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Turns out all you really need for automatic differentiation at compile time is to encode your tensor shenanigans, differential geometry as algebraic data types with the resulting type theory. The derivatives aren't magically evaluated...
At the peak of my burnout in 2023, I wrote a note this note on my phone: “I want to wake up before the alarm rings. I want to wake up motivated and eager to work. I want to follow my morning routine: workout, writing, silence, and...
From the 1930s to the 1950s various lobbies expressed anxiety over the arrival of the “super pub” – public houses that were bigger and flashier, with broader appeal and less soul. We’d previously come across the term superpub in a quite...
Jurassic Park (1993) has about 60 visual effects shots containing computer-generated elements. In 1993, photorealistic, cinema-quality CGI video took much longer and cost much more to produce than it would today. The high-end Silicon...
Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. My good internet friend V.H. Belvadi — whose writing always gets my mind excited with his writing — published a great piece...
ot a very nice day. Cloud and cool. Did some cleaning up the drive. A gas leak on top of the drive. Did the office. Cut some wood for the incin. Fred Moss died.
Back to our regular schedule, welcome back to a new season of “Beyond the Code”. These past few weeks that I haven’t been around, we’ve seen a good number of new open model releases. Open models have been my daily driver for months. That...
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string rearrangements and rational numbers. (Note that this ends today.)
Personal notes for week 34 of 2026
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this aerial view of a small island in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario, Canada. White snow covers most of the island, contrasting with exposed rock and vegetation at the edges, while dark water surrounds...
Available in English as The War Within These Walls, translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. A notably different title, the original title means 'the ghetto's colors'. Did they opt for that change because the word ghetto might have...
A brief elaboration on my political priorities and opinions, including a critique of leftist populism (with bonus Foucault dunking).
The world's first digital nomad: One Planet Journey interviews Steven K. Roberts. Why Do Tech Bros Always Learn The Wrong Thing From Sci-fi? – Demonitzed on Youtube. Music is a weapon – Chords and Discords on Youtube. #radar
When we learn about the history of civilization, we get to hear about the Stone age, the Bronze age and then the Iron age. Whatever follows is named after historical events or political systems rather than technology, although some...
A few years ago I won (!) a SBC and have been trying to figure out what to do with it ever since. The board is called LibreComputer Alta AML-A311D-CC and this post will outline how I got it’s NPU working, even though I still don’t know...