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The other day I had an epiphany: I am an outlier. Physically, philosophically, and probably in other ways I'm not quite ready to admit to myself. That realization brought to mind The Scarlet Letter, which led to the logo you see below....
As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and the minerals that thrive at the surface are forced, step by step, into new and denser...
Im Moment wandern regelmäßig Salatgurken in den samstäglichen Einkaufswagen. Entweder snacken wir sie so weg oder sie landen in einem Salat. Ich möchte behaupten, purer Gurkensalat bzw. Salate mit Gurke stehen hier auf Platz 1 der...
Working a lot, reading more mysteries and sci-fi, finishing Zelda, watching Traitors, and listening to Jungle. This weekly digest has been delayed by me working two long 8 hour concert shifts during what otherwise would have been my week...
This Week's Discussion: Over the years, we've seen DC Comics' Nth Metal give Hawkman and Hawkgirl various powers.Does the power of the Nth Metal vary with who is wearing it? How much of the individual's will is involved? Does the power...
Time of Monsters is an original, pre-apocalyptic setting for horror game Fear and Panic. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." -Antonio Gramsci [translated] It’s a couple years in...
Chip, laying on Kristen’s lap, in the living room. A couple years after putting together the HDMI-CEC to Onkyo RI Bridge I decided to give it a bit of an update and subtle name change. There were a couple problems that I wanted to fix:...
I am already a victim of over ten elections in Slovakia, as far as I can remember. I haven't voted even once. There is just one pattern I see. No matter who won, things got worse. Heads up, keep morale high, and enjoy your next election....
So yeah, Anthropic has announced that it’s now watermarking the outputs of Claude, using a scheme based on Google’s SynthID, which is in turn based on the Gumbel Softmax scheme that I proposed at OpenAI back in 2022—as far as I know, the...
You see that random nobody wrote meaningless 20 words on some online platform. He is like you, but because he uses platform X and not Y, he is a nazi. You have no idea what "nazi" word means. You never used it 5 years ago. Now you...
I took my wife and kid to a tiny restaurant in the right part of Oakland and got a burrito literally bigger than my forearm. This will also be supper tonight and lunch tomorrow. -ito nothing, this is the whole burro.
Laurie is a long-time friend who I met way back in the late 1900s. Last night she was feeling a bit bored and asked me for ideas of things to do. I said that she could write a guest post for my blog. I didn’t really expect her to,...
Simon and Garfunkel released their first album, 'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.', in 1964 but at the time this did not generate a lot of interest. While Art Garfunkel went off to college, Paul Simon came to the UK and honed his craft on the...
In conversation with a local friend, whose identity I will conceal because I’m going to say some nice things about them that might embarrass them … I’m trying to think of ways to tell people that I aim to be outrageous but not...