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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.
Albrecht Dürer et al, The Triumph of Maximilian, 1515-17, printed 1799, collection NYPL Rather than build an actual f’ing arch the Emperor Maximilian commissioned a monumental print arch, which could be reproduced and installed all over....
“The unphotographed moment.” Now and then, deliberately do not photograph the sensory-rich thing — the meal, the low gold light, the street at dusk with the festival somewhere behind it. Let it go un-filed. An experience you did not...
The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I write. Roget's Thesaurus (4th...
Around this time I often see some people posting about the Blaugust blogging challenge to post every day during August. I will often see those posts and think that maybe I should participate, but I very quickly decide that it's not for...
Well... I picked two movies that shared a few things in common, mainly guys who try to make women into exactly what they want and end up regretting it. Neither movie was amazing, but both kept me interested and I didn't once feel the...
In TinyMCE 6.8.1 (the WYSIWYG editor used by Bludit) iframe sandboxing was introduced. This automatically adds the sandbox="" parameter to all inserted <iframe>-tags. This blocks all embedded videos from playing, even when the...
Today’s frontier models can do some pretty incredible things with animation. My first real dose of it was the axial-flux motor. I prompted Fable’s Mythos to make a The Way Things Work version of Mercedes-Benz’s new large-scale-production...