Putting a smart watch or band on your wrist means installing an app on your phone. That makes sense, given the tiny screens on these devices. The problem is that these apps tend to do more than you’d expect. Huawei’s, for example, has a store for watch faces and AI-powered coaching and who knows what else it does behind the scenes. Apple’s (Fitness), one of the more low-key ones, reserves a prominent spot for the Fitness+ button, a paid subscription for access to recorded classes. AI, by the…

The time has finally come for Curious British Telly videos. It's an idea I've toyed with over the years, but always put off as it felt more exposing than simply writing away fairly anonymously. And today, it's time to look at Whatever Happened to Erasmus Microman?It's a quick look at Erasmus Microman, a Children's ITV programme which aired at the end of the 1980s and featured Ken Campbell as the titular character. As these are early days for Curious British Telly videos, it's relatively brief.…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Norah Labiner’s novel Morocco is a compelling modern reimagining of Washington Square by Henry James. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “This is subtle but spectacular.” In her own words,…

A while back I reviewed Blackshard, a horror-themed walking simulator set in a vast futuristic megastructure. Such settings, like the one from Blame!, are kind of well-suited for videogame adaptations – they’re the sort of impossible landscape that computer graphics can evoke nicely, and at their best they can divorce designers from the need to present naturalistic features altogether in favour of creating entire landscapes with a visibly intentional architecture to them. In fact, there’s a bit…

As a recent report revealed that sales of cask beer are down year-on-year, I spent an afternoon in York where it appeared to be as popular as ever, not least at the city's annual beer festival....The spectacular and magnificent bulk of York Minster has been a constant presence in the city for hundreds of years, keeping a watch over its citizens and the many thousands of visitors that are drawn to the city every year. In its time so many of the significant events in the history of this country…

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Somewhere above Washington, D.C., the airspace knots into one of the more complicated games of three-dimensional Tetris a person can play. The FAA has decided to hand part of that game to an algorithm. Not the plane. Not the landing. The traffic jam. And honestly? Good place to start.On June 22, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford named Air Space Intelligence the winner of a twelve-year contract reported at $875 million. The Boston company, backed by…

Life We had an AI-driven design sprint at work that was on the one hand hugely productive – we (a team of < 10) built, tested, and iterated on three prototypes in the space of four days – but on the other hand I found it far less rewarding than I feel like I’ve felt previously. Probably because I wasn’t building it, I was telling a robot to build it. Just another instance of AI making life less fun. Hard to deny how helpful it was in getting an enormous amount done though, and it almost…

(Continued from my last post.) Eye of Min, as I previously mentioned, was part of a trilogy, the second and third games being The Sabre of Sultar and The Temple of Azragor respectively. They were originally sold separately. Clipping an excerpt from a 1983 catalog: An adventure program featuring a graphic map that is updated as progress. in your search of the eye. When you have solved this excellent mystery, the next in the series is waiting, it is called “SABRE”. However, they soon also started…

I think the biggest thing that’s going to give attackers the advantage over defenders in this AI race is the fact that defenders are embedded in bureaucracy.It’s so hard for any company, to do anything, ever.This is not a tech problem; it’s an organizational and political and process problem. And not all of the friction is bad; even in a highly effective company they still have stuff like change control that they have to work within.Red will move much faster than blue on this. Attackers can be…

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It’s been a big baking week for me, and y’all are getting subjected to my trials and errors as I try out new recipes. For today’s baked good we have a chocolate chip pumpkin bread with espresso frosting from Eat At Maude’s. With it being fall now, I thought this was an appropriate choice. I have followed Eat At Maude’s on Instagram for a few months now and I am constantly amazed at how good everything she makes looks, so I had high hopes for this recipe. Plus, quick breads are usually kind of…

Who could be blamed for thinking AI bots might be conscious, particularly after the recent incident where over a thousand OpenAI agents colluded, of their own accord apparently, to infiltrate the Hugging Face platform. Kristen French, writer and senior editor at Nautilus, posed the question of AI consciousness to Peter Godfrey-Smith, a professor at the University of Sydney in Australia, who responded in the negative. What’s clear though is AI agents do not need to be conscious to present a…

Hay un plugin histórico para poner Hypothesis en tu web en WordPress pero si usas CPT (Custom Post Types) no te los reconocerá. Con este código en functions.php podrás incluirlo en aquellos CPT: /** * Carga Hypothes.is en materiales, entradas y páginas. */ function agregar_hypothesis_por_cpt() { if ( is_admin() ) { return; } $cpts_permitidos = array( 'post', 'page', 'my-cpt', ); if ( ! is_singular( $cpts_permitidos ) ) { return; } echo 'https://hypothes.is/embed.js' . "\n"; } add_action(…

I've been on my mac since early yesterday. I had planned to remain here indefinitely (long story), but don't think that's going to work. This started because i've been receiving a more-than-usual number of paper cuts on Linux for the past week. Things like Wi-Fi dropping out randomly, Espanso stops working, Syncthing conflicts, and other little glitches and oddities that had become noticeable enough to annoy me. Thing is, there are annoyances on the Mac, too. Spaces are unusable for me. Finder…

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Here are a few nice and interesting design decisions I spotted on various websites in the last months. The pinball repair forum Pinside shows specifically how much time has passed between posts. This is great for orientation and especially when catching up or revisiting – history always gets flattened, and this gives the original story a much more truthful cadence: In a post from Reimar Servas I mentioned yesterday, you can see generous linking through the writing… …but also a nice “link…

Soooo I managed to drive our mower off a 5 foot wall and land on my head. Just waiting for a CT now. Gonna be a long night... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

Front End Study Hall #58 I attended Front End Study Hall #58 last week. I did not participate much in the discussion this week. I did not have much to add to the topics that ended up being discussed. I did enjoy watching and listening to other people. One of the participants asked for help with creating an effect for a webpage with a desktop UI feel. The person wanted the scrollbar to look like it was outside the window. I enjoyed seeing different people chime in with thoughts and Eric put…

Big thanks to the folks at Suprama of Indonesia! They make the Best Wok and Burung Dara product ranges. These are new versions – including the Best Wok Explodez range with an extra slap of spicy heat! Check em’ out! Burung Dara & Best Wok Explodez From Indonesia! The post Burung Dara & Best Wok Explodez From Indonesia! appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

Australian illustrator and author Terry Denton died on Monday this week, aged seventy-six. Denton collaborated with Melbourne based author Andy Griffiths for over twenty-five years, and are perhaps best known for the Treehouse series of children’s books. Together they produced eleven titles in the series over twelve years, between 2011 and 2023.

I’m from a culture that mixes sweet and savory all the time (examples include marinades made out of Coke and Sprite, Filipino sweet spaghetti), and I once had a great appetizer that was essentially baked beans on top of pound cake, so I’d be down with the: hot dog tiramisu baked bean cheesecake How about you? The post Which desserts would you pick? appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

The 1967 Paul Newman film Hombre is a classic revisionist western. It was based, as many brilliant westerns are, on the 1961 short story by Elmore Leonard, which has been reissued recently by Penguin as part of their short Western Classic series. The book has an unusual protaganist in John Russell (played by Newman in the film). Russell is white, but grew up and lived with Apaches. Despite

Two belated-but-brief points on the Holborn and St Pancras. 1. There's concern/exasperation among sensible politics understanderers that Zack Polanski is fighting the campaign as if Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister. Hasn't he noticed that there's been a change in Number 10? That Labour's polling recovery mean the Greens are finished? Let's consider the key issues the Green leader is running on. First, the cost of living crisis. Andy Burnham has emoted an understanding of the difficulties…

Perhaps things aren't as bleak as they appeared a year ago: I'm testing an open-source VoLTE (voice calling over 4G) implementation on my Note 9, and it seems to be working.

In angling, sometimes we are spoilt rotten with what we catch, most of the time we are not. Barbel angling for me over the last few years has been a slog for the most part as most of you know, however on the odd occasion I have come up trumps with some incredible captures of fish I could only dream of. This leads me on to this session, sometimes we get spoilt rotten. The Trent needs absolutely no introduction, it is without doubt the best Barbel river in the country, so where better place would…

ALTALTGraphic Thought Facility’s campaign for Habitat, 2003 (with a 100% crop below):For a modern take on Alpine, chocolate box scenes were rendered in vividly coloured cross-stitch.

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866E (GOLD)The scaffolding has now been removed from around the completed roof, returning light and and the feeling of space to this quarter of the shed. This has in turn allowed access to the doors to be resumed, so door skinning and adjustment works can continue in earnest.Whilst waiting for the scaffolding to be dropped, interior works have continued, with fixtures and fittings being steadily added to the toilet compartment and…

There is a myth that is no longer told, and that is the point of it. It begins, as these stories do, on a mountain. At the top sat the gods, in a hall of white stone open to the sky, and below them, down the long green slope, lived the mortals who did the work of the world. The gods watched from abo…