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The Exchequer of the Jews was created in 1194 by King Richard I of England in order to keep track of all records of debts owed to Jewish moneylenders (as well as possessions and property of every Jew in England). The reason was not only...
I spent a few hours today playing No Case Should Remain Unsolved, and felt so profoundly moved by it that I had to come and make this blog post. All images courtesy of SOMI Games. I bought it last year while looking for other mystery...
"I do think comedy chooses you. I think you can choose it and the people who choose it, some of them, you can tell the chose it and it didn't choose them... As soon as I started stand up, I was like, I have to do this now? It really...
yerp, turned 22 today. i was asleep at home (too much coding the day before, i'm training a small llm on my own hardware for fun btw) when my friends showed up with a cake and gifts. i was surprised but also kinda knew something was...
Part 1 and Part 2 covered self-regulation and abstract reasoning. The next layer is creating something other people want, then deciding whether it is worth creating. Part 3: Making Things Worth Wanting Math is the base, not the summit....
Nextcloud and PHP again # I've been running Nextcloud since years. It works, my family uses it, contacts/calendar sync fine, for the photos I've migrated to Immich recently. WebDAV is there when I need it. And yet, every few months I get...
TIL that the great-great-grandfather of Geoffrey Hinton, “the Godfather of AI”, is none other than George Boole, of boolean algebra fame! Reference: Bits with Soul Darwin College Lecture by Professor Simon Peyton Jones
Market Street This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/manchester-city-centre-27-june-2020
sylvysprite:Title: THE GREAT SISTERHOODIMAGES: 1. (RIGHT OF TITLE) VENUS/MARS GLYPH WITH YIN YANG IN CENTER WITH AN ARCH ABOVE THE ENTIRE GLYPH CONTAINING SEVEN SMALL STARS.2. (IN AN OVAL, LOWER CENTER PAGE) PHOTO OF ARWEN STANDING IN...
Bonus link: “Laws of the Game” (official rulebook of football/soccer) Bonus link #2: “In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team” (NYT)
In the middle of the night, the hum of mosquitoes. Reach up on top of the centerboard trunk, find the Thermacell bug repeller. Click the starter button a couple of times, wait til I see the glow of a flame the size of a pinhead, the...
When a retro handheld manages the sort of reputation that the original TRIMUI Brick and Brick Hammer have, their successors arrive with a heap of expectation. Rumors of a "Pro" model had enthusiasts imagining faster processors, more...
Sometimes, the Monopoly game that divided up New York’s lots left a small piece of land behind, and you get a strangely-narrow house as a result. This isn’t one of those cases. You’d have to be both very weird and looking to lose money...
We’re almost at the halfway point of The Great Balkans Road Trip. We’ve been to Romania and Bulgaria. Today it’s North Macedonia and Kosovo. Then we’re back on the road to Serbia before ending up back in Romania. If you’re joining the...
Sunday Asides #103 By the time you read this, I will have my first professionally-produced commercial demo as a voice actor! Granted, I've been doing voice acting through podcasting for well over a decade, but I really only started...