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Whenever Clara and I need some mid-afternoon motivation when we’re in the home office, we put on Kenshi Yonezu’s 2017 masterpiece Bootleg. I realised I’ve never shared any of it, so I reckon it warrants a Music Monday: What genre does...
What I have to remind myself- continually...
Not only is Blackpool an extraordinary place, but Rebellion is an extraordinary festival. It was quite anxiety-inducing to read in advance of the number of hotels that had deliberately double-booked (the air show was on at the same...
We stayed in a flat in Brockenhurst. It was above the cycle shop on the corner, a building I’ve got a memory of passing by for some thirty years. It was a lovely spot, but the best part by far was what it overlooked: a level crossing. R...
The American population is moving south and west. You can see that migration writ large in the US Population Growth Atlas, an interactive map showing how the populations of every US county and state have changed between 1980 and 2025.The...
And so there you have it…the all-new style for Progressive Ruin Industries dot Edu backslash HomeLoanOffers. This new template for the site should function a little better with different sized screens, I’m certainly hoping. I’ve also...
Here's a fun pair of scans featuring two friends who were aboard a Matterhorn bobsled, preparing for their thrilling ride through the icy slopes and caves! A Cast Member ("George") appears to be telling our riders how to behave. Keep...
For once, my reading plans are actually proceeding as expected. My first read for Women in Translation Month is a book which was on my pile of possibles and is a relatively recent arrival – “The Crib” by Albertine Sarrazin, translated by...
When I went to hire my first person at Column Tax, Erik Goldman (co-founder of Vanta) shared this 4 step algorithm that I used and had all hiring managers who worked with me use as well. I've shared it with all of the startups I've...
Last Week Tessera Habitat Mapping I'm continuing to push forward mostly on the habitat mapping work, with occasional side quests into tooling bits I need to support that (changes to Yirgacheffe and Geotessera, more on that below). It's...
In the previous article we looked at what inference actually is — how a model takes a prompt and builds a response one token at a time. I mentioned two Go projects that let you run that loop locally: yzma, which lets Go call the...
Wellsprings of LibertyWhen I catch myself taking our water supply for granted in the face of countless communities in other parts of the world who do not have the benefit of a reliable supply of clean water, I think back to my childhood....
What are you supposed to do after you've created the most successful product? Not just successful, but the most useful. In an ideal world, you would sail into the sunset and enjoy your riches. In this real world, you have to come up with...
Prompt 1: Admit something you’ve never (or rarely) confessed to anyone… Once a week for the next few weeks I’m planning on working through Nina Karnikowski’s box of prompts to keep me writing. (See here for an explanation ) And my heart...
I mentioned in the first part of the Wild West plunder from last month's Plastic Warrior show plunder posts, that I'd got a post in Picasa's 'long queue' on the subject of the orange log-cabins. In fact, it was down in 1971 with the rest...