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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 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...
A boat putters along the North Kohala coast, framed by a low rainbow.
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...
Our first fountain pen ink episode, where we discuss permanent inks! In this episode you'll learn about document inks, pigment inks, and iron gall inks, including relative waterproofness and lightfastness, pen care, and more. Fountain...
[1975]Tuuuuune!Stellar glam rock power pop.Beats The Glitter Band's original version from the same year which was also excellent. I mean how could you go wrong, it's just a crackin' song innit.How this wasn't a number one smash in...
The mark of an intelligent person is how comfortably he handles contrarian views, and more importantly, how well he handles dissent. Nobody is perfect, no argument is airtight, no approach is the right approach, so there is always room...
A hundred death metal albums not from the USA Between 1993 and 1994, death metal popped its head above the underground parapet to peek into the mainstream. From airplay on MTV’s Headbangers Ball, to Morbid Angel being the first death...
Nau maiYesterday we played at Fuji Rock Festival. This beautiful voucher is what you can exchange for a breakfast at the Prince Hotel, Naeba. I handed over my pink slip at the entrance to the buffet and looked out across this enormous...
In the sitcom Seinfeld, the character Elaine Benes is annoyed that a friend doesn't think she's up to being a babysitter: "I couldn't raise a kid? C'mon, I love bossing people around."She, of course, finds out that bossing kids around is...
Just a quick programming note: the newsletter will be on hiatus the next two weeks as I spend time with family in the wake of my father's recent passing. I appreciate your patience and readership. Regular posts will return in mid-August...
There is a time for everything, and a season for every one of us under the heavens. This is our time, and we must make of it what we will. We are not Lee Kuan Yews, Goh Keng Swees or Rajaratnams and we need not pretend to be. They were...