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Tomorrow begins is VCFSE, which stands for Vintage Computing Festival SouthEast, a three day celebration of retro computing. Not only will I be there, but I’ll have a table for Loadstar Compleat and also selling copies of Exploring...
Eucalyptus are a koala's favorite food, the leaves are a silver to blue-green color, and give off a menthol-like fragrance. 22 Eucalyptus
Tangentially related to the previous post, this 8-minute video from CrowBranch is a fun tier list of various ways games try to keep you in bounds: The limits here are I believe unrelated to precision, and rather to wanting to keep the...
Possible game spoilers below, if you're sensitive to that. In the last few weeks I started the final missions for Star Wars Outlaws; the whole game is leading up to putting together a big heist of a vault ("The Heist"), and in one of the...
Eliminating capitalism isn't enough to fix the discrimination of the sick
What a week. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. As usual I covered that in three parts: The system card, model welfare and capabilities. OpenAI was revealed over the last two weeks to have left an internal model unsupervised for a week...
"One garment became central to that image. The navy Howick jacket Burnham wore during the Tier 3 dispute in October 2020 is now held by the People’s History Museum. Its catalogue records it plainly as a Howick VI coat, bought from House...
I never did make a category just for “super beautiful but super depressing” movies (as
Food I have written in the past about being vegan and some of the unexpected challenges that lifestyle entailed. What I have not written about however is the difficulties that arise in trying to eat out at restaurants or bars. It is a...
In the Acts of St Colluthus, which record events in May 304 AD, the persecutor Arianus attempts to get Colluthus the physician to apostasise by sacrificing to the gods. Not that Arianus, nor the emperor Diocletian who set him to work,...
I ended up not buying Austrian Audio's The Composer headphones after all. 2500€ is just too much cash all at once, and I can't currently justify the purchase. But that doesn't mean I didn't buy anything. In fact, I did end up splurging,...
Gal's Night on Bop Street For track listing, original label & date see https://rcs-discography.com/rcs/comp.php?key=3083 Not listed in RCS are :1. McQuade, Betty : Tongue Tied - Astor 7014 (Australia), 19612. Thomas, Erlene : I Need...
When you learn computer science, at some point you encounter floating-point numbers in all their peculiar glory. Floating-point numbers allow you to store values that are extremely huge or extremely tiny, but that comes with a strange...
In this case, a book chapter.This week I (finally) finished revisions on a chapter I’m contributing to a forthcoming book of essays on education and AI. More specifically, on the many metaphors we apply to machine learning systems —...
As I start to work toward the start of the fall semester, I’m also trying to wrap up some summer research (and will have an invigorating “research sprint” the week when I get back) and finish up some assignments for my fall classes. This...