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From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 28, 31: In 1995, in his review of Matlock’s memoir, titled Autopsy on an Empire, Kennan wrote: “I find it hard to think of any event...
It's 1949, John von Neumann stood in front of a room at the University of Illinois and described a machine that could build a working copy of itself. No example of it existed yet, it was only theoretically possible. He called it a theory...
After two recent albums that felt like pale imitations, Muse have returned to their space rock roots with something raw, coherent, and genuinely emotional. A track-by-track review from a long-haul flight. | Read full post >>
People with parallel careers simultaneously hold two different jobs not because they have to but because they want to.
It’s that time of year again: the season for enjoying a long(-ish) novel in the company of an unknown number of like-minded fellow readers. Friends, if you prefer—only friends you’ve maybe not met. Many of you know the story, but just in...
June 28 - July 5 a week full of work... Exercising ran twice this week, not the best scenario but I tried... Reading I finished Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. Overall I think it's okay and I started the second book The...
Himalayan Balsam flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Some of you might know that Clojurists Together are supporting my work on nREPL, CIDER and friends this year. Normally I send them a bi-monthly progress report, but I saw some other people who got funding for their OSS work publish those...
Hi, welcome to this write-up of Exercise #024 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix. Here you can see what steps I took (and the thought processes behind them) to get to the answers, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same...
A stationery blog published through the Blot platform (blot.im) — 409 posts, 7 pages, 2 images. Build & Test # No build, test, or lint step exists -- Blot renders the Markdown and theme files directly. # Publish by pushing to the Blot...
A stationery blog published through the Blot platform (blot.im) — 409 posts, 7 pages, 2 images. Build & Test # No build, test, or lint step exists -- Blot renders the Markdown and theme files directly. # Publish by pushing to the Blot...
High up in the Ethiopian mountains lives the Gelada. It lives nowhere else and, isolated in these remote Ethiopian Highlands, the primate has developed a way of life all of its own. To begin with there is that patch of red skin; one...
Have a guess which of the two people above is a robot. It’s probably not too difficult to work out which is which – but the UBTech Robotics model on the right is, I must admit, incredibly humanlike. The company’s new life-sized companion...
Every day a new thing gets released, a new AI model, new car, new service, new phone, new laptop, new headphones, new power bank, new, new, new… and our compulsion is to ask: how does it perform vs what came before? Completely natural...