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As a natural melancholic, the idea of being drawn to the sea — to drown one’s regrets, whether figuratively or bodily — makes me glad there isn’t a significant body of water within six hundred miles. It isn’t that suicide holds appeal...
I’ve never done an “introduction”-style post on here. The closest is perhaps the possessions post from two Blaugusts ago. Well, it’s introductions week for this year’s Blaugust, and one of the prompts is “Ten facts”, so here are some...
My list of I want tos keeps getting longer, and I’ve stopped reading that as a failure. Wanting too much is better than the alternative.
I wasn’t planning to do all my Blaugust posts on tech stuff, but it seems to be working out that way this week. 🤷 Today I learned about hybrid MBR/GUID partition tables, where the GPT (not that kind) on a disk is duplicated in an MBR...
Mia Sato, the Verge: When web traffic is funneled through LLMs instead of a traditional search results page, as Google has been doing, being cited by a chatbot becomes ever more important. Now, a whole host of startups, brands, and...
Writing is at least as fun as programming.
It was quite the workout to raise the anchor from 20 meters deep. But with both of us pulling we managed without our rope to the winch backup plan. Inside the bay we hoisted the mainsail and motored out. Just as we were in deeper water,...
Apple rejected an astronomy app from the iOS App Store because “it was astrology”. When the author appealed, Apple doubled down because “We understand that the app includes a live tarot reading feature.” Ridiculous, right? Well. The...
https://rcs-discography2.com/search.php?type=acode&key=fish6000Location : New York CityOwner : Elmer DadeDate : 1962 (copyright: October 20, 1961)Source : Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio · March 8, 1962, page 9Tommv Fisher :...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Day: 1Show: 2Title: Chum!Category: Comedy / Musical Theater / Audience participationBy: Theatre EngineCreated by: Alexis Bacon & Alison DobbinsLocation: Rarig ArenaSummary: A musical parody of the 1975 movie Jaws.Highlights: I'm not sure...
I was in Cheltenham earlier this week, where they were filming something or other (Young Sherlock). I was a bit distracted by the lovely carriages to pay any closer attention.
I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models, training them both on 40 tokens per parameter rather than the 20 per parameter that is generally regarded as "Chinchilla-optimal". The normal heuristic is that instead of doing that,...
Hey people! Today, I’d like to share with you something by Canadian musician Pamela Morgan. She is from Newfoundland, and was the lead singer and co-founder of the band Figgy Duff, one of the province’s most prominent bands in the ’70s...
For five summers running, a working farm turned nudist resort outside a small town in southern Ontario pulled off something genuinely strange. Every July, thousands of people, clothed spectators included, drove out to watch a naked...