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A close up of one of the inter-island barges that visit Kawaihae twice a week. It reminds me of one of those puzzle cubes.
Twelve years ago I started a serial. I hosted it here, then moved it to some custom-domained Medium situation, and then — like a frankly alarming percentage of things I begin — I just… stopped. I don’t even remember why. One day there...
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash was the headline model at I/O - fast, but expensive and middling at coding. Why it makes more sense as a model built for Google itself, the TPU advantage, and Google's real weakness in coding agents.
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 379 miles from Orange to Lodi, California.
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not...
It’s another website, this one a review ‘zine of small indie games coming out of Japan. It has slowed down in its updates recently but still sometimes brings news of a pile of interesting things to learn about, and maybe someday to play....
I feel the need to publish something new on rodents, and with no time to produce anything lengthy or new, here are brief thoughts on one of my favourite rodent groups: voles!
I didn't like any carousel/slider library, so I built my own
Aki, Richard, Lizzie, and I put together a special issue on Statistical Workflow for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. I guess “royal” isn’t as impressive as it used to be, but still. Statistics and data analytics play...
Never mind that the Manchus ruled China for 268 years (1644-1912), the last dynasty in the whole of Chinese history. Now another ethnic group, the Han, are complaining that the Manchus were not Chinese after all. What’s Driving Anti-Qing...
Did you know that Elon Musk’s “DOGE” project — the misnamed Department of Government Efficiency — ended up costing the government four times more money that it saved? My favorite talk, by far, at this year’s joint meeting of the …...
A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.