Solstice day in Iceland, from midnight to midnight.
So as I start writing this piece, I have just finished (remotely) watching Nicholas O'Brien's talk at Narrascope, "I know narrative designers who use branching dialog and they’re all cowards". I'm not going to get into summarizing the exact contents of the talk itself, I think Nicholas can do that in his own words, but here's the summary as given on the conference schedule: Branching narrative is widely used in indies and AAA games, but does it inherently increase player agency? I argue that if…
Esmeralda Whitammer, Sara Wade, Vincent Fortuin, Konstantina Palla, and Theodore Papamarkou write: We are organising a focused workshop on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the Age of Modern AI from October 26 to 30, 2026, bringing together researchers exploring the frontiers of Bayesian machine learning and deep learning. The meeting will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, and will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. This workshop follows in the footsteps…
Many typists, including me, were sad to learn that Charlene Oesch died recently. Her small business, Baco Ribbons, was my go-to source; I used hundreds if not thousands of her nylon ribbons on Underwood-style spools, as well as several big rolls and some specialty items: she could provide narrow ribbons for adding machines, toy typewriters, and more.Baco was not the last typewriter ribbon manufacturer. You can find some other sources here. But Charlene will certainly be missed.In The Typewriter…
When did summer arrive? The last few months have flown by. Summer is my least favorite time of year, and also the season that feels like it drags on the longest. The excessive heat and humidity keep me mostly indoors, making exercise a lot harder and less enjoyable. We do enjoy visits to the nearby pool with friends, at least. A long expected tripWe are freshly back from a two-week family vacation across Europe. We have been planning this trip for over three years, but we kept pushing it back…
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In economic terms AI will make super intelligence a factor of production.
I've been taking my tarot study more seriously this year and observed that being separated from all my books while I was in NJ for a month forced me to reflect on my personal interpretations. We just came out of Gemini season which is said to be connected to the suit of swords, and I realized I have a lot of problems with the suit's popular associations. Firstly, why are swords associated with air? People say that the air element represents one's mental state, but I can't reconcile the idea…
Let f be an even function with period π. Then the following remarkable theorem by Lobachevsky holds. This theorem is useful in Fourier analysis and signal processing. It’s useful to know even in the special case f(x) = 1. Related posts Sinc and jinc integrals Sinc and jinc sums The post Lobachevsky’s integral formula first appeared on John D. Cook.
So the Steam Machine's pricing was just announced. As a refresher:Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12TSemi-custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAMmicroSD card slotWi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Gigabit ethernetIntegrated Steam Controller wireless adapterSmall form factor, ~6 inch cubeSteamOS 3And there are four total SKUs:512 GB model: $1,0491,509 CAD / 1,039 EUR / 879 GBP / 1,609 AUD / 4,389 PLN 512 GB w/ Controller: $1,128 USD1,628 CAD / 1,108 EUR / 938 GBP / 1,728 AUD / 4,698 PLN2 TB model:…
okay whats up vibe: drinking a coffee i made and then got cold because my dog seems to know when i make a fresh cup of coffee and thats when she wants to go outside and i'm lazy and not carrying a cup of coffee around while i stand and watch my dog sniff the same spots she always does. and texting a few ppl... trying to make summer plans even though june is mostly over. gas is $5.45 a gallon!! which was suspiciously cheap for a chevron... summer blend works like shit. thanks california. i have…
I think a lot about rot and rotting because the rot is something that's featured prominently in my life in recent years. In my mind, the rot is something that creeps up on you when you aren't doing enough to take care of yourself. The rot may creep up on you even if you are taking care of yourself, if you aren't doing enough to take care of others. After all, we all live in one world, and when the rot comes for others it will inevitably come for you too. The rot has both an individual and…
Miles in a experimental mood. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize A different Miles album for sure from what I’m used to, where he steps into his electric period. The music is stretched, experimental and is very much jazz fusion.I like this stuff and we still have Shorter, Hancock and Williams from the second great quintet. Some other great jazz cats as well in Dave Holland and…
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to people across a variety of companies, and one thing has become quite obvious: with today’s tooling, employees are eager and able(!) to build their own applications. Whether it’s a small script to automate a tedious task or a full-fledged web application to solve a very specific problem, […]
Bike ride with the little one. (The forest was nice and cool, so that's where we went.)
There is nothing like waking up on a Monday morning in the UK and finding out that there is to be yet another Prime Minister. It was no surprise, of course; the media knew all about it beforehand and so did DJT. Meh! The UK population has become as ungovernable as our French neighbours. Blame Brexit and let’s all move on. Except, we are not moving on. Today, the FT has two articles where the authors “plant the seed” of a path back to Europe. As if Burnham is going to dare give that one a try if…
The history deserves recording because most people outside the small world of Arabic font engineering don't know it, and it is wonderful. Classical Arabic typography, by which I mean the manuscript tradition that the early printers of Istanbul and Bulaq spent their careers chasing, justifies a line of text without stretching the spaces between words at all. Stretched spaces are the Latin convention, and in Arabic they produce an effect the scribes would have found simply ugly. Instead the…
The nostalgia of a time long-lost to the internet at large.
We (finally! 🥳) picked our wardrobe up tonight that we’d bought via eBay. Unfortunately one piece was too big to fit in the car 😱🤔 Undeterred and full of gym energy it was 1 mile from where we live, so I felt The weight and just went “I’ll just hoof it home” 20 minutes and a lot of sweat later… we’ve done it! 🤣
Two hundred fifty years ago — give or take a couple months, since it had to be sent by sail and not e-mail — a bunch of uppity colonials provided a convenient checklist of objections to their monarch, whom they accused of tyranny. Here's how the present monarch (however unjustified his assertion of monarchial powers may be) appears to be doing seventeen months into his reign: Historical
Here's one: The point of the story ... is not that uniforms are a magical performance-enhancing catch-all. It’s that they’re objective correlatives for a broader sense of excellence and camaraderie and devotion that eroded substantially as the bureaucracy expanded, as it shifted away from subject-specific competency and towards functional ‘expertise’. And so those of us in the state capacity conversation, those of us who are thinking about things like procurement timelines and waterfall builds…
Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Johann Henrich Nölken, son of Johann Henrich and Maria Catharina (Wenneman) Nölken, was baptized in Glandorf 4 March 17661 and died there 5 September 1839.2 He married first in Glandorf 16 September 1794, Maria Christina Holkenbrink.3 She was born about 1771 and died in Glandorf 3 April 1806.4 He married second in Glandorf 21 May 1806, Maria Elisabeth Höllmann. She was born likely in Füchtorf say 1781 (assuming age 25 at marriage).5 Children of Johann…
Calcolo refers to itself as “Ochimono Shooting” (“Falling Object Shooting”). The closest point of comparison is ADK’s Twinkle Star Sprites, but while that was a shoot-em-up with some puzzle elements, this is more of a puzzle game a la Puyo Puyo with some vague shoot-em-up influence. You control a flying character over your side of ...Calcolo! was first posted on June 22, 2026 at 2:32 pm.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not…
Before moving elsewhere, try finishing everything you need done in your current space. The quicker you cross out your mental checklist items with less context changes, the better. The larger the distance between where you are and where you need to go, the more savings you can earn. This approach can prevent unfavorable scenarios including, but not limited to the following: needless backtracking, forgetting tasks in the first place, and lost belongings or long waits to retrieve them. What other…
All in all, both gigs were great this weekend. I DJ'ed at a brewery yesterday out pretty far west of Austin, north of Dripping Springs. Super cool place, great vibes, the people that were there were wonderful. The staff was great, all that good stuff. Really cool farm-to-table food truck. The brewery is 12 Fox Brewing, and I brought the super mobile setup that I was trying out this weekend. They had Wi-Fi. I did learn it's better if you're streaming to just stream off your phone. Less breaks.…
I spent the entire Juneteenth weekend at hard labor, taking advantage of unseasonably mild mid-June weather. The temperatures were in the mid-80’s but with little to no humidity, which made being outside pleasant, even if I was swinging Dad’s mattock into our rock-hard topsoil. We inherited a bunch of poorly-poured concrete sidewalks with this house, which I’ve slowly been removing over time, and this weekend I broke up and hauled out a section sitting right in front of the basement stairwell,…
Hi Crowd! If your life intersects at all with any musicians you likely heard about this Atlantic piece about millions of songs used to train AI datasets for a number of generative music AI models. The immediate outrage of course is that this was done without the knowledge or permission of any of the musicians whose music was used. They even created a searchable database so you can enter any band or musician name and see exactly which songs were found in the training data. Important detail, this…
Kuebiko is a scarecrow from Japanese mythology: a weather-beaten deity who stands rooted to the earth, watching the world pass by. He cannot move. He cannot intervene. Yet through eons of silent observation, he becomes sagacious.In recent years, "kuebiko" has taken on another meaning: the exhausted bewilderment that follows tragedy after tragedy, when the world reveals itself to be stranger, harsher and more chaotic than you believed. The feeling of standing helplessly in a field while events…
Starmer anounces another plan for change.
