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I could have terminated the title of this blog post with “App Store” but wanted to talk about something specific that came up for me today: App Store user ratings and reviews. This subject is related to yesterday’s blog post No, you...
I listened to an interview by Nick Gillespie of Reason this morning. It may change your view of nuclear power. Nick interviewed Zion Lights, a former anti-nuclear environmentalist. This interview highlights interesting details about...
Initially was meant to be short but ended up being a bit more. In summary: website updates, still doing kendo, and some reflections on a chapter in my life.
My partner and I just started collecting board games last year. We're already pretty avid video gamers, him more than me, but between staring at a screen all day for work and school, we wanted another activity to share that is offline....
During a house inspection yesterday, I spotted a collection of old slides: Bali, the Seychelles, Tahiti... all labeled by hand with the year. The lovely old homeowners told me the photos were from many years of traveling around the world...
Lately the articles here have been extremely focused on programming, so I thought I’d write something quick about an interesting concept for tees that I’ve been thinking about. I was recently in a discussion about whether or not doglegs...
Who are you?Rachel Peterson, author, based in the Midwest and New York City.What do you write?My writing is dialogue-driven, and I love playing with pacing and switching character POVs. As a kid, I was equally interested in acting and...
We've recently started doing more road trips with our electric vehicles, and I have some thoughts.Not with these guys, though it was nice to meet the owner of the other Leaf.1. Home Is Where The Heart IsThe first thing that I want to...
Tags: #photos The Canaveral National Seashore is one of a few places where a harsher, more brutalist industrial-scale future intrudes into the timeline. Miles down the shore, as close as we can get at the safe distance keep-out fence...
A boat putters along the North Kohala coast, framed by a low rainbow.
A classic string wall appears in John P. McNamee’s “Guess I’m the problem” cartoon, posted to instagram (27 July 2026) [similar to NST #213]. ▲ John P. McNamee, “Guess I’m the problem” (instagram, 27 July 2026) From contributor Colin...
When I finished my project training an LLM from scratch, I was left with a minor mystery. Why were my models worse at instruction-following than the original OpenAI GPT-2 small weights? I had an evaluation that I was running, based on...
Hello, loves! Stepping is working. Let’s make it more nearly right. I think an object is called for. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. What, you may wonder, makes me think that we need an object? There are a few clues, and one of them is quite...
Dr. Finlay's Casebook was one of the BBC's biggest drama series of the entire sixties, if not one of the biggest series full stop - so why does it attract so little interest now?
The Lady Vanishes is one of my favourite Alfred Hitchcock films. It is one of his most playful and spontaneous. It is an excellent mystery thriller with a sinister undertone and plenty of humour thrown into the mix. In this film a...