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I think I was halfway through a five-hour drive when my mind, keeping itself awake, took a strange train of thought. I’ve joked over the years (maybe not on this blog, but…) that if some consider themselves pro-life and others...
This morning I got a call from the tree removal company. Someone would soon be here to finally do the stump grinding! Which was a bit of a surprise. We had a downpour this morning, though it was past by the time he got here and,...
The most interesting local-LLM idea to me is not finding one enormous model that can do everything. It is building an orchestration of models and letting a local orchestrator choose the right one for each task. That is the idea behind...
In a vast savanna stood a prosperous village built by many animals over many seasons. Beavers maintained the waterways, ants organized supplies, owls studied the stars, and elephants remembered the lessons of years past. One day, a...
It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people. Shortly after Eleanor got accepted into graduate school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, we learned the university was...
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Ellen Nehr MARTHA GRIMES – The Man with a Load of Mischief. Richard Jury #1. Little, Brown, hardcover, 1981. Dell, paperback, 1990. Many other later reprint editions. An English village called Long Piddleton,...
I wonder why this “fine art memes” have so much strange unanimity. it feels like they were all generated by the same engine.
This time we have visits to friends and to doctors. Let’s dive in. The very same weekend that Sky and Ara arrived back in town, we had made plans to go visit Jacquee up in Washington. We took a couple of hours to drive north, knowing...
We have read many stories of the ancient sages who achieved enlightenment by sitting in silence for long periods. A similar kind of advice is given by the neo-sages {not sages in true sense but still have some hint of that experience} in...
We just released an entirely revised video on how to build a comb-back stick chair. But before you consider purchasing it, check your email. If you bought the original video sometime during the last four years, you should’ve received an...
Portrait of a Pulp Jockey Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 5 min Topics: Simplification, Capitalism I used to think on paper. I used to bullet journal. I used to focus on the experience rather than on the results of...
All the good aliens have left the planet. And now this news. Fair winds and clear skies, Dolly.
I wish Bill were correct about me getting paid to write this blog. If that were true, I'd easily be able to be at the courthouse every day to watch his trial. Unfortunately, he's wrong about that. I do, in fact, have a day job - and I...
Fujitsu’s A64FX was a pivotal core. For the Arm ecosystem, it introduced SVE. SVE continues to define Arm’s vector execution strategy to this day, with newer extensions like SME adopting a similar vector length agnostic approach. For...
I’ve hit 92 days of walking at least 10 miles per day, covering 1034.8 miles which is about 11.24 miles per day. I’m down about 18lbs., and finally able to fit back into my medium hoodies which is good news since the evenings are getting...