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Everybody says beating short-form addiction is necessary. There are studies showing how harmful it can be to the body and mind. But nobody talks about how to actually quit the short-form addiction, especially TikTok and Instagram Reels....
Material I’m stashing here for future reference. It’s about death and grief, approached in an elegant way, so indirectly as to be soothing in terrible times. First from Suetonius, then from Catullus. Gladiator days. From Wikipedia: Avē...
This is my 13th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. I just returned from a long weekend in Ashland, Oregon. Ashland is a beautiful town in the Rogue Valley, a half hour...
[It’s hard to get a big head when you have no head.] My laser printer (a Brother whatever-it-is) can’t do color, but CVS will print a 4”x6” photo for all of 42 cents.1 It takes about a minute and a half to upload an image file and click...
MLA, KDA, MoE, NoPE all attack either bytes transferred or bytes resident. MLA shrinks KV per token, KDA replaces a O(n)O(n)O(n) cache with an O(1)O(1)O(1) state.
photo cred: my dadMost advice is bad. It’s either obvious (“Don’t sweat the small stuff”—if I thought it was small, I wouldn’t be sweating it!), applicable to some people but not to others (“Be more aggressive”—some people should, sure,...
The boy appeared on a Thursday, which was collection day. Danny Toal had taken over the corner of the big shed from Micky Breen two years before, and he still thought of the week in terms of who needed reminding, who needed visiting, and...
Why do we care about avoiding rotary positional encoding in the first place? RoPE aliasing is one reason, but the second reason is that RoPE basically erases the compression we gained from MLAs low-rank latent, and forces materialising...
runaway to the stars i was recommended this by a dear friend and while i pretty regularly find new webcomics hard to get into, this one was an absolute breeze and i was up to date in a couple of days. it's a sci-fi that does a great job...
Everyone knows her as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. She never called herself that, and neither did anyone who actually knew her. During her lifetime she went by Maggie, or Margaret, or Mrs J.J. Brown. The name Molly was invented by a...
On maintaining and optimizing package.json files, Eleventy configs and performance, CSS declarations, redirects, GitHub Actions, Git configs, and GitHub and GitLab issue links.
Richard Lloyd - CBGB 1979As is obvious, I’m a big fan of Television bootlegs — for some reason, I never get tired of hearing that Tom Verlaine / Richard Lloyd guitar weave, even on the most lo-fi of tapes. Of course, bootlegs don’t pay...
📷 210/365 - An amazing shot of the (dried out 😬) corn, last night. The light was just perfect for all colours to pop. Shot on No fusion. No editing afterwards.
The Full Moon is Friday August 28. Saturn is rising just around 9:00 pm local time. On the 31st Saturn is near the waning Moon. Mars passes close to the star Mebsuta. In the evening, Venus becoming brighter and is coming closer to the...