It's the final weekend of summer for the final summer of my 30s. Let's frickin' goooooooooo

Back in college I wrote The Mathematics Behind "Ride the Bus", detailing the mathematics behind expected drinking while playing a game of luck skill where someone deals a card off the top of a shuffled deck one at a time, and you have to answer four questions about the next card: get one wrong, and you go back to the beginning. After looking it up again to expand the analysis to include median, I noticed and fixed some mistakes I made in my original simulation and while I'm at it, look into…

The BMS Was Supposed to Protect my Battery? . In this video I explain why your PV array voltage needs careful consideration. If your MPPT fails and the array voltage is higher than the BMS can safely handle, bye-bye batteries. https://youtu.be/CfXS-D0kH6g PLEASE HELP! This site is 100% reader supported. My wife is urging me to shut it down as it just keeps costing us money. My stroke-recovery, PT & OT is very costly & not covered by insurance as is authoring this site and keeping it secure.…

Duncan Sheik Passes Away at 56

I reviewed this board in its standard configuration earlier, and liked it. XVX is now offering it as a kit with the XVX x GATERON Pandora Magnetic Jade Pro Dual-SMD switches, which they say are more well suited to ceramic and metal keycaps. To review, this is a Hall effect, 60% board with a highly unusual feature: both north and south LEDS, independently controlled. Other salient characteristics: Powder-coated CNC aluminum skeletonized frame. Light, but substantial. Despite the material, the…

Tell me that John Gruber read my piece on iPhone Duo popularity on MKBHD's channel without telling me that John Gruber read my piece. "I still think interest in Apple’s September iPhone events is higher than ever, and interest in the iPhone Duo is perhaps unprecedented, but there’s no point trying to measure this objectively via YouTube view counts with this change."

This honestly feels like a monkey paw wish situation. To celebrate 20 years of me nagging them about merch, Glenstone has just launched merch. And it’s got Jeff Koons or Andy Goldsworthy on it. Glenstone 20th anniversary limited edition t-shirt with one of four illustrations by Jordan Awan, $40. and Glenstone 20 black hat with white embroidered logo, $35. via glenstone OK, the fox t-shirt with the Serra Contour in the background is kind of nice. And the hats. And the totes. Glenstone 20th…

Peacock just announced the cast of The Traitors US season five, and holy shit is it incredible on paper!

I rarely post about the passing of a music artist (though I’ve written a few in the past: Eddie Money, Olivia Newton-John and Tina Turner are three that come to mind), but the passing of singer-songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik yesterday, September 17th, has hit me pretty hard. Perhaps it’s because he was still a relatively young 56, but also because it came as somewhat of a shock, even though he’d spent over a month in the hospital this past summer. I’ve followed him on social media for a…

Hello Mr. Tall Dark and… hairy? Author Jasmine Kuliasha is taking us on an adventure through the Pacific Northwest in the Big Idea for her newest novel, Bigfoot Confidential. With all the best tropes and a fresh take on a classic cryptid, this walk through the woods will be one to remember. JASMINE KULIASHA: This book is a joy ride. That’s actually the first line in my acknowledgements for Bigfoot Confidential, because it’s true. When I started writing Bigfoot I didn’t know where it would take…

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Last year, I wrote an article called “Seriously, Markdown” in which I gently dismantled the “nobody can do serious writing in Markdown” arguments that come up every so often. I got some pushback, none of which I confess I found particularly convincing because they invariably rehashed points I addressed in the article. Also, people who got their hackles up tended to gloss over the part where I wrote, I’m not saying “give up and just use Markdown.” Being familiar with another markup system is a…

I have always liked the following idea for education. Ask students to watch a lecture on some topic at home, and then do the homework with the teacher in class. The United States has an enormous number of teachers, but only a small fraction of them are truly fantastic lecturers. So why should every teacher give essentially the same lecture? Why not record the best lectures, put them online, and assign them as homework? Then class time could be used for what is much harder to do alone: solving…

TL;DR Large Language Model (LLM) based Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be great at cranking out plausible sentences. But stringing those sentences together to form some kind of narrative doesn’t get a good story. That’s a problem, and an opportunity; because humans run on stories, and (for now at least) it seems that we still need humans to craft good stories. Accelerating the epistemic crisis I’m pretty sure we were in an epistemic crisis before LLM based AI came along, which is how we got…

The famous may be in Toronto right now for TIFF, but the otaku will be at The Horseshoe for the next two nights as this year’s edition of Next Music From Tokyo kicks off. The four-band lineup of Japanese indie acts is always a mix of new and familiar (assuming your frame of reference is […] The post 揺れるは幽霊 -『From』 appeared first on Space Echo.

You can just prove things, apparently.

One thing I’ve gotten really into over the past year is indie music. I’ve gone to see quite a few musicians and bands in my area and it is really a nice experience being able to see a show for $10-$20 and be right up in front of the stage. (Not to mention usually being able to walk right out of the venue afterwards and not have to get stuck in traffic for ages.) There are so many great musicians out there that I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorites on here from time to time! So…

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art just added a monumental brutalist new gallery made up of giant concrete forms which swoop literally across the street. If this excites you, you should go. There is not currently a large mount of art in the gallery - it feels very widely spaced out at the moment, and it is in fact smaller than the gallery buildings it replaced, which is rightfully a controversial decision - but it's still got a lot of very cool stuff. Here's a jaguar holding a bloody human…

8688/21607Thanks for the suggestions about what to do with my cables (and someone has claimed the thing with the pink wires- see Substack), so this story has a happy ending. My point was really that even with a tidy up I still hung on to an unrealistic number of leads that I will never use, but maybe I forgot to say that. As you know I loved my dog, but I am not very fond of our current cats (why couldn't they have died in Wolfie's place?). I am not cattist. I loved my first cat, Oscar and I…

Manton Reece (@manton.org) on fun ways we used to use email signatures: Remember in old emails and usenet posts how people would put quotes in their signatures? Kind of miss that. I wonder if there’s a modern IndieWeb replacement for that. I've been thinking about this as well. I follow a few people who insert a little note at the bottom of every post in their RSS feed. These notes are only visible in their RSS feeds, and not on their website, so it's like an added bonus for following. Some are…

A tricky song, hours of trouble, hours of strife. It wouldn't sound right and it wouldn't look right either (it was the sound waves: they looked like scrumpled-up paper) ThenIt workedPhew.

BATGIRL & BANE DC MINIMATES (DC DIRECT) Well, it’s Friday again. So, you know, there’s that. Here it is. We made it? Yeah, let’s go with that. Let’s try to liven stuff up a bit here, with a Flashback Friday Figure Addendum! Today, we’re flashing back to some Minimates, but not just any Minimates, DC Minimates! Let’s take a second look at Batgirl & Bane! One of the great tragedies for many Minimates collectors was the cancellation of DC Direct’s DC Minimates after only eight series. Not only did…

by Fiona Moore I realise I haven't given you many updates recently on the activities of the brilliant Miss Yoko Ono and her less talented (but still very good) husband. I was worried that moving to New York might settle them down and encourage them to join the artistic establishment. However, I happen to have … Continue reading [September 18, 1971] Plastic Ono Fantastic → The post [September 18, 1971] Plastic Ono Fantastic appeared first on Galactic Journey.

If you started beekeeping this year, you'll probably still be acutely aware of how much the essential equipment and accessories cost.Of course, the 'essentials' vary depending upon who defines them.Ask an experienced beekeeper and the list will be rather modest … a hive, extra supers, hive tool, smoker, beesuit etc.It's likely that the beekeeper will assume you'll enjoy the hobby, so may want to expand the number of hives you manage in the future.Based upon their own experience, they'll…

As a teenager, Maguy Le Coze and her brother Gilbert were introduced to the culinary life while helping their parents in their hotel restaurant in Brittany, France. But staying in the French countryside was not for her. Maguy and Gilbert opened Le Bernardin first in Paris, and later in New York City in 1986. Le Bernardin is considered one of the finest restaurants in the world, earning three Michelin stars and four stars from The New York Times since it opened. Celebrity chef Eric Ripert is the…

Remember how I bought a PlayStation 5 Pro at the end of March because I knew the memory-related price hikes were just around the corner, and because I also knew I’d end up buying one later this year anyway because there was no way I was going to miss GTA VI when it finally comes out? I remember, and I couldn’t be happier with that decision. Have you seen the extended gameplay trailer? That is a video game I’ll actually be able to play in just a couple of months! It looks incredible. I genuinely…

There’s a lovely resource that I suspect most non-physicists don’t know about. It’s called the Particle Data Group, and its interactive site PDGLive. If you want to know the most up-to-date information on a subatomic particle, PDGLive has your back. From their home page, you can click on familiar particles like photons (), electrons () or gluons and find the best info experiments have provided on properties like their mass and charge. It’s a great place to get an authoritative number for any…

I will be in Lausanne from Monday October 26th late afternoon until Thursday October 29th early morning. I will be in Lausanne for an event by the Swiss Data Alliance. If you care to meet-up let me know. I will fly in and out of Geneva, so on the day of arrival a meet-up in Geneva is possible too.

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