Had some time on my hands yesterday so I decided to check out where the cranes wereI walked and walked and while walking over a bridge that connects Tokyo with Kanagawa, I saw all of these cranes, one or two of these are what we can see from our apartmentafter returning home, I looked around online and I found out that they are building a huge complex with a 17 floor condo in an area

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Thought I'd take advantage of this continued warm weather we've been having and get another short session in on the Soar, so finished work at 3 o'clock and headed down to Kegworth. Popped into the village for some maggots but I'd forgotten that Soar Tackle isn't open on a Monday, so I had to shoot down the A6 into Loughborough to Netbusters instead. Half an hour of wasted fishing time later I was back in Kegworth and yomping up to the top of the section. The pennywort had continued to…

Patreon thought my yo-yo video was too sexy so they removed it from their platform I’m serious, though… they said my yo-yo video contained “sexual activity”, so they hid it from public view and said it was up to me to remove the sexual parts, whatever they are. This was a video for my Patreon subscribers that took 7 days too make. I made the video above because A) I’m hella petty and B) apparently the only thing you can do when a giant platform makes a mistake is politely ask them to fix it and…

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. Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s novel The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford is one of the year’s most striking debuts, a book both wholly transportive and masterfully told. Kirkus…

Eva Marie Saint, who starred in such movies as On the Waterfront (1954) and North by Northwest (1959), died yesterday, October 6, 2026, at the age of 102.Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey. She grew up in Delmar, New York attended Bethlehem Central High School there. In high school she played field hockey and she was a cheerleader. She attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she majored in elementary education. She tried out for the school play…

The week Less squinting required to see the corner turned, I think. Not a very rapid turn, alas. Last week's rolling 90 day average spending This week's rolling 90 day average spending This week's total of $629 is a bit better than $681 last week. Where did it go? AccountTotal Dining204.80 Travel128.63 Clothes123.00 Groceries50.02 Online Services30.49 Garden Supplies28.12 Charity25.00 Miscellaneous23.80 Bars and alcohol15.00 Taxes0.25 Total629.11 What explains the high dining and travel…

lingthusiasm:How to fold your mini-zine — a Lingthusiasm zineThis month’s zine is for everyone, not just the linguistics enthusiasts. With our editor Leah Velleman and artist Lucy Maddox, we’ve put together a mini-zine about how to fold mini-zines. We always say “feel free to share,” but we extra-super mean it this time. This is for anyone, anywhere, who wants to share this cool little art form with any community at all. Please scan it, copy it, print it, fold it, share it, rearrange it, bundle…

A Missouri-Pacific Short Bay Window Caboose in the collection of the Red River Railroad Museum in Denison, Texas. The post Little Red Caboose appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

The Riemann Hypothesis (RH) is the conjecture that all the zeros of the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) in the critical strip, i.e. the region of the complex plane with real part between 0 and 1, have real part equal to ½. The Quasi Riemann Hypothesis (QRH) says that there exists a constant θ < 1 such that no zeros of ζ(s) have real part greater than θ. OpenAI has published a paper claiming QRH with θ = 7/8. The RH is so important to number theory that even partial results can have big consequences.…

A bit ago I shared how I had an article published in the third issue of, "Undie Comix." I encouraged folks to go buy a copy of that issue and back their Patreon. Then I was in the fourth issue as well. All copies of the third and fourth issues are sold out nowadays, so I'll post those pieces on my blog with some minimal tweaks to fit better online. Oh, and if I could hint that I might just have a post in the upcoming fifth issue, keep that in mind too! Now then...Examining What, “The Filth,”…

I have a hard time not cheating once I’ve started. I’ve noticed this about myself in a few different places, and I’ve known for a long time. I don’t think…

Why I pay for Claude Pro, the 20€/month plan, and I use Claude Code almost every day on my side projects, mostly Draft Omen and Book Corners. Pro is a flat fee, so I never pay more than 20€ a month. What I can run out of is usage. Pro gives you a limited amount of usage every 5 hours and every week, and when I hit the limit I have to wait for it to reset before I can keep working. Until last week every session ran on Opus 5.5 from start to finish. Opus read the files, wrote the code, ran the…

Calgary has had another lovely long fall season. Here it is the first week of October and it's still mostly T shirt weather during the day. Overnight frost is getting to be a regular thing, so Linda is working hard putting the garden to bed. She's always amazed how ambitious the plants get over a year.I like going around and enjoying all the different shades of yellow and gold that we get in the trees.I've not been out for as much photography as I'd like; my schedule just seems really busy now.…

Hi Crowd! Apologies to anyone who replied to the last (or the last last) note I sent and hasn’t received a reply. I fat fingered some email sorting in a frantic bout of Craigslist gear postings and somehow deleted a week or two of emails permanently. While I’d ultimately like to delete all my email permanently this might feel like a step in the right direction, in the actual moment there were emails there I wanted to read and people I wanted to reply to, so that’s an ooops. It’s getting to be…

Have I mentioned how much I adore this beautiful little cat? Pretty sure I have but once more won't hurt.75 words · 4 images

James Ross explains how LLM slop is causing projects to close their doors to outside contributors and migrate from GitHub to other code forges in Open Source as We Know It Is Dead. There are some really good points in that article, but I am optimistic that the current low point is the prelude to an open source renaissance. History Let’s have a look at how version control and forges have evolved in the last few decades to get an idea of how they might change in the future. 1982: RCS Local…

Trains cross over the Kanda River next to Ochanomizu Station. Rather than shoot from the nearby Hijiribashi Bridge, I chose this spot on Sotobori Street in order to get closer to the red Marunouchi Line trains. I was able to get all four trains in a single photo, whereas last time I needed to composite two different shots. Shot on Kodak Ektacolor 400 film. 御茶ノ水駅のそばで、列車が神田川を渡っていく。近くの聖橋から撮影するのではなく、丸ノ内線の赤い列車に近づけるように、外堀通りのこの場所を選んだ。…

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The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm can compute the discrete Fourier transform of a sequence of length n in time O(n log n). OpenAI recently posted a paper saying there is an algorithm that could compute the discrete Fourier transform in O(n (log n)1 − ε) time for ε = 10−13. This result is amazing. It seemed that O(n log n) was as good as you could do, which it provably is for sorting algorithms. The result is also of absolutely no practical value, for now. But since the theorem shows…

Debbie Tsoi is a concept artist based in Sweden. I don’t know if the exampl images I’ve shown here here are for specific projects, or for her own enjoyment. Her work can be dramatic, but it often subtle, with a nuanced play of light and shadow. Her style has elements in common with certain genres of anime related art, and her environments in particular have a nice sense of some of the better anime background paintings. Her subjects are sometimes fanciful, and she plays with unorthodox…

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. Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by David Naimon is an enlightening and informative collection of interviews with one of our greatest writers by one of our most talented (if not…

The BBC is considering multiple pitches from some of the biggest production companies in the UK on how to revive Doctor Who. In surprising news, one of UK television's heaviest hitters, producer Jed Mercurio, has thrown his hat into the ring.Mercurio has had an eclectic career, studying medicine and serving in the Royal Air Force before switching to writing television in the 1990s. He made his name with Cardiac Arrest (1994-96), a grittier and more realistic hospital drama than was normal at…

Two new additions to my self-hosted music setup today: Multi-Scrobbler: I created an account on ListenBrainz and now scrobble to Last.fm and ListenBrainz. Maybe I get more recommendations with accounts on both platforms. Multi-Scrobbler seems to be the perfect tool to keep the scrobbles in sync. Koito: A little service visualizing my listening statistics to possibly better understand which songs and artists are actually my favorites. Also connected to Multi-Scrobbler. So my scrobbling workflow…

What follows is more or less insane. I've had these thoughts for a while now, and have decided to try and write them down, not to convince you that they hold water, but because I think it's important for us to consider why we play TTRPGs. Read on, you have been warned. Conversation, to me, founds reality. One might think of mere verbal exchanges, but when an apple falls from a tree, is information not exchanged? 'I am here', says the apple to the ground, striking it. A declaration. 'As am I',…

Hi everyone. It’s really late once again and I’m not sure I even want to write, but I do want to keep my blog semi-active. I’m joining in with the Wednesday Hodgepodge again. Here goes. 1. Let’s embrace it shall we? What’s something you recently forgot to do? Is your memory these days more like a sieve or an elephant? I forget to do things all the time, but I can’t think of a specific example right now. As for my memory in general, it’s both a sieve and an elephant. My long-term memory has…

For a real number x, the irrationality index μ(x) is a way of measuring how well x can be approximated by rational numbers. If x is rational, μ(x) = 1. If x is irrational, μ(x) ≥ 2. OpenAI recently published a proof that μ(π) = 2. Almost all real numbers have irrationality exponent 2, so the new result says π is typical in this regard. There are numbers proven to have irrationality index greater than 2 (more on that below), but π isn’t one of them. The irrationality exponent μ(x) is defined as…

it's like sewing with elastic thread - tangles await you and me? i was never even taught to sew straight had to pick up this and that thread for myself, and now, i'm sewing with elastic there's a knack to it - though you're pretty much done by the time other things said guess you'll know for when the other side goes Yesterday :: Wednesday, 7th October 2026

After a two-year absence from running a digital publication, namely Minimalissimo, I’m returning with a new project. Just when I thought I was out... Okay, no Pacino impressions. I definitely needed that break from curation and probably also from the constraints of minimalism for that matter. Over the past few years I’ve focused a lot on making digital tools and the odd experimental physical object. The latter still interests me hugely, and I’m casually working on a design for FFF, which I’ll…