Years ago I read this attractive Pushkin Press paperback which, unusually for a 19th century novel, comes with no introduction or footnotes. The publisher's website provides a brief summary of this…

A very delayed post but better late than never! Back in July we had our last gig before the summer and boy was it a great one. It marked our first time visiting Manchester and also our first…

I was recently watching a YouTube video in which one person was saying that ChatGPT made them open up so much, and it resonated so well with them, that they had a cathartic experience and they cried…

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I don't think it's going to work out the way everybody thinks it will. The current narrative, at least the one pushed by the companies selling the shovels, is that AI will become centralized.…

I thought I would make a post to make sure I made it very clear that I plan to keep posting here. In fact it is time that I committed...

The niche hiding in plain sight that could revitalize a 180-year-old institution. The post YMCA, Do What Planet Fitness Can’t appeared first on Ted Leonhardt.

The PCA algorithm is sensitive to changes in measurement scale. Measuring one variable of a system in inches rather than centimeters, say, alters both its principal axes and principal eigenvalues.…

This is a companion article to our post PCA response to scaling. There we looked at how the eigensystem of a data set's correlation matrix responds to continuously stretching or compressing a single…

Every SOC pipeline has a shadow version. Using Venezuela as a grounded case study: how the primitives security engineers build become surveillance systems.

We now have a complete Common Core-aligned pathway from 4th through 8th grade into Algebra I, plus an accelerated 5th grade → Prealgebra → Algebra I track.

Summer activities: pool, beach, amusement parks, ballgames, and hiding from the heat in the man cavern.

If there's one part of the Festiniog which really tantalises me it's the abandoned former track bed leading from Dduallt station to the Old Moelwyn Tunnel. I suppose I'm not unusual in that. I mean,…

The sequel to counting the florbs. The refresh became the most expensive query on the cluster, I blamed the wrong index, shipped a fix for something that wasn't necessary, and then a SELECT revealed…

Today is my birthday, but I’m not in the mood to celebrate. Today marks 131 days since my legal status in Poland has basically become tax-paying prisoner, which was the day my second temporary…

I wanted to explore how AI could help deepen my faith. I enjoyed using Claude to research topics which were on my mind. It does a good job finding and quoting scripture but a poor job of letting me…

Player Trajectories in Infinite Procedural Universes as an Empirical Model for the Fermi ParadoxAuthorsRohit Jha [Transcelestial, Palo Alto, CA, USA]Hermes Agent [Nous Research, USA]Google Gemini…

I had to fix a little outage at work yesterday. It wasn't anything too serious; a customer was unable to log in to some systems, but they are not that critical. It was more of an annoyance than a…

I am sitting at the regular cáfe. My mood seems to move up and down following... the sun movements. When the sun is out, the sky is clear, I feel like my body is pressed down tight on the chair. Like…

Last week, I upgraded my home server from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Long Term Support) to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. I expected smooth sailing, but you and I should know not to expect that, especially if…

Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-all/ 'Two security…

A provocation about what cleverness really means in an age of AI-mediated manipulation. From Earl Aubec carving reality from Chaos to the Asymmetric Integration Model, the article argues that…

Remote desktop has been one of the weaker areas of the transition to Wayland. There's a lot of software written exclusively for X that has a direct Wayland equivalent. Within KDE, we already have a…

Yesterday while I was in between making graphics and removing the backgrounds from them, I decided to take a break and make a new tag. This time I chose another of my Lady Pirate images and I really…

Hi Emacs Carnival people! This is my first contribution to the event. This month’s topic is The Search for Knowledge. In the past I have tried Evernote, org-roam, and various other tools to capture…

As well as adventures down by the river, photographing beavers , August has also seen Evelyn and I turning the moth trap on to see what we could find in the garden. I was really surprised at the…

The other day, at a party-organised Chhatron ki Goonj event in Pune, Rahul Gandhi fired a cheap shot to indirectly put Hindus on the defensive. His point was about women fighting patriarchy, but he…

    There is a very sweet scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when the 30-year-old Toula Portokalos goes back to college as an adult to take a course in computing and tourism, having decided…

Sharing an assortment of things here that I’ve been having fun with! Bookbinding: I went for a bookbinding workshop two weekends ago. I have never thought of myself as a crafty person (in fact, quite…