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Himalayan Balsam flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Some of you might know that Clojurists Together are supporting my work on nREPL, CIDER and friends this year. Normally I send them a bi-monthly progress report, but I saw some other people who got funding for their OSS work publish those...
Hi, welcome to this write-up of Exercise #024 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix. Here you can see what steps I took (and the thought processes behind them) to get to the answers, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same...
A stationery blog published through the Blot platform (blot.im) — 409 posts, 7 pages, 2 images. Build & Test # No build, test, or lint step exists -- Blot renders the Markdown and theme files directly. # Publish by pushing to the Blot...
A stationery blog published through the Blot platform (blot.im) — 409 posts, 7 pages, 2 images. Build & Test # No build, test, or lint step exists -- Blot renders the Markdown and theme files directly. # Publish by pushing to the Blot...
High up in the Ethiopian mountains lives the Gelada. It lives nowhere else and, isolated in these remote Ethiopian Highlands, the primate has developed a way of life all of its own. To begin with there is that patch of red skin; one...
Have a guess which of the two people above is a robot. It’s probably not too difficult to work out which is which – but the UBTech Robotics model on the right is, I must admit, incredibly humanlike. The company’s new life-sized companion...
Every day a new thing gets released, a new AI model, new car, new service, new phone, new laptop, new headphones, new power bank, new, new, new… and our compulsion is to ask: how does it perform vs what came before? Completely natural...
When it comes to burning discs, most people who knew anything about burn quality generally had an ingrained phobia of high speed. Common recommendations included burning at “half the speed your media/burner is rated at”, while others...
It is July! Domink Schwind recently wrote "Too Personal", mainly in response to how a friend told him "that week notes aren’t for him as they are too personal." This got me thinking about my own writing on this blog as well. I have...
Corner of Deansgate Market Street Piccadilly Gardens Piccadilly Railway Station Manchester city centre is always an interesting place to visit, and on Saturdays is always a busy place too. I guess everybody has their favourite spots, and...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various analyses of strings. (Note that this ends today.)
For six months I’ve been trying to hedge my (and my family’s) access to intelligence. Open models, local inference, a box on my desk that runs a decent model without asking anyone’s permission, you know, the kind of things you’ve seen me...
1-01 The Harry South Orchestra– The Sweeney (Main Theme)1-02 Rose Royce– Car Wash1-03 Tom Scott– Gotcha1-04 Marvin Gaye– Trouble Man (Main Theme)1-05 Henry Mancini– The Return Of The Pink Panther1-06 Isaac Hayes– Theme From Shaft1-07...