It has been almost a week since the three initial comics set in Marvel's new Midnight Universe were released. I've had time to read them, mull over what I think, and shall now share some insights. In the order I happened to read them, we shall begin:Midnight Fantastic Four #1This was a treat, but I already expected this book to be pretty snazzy. Benjamin Percy is a fantastic writer and Kev Walker is a stellar artist. The characters have a slightly recognizable foundation too, but are incredibly…

Introduction This started with two visualizations. In one I turned my inner gaze toward the buzz of atomic and subatomic material which comprises that which could be called ‘my body.’ In the other I turned my vision up in scale toward the immeasurably large collection of stuff we collectively call the Universe — the totality … Continue reading Another Way To See It → The post Another Way To See It appeared first on Xxaxx.

Donald Knuth, Enrico Bombieri, and Julia Robinson. Ten years ago I asked a question on MathOverflow about The most outrageous (or ridiculous) conjectures in mathematics. It led to a nice list of many outrageous conjectures. Here I would like to present what I regard as a serious contender for the most outrageous (ridiculous) conjecture. It is originated from the following MathOverflow quetion I asked in 2013 Infinitely many primes, and Mobius randomness in sparse sets, and it is closely related…

A recent photo of the Marunouchi entrance to Tokyo Station (1914) in the afternoon sun. 午後の日差しを浴びた、東京駅丸の内口（1914年竣工）の最近撮影された写真。

Greater flamingos in the lagoons of Vendicari. Black liner pen and watercolor. Along the Ionian coast, in the far southeastern corner of Sicily, Vendicari is one of the few places on the island still largely untouched: salt pans, shallow lagoons, a big blue-eyed dragonfly with the wrong name, and flamingos stretching out so far they become strokes of pink and white. It is a good place to think about citrus before we started arranging it to suit us. Part V of The Citrus Kingdom goes back eight…

⌾ : Ricoh GR IV Monochrome.⚲ : ///angry.devastate.puzzles My dog loves to ride shotgun on the Bunnings trolley. Guarding the baby lettuces and the graffiti removal spray (don’t ask) and doing his canine best to obtain maximum head rubs from passing shoppers. –ooOoo– Let me propose that there are two types of people who go to Bunnings: The Extractor: (example…me): pretty much know exactly what they need to buy and have a pretty good idea where it is located. Item is acquired. Quest completed.…

I have a bench overlooking the Hudson River, just a stone’s throw from my apartment in New York City. It’s nothing particularly special, just a bench beside the water. But over the years, it’s become somewhere I go when life feels a little too much. Sometimes I sit there for ten minutes, other times an […] The post Finding Peace When Living With Complex PTSD first appeared on About That Jack.

Friends were ribbing us when we said we were doing a bus tour of Yellowstone, but it’s impossible for me to feel shame about this. I love a good bus tour, and will happily do those Hop On Hop Off joints in any city without hesitation. I was expecting a large motorcoach for this all-day loop around the park, but since it’s the end of the season we had a smaller shuttle and the absolute best tour guide. Martha is from Western New York and she had a book with images of Old Faithful and the…

Click to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours . I decided to take advantage of the October sunshine by enjoying an excursion to Chiswick House. I have to confess that it is thirty years since I visited, in the footsteps of the writer Denton Welch who came here in the thirties with a picnic including a hardboiled egg and a piece of fruitcake. It was a great consolation to encounter these gardens again, like a old friend that has not been changed by the years. William Kent’s garden was inspired by…

Have you been to Harakado?It is a shopping area on the corner (kado) of Harajuku (Hara)Another place I have been past but never inside...It has this huge stair area near the roof for people to sit, talk story, eat We were kinda hungry so we got some snacks from their food courtKat had the cute inarizushi and Satoshi had the fried shrimp musubi with a salmon and ikura musubiI saw someone

I’ve decided to change course a bit while I catch up on prompts, by doing the current day’s prompt, then filling in the other older ones as time and will permits. Today’s prompt is Flimsy.

The model I would choose for coding may differ from the one I would choose for writing. I built Model Atlas with Codex to compare LLM benchmarks. It started as a Codex artifact. Model Atlas lets me set weights for those capabilities and compare published results for specific model configurations. Something I couldn’t find anywhere else so far. Loading evidence… Weights run from 0 to 10. Profiles have equal weight within each capability. Scores compare a fixed group of observed models. A score…

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In computing, honeypots attract bad actors into interacting with a system. As usual, this principle can be reversed. You can deliberately put out some kind of intellectual honey that will attract good actors instead, and lead to joyful serendipity. If you wear a shirt that says, “Dyslexics are teople poo”, that attracts one kind of conversation; a CERN standard model tee attracts another (in my case: “what’s it mean?”, “dunno”, the end.). The examples are endless – trail race swag attracts…

I spent a week creating a new deflate implementation from scratch in C named tugz to provide an Info-ZIP-compatible zip program for w64devkit 2.10.1 (released today). I also replaced busybox-w32’s deflate-based unzip, gzip, gunzip, and zcat apps as well. My new deflate performs better than zlib but worse than libdeflate (so far). In general the new programs are substantially faster and produce slightly smaller outputs than the BusyBox equivalents, which is optimized for size than speed after…

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TLDR; I'm cheap and sad that Apple isn't giving HomePod mini 2's for free to everyone who clapped for their iLife presentations in 2003.For as long as I've used Apple products, and even when I used to sell them while working at a local computer store in a previous life, I've said that Apple engineers have an idea of what families are like, but don't have actual families themselves. I know this isn't literally true, but after years of using Apple software with my family and three kids, it's…

Ok, this is something a bit different as I take you to Huddersfield and the Colne Valley and then to Newcastle. Some live stuff written about the place I am sat in as I am away for a few days. So more random I suppose, some of it more like a diary, with a recurring theme of snacks....Last Wednesday, a group of us who either work, rest, and/or play in the Grayston Unity and Meandering Bear in Halifax headed out for the afternoon to the nearby Colne Valley. We were heading to Marsden which with…

I bought a lamp from the UK, and it came with this plug… … which turns out to be a normal EU plug inside an adapter. Which is nice, but I’ve never seen this solution before. This adapter looks sturdy, but still so… janky. Is this normal?

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What does a monologue for two people look like? In Mei Leng Yew's debut play The Hungry Ghost Mei Mac plays the Girl, a character in her twenties trying to figure out how to balance her need for independence with the demands of her family and her Chinese heritage. She's recently moved out of her parents' home to move in with her girlfriend of three months, Naomi, except she's not told her parents that: Every morning she tells Naomi she's going to pick up more of her stuff, before creeping into…

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The human body is resilient, but not nearly as resilient as anyone would hope. Consider all the myriad ways it may be broken beyond repair by accident and happenstance; while evolution has seen fit to be charitable and not make our weak points z-targetable, that’s all we’re going to get.Now introduce an evil wizard to your consideration. All those elaborate power systems? Irrelevant. Special bloodlines? Worthless. Fireballs, lightning bolts, magic missiles? The tacky merchandise of cheap…

Erstaunlich, welch köstliches Dessert man und frau auch mit nur drei Zutaten im Airfryer zaubern kann. Zugegeben... es ist nichts für den schlanken Fuß, aber hey... wir reden von Dessert! ^^Der Airfryer ist hier die beste Wahl für die Zubereitung und das Dessert erinnert mich total an einen supercremigen Käsekuchen. Bei dem Geschmack vergißt man auch ganz schnell die Kalorien, aber süß sollte man

When you get a visual take like that from something that big and hard to catch it is an event.

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. Lee Bains’s poetry collection Work Lunch embeds the reader into the ever-evolving American South. Kiese Laymon wrote of the book: “Work Lunch is not simply the best of what poetry can be; it…

Previous posts in this series introduced Frml, then explained how it checks simplar scalar code, handles contracts between functions, and deals with loops. This post shows how Frml handles arrays. What We’re Doing A minimal array program is: fn main() -> Int { let a: Array<Int> = [2, 3, 5]; assert a[2] == 5; return length(a); } The array type checker subclasses the loop type checker and adds visitors for the array syntax. Everything scalar and every while loop is checked exactly as before; the…

I appreciate that it’s still mid-week, but I thought I’d spring this idea on you, especially as it will be the weekend, before we know it. I’m planning a day out in the attractive, north Kent town of Faversham, a location that despite a couple of changes, is easily accessible by rail. Furthermore, with the aid of my old git’s railcard, is a relatively inexpensive train ride away. It’s probably a couple of decades since I last visited the town, and so today, I spent part of my lunch-break at…

Inspired by a post I found today on dev.to and to hit my daily 10-idea list, here are 10 things every coder has blamed, or at least I have—Pair them with these 20+ signs you’re a real coder: #1. Lack of documentation: We all complained about poor or non-existent documentation, but who wants to write it in the first place? #2. Unclear requirements: “That’s what the use case/Jira ticket/user story said” or “It wasn’t clear from the use case…“ That excuse never fails. #3. Unreadable code: “This…