Hear me out: AI also does things that are good
I could be wrong, but I feel like this post is going to be similar to the one I wrote recently about crypto stablecoins. I know some readers never got past the headline, because they were busy…
How to do Zoom “No Fixed Time” links
Step by step explanation of a Zoom option, which can be useful if you tend to re-meet the same trusted people on an irregular schedule.
Odeon Rochdale
For The Devil Wears Prada 2 . Originally opened by ABC Cinema is 1998 , it was bought by Odeon in 2000 and rebranded. But most of the decor doesn't seem to have been updated, including the small red…
Thinking Thursday: Math Eyes
Writing to Learn Math: Math journal explanations avoid the formality that turns so many students away from geometry proofs. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and…
Nicci Obert Receives HDCS Staff Achievement Award
Department Chair Barbara Stewart, Nicci Obert, Andy Hines The Department of Human Development & Consumer Science, within which our Foresight program sits, initiated a series of Excellence awards…
Learn T-SQL With Erik: Clustered Tables, Page Splits, and Readaheads
Learn T-SQL With Erik: Clustered Tables, Page Splits, and Readaheads Chapters *00:00:00* – Introduction to Clustered and Heaps *00:07:52* – Clustered Indexes and B-Trees *00:13:32*…
Scrollway to Heaven: A Rewarding Return for Mark Oatis
Some sumptuous hand-carved scrollwork returns to its original designer after two decades’ service.
The Cheese Shops of Rome, Capital of Cheese
Roundup of the best places to eat cheese in Rome
AI NOC, Not AI-on-NOC: Aviz Flips the Stack
Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud. Most “AI for networking” pitches you’ve sat through this year work the same way: vendor has a controller, they…
Incompatible
Every couple of months, I get a wave of emotions where I feel incompatible with my husband. Nothing I like, he enjoys. I don’t think he finds me interesting, and frankly I don’t find him interesting…
Should I Keep Kesennuma a Secret?
I can't recommend highly enough that you visit Kesennuma on your next trip to Japan's Sanriku Coast. The post Should I Keep Kesennuma a Secret? appeared first on Japan Starts Here.
Alabaster Dawn – Early Access out NOW!
Hello everycabbage, The dawn is upon us. The… ALABASTER DAWN … Early Access Version. You can now buy it on Steam, here: Okay let’s move on! Why Early Access You might be wondering why we are using…
Criticize, but Also Search for Potential
Pharma blogger Derek Lowe offers good advice regarding a trap that many with experience in their professions can fall into. In "How Not to Be That Chemist," Lowe cautions against being too biased…
OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads for ChatGPT
OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT on Monday, open to U.S. advertisers in beta. The system uses cost-per-click bidding, conversion pixels, and a Conversions API. Four major agency…
PVM - PHP Version Manager for Windows
PVM (PHP Version Manager) is a Windows-native command-line tool that eliminates the complexity of managing multiple PHP versions on Windows systems. With simple commands like pvm use 8.2.0 or pvm…
Except
For my entire life, I have been against the death penalty. Murder is wrong. Period. Even if (insert ghoulish crime here)? Yes, even then. A life sentence without parole is acceptable to me. Except.…
Zharkova: Modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2053)
The two Principal Components (eigen vectors) derived with Principal Component Analysis from the solar background magnetic field defining two largest magnetic waves of the poloidal field of the Sun…
Thursday Morning Auto News, May 07, 2026: BYD, Tesla may face import caps in Canada. Honda reconsiders Canada plant. Musk tried to recruit Altman. More.
BYD, Tesla May Face Import Caps as Canada Works Out China EV Quota – Bloomberg Honda reconsiders Canada plant as U.S. demand for EVs slows – Japantimes Elon Musk tried to recruit Sam…
Unresolved questions across disciplines
I asked Claude: “What are the most effective and impactful ways you can help me?” One of its ideas was to ask it: What are the three questions this field has not resolved, where the…
vm2 Node.js Sandbox Escape 12 Critical Vulnerabilities Two Without a Patch
Twelve critical vulnerabilities were just published for vm2, a Node.js security library that sits inside millions of applications. Three of them score a perfect 10 out of 10. The creator shut the…
Stranger Things
A sequel to TestamentTestament.On an ordinary person’s extraordinary journey I became a Christian when I was nine years old. I don’t remember the moment. My mother tells me we were at…
Books
books Want to read ¶ The Star Diaries Stanisław Lem What Color Is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles Crafting Interpreters Robert Nystrom Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread…
holly hunter pt 2
27-04-26 Big thanks to Derek for flagging up Newhailes as a potential spot for Holly Blues. I think he may have been dogwalking there; and had noticed around ten HBs in passing. I thought that…
Lucky Wedding Dates: 2096 - Year of the Dragon
Where to find lucky wedding dates for year 2096? Lucky Wedding Dates: 2096 - Year of the Dragon ⇒ Lucky Wedding Dates: 2097 - Year of the Snake ⇐ Lucky Wedding Dates: 2095 - Year of the Rabbit ⇑…
Lucky Wedding Dates: 2095 - Year of the Rabbit
Where to find lucky wedding dates for year 2095? Lucky Wedding Dates: 2095 - Year of the Rabbit ⇒ Lucky Wedding Dates: 2096 - Year of the Dragon ⇐ Lucky Wedding Dates: 2094 - Year of the Tiger ⇑…
The Trump admin suddenly wants to regulate AI models
The New York Times had a story a few days ago about the Trump administration prepping an executive order regulating AI models:The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I.…
The Perfect Vaccine
by Gertrud U. Rey Contrary to popular belief, most vaccines don’t actually prevent infection with a pathogen, instead, they prevent the disease that follows infection. The human papillomavirus (HPV)…
The Mantra Ladder
A way to turn goals into mantras
Three Resume Tips
I have been asked a few times to review student resumes and in my current position I review quite a few resumes of potential candidates. I think a lot of resume advice out there is tied to…
delightful rediscovery 05-07-26
minimator. ( about ) ( github ) Minimator is a minimalist graphical editor. All drawings are made of lines in a grid based canvas. The lines are limited to vertical and horizontal lines, and quarter…
A Miscarriage of Justice?
Barbara Fried’s recent post on Substack , to my mind, lays out a devastating critique of the prosecution’s misappropriation theory of criminal liability in the trial of her son, Sam Bankman-Fried. If…
Into the gap
It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.
Delightfully Friday Junior: Who’s Actually on Your Team?
I’ve been putting off writing this for over a month. Turns out I find writing hard. Moving on. We’re into the next cycle of Delightfully Friday Junior. The format: one team member hosts 30 minutes,…
Learning JavaScript, Day 11 – Strings and Template Strings
All the things you can fit into strings. Plus 80s bands and dyeing my hair.
Impact of AlphaEvolve across fields
[Note] Impact of AlphaEvolve across fields
March 2026: Deciding where to go next; Kalady, Kerala; Camping in Taiwan
Bell and I spent March first in Kerala (a state in southwest India), then flew to Taiwan. From Taipei in the northwest, we got started cycling on a counterclockwise circumambulation known as 環島 /…
THE LAST TIME
Every experience in your life has a last time. You almost never know when it is. That's not a reason for guilt or grief — it's a reason to design your life with intention.
Interactive KL Divergence Visualisation
An interactive visualisation of Kullback–Leibler divergence. Shape two distributions and watch forward vs reverse KL, the pointwise integrand, and the effects of asymmetry, support mismatch and…
GPT-5.5 low vs medium vs high vs xhigh: the reasoning curve on 26 real tasks from an open source repo
An interactive GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-effort curve on 26 matched GraphQL-go-tools tasks: low, medium, high, and xhigh.
I added an apple-touch-icon by reading my own access logs
Stood up GoAccess on the production logs this morning. Noticed iOS clients 404'ing on /apple-touch-icon.png within minutes. Resized the admin avatar with PowerShell and System.Drawing, dropped the…
El Jardinero Gets Trimmed by Mexican Authorities
Mexican authorities have arrested Audias Flores Silva (aka El Jardinero…not the scariest nickname I’ve heard), a senior figure in the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. El Jardinero had been…
Finding What to Fine-Tune with Ablation
Ablation lets you disable parts of a model one at a time to figure out what each part does. Once you know which components handle a specific capability, you can fine-tune just those parts instead of…
Whatever Your Run Goal Is, Someone’s Mad
I was on a call with a runner I coach last week and she said “I feel kinda dumb that my goal is just to finish my first half without walking. My friend’s training for a sub-3 marathon and…
hyperactive radios
hyperactive radios "scenius" or just a crazy scene? you decide...
other people's stuff - may 2026
other people's stuff - may 2026 a bunch of my friends got backlinks. go check 'em out!
The Lighthouse Trip
During the last few days of April, my wife and I drove from our home in Georgia to Whitehall, Michigan. My sister invited me to join her in a group dedicated to the upkeep and management of five…