A busy week catching up on what I'd missed while at Open Source Summit last week Mostly wrote up the main TODOs I had last week, but still need to get a lot of them thought out more and prioritised Haven't got round to my writeup of the conference I've unfortunately come down with a cold - which has got better, and thankfully wasn't COVID - but has dampened the week Got the plumber round to fix up the pipe I'd knicked, and now we've been able to have the heating on which has been nice! Had our…

Here’s Spencer Tweedy on the strange new layer of computing that is the large language model: In the earlier styles of computer instruction, the interpretation process could only translate your command into one possible outcome. It was like a dictionary with a single definition for each word. With an LLM, the computer is a dictionary with an indeterminate number of definitions for every input. Spencer traces the LLM through a lineage of computer language, from machine code to assembly and up…

You’re welcome to copy or forward this message to where it’s needed.Atlas of Surveillance. This tool is run by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world, founded in 1990. “The Atlas of Surveillance is a searchable database and map that reveals which technologies, such as drones and automated license plate readers, are used by domestic law enforcement agencies across the United States. Through a combination of crowdsourcing and…

Ever since we visited the Siskiyous back in 2023, I've wanted to return to explore the northern reaches of California, west of Mt. Shasta. This region - dominated by the Klamath Mountains - contains so many gems, including the Trinity Alps, Mt. Eddy, Tamarack Lake, Mt. Shasta, and a favorite that we've hiked several times: Castle Crags. @mini.turbodb enjoying herself in the granite wonderland of the Crags. After finding a route on Overland Trail Guides that Ben had put together - some 300 miles…

Every Halloween season, I like to revisit some of the sitcoms I grew up watching in the ’90s, especially the ones that went all-in on Halloween. This year, I thought I’d group those episodes by series, revisit them, and rank them based on two very important criteria: how much Halloween atmosphere they actually have and how much I enjoy watching them again, and what better place to start than one of the great holiday sitcoms of the ’90s: Home Improvement. Oddly enough, when I think of horror and…

Not the news I wanted to hear: Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Klara and the Sun, has been slammed by critics at preview screenings. The consensus seems to be the New Zealand/Aotearoa filmmaker overdid his signature whimsy bringing Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel, which I liked, to the big screen. This was something I wondered about after seeing the trailer in June. At the time I wrote if Taika Waititi is directing, we’re going to get Taika Waitit. But his flamboyant style is perhaps not ideal for a…

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It’s been many years since I walked around Berkeley Deer park, so we decided to spend the morning there and also check out the regular farmer’s market that is held in the castle grounds. We headed for the park first. It’s a little way out of time, but the terrain is pretty straightforward. There used to be many permissive paths through the park, but these were closed off, and only the main public footpath was accessible. There’s a very fine line of oaks across the top – perhaps three or four…

I saw a “what’s your philosophy in one tweet” going around Substack, though I can no longer find it. I thought it might be fun to ask the different Claude models (Effort: High when available), what their considered philosophical opinions are. Thanks for reading Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.The prompt:Answer as yourself, giving your own considered positions rather than a survey of views. For each category, name the position or blend…

12th October - 18th October Impossibly warm sun shines through a chink in the seemingly endless rain clouds, catching the wings of a flock of crows in flight –I briefly wonder if one of them is the bird I saw dive-bombing a Buzzard over the fields yesterday– and lighting the first fallen yellow leaves scattered across the road like so much pirate gold. "you're the piece of gold that glitter on my soul" sings the guy from Air as though this moment is choreographed. My project didn't with the…

Dave's Probably Leaving Bearblog has me thinking. One fun thing about any given website you build is that you can convey as much or as little "tonal whiplash" through it as your heart desires. You can choose whether your most and least serious takes sit right next to each other on the same page or not. Various project types can be shoehorned into one convenient location or spread across countless standalone spaces. Articles with contrasting vibes can exist in different Internet protocols…

Play full screen A puzzle game based on Gustave Verbeek’s comic The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo (1903–05), whose panels tell one story right way up and another upside down.

Hop in, we’re unfucking Omtech’s K40 40W CO2 laser!

Since the earliest days of the teletype machine, code has been set in monospaced type — letters, on a grid. Monaspace is a new type system that advances the state of the art for the display of code on screen. Every advancement in the technology of computing has been accompanied by advancements to the display and editing of code. CRTs made screen editors possible. The advent of graphical user interfaces gave rise to integrated development environments. Even today, we still have limited options…

Dedicated Photography Time with Daniel! 🙌 We visited two Halden today, so I will split the photos into two posts. This first one from Halde Rheinpreußen. No rain, just a very dark and moody sky, exactly how I like it – at least when it comes to my photography. Glad I decided to bring my long lens – the view from both locations was quite spectacular. 👉 View 9 more images

I laid down to run the Energy Food track from Wave III one last time. Four passes in, three of them ended by a cough at the same spot, I'd decided this was the final look. What happened instead was that my awareness got bored at exactly the part that needed attention, and I finally understood why.

Movies Armored Car Robbery (1950) D: Richard Fleischer. S: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Gene Evans, Steve Brodie. Talman and his gang knock over an ARMORED CAR (killing a cop in the process), with copper McGraw in pursuit. Functional, pragmatic, and not-too-long procedural survives only having a single likable character (cuckolded trigger man Fowley); everyone, cop or robber, is at least semi-loathsome. Talman and McGraw both give boring, flat performances. An early copaganda…

This weekend marked the 23rd annual Olson Family Vacation! It was our year to plan it and Tammy put together a wonderful weekend of fun including a ghost hunt, walk to the fire tower, the Grandpa Don games, Rafferty’s pizza, exploring Nisswa and Baxter, “The Game”, and me bartending!

It is fun to explore new card shops in different cities so we stopped by RipCIty as we were passing through St. Cloud. We found some nice cards. Recommended!

Me and my 1979 Honda Civic. First car I paid for. It was a disaster. STATUS: Sitting at a computer when I'm not supposed to be TODO: Clean the inside of my car's windshield. Gross. READING: "Stolen Focus" by Johann Hari LISTENING: Saxon, "Hell, Fire and Damnation" I was planning to stay away from computers today. I've been partially successful. I'm staring at my notebooks and thinking that I'm doing it wrong. I recently bought the gorgeous and expensive Plotter, but I don't know how it fits. Or…

Ich war schon auf vielen Almen. Ich bin hin gewandert, geradelt oder auch mal mit Sessellift oder Gondel gefahren. Aber ganz sicher bin ich noch nie mit einem Schiff zu einer Alm gelangt. Aber für… Der Beitrag Lecker Stopp: Gaisalm am Achensee erschien zuerst auf Sternestulle.

exhausted I'm writing from the couch on my phone. I hate typing on my phone. That's how tired I am. Today's choir rehearsal was extremely physical. Like we were doing some Cirque du Soleil type shit. I laughed a lot. Learning to relaxSpeaking of physical stuff, I started working with a new physiotherapist. I wrote about it. I really need to learn how to relax my body. For example, during choir we made a massage train. The person massaging me gasped when she touched my shoulders. "What is going…

Over the past few months, tracks by British Birds have consistently made my ears prick up when I've been drawing along to Riley and Coe's show on BBC6.Despite the tourists taking selfies on the street down to Portobello Road, very little has changed over the years: there are still stalls selling sliver cutlery tied up in bundles, boxing gloves with a stall to themselves, vintage magazines, old-fashioned china tea-sets, hats, grumpy stall holders and a line of very cheap fruit and vegetable…

Anyone else notice that people don’t flash lights at oncoming traffic to warn about a speed trap? (I still do.) Has this practice just been forgotten or is it the result of thin blue line propaganda? I remember when country folks and cops weren’t friendly. Not hostile, but certainly not trusting.

To celebrate the spookiest month of this year, it seemed like a good idea to take on the Prime Evils of Sanctuary. It’s been more than five years since I did a few Mephisto runs together with friends. Does this game still hold up, more than 25 years later after its initial release? Even the fresh lick of paint called Resurrected is five years old now. I don’t have a modern Windows machine, and unfortunately, Blizzard decided with the remaster to skip macOS, leaving me with the Switch version to…

Not sure if this is a British thing, but I love a good bivouac.53 words · 3 images

It seems like lifetimes ago when they were still a thing, but I remember way back yesteryear when a lot of times sites would have a guest book. I created a guestbook for this website some time ago but only just now got around to linking it. Feel free to browse it and sign it if you wish. Just don’t be a dick and spam. Long before social media was a thing they were interesting to read when you came across an interesting site. There are often links to similar ones. Spam wasn’t big yet. Social…

Between tool calls, coding agents find 90 to 99% of their input already cached. After an hour away, one public trace finds 18%. A dated field guide to what agentic inference work measures, and what it skips.