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Last Week Tessera Habitat Mapping I'm continuing to push forward mostly on the habitat mapping work, with occasional side quests into tooling bits I need to support that (changes to Yirgacheffe and Geotessera, more on that below). It's...
In the previous article we looked at what inference actually is — how a model takes a prompt and builds a response one token at a time. I mentioned two Go projects that let you run that loop locally: yzma, which lets Go call the...
Wellsprings of LibertyWhen I catch myself taking our water supply for granted in the face of countless communities in other parts of the world who do not have the benefit of a reliable supply of clean water, I think back to my childhood....
What are you supposed to do after you've created the most successful product? Not just successful, but the most useful. In an ideal world, you would sail into the sunset and enjoy your riches. In this real world, you have to come up with...
Prompt 1: Admit something you’ve never (or rarely) confessed to anyone… Once a week for the next few weeks I’m planning on working through Nina Karnikowski’s box of prompts to keep me writing. (See here for an explanation ) And my heart...
I mentioned in the first part of the Wild West plunder from last month's Plastic Warrior show plunder posts, that I'd got a post in Picasa's 'long queue' on the subject of the orange log-cabins. In fact, it was down in 1971 with the rest...
This is an edited version of the guidelines my wife created for our 2026 vacations in Andalusia and Seville I told you in a previous post. The plan covers an 8 days trip, arriving in early afternoon in the Seville airport and going back...
Just a shout-out that I was recently featured on Zachary Kai's People and Blogs series. Go check out the post here: People and Blogs: Christian! Lots of praise to Zach and his predecessor, Manuel Moreale, for their series of interviews...
Last year I built an Alan Gibson O2 kit in EM. My customer, happy with the result asked me to work on a few more kits for him and so let me present the next pair to have graced the bench, 30 ‘Shorwell’ and 34 ‘Newport’…These kits are...
a small collection of some things i've been thinking about lately. some of these might be worth individual blog posts, but i think i'm just trying to tidy up and put everything in one place first. i haven't written much the last two...
“Mr. Micawber was waiting for me within the gate, and we went up to his room (top story but one), and cried very much. He solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had £20 a-year for his...
Tags: #music #attention #dispatchesThe Tahoe Symphony wasn’t perfect, though they were all musical “all stars” as the long-winded introductory speaker said. A program coordinator muttered something that sounded like “too long” under...
You and Your CareerSo many students and engineers ask me for career advice. I won’t really call it advice, but just my own experience — take whatever’s useful and leave the rest.1. Start Doing SomethingOnce there was a donkey roaming in...
A couple of years ago, I read The Visitors, Mary McMinnies’ extremely good, extremely long novel about British government officials and their wives working and living in a thinly disguised Krakow. It was unlike anything I’d read before,...
Source In 1994, Florida panther FP29 killed and ate a hog, then the hog killed him. The feral hog was carrying pseudorabies and showed no symptoms. The panther died when the virus reached his brain. Pseudorabies has nothing to do with...