acim
A respectable man drinks a potion and becomes a monster. Then the monster starts showing up on his own, uninvited. Hyde was never a separate person. He was Jekyll, convinced he was someone else. "Fine, but that's fiction. A cautionary tale about a chemistry experiment gone wrong." Is it? Consider...
Nat
I’ve finally got the line-up of things that will be at the Peanuts shop at Comic-Con… but before I get to that, let me note that my Comic-Con plans have changed, and I will now be there only on Thursday. If anyone wants to mee with me, it can probably be arranged; drop me a line. It looks like...
aje
From time to time I decide to host a public webinar. They are typically based on content that I wouldn’t use in any of my formal courses, but I want to make sense of by presenting to an audience. The topics are often a result of a request or an offshoot from another lecture. These events and are...
J D Lowe
A check on element placement as the story develops.At this stage of construction I'm adding in scenic details I have in mind, and am checking fit, spacing, and composition as I go along. The layout's so small I don't want a surprise near the end where I find I can't fit in things I want without...
Anthony Isola
Following the crowd isn’t a valid life philosophy. Plan your retirement accordingly. Learn more in this week’s terrific links. What should your allocation to stocks be in retirement? A Wealth Of Common Sense The best upgrade is realizing you have enough. Seth’s Blog Should you look into a Mega...
Cervelet
ah well
idiotking
It’s been pretty quiet around here for the past couple of weeks. I’ve had my head down, working on projects for the 9-5 gig, and it’s been too goddamn hot to be outside doing much of anything. The dog is going mental because for various reasons she didn’t get a morning walk for most of last week....
kristy bowen
It has been a strange and smoke-filled week, including one night that found the sky and the downtown landscape quite apocalyptic, especially as we made our way Thursday to a back alley freight elevator accessed production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch in a West Loop art space, which was a whole lot...
Aurel Manea
Infinite, context-aware generative zoom DYSTALGIA lets you travel infinitely deeper into an image while preserving the meaning of the original scene. Traditional upscalers enlarge existing pixels. DYSTALGIA does something fundamentally […] The post DYSTALGIA : Infinite, context-aware generative...
Nige
Well, my impulse purchase of Damien Wilkins's Max Gate turned out to be a good one. Since I last mentioned it, I have finished reading it (at my usual snail's pace), and found it thoroughly enjoyable (apart from a few jarring anachronisms – 'Okay', 'in denial', 'basically'). It's actually the...
alanb99
Part of my side-project’s codebase uses Flan T5 XL for some generative tasks. Flan T5 is an LLM that was released in October 2022. The XL version that I use has 3 billion parameters. Might sound like a lot but it’s small by modern standards. Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters. It has been...
Christof
trE
A micropoem If pieces of youbroke pieces of me, and you failed toacknowledge my pain,I will be a different MEto YOU; one you’ve never seenAnd will NEVER seeagain.
Andrew Shitov
Programming languages are fascinating. Even if you think that these are the last days when you need to write code yourself, that only gives you more time to enjoy the beauty. In this article I would like to showcase some of the small but astonishing features of Raku. Even if you never had a...
tjschanaman
uzwi
“In a post-apocalyptic Britain, haunted by strange lifeforms called iGhetti and cut off from mainland Europe by fog, people flock to boats to emigrate. Money has failed. The fabric of reality has changed. There is full-on body horror here, but the deepest terror of the novel is in how perfectly it...
Mads
When Setting up Stalwart v0.16.x as a Docker container behind a reverse proxy, I ran head-first into one its security features, Autoban. Because every connection to Stalwart goes through Docker, everything seems to come from a single IP address, which at some point will trigger Autoban and add...
Andi
When should you adjust p‑values or confidence intervals for multiple testing? It’s a complicated (and often painful) question, with the wide continuum of possible answers depicted below by Susan Ahmed (1991): I haven’t met anyone who’s an ultra conservative (on this dimension), but it may...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
For the past two weeks, we've had a solitary ant in the kitchen. I've thought it odd--ants don't usually travel alone.This morning, I'm wondering if it was a scout ant, sent ahead to find a good homestead. This morning, we have ants all over the kitchen.We rarely have bug problems in this house...
Ralph Boumenot
sighThere are two miters that slipped by each other. This corner is the worse and the one I had noticed yesterday. It would seem that using my fingers to keep the bottom flush didn't work worth diddly squat.almost perfectThis scrap of pine was left over after making the bandings. It is one frog...
admin_007
1. The narrow claim This is not a case for replacing Claude across the enterprise. Most of what several thousand ordinary employees do with AI is low volume and highly varied, and a frontier model’s breadth is genuinely worth paying for there. That part of the bill is not in play in this...
Lou Plummer
Here are two Mac friction points: It's been 16 years since Mission Control was released, and "Desktop 3" is still "Desktop 3." Apple's API doesn't expose Space naming to any third-party app — there's no system-level hook to hang a label on. Screen Time gets activated when an app launches and...
dennis-hermosa
I once believed that home was the place offering the greatest number of possibilities. I now suspect that home may be the place where a man finally stops imagining his life somewhere else.
apaydin
For centuries, people have debated a simple question. Is art for art's sake, or is art for society? Perhaps AI introduces a third answer. Art is for yourself. For most of history, creating art required significant effort. Writing a song, painting a picture, producing a film, or composing music...
The Passing Tramp
For someone who spent over thirty-five years living in New York apartment hotels and increasingly not getting out much (in his last years he seldom ventured beyond the hotel lobby), Cornell Woolrich had a surprisingly cosmopolitan ancestry. His father Jorge Rodolfo Genaro Hopley Woolrich Sandoval...
CLM
Captain Harry Phillips, a British officer, is a prisoner of war in a German-controlled hospital in Romania. It’s 1918 and while Germany has gone from near-victory to an unsuccessful Spring Offensive on the Western Front leading to eventual defeat, its army and military intelligence are still...
miquel-tort
Muchas personas descubren las ideas del decrecimiento, leen libros, escuchan conferencias o siguen divulgadores, pero terminan preguntándose lo mismo: ¿Qué puedo hacer yo?
Unknown
A beanfield full in blossom smells as sweetAs Araby or groves of orange flowersBlack-eyed & white & feathered to ones feetHow sweet they smell in mornings dewy hoursWhen seething night is left upon the flowers& when morns sun shines brightly oer the fieldThe bean bloom glitters in the...
Laura
The swashbuckling classic THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH (1954) has just been released on Blu-ray by Universal Pictures.I don't use the word "classic" lightly; like Curtis's earlier SON OF ALI BABA (1952), this film is a joy start to finish, '50s era studio entertainment at its best.The movie played...
Bret Devereaux
This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies are recruited, equipped and paid for. In particular, as we’ve seen so far, the structure of...
Heather Rose Jones
Friday, July 17, 2026 - 20:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Anne Lister was widely read and infinitely curious about scientific topics. When she turned her curiosity to the human body, there was an underlying purpose. Major...
alexkontorovich
In the Math Corps, we follow a Kids Teaching Kids — and, more importantly, Kids Caring About Kids — model. At its heart is the belief that every child has greatness within them, whatever that means for them: reaching their full potential, and getting access to the opportunities that can make that...
Aceso Under Glass
dynomight recently wrote an article calling for bloggers to state publicly whether and how they use AI. Here are ways I currently use AI in ways that might show up on this blog: I use AI to find papers and explain bits I don’t understand (generally vocabulary), and generally tutor me. I...
Anton Zuiker
Last week, Erin and I were back in Maine to celebrate our 30th anniversary. We had honeymooned on Mount Desert Island and in Boston in 1996, and when a special trip to Portugal seemed too hard to shoehorn into this summer’s busy schedule of Oliver at summer camp, a big landscaping project, and...
jesusrrodriguez
Un recorrido por la economía como escenario de poder, donde cada decisión que se presenta como técnica esconde un reparto de ganadores y perdedores
benjaminbobek
lunarhades
Alexander Opalic
For most of us, I think the picture is obvious. The job we did for years, picking up a ticket, opening Figma, digging through the codebase, typing code into a file, adding a test, debugging the test, jumping to Stack Overflow, getting in the zone, and grinding on a single task for hours, those...
Blog Author
I had a comment in a C++ codebase explaining why a particular cast was written the way it was. The comment kept growing… and eventually it was longer than the code it was documenting. So I did what seems like the obvious modern move: I asked Claude.ai to turn it into a blog post I could link to...
after
I admire them stubborn readers, whose reading goals aren't centered on juggling and finishing as many books as possible but about maintaining focus, one book at a time. I only have a small sample, of course. The few I've met and got to know, it's like they chose a book to read as the one thing to...
Chris Weigant
Rahm Emanuel has apparently launched his 2028 presidential bid. A wonky story about him appeared prominently in today's Washington Post, on the subject of his ideas for fixing education in America. He also recently tossed out a different provocative idea during a recent speech, which further...
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
Pain Point: Finding The Right Combination Of Parameters This is a story about using a cloud LLM agent to tune a local LLM setup. If you do not care about the story, jump to the general pattern. I had a local large language model (LLM) setup that worked well enough to use: llama.cpp running on...
Unknown
Odds and ends in town today, let's start with a new tick, Flight Club:Behind the modern frontage is an antique-style bar on two floors. Dark woodwork, leather upholstery and even a fake brick arch create a pleasant ambience. The quirky lighting strips add to this.At half one on a Friday there were...
airscapemag
I started the other day berating myself over the time it’s been since my last post. Maybe I’m still exhausted from the Merlin Mustang story – it’s not over yet, by the way – and it’s not like there aren’t more stories in the pipeline… In fact, the current iteration of my schedule includes a...
Laura
"To all who come to this happy place, welcome!"Those words were said by Walt Disney on July 17, 1955, and today thus marks the 71st birthday of one of my very favorite places, Disneyland USA.As is the case most years, I was blessed to be able to spend several hours at Disneyland on its anniversary...
adrin
Twice in the past year, installing an update from the Arch User Repository (AUR) could have handed your machine to somebody else. In July 2025, three fake browser packages were uploaded which pulled in a remote access trojan (Chaos RAT). They went up on July 16 and were removed on July 18; about...
Blacksteel
So I've spent most of the mini-time over the past week building the Armageddon set minis that I want to use for the new (ish) Dark Angels force. I built the Captain, the Ancient, and half of the Intercessor squad. I also started digging through what I have floating around various marine armies in...
jnack
Crossing (virtual) paths with the JibJab OGs after 25 reminds me to belatedly share some tangentially America 250-related Friday fun:
Weblog on jvalol
I added browser push notifications recently. Then I replied to one of my own posts from my phone, looked at my laptop, and saw nothing. The reply was on the site, everything else worked, like the inbox badge, notification email, etc. Just the browser push notification did not. It's a timing thing....
Abhijit Bhaduri
Your best people aren't lazy, they're just too busy to think. They settle for "good enough" because they have no time to pause. Here's the habit one company built into every single meeting to fix it.