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…

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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.…

Welcome to the Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy happening in Hannover, Germany and being hosted by CISPA. Blog posts: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Session 1: Privacy Notices, Permissions & Labels…

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.

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

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…

Prefix caching can cause the same prompt to produce different logits on a cache hit versus a cache miss. In many operational contexts, this is quickly categorized as a defect. However, a bug strictly…

The view from the pavement When I go to a city that’s new to me, or one I’ve not visited for years, one of the things I do is stroll around randomly and look out for any interesting buildings that I…

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,…

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.

Recently my Rust program starting exhibiting a panic on a certain agentic tool call. It was due to an out-of-range Vector access. I knew it was an emergency; I was ready to save the day with some…

I just returned from a long weekend in Ashland, Oregon.

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…

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…

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…

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…

Day late! But I've had a big last few days. I took a big long weekend for myself, due to personal stuff going on. I won't go too much into detail but I think the time off was nice. I played arcade…

Beneath Blackwater lake we saw destruction wrought by some incredible force and the Necromancer Brazikar Ashblood, trying to find the same thing that set off that explosion 500 years before!

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…

Things might get cheesy.

A friend was helping his aunt sell a used iPad, barely used and a generation newer than my current one. My current iPad's battery has been degraded already, dropping quite a lot after a single…

My old pal Suzanne Weil says, “If you’re in a good place, then everything that happened before was the right thing because it led you to the place you are now, so you should be grateful for…

Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune on 25 August 1989. It is the only space probe to have visited this planet so far. Voyager 2 is one of five space probes currently on…

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…

Lately, I’m suffering whenever I’m ready to press the shutter on my camera. It’s a strange feeling because I might even see a scene that I’d like to shoot, but then my gut…

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…

I can't wait for my days to be filled with quiet nothingness and the blissful peace that comes at the end of a chapter, with the thrill of becoming, lit hazily from behind, its face obscured,…

“Burlington, Vermont, circa 1911. ‘City Hall Park.’ Hotel Vermont in the background; bench-warmers in the foreground. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.” I like…

As a designer, I see lots of little problems in the world. I look at something in search of its flaws. I will be bothered that things have to be the way they are. And then I channel that negative…

Installed the macOS 27 beta. My favorite part - consistent corner radii.

So this post is doing two things for me right now. It’s showing myself and anyone that reads this that I’m not a mechanical robot with a linear story to tell, topics on this blog don’t have to follow…

An interesting thing about my recent sprint to get the multi-target users working. I had been working for several days straight, through much confusion and all sorts of head winds, but got to the…

Writers, do you wanna be a rule follower? A nice little meek writer who follows all the commandments out there on social media? I hope you’re a bit of a rebel and wanna write some stories that…

Replacing Guilt is a book by Nate Soares, a collection of blog posts about replacing guilt-based motivation with something stronger. From the book's website: "In Replacing Guilt, Nate Soares…

In Part II of the Practical NLP for Risk Modeling series, we fine-tuned DistilBERT end-to-end on NOAA tornado event narratives. Instead of treating DistilBERT as a fixed feature extractor, every…

I was recently chatting with some colleagues about deployment tooling and FleetDM came up. I felt like I was aware of most deployment tools but this was new to me. Logos are how companies show brands…