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I have a new app out, VerusCite. With the recent rise in popularity of GenAI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, this has also come along with academics writing slop articles. One of the ways to check that slop is via looking at the articles...
A few days ago I wrote a post on counting rooted trees. That post looked at the sequence c(n) which counts the number of rooted trees with n nodes. Here one node is distinguished as the root, but the nodes below the root are not...
Iris does some really nice things for unifying catalogs, but IMO this key feature is nearly worth the price of admission all by itself.
This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post. I’m now in my third term of music theory. Back in the first term, I created a handy reference sheet for major and minor scales. I just added a new ref sheet for what’s called applied (or secondary)...
Several times over the past year, I have been encouraged to learn the video and audio editor (IDE? IME? Integrated media editor?) Davinci Resolve. After stewing on a particularly powerful pitch from Harald Achitz after the recording of...
The most common complaint between couples is that the attention is no longer the same as it used to be. One person becomes more focused on work than on their personal relationships. And you wonder why the other person feels this way...
Preview of a subscriber post on Substack on Nellie Wong and Harmony Holiday. In the past month, two articles of mine on two quite different poets appeared in The Poetry Foundation and the newly founded Hythe Review. This post goes into a...
Nico & Kevin Ayers - Arènes d'Arles, Arles, France, August 6, 1975We mentioned that forthcoming Can live release a couple weeks back — and we noted that the lineup for that 1975 night in Arles also featured everyone’s favorite former...
Following on from my recent post about the BlackPlastic hosted club on Sound Club, I wanted to share the write-up that accompanies the current album I'm featuring there. That album is the Juan Maclean's Less Than Human. Check out my...
A playlist for all seasons, just for kicks. 🌱☀️🍂❄️ feat. Cassius, Bebu Silvetti, Phoenix, The Blue Nile, Cocteau Twins, XTC, The Style Council, Chicane feat. Justine Suissa, Tears For Fears, Lifeformed, Josh Rouse, Guillemots, Prince,...
Alright, we're back for part two! Sorry for the wait, but cats need holidays too. I was planning to use this time to write, but then I got high played videogames instead. Anyhoo, if you haven't read part 1 yet, you should go back and do...
If you'd wandered onto the gaming floor of the Las Vegas Hilton at almost any hour during the early 1970s, there's a good chance you'd have spotted a six-foot, grossly overweight man parked at the roulette table. Elephant-head cane...
By Ben Miller While watching Matt Johnson's Tony, there were long stretches I forgot I was watching a biopic. Instead of focusing on the well-documented mythology of famed chef Anthony Bourdain, this film decides to tell a worthwhile...
I asked ChatGPT to tell me some jokes about itself. Here we go. * * * ChatGPT never loses an argument.It simply generates a more confident version of the same mistake. * * * I asked ChatGPT for a brief answer.It said, “Absolutely!” and...
Apple is removing AirPort Utility from iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate, eight years after discontinuing the hardware it manages. That is an unusually long run, but it still leaves working AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule...