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"I have a bad experience with the company you work for." That's one of the first things a client told me today. I sat down and asked what had happened. Early on, it was clear that it all came down to one thing: Bad communication. After...
Yesterday I published a spicy tale of an App Store fraud perpetrated by a developer deep into AI slop. My blog post was linked by Daring Fireball and 9to5Mac, which I appreciate! Coincidentally, on the same day well-known developer Marco...
Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Swashbuckler (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh) SummaryAfter raiding the Xanthic Vault, the adventurers spent some downtime (from mid-July to...
The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters. It turns out that OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those...
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 19, § 233 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic arts, since what...
No, I don’t mean video games about juggling. I mean the way that I play video games is pure chaos. I have a tendency to play multiple games simultaneously. I also have a tendency to want to check out new things constantly. This often...
Yesterday, while most people were off out to go see an eclipse, I went into town (well, okay, the city) to go check out a yearly craft fair held in the old quarter, Plein Arts. This year it’s being held in a huge aircraft-sized tent just...
We played the sixteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human...
This is Never Enough, by The Cure. This appeared on a comp album they put out called Mixed Up, where they had a bunch of different artists re-imagine earlier work, and was an extended version of a new single. My roommate bought the album...
A Hadamard matrix is an orthogonal matrix whose entires are all either 1 or − 1. For example is a Hadamard matrix of order 2. True to Stigler’s law of eponymy, James Joseph Sylvester investigated Hadamard matrices before Jacques...
Regardless of the quality of this summer's new Masters of the Universe movie, it definitely ushered in a flood of related merchandise. And given that the film is based on a toy line, one suspects that doing so was likely always a part of...
In questa retrospettiva riassumo quello che è successo nei mesi di giugno e luglio. Vita lavorativa Sono alle battute finali del progetto che coordino come Team Leader e responsabile del backend sviluppato per conto del CNR. Appena si...
I was muttering the abbreviation API (a, pee, eye) under my breath, and shifted over one phonetic stop to “ape pee eye”. The puerile interpretation is right up front, which did make me giggle, but it also made me question if there was...
The great historian David McCullough (1933-2022) won the Pulitzer prize for biography twice, for his books on Truman and John Adams, but he also wrote best-selling books on the Panama Canal, the Johnstown Flood, the Brooklyn Bridge, the...
With a long-term project winding down recently, I’ve been reflecting on some of the takeaways from that engagement. I hadn’t been looking for such a large or long-term project but it turns out I really enjoyed that level of...