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A reader named Madhu sent me a patch for running llambda.lisp under linux. This patch uses mmap to pull the weights into the lisp address space outside the heap. In addition, he tried to use a hugging face model that needed some default...
Aloha from Kauai! Here's another snail for your enjoyment. Since I'm still on vacation, here’s a repost with edits from 2011 and from my 2019 book A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures. [giant African land snail, seen...
There's a narrative about AI and work that says AI was supposed to let us do way LESS work, but somehow it's made us work MORE.I think that's the wrong way to think about it.What's happening is I and all the other crazy AI people have...
Battle Scene, by Samuel Johnson Woolf Written in the words of A.E. Housman, at the request of Ms. Screwhead, for Glaugust 2026.Encounters1. lads, in love with the grave.2. new young men/ The sergeant he must see3. Harnessed angels, hand...
Last updated 0 minutes ago hello! i hope you're having a great week. it's weeknotes o'clock! i am reading way too much and not finishing anything so i am calling an official moratorium on not talking about the books i'm reading till i...
In Soho I note that the pavements have gone a strange colour. They are darker than usual, and splodgy or stripy. I wonder if I am imagining it. THe next day the strange colour strikes me again and I realise it’s because it hasn’t rained...
In the space of less than twenty-four hours I went from idea to having a tool that solves a problem that I (and presumably others) have had for at least a decade: Remove old placeholder user avatar images, see if there are any advertised...
They seemed to think that copper oxide or copper oxychloride were somehow different, because. obviously, bronze props foul. These pipes were in the water for a year. The only one with no hard grow (zero) is the plain pipe with no anode....
Unwitting astronaut works out plot and solves problems.By Andy WeirRating: 4.5 / 5.I don’t even know how to summarize this without giving anything away, but I can say that the formula seemed exactly the same as The Martian with a smart...
While talking with my niece at the tea party yesterday she described her kids as “going all yampy” which was the first time I’d heard this midlands expression in the wild. I felt like an ethnologist who’d stumbled upon a tribe he’d only...
Fascinating rumination on being human in an era shaped by frequent interactions with LLMs and their human-mediated output: “Life on the Uncanny Precipice” by Naomi Saphra, Aug. 8, 2026, nsaphra.net.
Two hours of play Fun, Facts, and Floorsof scientific exploration.An outing meant to enticea five-year-old, engulfed a couple of adult womenin its grip–mesmerizing us and sending shivers ofnostalgia down our spines. Kaleideum will see...
I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town. At first I thought this might be a Mastodon...
[DEBORD, Guy]. “Paris Match a retrouvé le mysterieux gourou de Lebovici” in Paris-Match 1819, 6 April 1984 (pp. 60-61). Paris, 1984. Grainy, evidently clandestine photograph of Guy Debord, captioned as having caught the “mysterious guru...
(Some of this came from a Reddit post I read, and some of the comments on it.) Here are theorems with names that I think are funny--- or at least unusual. The names are also pointers to the Wikipedia entry on them or some other...