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AI Interesting way to combine strengths and availability: Sakana Fugu — Multi-Agent System as a Model . See also: The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated AI Research, Now Published in Nature .…

My pastor recently recommended the book Leadership and Self-Deception (The Arbinger Institute (c) 2000, 3d ed 2018), which I read this past week. While the book does not acknowledge Christianity…

I turned some more Hetalia characters into Animal Crossing Villagers! I couldn’t resist drawing Turkey as a literal Turkey (although I couldn’t bring myself to make him completely bald)…

I’ve been thinking a lot about code generation with AI agents lately, and wanted to start writing a bit about how I’m approaching the pro

Perhaps the most important economics research paper in several decades was recently published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and it has largely gone unnoticed. It reveals that the Japanese…

Along with our weekly Bizarro comics, we announce the all new Summer line of Bizarro swag. New shirts, cups, mugs, and stuff!

Leadership the NASA Way with Coach BZ

Lore It was mid-May. I was a couple of weeks into catching up on post-training literature and learning reinforcement learning for LLMs in a more bottom-up way. Having done some basic experiments, I…

Peter Brass is a prior NSF theory director. He has written an intelligent guest post on the new NSF guidelines that we present here. You have received many mails regarding the proposed OMB Uniform…

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Here is a excerpt as part of the series I’ve created for my Spark My Muse YouTube Channel (Here’s the link to find the rest: youtube.com/@Sparkmymuse) This part 4 in the series of 7…

(Note: I've updated this post: see the solution at the end .) Emacs has a useful function called bookmarks, where you can make short names for files you visit often. But bookmarks has one terrible…

Posted 28 June 2026 When I work on significant projects like the vision-enhanced robot project, I generally hold two different but related mental maps for the overall project. One map describes the…

Hells yeah Johnny Cash, first musician i've fell in love with listening to!!!!!

World's First Trillionaire is Killing the World's Poorest Children

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I quite enjoyed this talk from Bryan Cantrill where he discusses the difficult engineering problems they overcame while working on their company Oxide. Some of the problems they ran into were bugs.…

In a recent digest I linked to Herman’s post post about resurfacing old blogs. In that entry, the posts he chose to resurface were the ones about his journalling[1] journey, and this inspired me to…

Books about the restoration of Balintore Castle are now available on Amazon - hurrah! Dylan Mballa has written a Spanish language version with a beautiful cover that looks like the label of an…

🔔 Update (June 30, 2026) Great news, the maintainer, Dhruv Bhanushali (@dhruvkb), saw this post and is fixing the PyPI confusion. The Rust version is being published to PyPI again, so uv tool, pipx,…

As someone who has spent a lot of time with photobooks — presenting them online, teaching how to make them, writing about them in a critical fashion, making them myself, over the years the most…

Some countries have already begun to 'show their teeth' regarding accessibility ignorance, but many others are still waiting. It is time for harmonization on this level as well.

“𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕.” I couldn’t agree more. As a certified romance girlie, I can totally relate to Indy’s notions about love. But there’s no perfect formula for loving…

início "Vocês vêem? Vêem a história? Vêem alguma coisa? Me parece que estou tentando lhes contar um sonho -- fazendo uma tentativa inútil, porque nenhum relato de sonho pode transmitir a sensação de…

Agentic coding and Free Software - getting started with LLMs with WindSurf systemd for Linux SysAdmins - there is a book out about systemd - history and usage vmsync - released vmsync . A small…

plus a new photo hub page linking to it and other galleries

Yamuna's Incense in Kaunas , Lithuania's second largest city, is a marriage of Indian and Lithuanian cultures. Yamuna tells me that "Yamuna’s Incense is conceptualized in Lithuania, most of the…

I recently spent a few hours viewing a huge trove of videos on the YouTube channel Fantasy Universe. These are all generated by some unidentified person or group using artificial intelligence.…

Mythos gets reinstated, but we may be seeing the end of widely shared leading AI models.

Bloom filters and their descendants trade a bounded, one-sided, tunable error for a space collapse exact structures can't match. The whole family, with the math.

Everyone talks about what AI can do. Nobody talks about what it costs you. A practical look at context switching, the vampiric effect, and how I keep agents on my terms.

I am working on a project that combines Swift, Raylib, and Raygui. I don’t really know what the end-goal is here, but I am having fun. That’s enough for me to work occasionally on that. I…

Extracts from a chapter titled “Diseases of civilization” in a 2007 book, ‘The diet delusion’ (or ‘Good calories, bad calories’) by Gary Taubes. The extracts discuss medical surveys and reports from…

Nasal sprays and personalized peptide binders for respiratory viruses.

by 2050 all the original King of the Hill episodes will be lost media, only survived by their youtube poop versions. another 200 years and these will be considered canonical

In my previous posts I have always alluded to sharing my rss list, and the places I particularly enjoy reading for a variety of things, from criticism to news. This page got finished a few months…

Over two months ago, I launched an update to my site. I would feel uncomfortable using the word redesign. Most of the work was behind the scenes. The post Redecoration and un-Sassing my site appeared…

I haven’t worked Field Day in years. I used to go out with the Ohio State club (W8LT) back in the early 2000’s, but haven't done much with it since. I didn’t have any real plans to operate this year…

My last post concluded with the surprise weekend trip I organised to the Isle of Wight for Randi’s birthday, but the honest truth is that this was always a bit of a knock-off of Randi’s…

Tax has long been regarded as one of the great advisory disciplines within professional services. It sits at the intersection of regulation, finance, corporate strategy and governance. That…

June 2022, Indianapolis

Hello, SDL! 2026-06-28 Commit: 03feb13 All projects have to start somewhere. The rendering infrastructure is set up to render a fullscreen quad. SDL_GPU is used as the rendering abstraction. The…

Even order-of-magnitude improvements in performance may not matter.

I pulled a rather dramatic move at the airport last night. 😱😅 Think General Hospital–level drama (if you’re old enough to remember). I was sending my guests—my ex in‑laws and extended family—off at…

Introducing The Grumpystack Analogue Public Licence. It's like the creative commons Attribution-Sharealike, but: You are not permitted to process, store, or transmit the licensed material using a…

Am I feeling better after working out consistently for three weeks? I would have to say absolutely.

Traditionally, when setting up a developer machine, instructions include something like “install the following tools using Homebrew”. What if we could always have tools available without…