Intel ships per-sensor calibration data in proprietary AIQB binaries alongside their Windows camera drivers. Here is how to parse them to generate libcamera Simple IPA tuning files with accurate CCMs…

Three-space context management to improve LLM performance and project durability using a vault-docs-index system.

T he lettuce outlasted Liz Truss. And the T-shirt has outlasted the Standards Authority at which it poked the finger. In a move that sees this blog praise this Government twice in one week -- an…

photography, hobby

Claude knows it's being tested almost one-quarter of the time, but almost never says anything about it, according to new Anthropic research. This is, or should be, unsettling, given that…

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I was clicking around in App Store Connect as I wait for Inkwell to be approved. The long list of submissions and rejections is unusual for me, so thought I’d capture the table here as a blog…

Yesterday was great sailing down the Pamlico River to the Sound, wind on starboard beam and at times on the starboard quarter Very rough water and a lot of spray, but good sailing. 27 NM which is a…

Back in the 80’s and 90’s Hudson would host caravans, events where they drove from city to city with a bunch of famicoms/pc-engines and people would compete for a timed high score in the title for…

My first destination on Gran Canaria was the pine forest close to me. I've been to southern pine forests at other locations, but that wonderful, serene scent that a canary pine forest disperses when…

“I try to be scientifically accurate. That’s my whole shtick.”—Andy Weir “You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.”—Inigo Montoya “We don’t need other worlds. We…

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I have referenced it in passing a couple of times now, but a few years ago when the Minimalism documentary blew up on Netflix, the whole thing made a lot of sense to me. Back in 2017 I immediately…

Recording of live event with Cindy S Lee on the desert elders

It’s been a while, but let’s finish that tube amp project and see why you should likely not build one yourself! But before we get into the details, a quick recap of the first part.The…

Suggestions for reasons behind the order of the prayers and praises of the final canonical Psalter are legion. While there is much to be gleaned from consideration of various views, is there one that…

There’s a thing I find amazing about music that you can demonstrate with a pair of musicians who are about equally popular but have completely different sets of fans. For example, let’s…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve received a serious flood of similar email messages that claim to be from well-known businesses like Harbor Freight, CVS, Kroger, Marriot, Costco, FedEx, Walmart, and…

For nearly three decades, much of the modern world behaved as though the nuclear age had quietly expired sometime in the early 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union created the comforting illusion…

Introduction Hopefully you've already read Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey so you understand how I ended up with this mindset and approach. Or maybe you saw how long it was and just…

I tried OmniVoice this afternoon because I saw a post on r/LocalLLaMA and got curious. It's a zero-shot voice cloning TTS model that claims 600+ languages. I recorded two short voice memos on my…

MicroStimuli argues that human decisions are made in milliseconds by non-conscious processes. The entire tradition of trying to change behavior through awareness, information, and rational persuasion…

I will give my first public astronomy talk at TU Chemnitz's Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften on May 9th, 2026 — a journey from comets and auroras to distant galaxies — alongside the Astro Stammtisch…

Via Flowing Data , The Public Domain Review on “The Polish System,” a grid system for visualizing a century’s worth of history : The Polish System — which almost anticipates Piet Mondrian’s abstract…

A couple of years ago, I wrote some code to display my archive of images from ffffound, an image bookmarking site, with the ability to filter by date and generated tags. That’s not the only…

Helmed by Chris Black and Matt Fraction, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 follows the aftermath of the Season 1 finale, with Keiko, Cate, May, and Shaw returning to a 2017 Skull Island now…

Towards the end of 2019 I started playing goalie in ice hockey. I picked up the sport in 2013 but always played as a skater. I thought playing goalie looked like fun, but there was a high price point…

I ran across this article written by Bob Metcalfe in 1991 about 3Com’s losing bets against Novell. This contained an important fact in our research about Ethernet development in the 1980s. To…

Eschatology and MarxismOne of the most interesting things about The Communist Manifesto is the literary genre into which it falls. Unlike the other works of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, it is…

Tiffany Aching is continuing her training as a witch under the fearsome Miss Treason, though Granny Weatherwax is still keeping watch from afar. Tiffany makes an unfortunate choice during a winter…

What has the church forgotten that moved and energized Abraham Moses David Paul and the great men and women of the Bible? The answer is closer than you think…

The modern church has reduced the Bible to little more than a self-help book—but nothing could be further from the truth. David understood this and mapped it out for us—even more, Paul understood…

Isaiah Rashad “M.O.M.” Have you ever eaten something familiar – a sandwich, a pasta dish, a salad – but there was some ingredient that popped more than usual? Like you’ve tasted a lot of…

I keep quoting him, but here’s another Cal Newport podcast that I can’t stop thinking about: Why do better tools make me worse at my job?. To save you a long listen: when you think about the theory…

Such a gorgeous evening in the south of the UK today. Wish I was out with the camera You're getting this because you follow my global (everything) feed — if you'd like to filter what comes through,…

Sir Hector Macdonald was an unusual soldier in the British Army in the late 19th and very early 20th century. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Omdurman, being more competent than the…

Once the baords have been added I primed each section with tan hobby paint. Once the paint was dry I added the trim around the windows and doors. See previous

In a previous post, I mentioned that my first AI project was to develop an application to create a archive of US newspapers based on RSS feeds. I initially used Claude Code to review a list of US…

Hago mucho eso de asociar objetos a personas (creo que algo común para todos ¿no?), siempre que veo tal objeto que pertenece o pertenecía a alguien, inmediatamente me acuerdo de él. Estuve pensando…

The weekly ramble this time is about Blur's one album as a trio.

I’m doing a very limited number of events to promote the release of my new book Don’t Call It Art. Monday, June 1 in Austin, Texas: BookPeople event at First Baptist Church of Austin, 6PM. Ticketed…

COMPLEX BENCH TESTING SETUP NOT WORKING PROPERLY The setup makes use of a breadboard development system, an Arduino Uno, several power supplies, an oscilloscope and my SLT breakout box. The…

How Life Uses Atoms As we learned from Part 2 of this series, the ingredients for life are all around us. Some atoms, like nitrogen and oxygen, are abundant, so it comes as no surprise that living…

Introduction This post will be tough to write. There's a lot of discourse and arguing about AI everywhere you look. I've read it all. I don't want to get caught up in arguments, get misinterpreted,…

Thoughts 😵‍💫 It's been a few days. We've had family visiting from the US so all my mental energy has been spent on that. My sister and brother-in-law were here and my parents came over with them. I…

[2026-05-08 Fri] : Transcript, yay! I chatted with Shae Erisson about Emacs, keyboards, Org Mode, and life. View it via the Internet Archive , watch/comment on YouTube , read the transcript online ,…

The Hot Zone is one of those books that gets under your skin. Richard Preston doesn't soften anything. He describes what the virus actually does to a person. The hemorrhaging. The organ liquefaction.…

As you read you start feeling this accumulation of dread because you see the pattern repeating. Failures. Near-misses.

https://granda.org/en/2026/03/13/your-parked-tesla-is-a-data-center/Really interesting idea. I love this way of thinking… how can we utilise what we already haveYou're getting this because you follow…