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i fall back into stories because i don't know any other way to explain myself. stories convey the sense of “there is more here than i can say aloud”. you don’t expect to start a story halfway through and understand the nuance. you see an...
My wife gave birth on June 24, 2026. Before she gave birth, I would describe myself as helplessly ambitious, obsessed with abstract, inconsequential cognitive games (debating ideas with friends and reading/writing nonfiction and...
I promise I'll write about things besides Japanese and LLMs. But first, a brief word on "language mixing."I have occasionally encountered situations where LLMs suddenly and without warning begin mixing English and non-English words....
It amazes me to see who I am as opposed to who I used to be. Then again, I am amazed at how different life can be from what it was, this time last year.But this is life.Always changing and always throwing a curve(or two)This is us too,...
"Apostasy" is the abandonment or renunciation of a religious (or political) belief. Yesterday's post on Canon 70 of the Fourth Lateran Council discussed the concern over Jews who converted to Christianity turning back to Judaism...
Here's a concept. AI is not only polluting our planet, but it's polluting the internet with garbage. Garbage text, images, code, whatever, and making the worthwhile stuff so very hard to find. We've got to find a way out of this mess....
This post marks ten years since I started this blog. Kinda wild. It’s been intermittent for most of those years and I’d say about half of the material is just notes I took because (back in the day) the easiest way to find a how-to later...
💡This post is in dutch. Just ignore it if you don't speak dutch. tl;dr: Festivalletje, een app voor vriendengroepen op festivals. Download de beta nu voor iOS en Android. Een paar weken geleden ging ik met enkele vrienden een weekend...
I’ve been practicing playing on a glockenspiel for 15 months almost every day for about 30 minutes. My wife complains that it gives her a headache, so I have to take it to a different room on the other side of the house. Usually, I take...
Montague Burton, the tailor of taste. But, imho, not so tasteful these days on Long Eaton High Street.I have just been alerted to the "restoration" of a Burton's store in Derbyshire. I know this isn't in London, but I fear this type of...
My brain has been ping-ponging all over the place. I wish I could say that I have seized summer, that I have put together a new book length volume of poetry--or even that I've written lots of new poems. I wish I could say that I've...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
THE STORY: Liz & Bob Macklin purchase an old home in Marshall, Massachusetts and begin an extensive rehab project transforming the gloomy, dark paneled, house into a bright, livable home. Liz is curious about the former owner, Seton...
Source: Tinfoil Pigeons — see the aircraft overhead right now