging basket capitol of the world lol — also. check out that adorable little water taxi 🚕 We got tickets to one night of the Phillips Backyard Music Festival, which we took as an excuse to do a long weekend in...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 131-134: The eight years of hybrid warfare that Russia had waged against Ukraine in the Donbas, divided by the Minsk agreements, turned...
Last month I posted a review of Klimadashboard's European Heat Tracker, which visualizes how many people across Europe are exposed to extreme heat in real time. Since then, temperatures have continued to exceed seasonal norms across much...
The Promise of Elsewhere Nobody teaches us to say it, and yet everybody says it. I just need to get away for a while. We say it after bad years and bad news, after burnouts and break-ups, and sometimes after nothing we can name at all....
Hollywood spends $200 million on CGI spectacles that make no sense and a billion dollars anyway. Meanwhile, some of the most brilliant science fiction ever made is buried in a streaming library with 400 reviews and a poster nobody...
Kick-sampling is a technique for assessing water quality in the wild. I've done some kick-sampling myself. Heck, I've taught kick-sampling. Almost the only time I ever used the Lidl middle-aisle fisherman's waders were for kick-sampling...
This is Canary Wharf, sorry Kaneary Wharf, the latest in a long line of rebranded tube stations. The name change was only supposed to be up for a few days but then England performed better than expected so it lingered until Sunday. As a...
I've been thinking of a bunch of things. Over the past two weeks, I've taken mom and supra out, to do some activity! We've done go-karting and then pickleball. Pickleball was fun, and I understand where the appeal of the sport is. It's...
Whilst it might look like I am hyperproductive these few weeks, with a new blogpost coming up almost every day about something I have done, I am mostly just putting things online that were finished before, in preparation of the summer...
Unless we save it. We have traded a free internet for a collection of walled gardens. Today, a handful of digital landlords use algorithms to dictate our reality, while closed AI threatens to change the ways we connect. We are at a...
Well, I missed posting before the Steam Summer sale was out but here goes… It’s that time of year already? That’s right, time for Steam to lever more money out of my wallet. As per usual, I convinced myself and my wife that I’ll...