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Danmei Review: Can Ci Pin | Imperfections | The Defectives by Priest Is it me or is being a military commander a terrible job to have? Whenever I watch a show or read a book involving military commanders they tend to find themselves in...
The GPT-2-style models that I've been training work really well, and I've even managed to train some that perform better than the original OpenAI small model in terms of cross entropy loss on a test set. But as I wrote previously,...
The first recording today starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. I have only just noticed that the actual real-life Mel Brooks does a voice for it. After this there’s a trail for What’s New Scoopy Doo? Then it’s...
Robin Sloan on the only way you ever finish things. Robin Sloan in the conclusion of the latest issue of his (wonderful!) newsletter: In replies to my previous edition, several people used the same simple phrase: “Keep going.” This...
The drama of soccer.
Deep Space Organisms / Outer Moment / Glossy Mistakes Glossy Mistakes have rescued this sought after 12 from 2002. The A-side, “Inner Moment”, is uptempo tribal, trippy progressive house – once championed by Sasha & Digweed – hence the...
I was this old when I found out pool and billiards are different games. The heck are you supposed to do on a billiard table with no pockets? Paul Newman doesn’t know either – he’s a pool guy, traveling with older partner Charlie (of an...
Portrait of a Lady of the Court Playing the Tambourine, Pierre Désiré Guillemet, oil on canvas, 39×31 in. ( 96 x 79 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. French painter Pierre Désiré Guillemet ws...
You must use the tool. We must justify it. These aren't the words companies use, but that's what it comes down to. When you buy an expensive solution before you've clearly identified the problem, you have to use the tool to justify its...
This compilation from Musica Jazz accompanied the Italian jazz magazine’s November 2012 issue. Drawing mostly from ECM releases, with a couple of New Series selections thrown in for good measure, it testifies to the label’s faith in the...
TL;DR This is about Claude’s scheduled cloud routines specifically, which is the only agent platform I have tried it on. I moved my routine prompts out of the scheduler and into a git repo, leaving a fifteen-line stub behind that reads...
Beached! The Law Faculty building in Cambridge. Designed (wouldn’t you guess) by Norman Foster, who also designed the Terminal building at Stansted airport. But it always reminds me of a beached cruise liner. Quote of the Day ”If you...
A few minutes ago, I was in front of my house, wearing headphones and sweeping up after edging the driveway. A young man walked up wearing a blue vest and carrying a clipboard. He pleasantly called out: "Are you interested in Spectrum...
Emily Bass: A senior US State Department official displayed a map of Africa that was completely wrong before high-level officials from African nations, including some whose countries had been mislabelled. The map mishap occurred during a...
I've been participating in Hack Club for about two years so far. I've written posts about when I went to Shipwrecked and when I won Campfire. It started in late February. Whilst I was working on building this website, I checked the Hack...