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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...
When it comes to burning discs, most people who knew anything about burn quality generally had an ingrained phobia of high speed. Common recommendations included burning at “half the speed your media/burner is rated at”, while others...