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Crabgrass is lounging across the lawn and embedded in the garden beds, acting as if it had been there all along, which perhaps it was, abiding and biding its August time to stretch and lie languid, ducking its head under my mower, its...
There´s been news recently of AI escaping contaiment and hacking ito system where they noplace being. It suddenly reminds me of a movie I recenty watched.
Yesterday it was my son’s 7th birthday party. He had four friends over (and one younger sibling) and they had a blast. They tore through our house and garden like a whirlwind of giggles, shouts and squeals. My boy had looked forward to...
A green hot air balloon with the words “Flying Brothers” floats in a cloudy sky with patches of blue. 📷 209/365 - High in the sky.
There many examples of families of functions where each function can be computed as a linear combination of the two previous terms where a and b are functions of x but not on n. This is called a three-term recurrence formula. It’s...
Piu - MilaoModular synths and Moogs blend beautifully with raga and field recordings on Milao, the latest from Vancouver Island-based Priyanka Chakrabarti, who records under the Piu moniker. The album’s 12 tracks go way beyond gimmick,...
Probability density function must integrate to 1, and so if you know a density function up to a constant, the constant is determined. When you’re looking at a probability density f(x) for the first time, it helps to ignore the...
I played music on my little purple iPod Mini during the last two hours of the ride home, and Undertow by Lush got stuck in my head. At the time this album came out I wasn’t all that into Lush but over time I’ve come to appreciate the...
The last word! The Nava New Model mandolin and its happy owner!Cheers Gary
Occasionally my blog posts become news stories. This has actually occurred more than once recently, and many times over the years. You may or may not be surprised to learn that news media outlets usually don’t talk to me, don’t ask for...
We groggily woke up this morning to the symphony of a dog barking. My mom’s here for the week and let Mushu out so we could (try to) sleep in. I came downstairs to see what was up and she had corralled him back inside because there was...
Author photo by Joanna MorrisseyProcessing is Counter Craft’s semi-regular interview series where I talk to authors about the craft and writing processes behind their work. You can find previous entries here.This week I’m chatting with...
Finn and I are back from a week visit in Upstate New York, where we were able to get a bunch of chores squared away for my Mom, visit my Dad and grandparents as well as some of my cousins, and eat lots of good food. It’s the first time...
@StateObject and @ObservedObject both connect an ObservableObject to a SwiftUI view. The key difference is ownership: use @StateObject when the view creates the object and @ObservedObject when the view receives it from elsewhere....
In today's episode, I read another poem of Emily Dickinson's Nature is what we see (668). Source