My first time at Verda office in Helsinki. This is just the building across the road from the Oodi library. I had not given it a second look before today. I mean, it was just another building on my way to Oodi. Now, it's Verda's offices! Svitlana had the intro slides. Intro slides Intro about the host Serverless inference on Kubernetes Intro slide first talk The problem - Inference traffic comes in bursts - idle GPU is wasted money. Scaling to zero causes cold starts. Serverless inference means…

With my hearing back after a day of earwax removal, I listen to white-throated sparrows singing in two different keys, the sun’s silent wheel progressing alone on its wide blue road.

Early this month, OpenAI has released several papers answering decades old problems to which mathematicians have dedicated their own careers. This NYT piece on Terrence Tao (who first supported AI when it was AI to help humans in the process of discovery, but shunned them when it became apparent that they were looking for the discovery for discovery sake, and not for the journey of learning. Personally, I think it's a matter of changing the training dataset to learn in the process, and AI can…

Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this blog post, we’ll explore the CSS of the future, to get a glimpse of what we’ll soon be able to do. Keep reading.

🩼 Day 2 after my marathon. Legs are feeling better although I’m still contemplating if I’ll pick something up from the floor, once I drop it. Stairs also remain a joy…

Humans are by nature supposed to have many more senses and limbs and organs, but something has been cutting them out before the emergence of any given human life.It wasn't until the stochastic yet increasing birth of new demons that we became aware of what we lacked, and then new cybernetic technologies were developed to fill the gaps.But these new Phantom Limbs merely use the cybernetic technologies as an integration point, they operate on a principle more like equivalent exchange. A spiritual…

I have to say this . . . I stand firm with this next idea. And I believe this with all of my heart and truly, I agree that we are all the same in this sense. And yes, I know that common sense is not always so common and neither is common decency; however, I fully agree with the saying, “never in the history of calming down has anyone ever calmed down simply by being told to calm down.” I do think that being told to calm down has an opposite or an adverse effect on many of us.Not just me . . .…

Riots Are Easy. Ballots Are Harder. Ever since I saw Adam Curtis’s 2025 documentary series Shifty, I can’t stop thinking about a sub-plot in it: that intellectuals and creative thinkers withdrew into art instead of trying to change the real-world political system. In my circle, this was absolutely true. At the beginning of the 21st century, we found doing politics, and even debating politics, boring. We much preferred discussing music and movies, and we were deeply convinced that understanding…

In 2019, I reviewed the very first Lesablier, a 24-hour quartz called the Aviateur VQ. Because the brand was local, I was able to sit down for lunch with Akbra,… The post Lesablier Temporis Sauterelle appeared first on The Time Bum.

Hand drawn emojis. Frank Rausch, the author, shares the set as a font (*.ttf and *.woff2), images (*.png) and vectorized (*.svg). “Remember when the computers were fun?” he asks.

Property Study #2, St. Bernard Parish (2026) Sand Pipeline, Trinity Island (2022) Raised House, Delacroix (2023) Marsh Cows, Venice (2022) Heidi: Your father was a welder and sheet-metal worker, and your mother was an electrician. How did growing up around people who worked with their hands influence your interest in architecture and photography? Virginia: I have a lot of respect for the invisible labor that goes into architecture and am from a family that takes great pride in skill and…

Not too far into Hettie O’Brien’s The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself, it occurred to me that I was reading a familiar story. The financial sector found a new scheme to take other people’s money and put it into their pockets. The schemes are technically legal, but morally repugnant. I remember […] The post Private Equity: Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

I was way too #SERIOUSFACE with yesterday’s review, so I had to lighten the mood with one of the products that has brought me the most joy this year. This uniball One P is one of my favorites, but I still don’t fully comprehend what uniball is doing here with the Zento cross-marketing. Regardless, this is the perfect giveaway item, so read the rules below and enter away! uniball One P uniball Zento 0.38 mm Rollerball Gel Giveaway

Picture a meadow beneath an ancient sea. Slender stalks rise from the bottom, each carrying a delicate crown of branching arms. The current moves through them, bringing a steady supply of drifting food. At first glance, you might mistake them for flowers. These beautiful creatures are crinoids, often called sea lilies. Despite their botanical appearance, they are animals—marine relatives of sea

Kids today, with all their weird hobbies: (PS - Oh! Hey! Think this is Isabella?) *****Ariel's company wanted their vision statement written on a cake, but made the rookie mistake of e-mailing a cellphone photo of their office wall plaque as a reference. [shaking head] Tsk tsk, guys.TSK TSK.The result was predictable, but their vision statement makes it delightfully ironic: Now if only we could empower technology to transform wreckerators. *****One question, oh-so-many answers: Let's...…

Last night I slept good. I went to bed early thinking that the baseball game was tonight. I even checked before I went to bed. I was happy to see the Rays won while I was drinking my coffee. The coffee was excellent as always. I was looking forward to getting in gear and heading out into the garage to do my deadlifts. No I don’t mean on gear! That isn’t my cup of tea, but I am not here to judge either. Around mid-morning I got changed and headed out into the garage to get started. I spent the…

Last weekend I organized a van down from Boston to NYC for EA Global: I'm very happy I did this, and would definitely do it again. Being able to talk with folks both ways was like a bonus 8hr of the conference [1] and I had a very interesting ride each way. Julia and I had been planning to drive down together, and I posted on the EA Boston mailing list and the FB group. I very quickly got more people than I had seats for in our Honda Fit, and decided to rent a 12-passenger van: Hertz says it's…

2026-10-20Hello! I'm writing this as the streetlights outside are turning on for the night.Some distance away, there's a streetlight hanging off a power line pole. I don't know if the tree then grew around it, or if the light was installed later to get stuck in the leaves. Either way, the streetlight isn't working as intended; barely any light gets to the ground where the people (and dogs?) walk by.I went out on a walk with someone I know, and it was a lovely night out, taking photos of…

📷 276/365 - Metro passing by.

Now that we have a working Forth environment running on the SG-1000, it makes some sense to start building up the video display capabilities. Can I get sprites working on the TMS9918 for the first time in my career? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can configure a raster. Basic words To start with, I wanted to build up from the basis of controlling the video chip. On the TMS9918A, the vast majority of functions are controlled through altering tables in the video RAM. Because the…

I run a Gitea instance at git.langille.org. Some of what’s on there is a pull mirror of a GitHub repo. Some of it exists nowhere else. That second group bothers me. If that server goes away, so do those repos. I’m sure I can find another existing script and use that. Please point one out to me if you find it. I want every repo on git.langille.org copied to another server, on FreeBSD, on ZFS, with snapshots so I can go back in time. I didn’t write the script. Claude did. I described what I…

THE TURBULENT PRIEST REMEMBERED Sharp of AD Tom Littler, during the renovation of his theatre opposite, to direct (with Francesca Ellis) this gloriously set, candle-rich production in the already spectacular Victorian-Gothic church of St John the Divine, just opposite the theatre itself. Quite brave, too, as well as darkly topical, to stage T.S.Eliot’s dense, intense and frankly overwritten verse-drama about the 1170 assassination in Canterbury Cathedral of Henry II’s “turbulent priest” Thomas…

Dearest liver, when did you lose heart? You’re just going through the motions now, doing the bare minimum. I’m forced to start looking for a replacement. Black coffee isn’t the hangover cure it was in my 20s. I’m reminded this morning of why I don’t really drink anymore. A tiny bell choir in my ears, eyes heavy and dull, and a mouth stuffed with cotton—the approaching sunrise promises pain instead of beauty. My saving grace is that I’m allowed remote work again, so I can sit here alone to stew…

For the past few days, I've been working on fixing a bug in the database class. As part of this, I've completely rewritten the class's code, since it was already on my to-do list.The changes were a good idea, making many things simpler and, above all, safer. However, to implement these changes, I also had to integrate my new Options class—that was a good idea too. Suddenly, though, I find myself in what is probably the most extensive refactoring since version 2, and thus essentially in the…

Ecco visits the nest at 6:30pm 19 Oct 2026 (photo from the National Aviary snapshot camera at Univ of Pittsburgh) 20 October 2026 Three weeks into October the Pitt peregrines, Ecco and Carla, have an established pattern to their days. Hunt, eat, sleep, cruise around, and keep an eye on the sky in case a new peregrine arrives to claim their home. Hunting is easy because the local prey population (birds) is at its highest after the breeding season. Also, fall migration brings a new batch of…

STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE RECIPE REVIEW Skillet Pasta with Sausage & Mozzarella · Simply Ina, page 123 ★★★★★ 4.8/5 Flavor | 5/5 Effort | Easy Ingredient availability | Easy to find Make again? | Absolutely Make It Ahead | PartiallyBest for | Weeknights Season | Winter Dietary fit | Nut-free Tips: Wouldn’t change a thing. HAPPY SIMPLY INA RELEASE DAY for all who celebrate! I’m on a work trip for the next week and a half, so I’ll have to wait to get my hands on my copy. Though I may need to pop into a…

I love how one blog led me to another, which led me to a cool IndieWeb thing, which got me to write an email, which put me in a good mood to write a quick post like this. IndieWeb is live and well, and it’s good to have colorful blogs in the morning before I dive into the grind.

Translated from Russian into English by Julia Meitov Hersey. Vita Nostra is one of my favorite books, so this a reread for me. It's part of a trilogy, but can be read as a standalone. I actually still need to read the third book, so I'm rereading the first and second to prepare. No matter how often I return to this book, it still holds up for me. I don't think it's a book for everyone, but if it hits, it will hit you in a very peculiar way that no other novel does. For me, this is a book about…

Searching for a sustainable breakfast. Note: all of this is based on my own opinion and internet research. I am not promoting any sort of nutrition/health lifestyle; I'm just trying to find a breakfast option that will work for me. Lately, I've been a bit paranoid about my health. Ok, maybe paranoid is too strong a word, because in the past, my "paranoia" helped me discover myomas on my uterus, amongst other things. So maybe my instincts are onto something. This time, I'm worried I'm…