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Time of Monsters is an original, pre-apocalyptic setting for horror game Fear and Panic. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." -Antonio Gramsci [translated] It’s a couple years in...
Chip, laying on Kristen’s lap, in the living room. A couple years after putting together the HDMI-CEC to Onkyo RI Bridge I decided to give it a bit of an update and subtle name change. There were a couple problems that I wanted to fix:...
I am already a victim of over ten elections in Slovakia, as far as I can remember. I haven't voted even once. There is just one pattern I see. No matter who won, things got worse. Heads up, keep morale high, and enjoy your next election....
So yeah, Anthropic has announced that it’s now watermarking the outputs of Claude, using a scheme based on Google’s SynthID, which is in turn based on the Gumbel Softmax scheme that I proposed at OpenAI back in 2022—as far as I know, the...
You see that random nobody wrote meaningless 20 words on some online platform. He is like you, but because he uses platform X and not Y, he is a nazi. You have no idea what "nazi" word means. You never used it 5 years ago. Now you...
I took my wife and kid to a tiny restaurant in the right part of Oakland and got a burrito literally bigger than my forearm. This will also be supper tonight and lunch tomorrow. -ito nothing, this is the whole burro.
Laurie is a long-time friend who I met way back in the late 1900s. Last night she was feeling a bit bored and asked me for ideas of things to do. I said that she could write a guest post for my blog. I didn’t really expect her to,...
Simon and Garfunkel released their first album, 'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.', in 1964 but at the time this did not generate a lot of interest. While Art Garfunkel went off to college, Paul Simon came to the UK and honed his craft on the...
In conversation with a local friend, whose identity I will conceal because I’m going to say some nice things about them that might embarrass them … I’m trying to think of ways to tell people that I aim to be outrageous but not...
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1) Not every example needs to be big and fancy. 2) Sometimes you just need to refresh a lecture. By "refresh", I mean both new-to-you examples and examples that are, objectively, new.That is why I'm adding this example from the New York...
Gary D. German’s Benjamin Franklin: Orthoepist and Phonetician has been published in open-access form (hurrah!); Vol. 1 is Language, Literacy and Social Mobility in Franklin’s World and Vol. 2 is Colonial American Voices and London...
A friend asked me if my company is going to fire half of my team. He doesn’t write software. A few weeks earlier he had installed Claude Code, described an app he wanted, and got one. More or less. If he can do that knowing no...
I rode a few more miles over the last three months than I normally over do the same time span. 2400k in ten days during May. A 1000k ride over three days in July. Still getting in the regular rides and a couple of 200s each month on top...
At Place du Colonel Fabien in Paris's working class 19th arrondissement sits one of the strangest buildings in the city, a rippling white and glass structure that looks more like something from a science fiction film than the...