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They've left it a bit late, but GSC Game World has revealed the release date for their Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl expansion, Cost of Hope. The expansion launches on 20 August, or in just over three weeks' time.STALKER 2 launched in...
News came out yesterday of the results of the latest funding prioritization exercise by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The total savings being made by cuts to astronomy and particle physics are less than the...
A couple years ago I wrote about how to compute the inverse of factorial. I used that code in writing the previous post because the post required solving the equation ⌊log2(n!)⌋ = b given b. That is, given a number of bits b, find the...
I recently discovered a YouTube video about a children’s TV show from my childhood. The content was nostalgic and the tone of the commentary was dry and snarky, which was an entertaining combination. One particular video I watched from...
[1974]The great glam rock disco sound of The Glitter Band. They didn't even need Gary. Also a tune.
I hate conferences: they bring out the worst in me. I become a fawning, politicking creep, continually eyeing the room for someone important to talk to. Hmm, let’s try him, he looks tall and distinguished. Oh no, he’s a retired lawyer...
I made an agent skill that creates collage images, you can get it here. I’ve been playing a lot recently with Anthropic’s canvas-design skill, it’s also a nice example how context and workflow can be embedded into a skill to enhance the...
Pavement - The Cat’s Cradle, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 28, 1996Pavement is stomping out the footlights at the Ryman tonight — but 30 years ago this summer, the band was holed up in Mitch Easter’s Piedmont Triad Studio, recording...
Pavement - The Cat’s Cradle, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 28, 1996Pavement is stomping out the footlights at the Ryman tonight — but 30 years ago this summer, the band was holed up in Mitch Easter’s Piedmont Triad Studio, recording...
It's very nice to be told that your trivial act of little real effort is helping people. Particularly so, when it's by the AI heart of a grim and far away Google bot of some sort which is simmering away in a data centre deep in the...
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by a fun podcaster Jon Krohn for his podcast, SuperDataScience, and the podcast is out now: SDS 1013: Weapons of Math Destruction, Ten Years On, with Dr. Cathy O’Neil Also, we have a new AI...
A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon this woodworking guy's YouTube channel that is generally pretty silly, but he came up with a clever system to use 3D printing in a woodshop, the likes of which I've never seen before.Building a crosscut...
Survey_of_Chthonic_Structures_below_Spiegelberg_Cathedral_by_GNeuner_v1.0Download It has been a while since I took part in the One Page Dungeon Contest. Somehow the last few years (the last decade and a half…) I only realized the contest...
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 113 miles from Cummins Coach Care in Coburg, Oregon towards our our home base, but turned around in Salem when the Check Engine and MIL lights came back on with the same...
The cars are loaded, and Jeff Shanks and I on the road to PulpFest 2026 this morning. It’s a bit of a drive from Tallahassee. we’ll be arriving in Mars, Penn., on the northern side of Pittsburgh, tomorrow. For the most part, Wednesday...