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One of the most influential 20th century pieces of writing about AI is Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question. Although there are many humans in the story, the protagonist is the computer Multivac, who evolves over the course of ten trillion...
I made two songs this month made while writing and painting and learning about minor chords. The title track comes from a wild dream I had about killing a digital crocodile by carving an ancient glyph into its eye, and it contains a...
This post is a response to My perfect laptop by Michael Harley. In short, the Framework 13 is essentially my perfect laptop, or damn near close to it. And I'm lucky enough to actually use it as my daily driver; it comes with me...
Long time no read, I should say. It has been a week since I wrote I’m saying goodbye to my hometown, it has also been more than a week since I moved to my new home, in a town in the province of Buenos Aires. It has been cold since. While...
The Retro Dad : The Guy at Wawa “That’s the kind of retiree I want to be.” Not necessarily wealthy, or accomplishing.. anything important every day. Just being happy to be alive. You know.. get up in the morning.. go somewhere..talk to...
I was starting to be concerned that Slick had moved her litter. I was feeling better this evening and headed out to walk around and get some fresh air, which is when I spotted her. She was in the grass in front of the catio, her babies...
The Basque Country (a brief introduction) Also known as: Euskal Herria (in Basque), País Vasco (in Spanish) or Pays basque (in French) Official languages: Basque, Spanish, French (English comes 4th, if at all) Located: at the western end...
One of my favorite local brand powders is gone from the market. I don’t know if the brand plans to reformulate and re-release them some day — I hope they do, but my back-ups of their powder is slowly being consumed. I am down to one...
I was going for a run the other day, and spotted a rather interesting looking family down by the river. It didn't look like anything I had ever seen before - and a quick Google revealed it to be a ゴイサギ or black-crowned night heron. It...
I meant to come back to say that the Sector General books about the giant space station hospital (and interstellar ambulance) actually IMPROVED past book 6 or 7. That’s rare for a long running series ! And the women’s brains just can’t...
A ridiculously under-recorded guitarist from MaliI heard Bouba Sacko on this compWent looking and was surprised how little there was to be foundMost of it as a sideman or accompanist to a star singerE.g. he's on this Either that or he's...
Trying to put words to what I think makes me a great engineer.
How can our individual actions move the needle on a massive, complex, and systemic problem like climate change? How should we act in order to make the necessary impact? How *must* we act? What is our personal obligation to maximize the...
A Banyan tree down at Mauna Lani. Hurricane Lala barrelled past Hawaii this past weekend and left a trail of mayhem in its wake. Here on the island, more than 60,000 households, including this one, are without power and there was a good...