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The reality of the wildfires in South Birmingham is starting to sink in. Years ago there was a tweet (remember tweets?) saying: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer...
Hello, I haven't posted in forever because I've been busy or just surviving this heat. Back in July, I stumbled upon a post from someone, I don't remember their name, who said that they were using AI to write their posts. Don't worry, I...
The first time I encountered AI generated images was in the fall of 2022. I was in Rockford when my dad was in the hospital and my brother -n-law was sharing funny images on his phone (I'm pretty sure they were silly cats..lol..) and the...
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Here my previous post about encapsulation, the primary purpose of which is to argue for the importance of the concept. Here are some realistic, important violations of encapsulation: Using a system that requires the properties or...
Headed onto my roof before 5am (thank you, early sunrise) for a few minutes to catch this color.
A knife. He took a freaking knife. Haris shook his head while panting uphill. The knife, suspended from a string on his backpack, slapped his side, spurring him on. “Who are you kidding? You buy your bread pre-sliced,” he said to...
I just realized that I was ordained as a Dudeist priest 10 years ago, in July 2016. I guess missing such a milestone is appropriate for it.
Hi all, I’ve been extra excited about the great feedbac/participation here at TAoN lately.For example, as most of you know, I published the most recent Icebreaker as a stand-alone post to encourage responses. The question is about...
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Fotos tomadas el 12 de agosto de 2026 alrededor del Behmstraßenbrücke. Berlín. Cámara: Ricoh GR IIIx. Comentar · Me gusta · Newsletter · Office Hours
So one thing I find really interesting right now is the difference in how it seems OpenAI and Anthropic are approaching the market. I see Anthropic as primarily, this is an oversimplification, but I think Anthropic is primarily going...
I was working on my taijiquan haiku series and then lost steam. Part of it was the double haiku’s weren’t all as strong as each other. I decided since that was holding me up to simplify and do one haiku per each. Again these are in no...
I’m reading Kate Kelley’s Proto-Elamite: Writing and Society in Early Iran (see this post), and I thought this passage (pp. 15ff.) was of enough general interest to post: Throughout the twentieth century, the archaeology of early Iran...