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We've been picking off small sub-tasks of the Billion Row Challenge, which asks us to summarise a large amount of data as quickly as we can. This time we complete the whole challenge, but in a slow way, to make sure we understand it. In...
Yesterday was a reminder that you need not only a different mindset but different fingers (same hands) to play bass guitar. Long strides instead of tiptoes. Needs a couple of days of immersion!
The morning had started off well. I was helping one of my fishermen attach a new leader to his fly line, and before the drone of the departing floatplane had drifted away, the other had hooked a bright salmon. “I’m almost into my...
Plucked fresh from the duty free in Berlin airport. A nice batch of chocolate treats. In this weather keep them in the fridge to avoid spoiling.Also, the aftermath of the successful tree felling exercise. All done quite cleanly but with...
There are several ‘holidays’ to celebrate today. It’s National Kitten Day, Nikola Tesla’s birthday, National French Fry Day, and World Kabab Day among others. So much to choose from. I do enjoy wacky, weird holidays; the more obscure,...
1990 Titus Platforms: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 Ninjanimal was one of the more curious titles listed in Titus’ 1990 release schedules. Planned for the Commodore 64 on tape and disk, the game never surfaced on any platform...
Posted on July 10, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear, craft:sewing Earlier this year, I made myself a new hat (it will be blogged), and I wanted to put a nice cockade on it. So, I looked for suitable ribbons, and couldn’t find any. I...
2022 romantic fantasy short stories, more scenes set after the events of Eclipse.
Moana (2026) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated PG, for action peril, scary images and rude humorAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.12.26The window between Disney’s animated...
Shot by Duncan Rawlinson. Duncan Radlinson photographed this scene during a fall drive through rural Ontario in 2018. A rusted hot rod frame sits on the driveway beside a weathered garage, flanked by idle lawnmowers and bare trees...
This first ran September 24, 2015; since then I have stopped going to that coffeeshop and no longer see Larry and John, its chief scientists, and in fact I hardly remember what they looked like and the coffeeshop moved anyway. Time is an...
"The Last Question" is a 1956 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It is about a super computer that is asked a question about the end of the universe - and the very, very long time it takes to come up with an answer. Non-Spoiler...
Dublin's Hope brewery is celebrating ten years in production this year. They've come a long way from the contract brewer I first met at the RDS beer festival in 2015, growing into one of the established mainstays of Irish brewing, via...
I found a solo RPG that's like dark mecha anime themed. You're supposed to record log entries and I think I might end up doing one a day and posting them to Loops. Like audio only, a bit of an effect to add a kind of radio tinniness or...