After a bit of a slow start this turned into a surprisingly watchable and fun film with some nice moments. Ryan Reynolds is always very watchable although this doesn’t really ask for much of a stretch of his acting skills, in a largely straightforward story of an American Navy pilot shot down behind enemy lines and his escape aided by an ex KGB agent. There are some nice moments, the scene in which they turn up at a random farmhouse saying that we’re tired and hungry, and the drink sipping —…

An underappreciated Claude tool for validation is artifacts.Have it compare before and after results and generate a visualization. These are also easy to share and collect feedback from the team, client, etc.

Engineering is all about the setup and validation. The middle (coding) is solved. The more you can offload to robots, the more likely you will be successful.

I set up a webhook in @ampcode’s Orbs to receive new Sentry errors, and now I wake up to PRs ready to review.Even better, it’s smart enough to know when a fix isn’t necessary.

One thing I’ve really leaned into over the last couple of weeks is having the agent (local/cloud/etc.) prove that its changes meet the desired goal.Codex excels here with computer use, and Claude has also done a great job using Chrome.But this isn’t the only way. Encourage your tool of choice to build something that helps it confirm, for sure, that it was successful.Anytime you find yourself doing something twice, it’s probably an opportunity to automate it—even if it’s as simple as refreshing…

It was my birthday this week, and I had a very pleasant evening. A couple of weeks ago my other half asked me what I wanted to do. Do we go to a nice restaurant? What about tapas? Maybe a takeaway? Well, I decided that I wanted the two of us to spend some quality time together, and their ADHD lends them towards quieter, more secluded venues; preventing overstimulation. They also love meals which are more engaging, where you have to assemble it yourself, and have a mixture of textures and…

Baseball I got really into baseball this year. I’ve always been a (very) casual baseball fan, but this year I decided to really follow the season. There are lots of fun story lines to follow, from Shohei Ohtani being the best baseball player ever, to Jacob Miziorowski crazy fastballs, to the White Sox making playoffs after a 100-loss season. My family are all longtime Giants fans, but watching their season was incredibly depressing, so I decided they would be my secondary team and that I would…

this shortfall accumulates quickly for larger scaleups, with the swarm falling further and further behind. To get the same performance gain as a 100x scale-up of the number of tokens for a single agent you need to scale up the swarm size by 900x to 15,000x. So why would you ever use swarms? The most important answer is speed. The 4-agent swarm needed about twice the total number of tokens to get the same performance, but in terms of tokens per agent, it only needed half as many. Since the…

Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted:Hey Jeff,Hope you and your family are doing well.Just jogging your memory; I reached out to you (and John Carmack) about how difficult interviewing had become despite me being a stellar engineer at my work. You offered some words of wisdom, wrote me a postcard, which I still have,…

Model Meets Reality makes being wrong arrive: write what you expect, attach a date, and let reality grade it — explained as ten capabilities, each with a mind analogy. The post What Model Meets Reality actually is appeared first on The Emergence Machine.

One of the big experiments with the new #BoatingEurope lifeboat is to see how far we can move towards electric propulsion using solar power. The aim isn’t to build a high-speed electric boat, this is a slow, down-river cruising boat, where we can take advantage of the river current, travel at relatively low speeds and use solar energy for much of the everyday electrical demand. The basic idea is simple – lots of solar + a decent battery bank + efficient electric pod motors = slow cruising…

Hey, folks, Fireside this week! We’re now well into the Teaching Paradox series on Hearts of Iron, but as you may have noticed, the structure of those posts means they tend to be quite chunky (the first two have both been right around 10,000 words) and longer posts take time. Thus, a fireside this week to balance out, before we move from HoI4‘s purely military layer to its strategic, political and economic layer. Ollie looking like he is about to give his own lecture, presumably on the…

It is somewhat strange, but I haven’t really spent much time working on proof production or recording out of egraphs.

Jeez, another month has passed and I've done zero blogging. tsk. I've been getting everything ready for Baby Sunshine. Her nursery is all set, the go bags are packed, and Hubs and I muse every day that it might be the day we finally get to meet our little girl. She's two days past her due date now, and I'm ready to hold her in my arms instead of my uterus. Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary and we've joked that she's waiting for then. We're due for a 9.26 life event—in 2019 we bought our first…

Laudator Temporis Acti presents a quote from Plautus beginning: virtus praemium est optumum; virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto The translation (by Paul Nixon) begins “Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does!” Which made me wonder what exactly virtus means, here and in general. Wiktionary says: 1. manhood, manliness, virility 2. courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry 3. virtue, goodness 4. excellence, merit, worth, character 5. (figuratively)…

Whoo hoo!!! As bear's most tekky averse and inept noodle when it comes to markdown etc this is to celebrate that on both this and my legs/ bear blogs I now have a GUESTBOOK! It took a few trials during which I managed to make my home and blog navigation tabs disappear but I got there in the end... Time for a Kombucha me thinks - small wins still demand celebrating. Love that Herman explained how to do this without having to insert some other third party thing and that it means the e-mail gets…

I found a funky little used bookstore in my hometown recently. It might be my new favorite. There's a big sci-fi section which has a great selection of those mass market paperbacks I love so much. Usually on my first round through a bookstore I'll make a point not to consult the to-read list on my phone. Instead, I'll just take each title as it passes by, absent-minded and free of agenda. So I'm carrying on this way until I pass a copy of Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer. I've been meaning to read…

Hey, Bear. Arrived. The road is a f mess. Coz our logistics are on hit now we are looking for another paths, new ones. We were going on a one today, first go. Gosh, everything went bad starting with our drivers. They failed to learn the new path, missed the turn, got scared, turned back and wanted to cancel the run. They thought we were already in the next village. While turning a grandma went out of her house and told us where we were. They dropped us right there and run. I am not sure I want…

The shortest sci-fi story ever. 1 Well, you know what I mean. #blake

Here I have a bunch of Sopwiths entering the painting queue.Snipes to the left, Dolphins to the right, and a Camel down in front.They should be able to give those Fokker D-VII a run for their money.

I've translated to English and published two of my articles that have been published in Polish in paper magazine "Programista" many years ago. Some of the information may be outdated, but I think they may still be helpful. I would like to point especially to the first article, and the chapter about Frames per Second (FPS). This unit is really the number of cycles per second: 1/s = Hz, and as such, it is a non-linear mesure in respect to the time it takes to process or render a single frame.…

FacebookThrough living history, we interpret and teach the story of the German auxiliary troops who served alongside Crown forces during the American War for Independence. Based in Louisiana, we are actively recruiting reenactors to bring this history to life.

I calculate probabilities possibilities whirlpool in my head I list characteristics to determine compatibility simple formulas, really but no outcome I form is in my favour but then again I never was good at math

This is the second line of Meta’s help center article titled “ How Muse handles your privacy, safety and security”: We’ve designed Muse to have multiple layers of privacy and security protections. No automated system is perfect (note: emphasis mine), so review Muse’s activity and only grant the access you’re comfortable with. My son, I’m not touching this with a 60 ft pole.

As I worked on my "last light" project last night, I encountered once again this photo from a couple decades or so ago... [ in progress... ]

It’s a classic view for sure. Why am I here? Tomorrow afternoon I will be talking science fiction at the Villa Albertine, as part of the Villa Albertine’s overall fall literary festival. That link above will take you to the whole line-up (which actually started today, but inasmuch as I just got into town and might need a nap because a certain cat woke me up at 3am, I have not taken part of). But definitely check out the whole line-up. there’s awesome stuff there. And it’s free to attend! Free…

These people turned to sand. I saw them – the way their color drained as they were trying to stop the girl. Their arms reached out to her but it was too late. The girl moved to her rhythm, clapping and tapping inside the unlocked van. Their arms went rigid. Their bodies, suspended in their moves, crumbled like old clay vessels. The wind picked up those mounds of sand and took them up to the Holy Mountain in tiny spinning whirlwinds. I don’t think it was the girl’s fault. The girl appeared in…

എന്റെയീ സാൻവിച്ചിനെയാണ് നിങ്ങൾ പൊരിച്ച മുട്ടബ്രെഡെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ് കവിതയെഴുതിയത്. മേശമേൽ കഴിക്കാനിരുന്ന അയാളോട് അവൾ പരിഭവം പറഞ്ഞു. അതിനെ ഒന്ന് പാളിനോക്കിയിട്ട് അയാൾ പറഞ്ഞു ശരിയാണ്, ഇത് പൊരിച്ച മുട്ടബ്രെഡല്ല. പിന്നെ! അവൾ സംശയത്തിന്റെ പുരികമുയർത്തി. ഒരു ചിരിയോടെ അയാൾ പറഞ്ഞുതുടങ്ങി, ഇതിൽ പ്രാണനുറങ്ങുന്ന മുട്ടയുണ്ട്, നാം കോർത്ത ചുണ്ടുകളുടെ കടുംചുവപ്പിന്റെ കെച്ചപ്പുണ്ട്. നമ്മൾ കടന്നുവന്ന വഴികളുടെ മുറിപ്പാടുകളെ ഓർമ്മിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ഉപ്പും, എന്റെയും നിന്റെയും കോപത്തിന്റെ ചില്ലി ഫ്ലേക്സുമുണ്ട്. അവളുടെ…

E.R.O. D/UWi 1/2/2 Witham UDC Committee minutes 1918-1924 Last item in each meeting, which I have typed in italics, is endorsement, presumably from full Council about whether report accepted. Waterworks Committee, 1 August 1919, page 1 Mr Goodey had written resigning. Resolved to ask him to continue and put up his salary to £3 a week. Read but not adopted 25 August 1919 Waterworks Committee, 25 August 1919, page 4 Mr Goodey still resigned. Proposed to advertise for Engineer at £2 2 0 a week…

Today’s interview is the first I have yet conducted with a professional blogger. I’m not going to assume anything about what you picture when I say that! But I hope that from now on, when you imagine someone who has made a career and vocation of writing for the web, your mind leaps to Janice, creator of The Vivienne Files. Janice was writing about sustainable fashion, Parisian practicality, and artistic inspiration made personal even before she launched her own site in 2011. Her archives…