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I'm in kind of a cranky mood. If there's anything I'm less interested in reading about or listening to than AI-anything, it's critiques of The Odyssey. As if this was a cherished childhood story that everyone knows and loves and "woke...
From Andy Burnham's point of view, he couldn't have asked for a better week. His daily list of announcements went down with nmst official politics watchers, leaving those complaining, like the Tories, like the Daily Express, looking...
I decided to not read a book. It may not be a first for me, but it is definitely much too rare that I actively decide to stop reading a book. I can leave them around for a long time, sometimes eventually giving up on them. But the giving...
Do you like the new Restaurant Impossible: Last Call as much as I do? Or do you miss Robert Irvine? Blame Canada—for bringing us this great evolution of the format.
The papyrus was published in 1940, but I hadn’t seen it until now, and perhaps it will be new to you as well: A 3rd century papyrus conjugating γράφω in the indicative, posted the other day by Roger Pearse on his blog: Here is a truly...
In response to the spectre of Chinese open-weight AI models haunting America, Dean Ball, OpenAI’s director of strategic futures [are there directors of strategic pasts?], issued a warning more shrill even than the New York Post’s alerts...
Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Let’s take some steps toward stepping visually through dungeon creation. I think the plan will be something like this: To step through a dungeon creation sequence, express it as a Composed Method...
One of the many Melbourne bus routes that have been without Sunday service is the 536 between Glenroy and Gowrie. Linking the Craigieburn and Upfield lines it provides the only public transport for a large section of northern Glenroy...
A Caesar cipher is a letter for letter exchange from a clear text to a encrypted text by shifting a set distance in the alphabet. Thus, if your set distance is 2, the letter A becomes C, the letter X becomes Z. To encrypt the last...
Photo by Mehmet Ali Peker on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a...
This weekend found me holed up for a writing mini-retreat while J worked a wedding gig in Wisconsin, which meant a whole uninterrupted day of working on the zombie/hotel play, which didn't start out with zombies at all, but somehow ended...
If you are familiar with my previous posts on model welfare for new Claude models, you can skip the Introduction and The Story So Far. Key takeaways are in bullet points in the two Overview sections. Opus 5 did the best on its model...
When you use a unittest.mock mock, you often make assertions on the calls it received, such as through the mock_calls list. But sometimes you want to assert on the order of calls across multiple mocked functions, for example to check...
Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are over AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event to chit chat on their newly revealed CDNA5 architecture with Alan Smith! AMD's Corporate Fellow and Chief Architect for Datacenter GPUs. Hope y'all enjoy!The...
A year ago, you couldn't vibe code in Lisp. Even the SOTA models had trouble balancing parentheses, and they'd hallucinate packages and symbols that didn't exist. A year makes a big difference in this field, and the latest models are...