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The Nintendo Wii launched nearly 20 years ago and we haven't seen a console like it since. This May, Wii're going back and we're doing it with the Steam Deck.
Best Record of 2001: Day 29 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Fugazi’s The Argument and it faces off against Word of Mouf by Ludacris. Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challenge and noted...
The opening credits of Psycho Killer (dir. Gavin Polone, 2026) strobe between red and black iterations of string and investigation boards.
There’s certainly no economic reason why every national economy should expect to have a balance between its exports and imports. But it’s also true that sustained and large trade imbalances have sometimes been a forerunner of economic...
The Fermi Paradox is the question of why we haven’t been contacted by any extraterrestrial species. In a recent paper, astrophysicists analyzed the paradox by instead examining how civilizations with the ability to send signals through...
Underthinking it all.
One of my favorite colored pencils are the Caran d’Ache Supracolors and the extra-posh Luminance pencils. I also love two-ended pencils. Caran d’Ache calls these BiColor and occasionally release sets of these little gems. For this...
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Fox Theater, Oakland, California, April 18, 2026Gillian Welch and David Rawlings took their Dead set on the road over the past several weeks — and by my reckoning, it was amazing. Even better than I...
Siri is so bad as a voice assistant that it made me stop caring about device-local AI, which is impressive. Yesterday, “hey Siri, turn off the bedroom lights” worked. Today, that responded with “sorry, I can only set one scene at a...
When a function is not differentiable in the classical sense there are multiple ways to compute a generalized derivative. This post will look at three generalizations of the classical derivative, each applied to the ReLU (rectified...
A fishing pier on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at dawn, photographed from every angle as the sun rises through its pilings and the sky shifts from deep purple to pink.