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The format impacts everything.Choosing a format or "paper size" will affect everything about your project, so I recommend thinking about it early. The earlier the better. The sooner you start thinking about format, the sooner you start...
I believe that all new scientific discoveries should be announced via cake, don't you?[pushing back glasses and consulting clipboard] Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present... The Majestic Bagel-Nosed Falcon of Uganda!Or it might be...
It’s been (inexactly) 46 days since my last rant, and the place wouldn’t feel the same if I wasn’t (mildly) furiously hammering my current train of thought into vim, bare-brained, like the semi-civilized ape-like creature that we all are...
Learning Chinese, or any language, makes you more aware of language in general. And one thing that surprised me is that, despite Mandarin being so different from my mother tongue (Dutch), both languages reach for the same units when...
https://kolistat.com/blog/the-stats-duck-v0-6-0/ Announcement of a really neat duckdb extension called the-stats-duck (KoliStat/the-stats-duck) which puts statistical functions inside duckDB. It then goes on to add some visualization in...
To the Archon of Burdock's Valley, Lord Iskander Basileon, Imperial salutations, etc. This song was taken from one of the rabblerousers we were charged with vanquishing. We heard them sing it as a form of morale booster. It is the...
What did medieval people think about different races? How did they distinguish one ethnic group from another? This question occurred to me when reading up on Regino of Prüm, who around 900CE wrote the following:Nec non et illud sciendum,...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Looking at my peak male physique, and my Keanu Reeves baby face, you would never suspect it, but I recently turned 50. As is the tradition, I thought about writing a post titled "50 Lessons at 50". Unfortunately, I don't have that kind...
In this post we’re going to see how share.acquire.mode=record_limit combined with:fewer consumers than partitionsand various cases of “partition skew”…can result in subpar performance with share groups. I stumbled on these issues when...
An Important reminder at Hunter Gatherer 21C: We are never just ourselves. We are ourselves plus the world we move through. A human being is not a sealed unit but a creature in constant exchange with its surroundings: light and dark,...
Everyone is nervous, at least to some extent, on their first day at a new job. Yet spare a thought for young Pierre (as I have called him). He is the only human living in a world of animals and even his recent couture diploma isn’t going...
The St Katharine Docks are a very pleasant, picturesque and pedestrian-friendly part of London that deserves much, much better restaurants than they has hitherto been blessed with. Banquet 88's immediate neighbours are Café Rouge, Côte...
There’s long been a disconnect between concerns about the massive impact of AI data centres on electricity demand and claims by Sam Altman and others that the impact is really modest. Ed Zitron recently posted a summary of OpenAI’s 2025...