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Since I’m a good mood today—at a beautiful science camp with my kids, high in the mountains near Big Bear Lake in California—I thought I’d blog about something positive. Last week, five authors posted a major paper to the Electronic...
A review of LocateAnything, an NVIDIA vision-language model that treats each bounding box as one atomic unit and decodes it in a single parallel step instead of a sequence of coordinate tokens. Its Parallel Box Decoding reaches roughly...
I’ve known about file local variables for a long time. I also knew about the eval keyword, which can be used as a file variable, but instead of binding the given value to the (non-existent) variable eval, Emacs evaluates it. This is...
Here ya go, folks — check it out here. Thanks to the aforementioned RAM and memory apocalypse happening due to so much of the current pipeline of RAM and storage being pre-purchased for AI data centers, the pricing is a tough pill to...
The last Korean review I did involved a spicy and sweet noodle served hot I kind of think might have been better cold. Well, here’s [...] The post #5597: Woobool Restaurant Cold Buckwheat Noodles – South Korea appeared first on THE RAMEN...
Cosmic Summer No. 13, paper collage, 2026 I love retro-spacey beach art. For that reason, whenever I find vintage beach imagery, whether in magazines or on postcards, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that I am going to pair it with...
When we examine what types of films were trendy in the silent film days, we’ll find the era well-stocked with Civil War films, WWI propagandistic adventures, tales from the pioneer days, and of course an abundance of Westerns. But what …...
AI disclosure – I used AI to write this blog post. I figure having an AI blog post is better than not writing it at all. I will always disclose though if I use AI to heavily write any content on this blog. (I use it for minor copy...
A short aside from the virtual memory series on physical address size, why it differs from virtual address size, and why different CPUs expose different limits.
This one took a long time to get out, but it is finally out. #100 was recorded and will come out next week 🤞 .We chat about how developer experience affects delivery speed, happiness and morale. We also chat about how a lot of problems...
🐑🐑🐑🐑 4/5 Real Animals - I got a lot out of re-reading this! The post Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
The polder model is a method of consensus decision-making, based on the Dutch version of consensus-based economic and social policymaking in the 1980s and 1990s. It gets its name from the Dutch word (polder) for tracts of land enclosed...
I have been reflecting today on making mistakes. The following quotation is attributed to United States President Theodore Roosevelt: “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” Theodore roosevelt I’d...
Walking through Brockley in South East London this morning, my eyes were drawn to the rubbish that was collecting - but not being collected - near the station. However, this wasn’t what grabbed my attention – it was the street art...
A Swedish word meaning ‘just the right amount’ or ’not too much, not too little’. The word can be variously translated as ‘in moderation’, ‘in balance’, ‘perfect-simple’, ‘just enough’, ‘ideal’ and ‘suitable’ (in matter of amounts)....