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Every year, starting around the end of the first week of August, the folks who live from one end of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to the other begin to count the days. This year is no different. It’s been a long, hot, smoky summer —...
Over the years, I’ve received different apparatus for cooking instant noodles. It started with the Rapid Ramen Cooker, a specially designed tray devised by a college student to make instant noodles easier to cook. More recently, the...
As I’ve mentioned, lately I’ve been pulling scattered emails by or about the late Dennis McMillan into a new folder. Need to find the snail mail, since it contains an early DMac sales catalog which I want to reference in an article on...
Colleen McClain and Eugenie Park at Pew Research Center: Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and...
If you go down to the woods today, a woman might kidnap you, rip out your stuffing, then make a coat out of your pelt.91 words · 1 image
Who did I listen to most this week? #lastfm says: The Cure (36), Placebo (34), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), Tackhead (18), and Kate Bush (14) [via lastweekly]
Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner. Here is how his solution works, or see Tenobrus’s version. AI outputs are not deterministic. The AI’s job is to pick the...
Massetognathus pascualiThere are fossils that appear fierce. There are fossils that look dignified, mysterious or magnificently prehistoric.And then there is this charming little Massetognathus pascuali at the Natural History Museum Abu...
Hi everyone. I’m once again joining in with #WeekendCoffeeShare. I just had my last cup of coffee for the day. I drank it out of my 40th birthday mug. That is, one of my two 40th birthday mugs, the one with the unicorn. I also had a...
Rust Glancer Aug 21, 2026 Rust Glancer, a functional LSP server for Rust which uses two orders of magnitude less RAM, is incredibly cool. Go check it out! This post started as a comment on lobste.rs, but I figured it out that it’s better...
Sheryl and I at the top of some hill. I did a lot of walking, hiking and running in Ireland, some days upwards of 40k, which my knees protested.
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On the curious economics of a revolution with two paying customers Every gold rush has its shovel salesmen. The AI boom has improved on the formula. Here the shovel salesmen fund the prospectors, the prospectors spend the funding on...
This is part two of an ongoing series about AI hype. Read part one here. And if you want a livelier retelling of this OpenAI hack, filled with rowdiness and Rugrats references, listen to episode 7 of The Last Enclosure podcast wherever...