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16:45 I love my AirPods, but only for their sound quality and features. I hate how high-maintenance they are. All parts need cleaning regularly. To the point that they become painful. 16:48 I like quick, short thoughts. But only if they...
Checks out
While I remember I thought I’d follow up my post about the 2026 Leaving Certificate Mathematics papers, by uploading this year’s Physics papers. Here is the Higher level paper: You can find some reaction to it here and here. I think it’s...
Something new for TAoN supporters.
At Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis for the World Cup United States v Australia match. ⚽️
Four paintings each 8"x6"
Is Wurtz that bad of a name? Why can’t nurseries leave it alone? They’ll call the variety anything: Dwarf Avocado, Hybrid Dwarf Avocado, Little Cado. Anything except the original, real name: Wurtz. Wurtz variety history Roy Eugene Wurtz,...
Now that AV2 has officially been released it’s time to remind that these codec advances are not for free. Here it is claimed that AV2 offers about 25% improvements in compression efficiency compared to AV1 with decoding being five times...
I HAVE SOMEWHAT SAD NEWS: I am officially retiring the Beatlog posts on ScabShack. It was a neat way of keeping track of the games that I've beaten recently, but...
Photos by Steve D’Silva
Zenith isn’t an easy game to classify. Part set collection, part lane-battler, even part paxgame, it’s full of tight contests and nasty tug-of-wars. (Tugs-of-war?) Really, though, it’s more than the sum of its parts, a strange but...
Everyone has lost a dream to language. It is whole and certain for the first second after waking, and the moment you reach for a word to keep it, it begins to thin and shrink, until what you have on the page is a label where a world had...
A short note on why useful automations depend on giving AI agents better data.