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Yesterday Levent Alpöge announced that he and his colleagues had discovered a new Hadamard matrix using Claude AI. That motivated a post I wrote this morning on how to construct Hadamard matrices. I mentioned in that post that these...
Photo by David Schultz on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
The school year is in full swing now. My schedule is, on paper, pretty decent this year. I am going to stay optimistic that the year will at least be decent (I’m working on reframing how I see things). But every first day of the school...
I had a friend who smoked when I was in my twenties. One day she left a cigarette pack at my apartment, and because I was young and was testing boundaries, I grabbed the pack, went out on my balcony and smoked a cigarette. Of course, not...
STEFANIE MATTESON – Murder at Teatime. Charlotte Graham #2. Diamond, paperback original; 1st printing, March 1991. This second installment of the adventures of actress and movie star Charlotte Graham takes place in Maine, where a...
other things said my collecting of insidious offsets Yesterday :: Thursday, 13th August 2026
When I got started in my career I called myself a web designer. I was fresh out of my MFA program and teaching part-time in an Interior Architecture department. I felt closer to design than technology at the time.In those early days of...
Little Blue Pigeon, Denver, CO(Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X) My only regret visiting Little Blue Pigeon is I know it is going to show amazing and beautiful growth in the coming months and years....
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st July 2026 It has been a long five years since the last record, 2021’s ‘Deconsecrate’, from Portland Oregon’s progressive black/death metal kingpins Aenigmatum. Well, kingpins when they are...
Planning a hike on Rhode Island’s ~75-mile North-South Trail? Here’s a practical guide to maps, camping, water, resupply, transportation, road walks, side quests, and the other logistics needed to put together an NST hike. Read More ......
Camera: Fujifilm XT-5 | TTArtisan 35mm lens.Location:https://w3w.co/lift.ships.inches One of my go to podcasts is The Emerald: Founded in May of 2019, The Emerald podcast explores the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth,...
ilLumi is an artist about whom I now very little, though likely a digital concept artist and illustrator, presumably from Japan. Most often whimsical, but sometimes straightforwardly realistic, the work often employs deep cotrasts...
Imagine you’re walking down a beach and find a watch. You pick it up, inspect its intricate mechanism, admire how precisely all the pieces fit together, and conclude that something so complex and precisely engineered couldn’t possibly...
Only one recording today, and I’m afraid its a repeat of The Simpsons – Bart the Murderer. Media Centre Description: Bart becomes involved with a group of mobsters, but things get messy when they start doing favours for him. Recorded...
Yesterday, I attempted to peer beyond the event horizon of a data export request I made of OpenAI — exactly a month ago — for my corpus of ChatGPT conversation threads from late 2022 to the present. Saw nothing but an immediate response...