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Aloha from Honolulu! I have vacation brain, so I'll do a summer-themed repost. [Photo from the Bishop Museum malacology exhibit] *************************************Every spring I suffer the Summer Illusion. The following three...
A little update on the food growing in the garden this year - sunflowers, tomatos and cucumbers, with a bonus 🌻🐝
I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good question.The contestants where Ken, Jerry, Jennifer.In Double Jeopardy there was a category Biblical...
Lots of processing this week. I didn't appreciate how much writing helped with that and giving my thoughts somewhere to go instead of bouncing around my head like a game of pong. I had two basketball sessions. The first on Monday was...
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Viscountess Boudicca Ten years ago today, on August 3rd 2016, Viscountess Boudicca was decanted from her council flat in Bethnal Green to Uttoxeter. Last week, she paid a rare visit to...
Forster lists, social etiquette and the root of all text Image of crying tree touching the hills taken by me My friends, you might have noticed I did not post anything last week. It’s been a rough and rocky time. The miracle we were...
Wanted to try Mille Fete, so I went after an errand in Downtown.Loved the interior Chose their kim chee reuben hand pie, this had homemade corned beef, kim chee and cheese.It was nice that they heated it up for me. The pastry was flaky.I...
I discovered Ted Chiang's novel – The story of your life – soon after watching the movie in a plane on my way to Norway, where I was enrolled for my Ph.D. It was 2016, I had wrapped up all the experiments, that demonstrated that my model...
When Julius discovers his wife in the arms of another man, his neighbors tell him to go jump in the river. Instead, he hatches a madcap plan to win her back. Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of Sprocket Vault Whistling Through...
Building my own agent has been fun. Sure, I could have opted for an off-the-shelf solution, but I wanted control. The ironic part is that I'm using that control to offload more control to the agent. Recent experiments have included...
As LLMs write more code, contracts and effect systems become essential tools for constraining behavior, exposing side effects, and verifying implementations.
The first nuance of Tetris that a new player will comprehend is the role of each piece. The unique sides of each tetromino synergizes with particular holes in the stack and affects the future stack’s shape: some flatten, others create...
a sunday spent day jammin' on my planner and updating my "books read" thread on bluesky.