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I used to write down my thoughts about an old tree that stood across the street from my home. This was years ago and back in another life that seems like it is ifetimes away.There was an old tree across from my home. This was not a big tree and nor was this anything special to look at.But the tree was special to...
Edward Kennard Rand (1871-1945), The Building of Eternal Rome (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1943),p. 6: Some will look back with amusement from our age of boundless terrestrial spaces and teeming populations at these operations of Lilliput, these miniature battles, like those of Virgil's bees. But if we...
One of my epiphanies when I left Big Tech social media in 2020 was how the timeline had come to dominate my mind. The (little) writing I was doing at the time was dictated by the topics discussed in my timeline. Freedom from the timeline meant freeing my mind, in some small way. Writing for engagement can feel, in...
[Oh, the points you could earn!] Though the recent email sent by Massachusetts was suspicious in the extreme, the registration on my car will indeed come due in a couple of months. After I verified that, I figured I ought to get it taken care of online. It’s generally a relatively painless process, requiring just a...
Among the towering dinosaurs, enormous marine reptiles and other spectacular fossils at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a much smaller creature that tells one of evolution’s most extraordinary stories.It is a fossil of Probainognathus, a small, predatory cynodont from the Triassic Period of Argentina. At...
From The Jump? by Robert Paterson:In the summer of 1993, I was on track to end up at the top of the Canadian banking system. This had been my dream since I left school. But instead of being happy, I was utterly depressed. Something was wrong and I did not know what it was. I felt like a donkey on a treadmill going...
Mr. Meyers carves a wonderful wagon and horse team using only a jackknife and an awl Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
# Is your model smarter than a 5th grader? I saw a post about [LittleLearner](https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/), a scale-up study where Qwen3 dense models are pretrained on a corpus filtered down to U.S. K-5 material ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13545)). This model should thus effectively be a 5th grader....
A great, deliberate approach you can take towards learning new skills.
Alright, so picture this: you look at my online profile somewhere, maybe Mastodon. I appear to be an AI skeptic. Quite vocal about it, too. Post by @drakonic@wetdry.world View on Mastodon You hit follow or whatever. [Read more...] Tag(s): technology
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