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Math is hard. Harder still when you ignore the math.
I noticed how slow my ZSH had. gotten and decided to fix it. Timed, profiled, and fixed it.
The idea that AI systems can be used to build better AI systems, creating a feedback loop that could quickly accelerate the amount of human work that an AI can complete autonomously and more or less reliably, does inevitably make us...
We’re cooking up answers for Open Wire this Saturday (June 20) on the Lost Art Press blog – so if you have a woodworking question, you’ll have until 5 p.m. Eastern to ask it in the comments section on the Open Wire post, which will go...
Here’s one from James of Lakeside, California – thanks! This looks kind of interesting – says there’s coconut in it. Lets try it! Chin-Su Pho [...] The post #5576: Chin-Su Pho Story Vietnamese Pho Beef Flavored – United States appeared...
After ending the previous post with a touch of foreshadowing, here we are – with another MOTU boxed set completed. These three were basically assembled and spray primed when I finished the last three, so I used that motivation to get...
Ned Leeds has a classic investigation wall behind him in his overview of his Spidey Tracker (part of the promotion for the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day [2026]), as seen on social media.
This week we have a lot of posts about technology — the kind of tech that analog people might be interested in like a university professor making students type papers on typewriters so they can’t use AI, a flip phone from Commodore (as...
Here’s a modest puzzle: The quantity supplied of milk is way up, but the price is also way up. One usually expects higher supply to drive down the price. What’s happening? Here’s a meandering commentary on supply and demand in US dairy....
As AI continues to improve its reasoning abilities, mathematicians are increasingly worried about the computer algorithms replacing them. In late May, those fears got even worse when OpenAI revealed that one of its general-purpose...
Markdown makes it easy to format and structure text. I'm a big fan and use it wherever I can. But how did Markdown actually come about?To me, it always feels like Markdown has always been around, but of course, someone1 actually came up...
I’ve been living in this city (Bekasi) for decades.