So, I wrote a post about why I am not nearly impressed with OpenAI's preprint regarding the Partition Principle. But that is not nearly the whole story. Let me tell you one more thing. I saw a few people who commented on my previous posts through various social posts and reposts. Many of them were understanding of the plight of mathematicians. Some were trying to make the following point: I claimed that I did not (nor I intend to) read the Lean proof generated by ChatGPT. Some people felt like…

From 1986 to 1992 Stephen Thrower made several albums as a member of Coil which are crurrently being remastered and reissued by The Grey Area of Mute - pre-orders are available now for 'Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)'. To mark the occasion he was invited to assemble a playlist for the Freak Zone of the music that was being listened to by the three members at that time. The playlist he's curated is delightfully obtuse but sonically cohesive including the likes of Faust, Can, The…

In hotel room in Mannheim. Feet are hot from walking. Eating the last bits of chocolate and drinking a beer from the late-shop. It’s late. That was the last bit of chocolate. The hotel is nice enough and I was allowed to heave my bike up two flights of stairs to room 25. I’ve since been informed that the next road is the red light district and I’m in a great place to score drugs but it all seems pretty fine to me and people have been friendly.

I’ve got a bit of a backlog of things to say about San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Time flies, but these photos deserve to be posted and I do enjoy them. Click through to the photographers! They’re pretty great and jade many many other great photos! Group Photoshoot: Star Trek: The Next Generation (photo by Danny D Photography) Star Trek: SDCC Group Photoshoot (photo by Justin Cosplay) See also: Cosplay Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me

This past Sunday I went out to take some pictures. It was hot, humid, and all that, but I forced myself to get out there and take some snaps.Here’s the six of over a hundred that made the hurdle.(click image to make larger) I will say that I’m getting my photography groove back.I’m looking near and in the distance; slowing down to change lenses.However, I took a bunch of candid-ish people shots that I felt violated their rights to privacy and I deleted them all even when I thought they were…

Scene: Tuesday, at a birthday dinner for the lovely KristenK: So are you quietly quitting blogging?Me: Ummm…no? No. No! I’m not quitting! So here I am. Not quitting. That’s right, I changed this entire website. I guess I should make a fall banner. Happy Friday! Today is National Moldy Cheese Day (seriously?) and Fire Prevention Day which was a highlight of the year when I was in elementary school. Our local fire department would host an open house with cartoons, pretzels, fire truck rides,…

01:06 - Been very inspired by fellow bloggers who have given their blogs a temporary Halloween makeover so I did the same. 🦇 Will continue to make some small changes here and there!

In the October 1929 issue of Ghost Stories, which contains both “Monster in the Cellar” and “An UNEARTHLY Stowaway,” I spotted the following ad: How an Artist Came Back to Finish His Work Robert Swain Gifford, a well-known painter of landscapes, died before he could carry out his plans for certain canvases. From the Beyond he chose his successor—a man who had never mixed oil paints in his life! You will find this TRUE story, a most fascinating one as told by Stuart Palmer, the author of “The…

# Word of the day: opprobrium noun very strong public disapproval, harsh criticism the state of extreme disgrace resulting from shameful behaviour

I am delighted to publish these photos from A London Inheritance – written by a graduate of my blog course. A few places are available for my course HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ on February 6th & 7th. Come to Spitalfields and spend a weekend with me in an eighteenth century weaver’s house in Fournier St, enjoy delicious lunches from Leila’s Cafe, eat cakes baked to historic recipes by Townhouse and learn how to write your own blog. Click here for details My course is…

Went to Gakugeidaigaku and wanted to check out Meguro MarueiApparently they have been in business since 1959Love their shop color! I tried their teriyaki chicken sandwich...340 yen (tax included)so ono!All chicken thigh, well seasoned and the bread is a soft type of baguetteI'm glad I tried this place and look forward to trying other items whenever I am nearbyI'll be backMeguro

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I decided to start learning about machine learning a couple of weeks ago. Partly because it sounds interesting, partly because I think I have enough math to handle it, and partly because I felt it was important to have a deeper knowledge if I want to criticize AI. I started with a library copy of Friedman and Mendhekar’s The Little Learner but decided to…

Here's what Survivor 51's Rob said about quitting. Warning: Reading his comments may cause your eyes roll so far back in your head you'll be looking down your esophagus at your own screams of rage.

Robin Linus has done some truly heroic work showing that verbatim Poker can be done in Bitcoin script as it exists today with no extensions. This is still very much a prototype. Much further along than a prototype Nokitlan is supporting games on Chia, including dominoes (this is built on the Chia gaming work of been doing as the fundamental building block and interoperability substrate). Which got me thinking: What are the best dominoes rules to play on Chia? There are many different dominoes…

what is this trend that i see in some of your writing? this lowercase affectation? i’ve read that it’s a deliberate rejection of convention, meant to soften the tone, make it more intimate. I hate it. Not that my opinion matters, or that anyone even reads this blog, but when I click through Bear and see that so-called style, I immediately close the window and hide the blog. But E. E. Cummings intentionally subverted literary convention as an aesthetic! Piss off. None of us vomiting words out…

We are currently living in the age of centaurs (2022-20??). Right now, human engineers paired with AI coding systems are more effective than either by themselves. For future generations of software engineers — human or otherwise — this will be the most significant fact about the current period. As in chess’s own centaur age, people are always ready to claim that the centaur age is over and the age of AI supremacy has begun. But the age of centaurs in chess lasted about twenty years, and…

this pumpkin crumble candle is soooooo nice. happy fall!

lingthusiasm:Announcing the Linguistics Zine Challenge!ALTIn honour of the 10th anniversary of Lingthusiasm, we’re launching the Linguistics Zine Challenge: make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end of November, and you could win prizes! There are two ways to enter:1. Share an existing linguistics-y zineShare one or more existing linguistics zines (we have several printable pdfs here by both us and other people) and share it however you want!A few ideas that people have…

Architectural detail of Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy Center. The post Gridly appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Soup season is here! I'm re-posting this list in hopes that a few of these recipes make it into your cold weather arsenal. And yes, my favorite is still the Roasted Poblano Soup 🙂 Before my time in Cozumel I didn't know that soup was such a big part of Mexican cuisine. And now... Read More The post 12 Easy Mexican Soup Recipes -- Yum!! appeared first on Mexican Please.

The Firefox team wants help ranking Interop 2027 proposals. There are some great features in there. For whatever reason, I cut myself off at eight: border-shape so I can design some wild new containers. Gap decorations to simplify dividers in my grids. Customizable <select> because the demos I’ve seen are really neat. interpolate-size and calc-size() to improve sizing and animation based on real content. random() for actual spontaneity in styles. flex-wrap: balance to rescue more than text…

Anne Carson9.4. They put stones in their eye sockets. Upper-class people put precious stones.16.2. Prior to the movement and following the movement, stillness.8.0. Not sleeping made the Cycladic people gradually more and more brittle. Their legs broke off.1.0. The Cycladic was a neolithic culture based on emmer wheat, wild barley, sheep, pigs and tuna speared from small boats.11.4. Left hand on Tuesdays, right hand on Wednesdays.10.1. She plied the ferryboat back and forth, island to island,…

I don’t know where I heard it, but it’s proven to be true. The quote being, “Bands are for kids.” A friend of mine called wanting some advice on his band. And never has the quote “There’s nothing new under the sun” ever been more prevalent. I think you get in a band for a lot of reasons. But surely the main reason is that you think you are right. And no matter what, that’s the driving force behind every possible decision made. Trust me in this. In all the bands that you’ve heard of, someone has…

9:06 – Mon 05 October 2026 9:07 – Tue 06 October 2026 12:07 – Tue 06 October 2026 9:01 – Wed 07 October 2026 12:01 – Wed 07 October 2026 9:03 – Thu 08 October 2026 12:05 – Thu 08 October 2026 9:02 – Fri 09 October 2026 12:02 – Fri 09 October 2026 Bonus Follow Me As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them…

Wait, wasn’t I just in NYC? Indeed I was, and now I’m here again, this time for New York Comic Con, where tomorrow I have a panel, a signing and another signing. You should totally come to see me. After this I probably won’t be in NYC for a bit, certainly not again this year. Come get me while the getting is good! — JS

In which Kami extols the virtue of static sites while telling cloudflare to fuck off.

I voted in the US 2026 midterms! (Can you guess which way?) Voting by Mail Like many other voters, I’ve requested a mail-in ballot. If I recall correctly, there was a way to say “from now on” in that request, and I did so. Periodically I check my voter registration and mail-in ballot status, because there’s been so much shenanigans perpetrated by Republicans seeking to disenfranchise voters. That’s not so much the case here in Massachusetts, but I at least want to model correct behavior by…

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John Lennon was born on this date in 1940. With that in mind, I thought that for today I would just leave you with one of my favourite songs he did as a solo artist. "Number 9 Dream" was released on December 16, 1974. It was the second single from John's Walls and Bridges album. Fittingly enough, it peaked at no. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.Also fittingly enough, "Number 9 Dream" came to John Lennon in a dream. While the chorus, "Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé" sounds like it is from an actual…