Over the last few months, AI has been making undeniable leaps. I hadn’t digested news of the Jacobian conjecture being conquered when notifications popped up alerting me that Navier-Stokes had been solved! It felt like we might be in a new era. As if to mark it for certain, earlier this month, a GitHub repo with incredible progress on 700+ math problems - including the untouchable Riemann hypothesis - was released to the world. To me, it was not dissimilar to a massive maple shedding a pithy…

The haze has been bad in where I'm at and it brings back when I could see the haze inside the office lobby of the company. Which brings to mind the barista who added hazelnut syrup into my latte instead of vanilla. Back when I worked for the FMCG place. I remember being so lost. Uncertain if I will ever find a job that I didn't find utterly horrid. Keeping in mind that I have only been doing "beginner" jobs like administrative, reception, and customer service. Never in my imagination had I…

Sun-ha Hong, Tech Policy Press: Sometimes, failures do lead to wider stigma and skepticism around the technology in question. But this does not happen anywhere near as often as the massive levels of investment and inflated promises might warrant. The distinct characteristic of tech hype of the 21st century is the overwhelming centralization of wealth, cultural prestige and, increasingly, political autonomy that is used to instill a sense of inevitability around Silicon Valley visions of the…

Like Edward Gibbon, Yvor Winters tucks some of his best stuff into footnotes. Take this provocation from “English Literature in the Sixteenth Century,” published in the Summer 1955 issue of The Hudson Review and collected in The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises (Swallow Press, 1957): “At this point, I would like to interject one word of warning to the professors. Poets are not fools (I mean good poets); they are capable of perceiving in their early twenties facts which professors…

Saturday 17th October 2026 And so to the most northerly bus route numbered 99 in England. My journey from the South East, South West and South Wales through East Anglia, West Midlands and the Potteries as well as South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside before heading back over to East Yorkshire arrived in the North East for last time’s adventure in County Durham and with the second of two route 99s to ride in this region being in Tyne & Wear running between Grangetown and Hylton…

16 Gangly | INDEX | 18 Flightless Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.

When my mom bought her phone, I did everything. Passed the contacts, added her email account, downloaded her social media, set up a password, and did the biometry. So obviously I put my digital too. She didn’t know, and got really surprised when I had full access to her bank app. The other day I had to go mark an appointment for her to make a new ID, everything involved her CPF (Social Security Number), which I memorized years ago, and her email. But for some reason I didn’t have it on my…

(LLMs were used to help organize and translate this post) Introduction Over the years, we accumulate an enormous amount of personal information. Identification documents, invoices, contracts, photographs, music, professional documents, certificates, notes, financial records, and countless other pieces of information become part of our personal history. Much of this information has lasting value. Some of it is essential for everyday life; some may only become relevant years later. Some records…

A good friend, Curtis, was just in Tokyo for a business trip. Come weekend, we got to spend some quality time together. Breakfast Now that I’m an owner of a MANSION, I’ve spent some time exploring where to eat out. (It’s 50m², don’t get too excited. The English loanword makes condo sound a lot grander in Japanese.) I’ll be here for decades, so I want to become 常連 at all the best spots. I meet Curtis at the station, drop off luggage at my MANSION, and head to Cheerup Cafe. It’s about a…

For the longest time, I’ve resisted the urge to make my home smart, because I’ve always heard how difficult it was and how it made no sense unless you owned your home. The examples I’d seen were not at all that impressive either. I’ve visited supposed “smart” homes that involved shouting “Okay Google, turn on the lights” when entering, and having my lights be dependent on someone else’s servers being up,1 as well as having a device listening to every word I say, simply didn’t appeal to me.…

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ROBERT WALLACE – The Corpse Parade. The Phantom Detective. First published in magazine form, December 1937. Reprinted as a paperback by Regency / Corinth in 1966. A series of evil murders stalks the streets of New York City. The victims are all connected with the automotive and trucking industries, the bodies found with amputated arms, being dragged behind ambulances, fire trucks and buses. Richard Van Loon, alias the Phantom Detective, answers a summons from publisher Frank Havens to find the…

My final book for the 1949 Club is a beautifully written, whimsical historical novel by Elizabeth Goudge (1900-84), a bestselling writer in her day, now best remembered for a children’s book, The Little White Horse, which won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946.Gentian Hill is set during the Napoleonic Wars in the coastal town of Torquay in Devon in the southwest region of England (its most famous celebrity, born many years after this book takes place, is Agatha Christie,…

Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot The post Saturday picdump for Saturday, October 17 appeared first on Global Nerdy.

Michael Myers again? Yup. Michael Myers again. The man is synonymous with Halloween and I'm usually a pretty easy mark for most Michael Myers items that are on the affordable side. During a shopping trip to Five Below back in early September I stumbled upon this Michael Myers Squishmallow and I just had to have it. My daughter has never been too into Squishmallows (I think she has a couple of the Pokemon ones and maybe a random one or so) but her best friend is all about them, so I've seen…

When people tell me they miss the "old internet," I ask them what they miss in particular, because, like, I'm an internet person, and I know what we lost because I was there, back in in the day, knee deep in the culture. I was messing around on bulletin board systems in like, 1991. Microserfs has been my favourite book since 1995. I eagerly awaited the existence of products and services and technologies I ended up using in the mid and late nineties because growing up I had such a clear (and, as…

Tonight’s movie is The Initiation, a 1984 slasher featuring college students, sorority pledges, buried family secrets, recurring nightmares, and a late-night trip to a department store that goes very badly.This one has been on my list for a bit now. Despite the title, there really is not all that much initiation going on here.The Initiation (1984)Kelly Fairchild, played by Daphne Zuniga in her first major role, is in the midst of pledging a sorority but is also haunted by a recurring dream in…

I was maybe 10 minutes into a late night walk some time past 9pm when the phone rang. The guy claimed to be from $BANK's fraud department and claimed someone was trying to charge my account for around 80,000 pesos or something like that. I was immediately suspicious and turned to walk back home but stayed on the line. He could not answer many of my questions about the event that triggered the problem or which of my accounts was affected (I have multiple with this bank). He kept saying the line…

I’ve been reading some books about improvisation over the past couple of years. My interest was originally sparked by experiments with taking a more improvisational approach to tabletop roleplaying games, but the idea of applying improvisational techniques more broadly appeals to me too. The book Life Unscripted has the idea of taking an improvisational approach to daily life as its overall theme. I particularly liked how the authors of that book noted that there is a lot of value in routine –…

Bill Marczak, et al., of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab: This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We also uncover Discover-Tech, and show how the company helps mercenary surveillance vendors track and hack devices around the world. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours, CBC News: Citizen Lab said it was able to confirm a…

Thanksgiving dinner was at my house this year. It always is. I planned ahead, anticipated almost every possible problem and prepared accordingly. I also put my sweatshirt on backwards and installed the electric carving knife blades upside down. This is why no one ever asks me to organize a military operation. A Thanksgiving Curse A...Read More

For some reason Apple Intelligence has shifted all my photos to an “amber” ambiance, but I’m ok with this. I guess.

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So hear me out: Pinot Noir on an oddly cool October desert evening, cheesecake, and Depeche Mode. Yes? I say yes.

Ferrari in Times Square – New York, New York I quickly snapped this picture of a Ferrari in Times Square. Don’t ask me what model it is, because I don’t know. I recognize its general shape, of course, along with the famous prancing horse logo. Ferraris in general aren’t super rare, but they’re rare enough in most places to elicit a second look—and, in this case, a photograph. I once worked in Italy for a couple of months in the 1980s. I saw two Ferraris. And yes, people turned their heads to…

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Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]

The new US$299 Apple TV. It's expensive. It offers no substantial new features beyond Siri AI. There are a lot of bells and whistles that many customers do not need. Are we looking at Apple's last hurrah before getting out of the TV set-top business? Is this just like that Apple Silicon Mac Pro? Yes, we know why it is expensive. (AI.) But why isn't there a cheaper version? Jason Snell of Six Colors offers some possibilities. But then, we have also heard rumors that Apple is re-evaluating its…

A few days ago, Allison Sheridan wrote a very persuasive article about using TextEdit, the “unsung hero of macOS,” as a simple word processor. I’ve been trying it out and… I’m going to stick with Pages. Let me explain why. First, you should know that I almost never use a word processor. The overwhelming majority of my writing over the past 30 years has been done in a text editor, and its plain text is then fed to some sort of formatting software—Markdown or LaTeX, typically—to set the styles…