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maybe i should try to play more sandbox games, but they are so intimidating to me. there is way too much freedom - you are given all the tools you want and you can do whatever you want for the rest of your time. many people seem to...
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Elasticsearch isn’t your AI search problem. You are. Why data governance and evaluation matter when building search systems, and especially when doing Retrieval Augnented...
I am still in the WhatsApp group chat for my Mum’s old road and now I have banned myself from TikTok, this is my new favourite scrolling location. People talk for months about missed bin collections. They swap seed packets and dining...
There's a certain strain of commentator who is just sure that nothing can ever get better. In amongst all the hullaballoo about the UK potentially banning under 16s from social media0, I saw a prominent historian say: i assume banning...
“Do people like us read too many books about people like us? “ From The Lisbon Traviata, Act II. Thank you to Tim Dunn especially and please check out the show if you are in the hudson valley. link here
Two weeks ago, I got a bacterial infection on one of my fingers (paronychia—don’t google it). I ignored the problem for a couple of days, then when it started to become unignorable, I finally looked for a dermatologist at 7pm on...
Frederick Cayley Robinson was an Engliah painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He carried some of the style and approaches from the late 19th into the early 20th, even as they were fading in...
I picked up for a pound a weird DVD combining some olde Scottish musical shorts and a couple of short silent comedies starring and made by Rikki Fulton in the 50s. I figured I’d get intertitles and also some Awful British Comedian...
I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could possibly imagine. This is the second and...
It’s fun being on the “trailing edge” of technology, when you get to catch-up on things you’ve always wanted to find out about, at a price you can afford. To that extent, I’ve been collecting optical media and drives, enjoying the...
As I mentioned last week, the Department of Physics will be hosting an Eclipse Event, this week on Wednesday August 12th. This sold out very quickly so we expect a good turnout. In the last few days we have been featured prominently in...
Photo of Tracy Arm after megatsunami on 10 August 2025 (from Wikimedia) 9 August 2026 A year ago, on 10 August 2025, a mega tsunami flooded the Tracy Arm fjord south of Juneau, Alaska. It began at the foot of the South Sawyer Glacier....
This was a work-heavy week. I also fell sick in the latter half of the week (a cold, blaming the weather). I’ve almost recovered now. This Friday, I finished reading Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky. I really enjoyed it (having read...
Vera by Laura Casparybook published 1943film released 1944 My old friend Sergio Angelini has a wonderful podcast called Tipping My Fedora (following on from his blog of that name) looking at All Things Noir. Tipping My Fedora | Sergio...