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Linking up with Taking on a World of Words. What have you recently finished reading? I think the last thing I finished was Sunyi Dean’s The Book Eaters, which was […]
Who were Heinrichs and Bachmann? That’s a good question because neither I nor anyone else who’s written about their book covers can offer any more information beyond their names and the dates when they were active. What we do know is...
Math is hard. Harder still when you ignore the math.
I noticed how slow my ZSH had. gotten and decided to fix it. Timed, profiled, and fixed it.
The idea that AI systems can be used to build better AI systems, creating a feedback loop that could quickly accelerate the amount of human work that an AI can complete autonomously and more or less reliably, does inevitably make us...
We’re cooking up answers for Open Wire this Saturday (June 20) on the Lost Art Press blog – so if you have a woodworking question, you’ll have until 5 p.m. Eastern to ask it in the comments section on the Open Wire post, which will go...
Here’s one from James of Lakeside, California – thanks! This looks kind of interesting – says there’s coconut in it. Lets try it! Chin-Su Pho [...] The post #5576: Chin-Su Pho Story Vietnamese Pho Beef Flavored – United States appeared...
After ending the previous post with a touch of foreshadowing, here we are – with another MOTU boxed set completed. These three were basically assembled and spray primed when I finished the last three, so I used that motivation to get...
As AI continues to improve its reasoning abilities, mathematicians are increasingly worried about the computer algorithms replacing them. In late May, those fears got even worse when OpenAI revealed that one of its general-purpose...
Here’s a modest puzzle: The quantity supplied of milk is way up, but the price is also way up. One usually expects higher supply to drive down the price. What’s happening? Here’s a meandering commentary on supply and demand in US dairy....
This week we have a lot of posts about technology — the kind of tech that analog people might be interested in like a university professor making students type papers on typewriters so they can’t use AI, a flip phone from Commodore (as...