Minneapolis has a car break-in and theft problem. This application is going to try to track occurrences when car windows are smashed or riffled through in hopes that it draws attention to the situation.

I had no idea that this existed. We use Revolution EHR, and in the optic nerve section there is a dropdown menu for ‘disc type’. The choices are I - IV. I had no idea what it was for, so I checked with Open Evidence. Disc types I–V refer to the Hitchings and Spaeth (1976) morphological classification of the glaucomatous optic disc, developed at the Wills Eye Hospital Glaucoma Service from stereophotographs of 252 patients. This system describes five descriptive types of glaucomatous cupping,…

how unpleasantHow unpleasant it is to realize that you are the most judgmental person in the room. You are also moralizing—you filter everything through the lens of how things should be and how one ought to act. It is not easy for people like that to live. They never quite reach their own ideal, yet they keep judging everyone else. And how are you supposed to live under those conditions? How do you stop trying to derive the perfect formula for existence? For example, there is the dilemma of an…

Also hearing Danny say out loud that he’s sixty four years old…😱 Tom Sawyer starts here:

The author of this article introduce the capability of Human-AI Team Chemistry. Many organizations expect AI to automatically improve teamwork, but research shows the opposite can occur. Without intentional integration, AI can reduce engagement, narrow participation in meetings, and shift ownership away from the team. A five-month study of managers identifies a critical new capability: Human-AI Team Chemistry. This does not emerge naturally and must be deliberately developed through three…

Gruber piece has merits: regular people have no idea what any of the permissions they allow apps to have actually do, and they shouldn’t I would add. But why are we forced over and over to assign permission at the app level? Why can’t we have an onboarding experience where, in plain English, we decide once what we want to share, and the OS enforces that for any app running? Do you want apps to have access to your messages? Yes / No Access to emails? Yes / No To photos? Yes / No You can then…

OD&D elves have the ability to automatically Detect Secret Doors. I do not like hidden information rolls and prefer my rule systems that do away with them. I would also prefer for the referee to not have to make a Detect Secret Door roll every room for every elf in the party--this also seems like needless overhead and extra rolling to keep the game going.Instead, I propose the elf's automatic chance to Detect Secret Doors be built into the backend. Put it into the tables, mechanics, and…

Grandma comes home today! It's not going to be easy, but we're going to try and make the best of the situation before us. 🕊 Applications to both Woodman's locations in the area; The Falls and Waukesha, have been filed. I have applied to stock groceries third-shift at either location, so I can be home with Grandma during the day while Christina is working. Then when I am working, Christina will be home with Grandma at night. I hate leaving her with the ‘overnight shifts’ but she really can’t…

“Art arrived at that point of extreme maturity that determines civilizations which have grown old; ingenious, complicated, clever, full of delicate hints and refinements, gathering all the delicacies of speech, borrowing from technical vocabularies, taking color from every palette, tones from all musical instruments, contours vague and fleeting, listening to translate subtle confidences, confessions of depraved passions, and the odd hallucinations of a fixed idea turning to madness.... "...…

After many years of posting and maintaining a small but active little website blog on this domain, I decided in the night I’d had enough and didn’t see the point of having all my old data online and available to scrappers and other online thievery. So today I removed all my old posts bar one and deleted the Books and Notes sections completely not sure why I did it in the first place other than it seemed like a good idea at the time. From now on I will be pruning heavily each year and keeping…

For the folks who found this blog from Anthropic’s site, welcome! For everyone else, I’d better give some context. Last month, I had a blog post titled “It Only Counts When AI Gets to My Field”. The title was a joke, the content less so. I said that if some of the longstanding problems of my old research field got solved by AI, then I’d sit up and take notice. The post turned out to be a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, after some folks at Anthropic read it and decided to tackle one of the…

Terrible things happen: the people we love most, and those that we especially admire, sicken and die; our highly competent bodies are overwhelmed by an avalanche of painful disabilities and disfigurements (I can no longer play the piano or assemble collages, among many other things). But it’s possible to cope with these disasters — not with the blaring of trumpets in resurrection, but in the more modest unfolding of loss, longing, and resolution: Tod und Verklärung on a human scale. In this…

The US government paid for a campaign ad for Trump, featuring — I am not making this up — a chorus singing “love me” repeatedly in the background. The national debt is at record levels, the price of diesel is skyrocketing, inflation is making everyone poorer, and we’re wasting tax money running an ad for an old man to literally beg a country to love him.

There are many things I enjoy about fishing, but trotting a float down a river sits somewhere near the very top of the list. I really do love it, and I'm not entirely sure whether that's because of the fishing itself or because it provides an excellent excuse to stand in a river for several hours ignoring the modern world. Either way, I'm perfectly happy with the arrangement. There are certainly worse ways to spend an afternoon having than standing next to, or in a river for that matter,…

the world he created doesn't always operate on the logic of hyper-efficiency. I like this nugget from this episode of Silicon Spiritualities. God created the universe across the span of seven days. As this episode states, the Bible wasn’t delivered in an “efficient” manner. It seems to me that God is usually urging us to slow down and trust in him. We’re the ones that want the quick fix, the escape, the least painful way through. God is interested in being with us, strengthening and helping us,…

Although I assumed my post-WW2 generation invented hopscotch, that seems highly unlikely. The earliest confirmed mention of the game actually comes from Britain in C17th; in fact a manuscript book of games from 1635-72 by Francis Willughby and an entry in Poor Robin's Almanack for 1677 contain the earliest references. Hopscotch players on side of roadThe grid was added in chalkTe Ara New ZealandChildren all over the world play Hopscotch in much the same way, but the patterns they draw can be…

I finally managed to drag myself to the gym today. I got sick a couple of months ago. After that, like so often, I had a hard time getting back into it again. Even though it’s just a two-minute walk to the gym, I always had an excuse for skipping out. So stupid. I love lifting weights. It’s always been my favorite kind of exercise. I know this, and yet it’s so easy to lose track and deceive yourself when life gets in the way. The biggest motivation to get going again was not about health…

Aw, I miss having a functioning federal government. "Data from participating sites in the CDC NWSS commercial testing contract will be temporarily unavailable on the dashboard, while CDC transitions to a new contract. Historic data for these sites remain accessible . These sites have been temporarily excluded from state and regional summaries." –Cal-SuWers (where I get SF COVID-in-wastewater data)

This one is a new favorite. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Absolutely brilliant album by sax player Curtis Amy and trumpeter Dupree Bolton. All the way through a mesmerizing session which features both individual brilliance and collective magic when this sextet tackles six outstanding tunes. It’s a great mix with lots of variety and it begs for repeated…

First nor’easter of the year is hitting this weekend. Got me thinking again about the Met Office’s shipping forecast. I’d love an equivalent for my health, extreme functional compression to communicate my daily lupus symptom status. Right now I’m going to be moving a ring between my pinkie and the first knuckle of my middle finger. Pinkie means “decent or better”. Middle finger is everything else.

Virginia Woolf! Publishers! Welcome to episode 154. https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/tea-or-books-154.mp3 In the first half, we compare independent publishers and the big-name publishers – and in the second half, we pit two Virginia Woolf novels against each other: Jacob’s Room and The Waves. You can support the podcast at Patreon – where you’ll also get access to the exclusive new series ‘5 Books’, where I ask different people about the last book they finished, the book…

I was a meeting this morning about other things during the course of which I found out that, as of 2025, the Open Journal of Astrophysics is a Q1 journal. This means that according to certain bibliometric criteria, OJAp is in the first quartile (i.e. top 25%) of journals in its field. You can find a table with all journals in Astronomy and Astrophysic curated by SCImago here. I searched the list for all the journals that are classified as Diamond Open Access and found that we’re the only one:…

[When they said “everything”, they meant EVERYthing.] Earlier this month, I wrote about the forthcoming Elizabeth Holmes documentary, entitled “You Can See Everything”. I guess that’s really true, because the film has been rated R for graphic nudity. I continue to think I don’t want to see this.Link: https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-trailer-22447482.php

Today marks one year since I had extensive endometriosis lesions scraped out of me for several hours. Though not my first abdominal surgery, preceded only by my bilateral salpingectomy a few years prior, the excision took a lot out of me. And not just because my bladder decided to stop working a couple days after the procedure, which prompted a traumatizing ER visit where no one paid attention to my bladder about to explode until I became hysterical. Still, I don't regret having gone through…

It was the fourth time I’d had to tie my shoelace in the barely three hours since I left my house. Frustration had me cursing at my shoe, mostly because it was better to be mad at it than at myself. Still, it got me thinking about my inadequacies, particularly the minuscule things I’m grossly incompetent at. Earlier that morning, I had watched Daan tie his shoelace most fascinatingly. I’d probably need to watch YouTube videos on repeat and practice for two months to pull off anything that good,…

The Best Maker YouTube Channels feature the work of some of the most noted Makers. If you are looking to be inspired and perhaps learn something new. Check some of these sites.

My pal Jesse Jarnow had me back on his essential Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast to talk about a show I saw in the summer of 1985, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, and the best by far rendition of “Shakedown Street” I ever saw live or have ever heard in a recording.

Back in March, I wrote about JSSE, a JavaScript engine an agent built from scratch in Rust. It was correct, but slow. In May, I wrote about making it faster without touching its architecture, and promised that post was not about bytecode. JSSE v0.9.0 was tagged on September 23, so it is time to take stock. In this post, I will go through where JSSE stands six months after its first release, how it compares with other engines, and the guardrails that allowed an agent to make it faster without…