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One of my shortest walks ever! But I avoided a horrible road and saw some interesting benches. Continue reading →
Here’s what I’ve been up to / thinking about lately: Thoroughly enjoying my shed office. I love having a dedicated space to work that’s relatively quiet and sort of outside. It’s been pushing my limits in terms of heat over the past few...
I enjoyed reading Kin but don’t have a lot to say about it. The two girls’ diverging stories were interesting, one rising through society while the other stays stuck near the bottom. I felt sad about how both ended. Jones’s use of...
I’m writing about space usage OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS offers tools to transparently increase the amount of data you can fit on a disk. Rather than requiring the system administrator to compress and decompress individual files, ZFS uses...
I'm no stranger to TikTok. Hell, I bought an office chair off it (still no regrets eight months later).Truth be told, I'm not super serious about the app, though. I've worked very hard to cultivate an algorithm that feeds me content...
(click to enlarge)I’ve always heard that bad luck comes in threes. My first recent experience was my Lightroom Classic catalog mysteriously becoming corrupted. After some persistence, I was able to use a backup catalog to restore things...
From 2018, a nasty surprise after the ceiling was removed: More specifically, the gypsum board ceiling that had been put in place below the original plaster was removed, exposing the plaster, and the failure of the plaster, and the...
So it seems I've managed to get something working with my homelab in a way that doesn't disgust me (too much). In fact, some of it is really quite cool. The main downsides however are pretty annoying, but I'll get to them. Also this is...
So, while editing this week’s WeeklyOSM entry, I stumbled upon this OSM diary titled “GPX Reference Point Generator” (GPXRPG).This is a simple yet very cool tool for making OSM armchair mapping more serious and accurate. The main idea is...
i am hastily joining the blaughust challenge and will be trying to post daily. i've read of these challenges before, but never joined one! thank you bluebottle for mentioning it in your post! this is how i found the challenge :) day 1 of...
Bloody bingo! Trying to write it in my head worked- I have the bassline written but not the skill to play it yet. Which means practicing. Urgh. I'm trying to channel Andy Warren, while sitting down instead of standing up, and not having...
ilya sutskever at gtc in march 2023, the day after gpt-4 launchedI've been arguing for many years that modern AI creates a world model.I thought I came to that conclusion on my own. I don't directly remember ever watching this clip. But...
Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Melanie Walsh. I’m a writer and professor at the University of Washington. My research explores the intersection of books, culture, and data, looking at trends like BookTok, library checkouts, and...
I believe that vibe coding is the future. This is crazy because last year I was a skeptic. Last year LLMs couldn't write large Lisp programs. They'd get the parentheses wrong, they'd hallucinate functions and packages, and they couldn't...