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DOWER HOUSES IN LITERATURE Sometimes when I do a theme post, I think 'will anyone else care?' But - I can’t be the only person who is intrigued by the idea of Dower Houses, and the role they play in fiction. There’s something about the name that implies off-beat glamour, louche poshos, beautiful architecture,...
Here’s a dilemma. A conundrum. A thought experiment, perhaps? If you know you’re going to be shagging someone for the very last time ever, how do you do it? You know your relationship has to end, and will soon be over for good. The pair of you can’t go on like this any longer, it […] The post The last time you ever...
I've moved all my book reviews, both archival and ongoing, onto the StoryGraph (link also available in the header along with my other media review accounts). If you want to see what I think about books, go give it a follow; if I recognize you, I'll follow you back. As with my other reviews, I'll only be...
From the CEO who once drove a forklift to game developers taking 250,000 photos of New York, real experience beats abstraction every time and can make the difference between good and groundbreaking. | Read full post >>
Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
At the time I posted the results of the first round, it seems there was still some interest in the topic of how long a rewritable DVD could last, even though the technology is considered by many to be outdated. Some people were not aware that such discs even had any failure or wear-out mechanism, while others were...
This shield bug sure is a thrill seeker seeing as he’s climbed an entire cactus 😳
Turns out all you really need for automatic differentiation at compile time is to encode your tensor shenanigans, differential geometry as algebraic data types with the resulting type theory. The derivatives aren't magically evaluated before the program runs. The point is that the structure of the mathematics can...
At the peak of my burnout in 2023, I wrote a note this note on my phone: “I want to wake up before the alarm rings. I want to wake up motivated and eager to work. I want to follow my morning routine: workout, writing, silence, and reading.” At the time, finding a way out felt impossible. It felt there was no light...
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