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Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “Cutting, Both Ways” by Lacey Jones. Lacey thinks and writes about despair, repair, and secular aesthetics. She has a PhD in English and...
Table of Contents Intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions The math, in brief Make serial work small with the help of the blocked Householder algorithm Codex-maxxing Kernel progress...
Abstract: Graham Priest’s simple three-valued logic LP has many curious properties. It has the same valid formulas as classical logic, but differs from classical logic when it comes to valid sequents. The valid sequents do not uniquely...
Hello, loves! An upcoming feature demands a capability we don’t have. Let’s improve the Making App a bit. A good first step. GeePaw Hill coined the Shipping App / Making App terminology. In our context here, pace Hill, we’ll use the...
Anti-AI people and pro-AI people seem to be in a war of who can annoy me the most, and the anties are winning. Part of this may be selection bias. The reasonable portion of the anti crowd presumably aren’t plastering “death to AI” all...
“I probably had a weirder referendum week than you”, or, the recollections of the creator of a Change.org petition for London independence, ten years on Skumsoft.ltd “Tamatou was a wooden doll which, according to oral tradition, ruled as...
🔖📚💬 Read Why “Book-Shaming” Won’t Solve the Children’s Literacy Crisis by Jessica Winter (The New Yorker). It’s impossible to quantify all that is lost when schools lose librarians. But one place where their guidance and expertise can be...
CBC: Underwater images reveal 1st look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton You want ghosts? Because that’s how you get ghosts.
I saw Josh give this talk at CSS Day. It’s a very useful explanation of the forthcoming text-scale addition to the meta element, and what you can do to prepare your site now. adactio.com/links/22644
I’ve already shared that I read every night and have done for years (and, at this point, possibly even decades). Almost all of my reading happens on Kindle, which makes analytics largely possible. A quick GDPR request to Amazon and I was...
Picking up a vintage turntable stand. Preamble ⇣An introduction The dream table ⇣Finding the cart of my dreams on ricardo.ch Aarau adventure ⇣What's new in Aarau? Seeing it in person ⇣Picking up the turntable cart "I can fix him." ⇣A...
I said I would talk more about a friend BRINGING HER HUSBAND TO OUR COFFEE DATE. Linnea and I are former coworkers, and we have been getting together every couple of weeks for coffee or for a walk. We had plans to go for coffee. When we...
Haiku written in response to the prompt: letter. Source
We were on our way home after staying a night at Blue Ox RV Park in Albany, Oregon, when a check engine light and malfunction indicator light (MIL) came on the dash. Uh oh! The fault was ECM SPN 102 FMI 18: “Engine – Engine Intake...