A couple of days ago, thanks to some free time on a Sunday afternoon, I got round to setting up my newly acquired Steam Machine. While I don't have a lot to say about it, I thought I'd note here that the event happened and jot some notes about how it went. On unboxing, two things struck me: just how small it is,...

12 Toss | INDEX | 14 Lady Look, I totally get that plastic straws should be out, but paper isn’t working out so well either. Bamboo and pasta seem like options worth looking into! Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest...

I do not believe in god, and while I’ll concede there are some aspects to organised religion that can do good, on the whole I don’t think religion is a good thing. I’ve felt this way for a long time now, and when I’ve mentioned my non-belief to believers in the past, the discussion usually ends up at a similar...

Robert Birming wrote about a /photo page. And I like that idea. Just a photo, of something. And every now and then, update it.

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What song makes you feel like you’re in a dream? I can’t help it. I think ‘dream’ and my brain leaps to ‘dream scene from a movie’. How do YOUR dreams play out when you try and relive them, try and capture them? For a while I tried to keep a dream journal but after just a few weeks I gave up. All I had was some...

October 2026. Glynde. East Sussex. Mrs RM timed her walk around Glynde to return to the station just as the Trevor Arms opened for lunch. On one side of the rails, the Steamworks bar-cum-coffee shop. On the other, the flint-knapped Trevor, finally re-opened last year, with cute but oddly non-Trevorish pub sign. The...

Back in August I mentioned the new curl performance tests we have running. I figured it could be apt to return to this topic just to mention some of the initial outcomes. When the team gets a new set of charts, graphs and plots that visualize something, like performance, they offer an excellent opportunity for us to...

I mentioned in my last post that I’m working my way through Practical Deep Learning by Ronald Kneusel. The math so far has been straightforward, and the code is written in Python, which I find easy to follow. “Easy to follow” does not mean “correct” or “to my liking.” Some of the code in the book simply doesn’t...