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Underthinking it all.
The Fermi Paradox is the question of why we haven’t been contacted by any extraterrestrial species. In a recent paper, astrophysicists analyzed the paradox by instead examining how civilizations with the ability to send signals through space might develop. Unfortunately for us, their findings are quite bleak – but...
One of my favorite colored pencils are the Caran d’Ache Supracolors and the extra-posh Luminance pencils. I also love two-ended pencils. Caran d’Ache calls these BiColor and occasionally release sets of these little gems. For this winter, they released the Alpine Frost boxed set and who doesn’t love a boxed set! So,...
The opening credits of Psycho Killer (dir. Gavin Polone, 2026) strobe between red and black iterations of string and investigation boards.
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Fox Theater, Oakland, California, April 18, 2026Gillian Welch and David Rawlings took their Dead set on the road over the past several weeks — and by my reckoning, it was amazing. Even better than I expected, and my expectations were high! These shows were a perfect synthesis of the...
Siri is so bad as a voice assistant that it made me stop caring about device-local AI, which is impressive. Yesterday, “hey Siri, turn off the bedroom lights” worked. Today, that responded with “sorry, I can only set one scene at a time”. The proper phrasing — for now — is “hey Siri, turn the bedroom lights off.”...
When a function is not differentiable in the classical sense there are multiple ways to compute a generalized derivative. This post will look at three generalizations of the classical derivative, each applied to the ReLU (rectified linear unit) function. The ReLU function is a commonly used activation function for...
A fishing pier on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at dawn, photographed from every angle as the sun rises through its pilings and the sky shifts from deep purple to pink.

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