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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Fox Theater, Oakland, California, April 18, 2026Gillian Welch and David Rawlings took their Dead set on the road over the past several weeks — and by my reckoning, it was amazing. Even better than I...
Siri is so bad as a voice assistant that it made me stop caring about device-local AI, which is impressive. Yesterday, “hey Siri, turn off the bedroom lights” worked. Today, that responded with “sorry, I can only set one scene at a...
When a function is not differentiable in the classical sense there are multiple ways to compute a generalized derivative. This post will look at three generalizations of the classical derivative, each applied to the ReLU (rectified...
A fishing pier on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at dawn, photographed from every angle as the sun rises through its pilings and the sky shifts from deep purple to pink.
When you get to that place, and going back to university next fall is no longer an option, options are what you have to weigh. Let’s posit two types of people: those who want to make as much money as possible, and those whose priority is...
I laughed out loud when I saw an item in the Times Higher about new Masters courses at the London School of Innovation (which I had never heard of before) that will be taught and assessed by AI. I see that for the new courses –...
Today's links How not to ban surveillance pricing: Maryland's new consumer protection law is all loophole. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Google's 8,000 Linux servers; Battleshoe; Knitted potholes; Unpack the...