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The XHDATA D-226 is an interesting new model in the compact category. At first glance it would appear to be similar to the well-known D-220 but there are a few major upgrades. The primary differences are that the new model separates the...
I’ve used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I’ve done for years, I’ve used the robots for editing, research, and data wrangling. When Anthropic...
Yesterday we saw the sun set at the beach near Zandvoort. We were there because of the 89% or so solar eclipse that peaked around eight in the evening. Well in time we walked onto the beach to set up our lightweight chairs and through...
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50 Lean statements, corresponding to 50 important recent mathematical theorems! The 50 theorems were all published in the Annals of...
Betye Saar and Neil Lane at LACMA, November 2, 2019. All images from Lets Get it On Celebrated Los Angeles artist Betye Saar died recently just before her 100th birthday. In addition to her work as an assemblage artist, she also had a...
I've got bones to pick with "show, don't tell." It's unhelpful and vague and prescriptive and there's lots of bad showing and good telling. This is, of course, as always, my personal preference. "Show don't tell" misses the point for me...
All I play anymore is trick-taking games. Fortunately, it’s an uncommonly smart genre. Today I’m covering three titles that highlight both the format’s breadth and what makes trick-taking one of tabletop’s most enduring pastimes — and...
This is one of those exceedingly rare cases where EU legislation has produced an unambiguously good outcome: from February 2027, Logitech’s European wireless devices will ship with hard-pack, user-replaceable batteries, and Logitech will...
Coming up in about three weeks, my birthday of doom: 2026 – 1940 = 86. A bad omen. As in NOAD: verb eighty-six (also 86): [with object] North American English informal 1 eject or bar (someone) from a restaurant, bar, etc.: they were...
There is no guarantee what the future will hold, so when planning for our financial future, we can look back at history and replay our finances in that context and see what would happen. In this post I will answer whether my retirement...
Whenever I have worked on parallel programming, I always plot some variation of the speedup scale. This is very helpful to detect problems like this one that affects numpy, where you can only see it whenever the contention for some...
A cute and cheeky visitor in EKSN this evening.
Pleasant late-summer evening in EKSN.
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Gerhard Richter Facsimile Object Annunciation after Titian (P12). 2015, Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum, 125.4 × 200.3 cm, ed. 27/50 [above] sold at Koller in Zurich in Nov 2025. To have the kind of relationship with a dealer...