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A while ago, there was a screenshot circulating on online spaces, of someone blatantly saying you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much. Personally, I enjoy introspecting, and I've based most of my writing on Bear on lived...
Every time I encounter a map of New York City’s trees, my first thought is that I must have covered it before, but no, each time it’s bigger in scope and covers more trees. First… More
I don't have a lot of comments for this session, it was very cool, very fun, and we made a lot of plans that are likely to bite us in the ass. Here's the log I made for it. As a reminder, our characters are: Dingo "Wild Dog" Wells (Deft...
I recently sold something on eBay UK. The buyer was in the Channel Islands. And apparently that means you need to affix a customs declaration to the parcel. Handily, eBay provide a customs declaration label for you. And so I wanted to...
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Summer insects.’ See more responses here. In addition to their vital roles in the world, insects are also food for other creatures. Here, a House Gecko snags a good-sized moth.
From Comparative Literature As Core Need In Desk Research and AI As Tool by Ton Zijlstra:Put together it spells to me that when I am doing some deskresearch shining a better light on literary ‘dark matter’ becomes much more important....
I have finally integrated an AI agent into my daily work. It helps me to perform daily prioritisation and strategy brainstorm. I have been experimenting with AI for many months; it is only until today that I integrate it into my...
I am a bit late in the game to be talking about this, but all the way back in December my super amazing wife and I went to go see a travelling exhibit at the National Gallery of Art titled “The Stars We Do Not See.” It comprised of works...
Maybe reward hacking is not psychology, but maths. Optimization finds the gap between a measure and what it measures.
Beth Accomando interviewing Chuck Tingle Kelly got us tickets to see Chuck Tingle speak at KPBS San Diego Book Festival. It was a hot day and it was great to peruse the booths and the energy of the folks walking the USD campus was...
After 8 years of love/hate, I decided to leave Hugo and go Haskell.
Sometimes, you create a branch off another branch, do some work on it, and want to know what the original branch was pointing at. For instance, if you're looking to clean up your Git history, but don't want to rebase off origin/HEAD as...
This is the fourth of a series of articles — opinionated, fanciful writings, speculations — about The World After Collapse. It draws on what I’ve learned about pre-civilization humans and other large-brained creatures, and speculates on...
As improbable as it might seem, Golden Axe is getting a TV series adaptation later this year. This is a surprising turn of events mostly because the video game series has been more or less moribund since 2008’s Golden Axe: Beast Rider....