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The previous post derived the identity and said in a footnote that the identity holds at least for x 1 and y 1. That’s true, but let’s see why the footnote is necessary. Let’s have Mathematica plot The plot will be 0 where the identity...
In some respects, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu qualifies as one of the biggest puppet shows ever staged. The creatures who populate The Mandalorian may not look entirely real, but they display the imagination and skill created by...
This site is about learning in public. As it turns a decade old, I scrounge around for 10 things I’ve learned while writing it. Also: my gratitude.
Desert haiku. Read More ... Continue reading A few days off the desert floor at PMags.com.
Here we go again with the always-wrong AI-job-loss predictions: NEW: Microsoft AI chief predicts AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months. — Polymarket (@Polymarket) May 17, 2026 People have made this prediction every...
The chroot utility runs a process with the given directory set as the root / directory of its filesystem. There are many use cases for such a tool, e.g. to mess with a different Linux system without booting it, to run glibc software on a...
I wasn’t expecting to get much done outside today. It’s been a damp and chilly day – the sort of overcast day that makes me want to crawl into bed and sleep for a week. Tonight, we’re supposed to dip below freezing for one last time....
A tale of two kisses Robert Doisneau’s famous photograph of two carefree lovers outside the Hotel de Ville in Paris is 1950 must be one of the best-known images in the world. The picture, he later said, “represented a perfect … Continue...
Artillery Passage 1984 by Philip Marriage Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields Photographer Chris Kelly returned to Cable St Community Gardens to take these vibrant portraits of the gardeners in 2012....
At the end of a dirt road along the northeastern edge of Montana’s Crazy Mountains, a simple sign warns visitors they are now entering private property. For fifth-generation Montanan Brad Wilson, the notice marks a defeat with...
The crew of the Lexx‘s adventures on the twin worlds of Fire and Water ended with the destruction of both planets. Since those worlds were the afterlife, the souls of the deceased there, good and bad, have migrated out into the ether,...