“Multi-agent systems” pulls about 1,300 searches a month, and it’s a term that’s genuinely useful once you strip the sci-fi framing off it. It doesn’t mean a team of robots debating each other. It means something much more boring and much more practical: splitting a task across multiple focused AI processes instead of asking one to do everything. What is a multi-agent system, in one sentence? It’s a task handled by more than one AI agent, each with a narrower job, coordinating through defined…

• 4-star hikes • 1 to 3 mile options • Moderate | Gain 260 to 630 feet • Lincoln, NH | White Mountains . Basin Cascade, a popular near-trailhead attraction. The Basin Cascades are a popular stop for tourists and locals visiting Franconia Notch in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Easy, accessible trails make this an ideal spot for a leisurely forested meander past several rocky water features along the Pemigewasset River. Those looking to venture further can follow the Basin Cascade Trail as it…

A song from Canada you might enjoy: 🎵Goûtons du plaisir, from the album Au Coeur de l’Aube by Genticorum.

In Politico’s new Decoded podcast, Sam said: “We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” The reaction was immediate and hyperbolic. Futurism ran the headline “Sam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of AI.” One critic called it “freaking insane.” and “We have to crush these sociopaths.” Zscaler’s CEO went on Yahoo Finance to say Altman is simply wrong. Here’s my take. Altman is…

Today has been a lovely day, though it is getting quite windy right now. A perfect day to get things done, and we were even feeling well enough to do it. The first order of business was a trip to the general store to pick up a 40 pound bag of kibble, and check the … Continue reading Ninety

Pordenone is basically a very long tram ride, and although the views at every stop are very diverting, I have no intention of disembarking any time soon. The first route of the day took me to Scandinavia, where after a short voyage through Copenhagen, we arrived in northern Sweden, 1918, playing 18th-century Iceland, to see … Continue reading Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026: Pordenone Post No 3 →

Today, October 5, was to have been the grand opening of the last segment to be completed of the CeMar Trail, the one that connects Cedar Rapids to Marion. I've been waiting for this day for a long time. No longer will I have to cross dangerous intersections at Collins Road and C Street, and cut across the Collins Aerospace campus, in order to get to my favorite Marion barber and coffee shop.trail bridge across Indian Creek, seen from Mt. Calvary CemeteryAlas, I will have to wait a little while…

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hotwife chronicle screenshot The anonymous collective DOMINO CLUB has just published 10 browser games for home computing devices as part of their Drive-In Jam on Itch.io. The video games cover a variety of genres, from interactive fiction to character creation games. At the time of this writing I have only played a few of the games but I loved the writing in the interactive fiction games hey chat, are we cooked? and hotwife chronicle. Unfinished Minecraft Clone is one that I was super into the…

I am sharing this from Benjamin Ferguson and Roberto Veneziani, with thanks (I will be back to post myself soon, apologies for the long radio silence): We are conducting a survey about academic philosophers’ views of (1) the effect of exploitation on subjective wellbeing, (2) how morally wrong exploitative relations are, and (3) norms around that wrongfulness, by asking you to evaluate various abstract scenarios. It takes roughly 10 minutes to complete the questions, with the option to answer…

05 Smack | INDEX | 07 Panic 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

I've set up a new page on the site to gather the recordings I've already published in one place and present myself quickly as a musician. I'd been thinking of doing that for a while already, but I figured it'd look a bit ridiculous with only a couple of tunes listed, which is why I put it off until now. It reads like a CV because that's kind of what it is. I'm doing those recordings mostly for fun, but I'd be lying if I pretended I'm not hoping to find more gigs, and I figure this page might…

I stay up too late awake alone willing the reality to shift the morning to arrive with a solution with an answer an opened door a clear path to follow just follow the steps all will be fine all will be good now sleep

View of the rowing pavilion, post-run (the first one, not this one). After finishing my 5K, I walked about 1.5 km and decided to do another 2.5 km, so my total run stats would end in a nice round number instead of x.5 something. Yes, I will actually do more exercise just to have nicer looking stats. Unsurprisingly, this was much like the previous run, but I had some extra zip, with an overall pace of 5:51/km and my BPM only up slightly to 148. No issues otherwise. I ended the run right near the…

Why is everyone going to Japan? That’s the question addressed by an episode of the Search Engine podcast. By ’everyone’, they implicitly mean Americans, which is odd since most visitors to Japan come from China. Still, it’s a very interesting discussion.

Today marks the three-hundredth short story I’ve published, one per week, over the last (almost) six years. I haven’t missed a week yet, even when my son was born. I write extra stories ahead of time if there’s something coming up, like a trip, or indeed a pregnancy due date. A new story is published each Monday and sent out via email for free. You can also buy the full e-book compendium, if you like. There are 380,000 or so words in those stories collectively, and you can’t write that amount…

When Cole Wehrle first unveiled An Infamous Traffic way back in 2016, it was a scrappy little devil. Not only was it Wehrle’s second design, it was also the earliest releases from Hollandspiele. As such, its constraints were stark: a handful of counters and dice, a paper map, and one of the worst rulebooks ever written. (That last one was included in the contract: “The designer will include a horrible rulebook that doesn’t explain the game in the slightest.”) Now a second edition is on the way.…

View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Sunny and very humid. I had no specific plan today, but decided to start a little gentler and see how things would shake out. At the first km mark, I felt pretty good. My pace was 6:11/km, which explains why I felt pretty good–that’s downright casual jogging for me. I continued with 6:12 for the second km and resigned myself to a nice, casual start to the week, but my pace improved and I decided to see if I could still get a 5K run in under the six-minute mark. I…

We had a leak in the main men's room by the urinals. It turns out that one of the urinals has some kind of internal leak, and it's a spot-welded mess, so we weren't able to get in there with any kind of sealant. It probably has to be replaced. And, in the intervening two decades, it turns out that these urinals have become unobtainium. While the model shows up in some catalogs, you can't actually get them. Someone theorized that it may be because of newer water-conservation requirements; who…

I took out a six-month subscription to The Budget, a weekly newspaper by and for plain Anabaptists (to quote the wiki). I probably won’t subscribe to it long term but I’m really interested in the scribe letters.

The big marathons have thousands of spectators. Thousands of runners line up on the starting line. People travel to those races from all over the world. What if a 5 km race got that treatment? Or a mile? That race exists: the New Balance Kö Meile in Düsseldorf, Germany, organized by former pro runner and local Maximilian Thorwirth and held for the fifth time this year. I ran the 5 km around Königsallee in 2024 and had tons of fun. This summer was my Summer of Speed, 1500 m debut included, so a…

Original airdate: October 4, 2026 The premise: Bart and Lisa bring home a baby chimp and they discover the ups and downs of co-parenting. Meanwhile, Homer worries for his safety when he discovers that as they grow, chimps will instinctively become violent to whoever they perceive to be their tribe’s alpha male. The reaction: Last week, I talked about how I wished this show would be more ambitious with its storytelling after eighty-seven years on the air, even though not every episode can be…

A couple of terms new to me, with OED definitions and citations: 1) well-set-up (entry revised 2014) Now somewhat archaic. Having a good, strong, or upright figure. Cf. well-set adj. 1. 1790 Well set up, a full good looking face, rather sallow complexion, brown hair, light blue-grey eyes. World 4 September 1/2 […] 1867 Soldiers, mariners, and small-arm men, well drilled, and instructed to be upright and soldierlike in their carriage, are ‘well set up’. W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher, The Sailor’s…

I am just happy she does her homework – the place varies from day to day.

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users Five days. Yes, another five days. At this point I'm starting to think it's a unit of measurement over there. This time, five days is how long it took to get from too dangerous to go public to you're going to have to accept some bad things. Last Tuesday at DevDay, Sam Altman told reporters OpenAI wasn't going to rush toward an IPO while capabilities were moving this fast. I covered that week in The Ill-Advised Moment. Safety was the reason. Safety was…

Today a group of us launched Founded Colorado. Eleni Angelides is the Executive Director. She spent nearly eight years in Governor Polis’s office, most recently as Legislative Director, where she ran the Governor’s agenda at the Capitol. She worked on housing, land use, tax policy, RTD reform, and the allocation of more than a billion dollars in COVID recovery funds. Founded Colorado is an advocate for Colorado’s innovative companies - the ones “founded here, growing here, and working with…

So I believe this was the very first package to arrive after we moved to our new digs! We’re finally all settled in, unpacked, and I’m back to reviewing. We’re closing in on 100 days in our new place! What more awesome than to review some great new varieties from A-Sha? Let’s take a look at all of these neat varieties. A-Sha Sends New Zimm’s & Do Kim Premium Noodle Varieties The post A-Sha Sends New Zimm’s & Do Kim Premium Noodle Varieties appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

This is a DLC add-on for Final Fantasy VII Remake. I got a platinum trophy for that game a few years ago, but never got around to playing this. I enjoyed that game a lot, I particularly liked how well they brought the characters to life in a modern game. All of the spin-off media for Final Fantasy VII until then seemed to completely get them wrong. Tifa isn’t a bad-ass, she’s the sensitive one. Aerith was a sarcastic wind-up merchant, not some hippy earth mother. Cloud wasn’t a mopey sullen…