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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C.

When I worked at NSF (198-2015), my PhD in applied mathematics, in the school of Von Neumann, let me probe the front lines of more disciplines than anyone else there. But the NEW tools, from LLMs to…

DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework it uses to serve its own models, under Apache 2.0. What it does, what it leaves out, and why it matters more than it looks.

The decoder of GLM-5, a mixture-of-experts model of about 750 billion parameters with sparse attention and 256 experts per layer, runs on an NVIDIA A100 through 28 GPU kernels written in Vx and…

Samson Dauda, 2026Just to start off with a concrete example, there was a disembodied stagehand’s hand backstage that reached up and helped the center stage doors close almost every time a…

MASSIVE Content Warning. This is an adult visual novel with gruesome imagery, and mature and unsettling themes, including sexual violence and suicide. (Also, this review does not contain any major…

I just learned that some private keys leaked for a widely-trusted certificate authority. This is bad: it makes it possible for attackers to impersonate HTTPS services.If you’re shipping a mobile app…

I'm trying something new:Second Violin Advisory | Engineering leadership coaching and advisoryCoaching and advisory for engineering leaders: executive coaching, engineering organization reviews…

A non-exhaustive list of home offices (hopefully still) available on the internet: Stefan Didak: https://www.stefandidak.com/wp/ and https://www.stefandidak.com/office/ Mitch's Crazy Office:…

Yesterday I was able to vote early at my local town hall. I had to go there to pay my property tax. The process could not have been easier or...

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the administrative body for Tirumala Temple , commissioned Darshan International of Bangalore to create incense sticks using recycled temple flowers as part of…

Today I’m reviewing Angel Olsen’s 2016 album My Woman, which has been given an impressive 10th-anniversary pressing from Mobile Fidelity. But first...A quick reminder that our October…

In an effort to quell the needs of my tyrannical overlords, who insist that I pay my mortgage and bills every month, I work about four different jobs. One of those jobs is writing tests for the UK…

These days I'm always behind the curve, so it seems. I was recently offered this blue vinyl copy of the Dynamite 'Settle The Score' 7" and thought I was keeping myself up to date... only to realise…

​A new documentary streaming on Prime Video today for $19.98 claims to have definitive proof that the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film is a hoax, as skeptics have long maintained. Marq…

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Fanny Tunison of Sag Harbor, New York, (September 1867 – March 1944) made a living sewing, painting, drawing, and embroidering. But unlike other women who may have…

I’ve long be Linux curious, and my wish finally came true over the weekend when my son installed Fedora and GNOME on an old ThinkPad for me. As I understand it, Fedora is the name of one of the Linux…

Oh hey there. ö/ It's been a while. Long story short: things n stuff. I do have an upcoming blog post titled something along the lines of "Getting on Stage for the Very First Time to a Completely…

Two panels at Women's Health Advocates in Chicago shared personal stories of breast cancer, maternal health, and fighting to be heard, plus a reminder to vote with women's health in mind.

I was up against a very short deadline to defend my water rights the last few days. I called around to several water rights attorneys for help, and every single one of them recommended the same guy.…

A library of ASCII art, but animated! You can browse a ton of scenes and data built with ASCII characters of your choice and even generate your own.

$942,068.68.I know that number to the cent because somebody made sure that I did, and twenty years later I still can't round it off in my head.I was in my twenties at DTCC, the company that…

A human with calipers and an agent with a CAD script put four printable parts online in eight days. Every mistake between them was a stand-in that crossed the gap in place of the real thing.

Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) has just released the twelfth edition of the Instrument Rating Oral Exam Guide by Jason Blair. Content is aligned with the Airman Certification Standards (ACS)…

I’ve been testing Grok Bot and Instinct for a while. As I was recently in the US for a couple of weeks, I included Dots and Muse in the test. This morning I added Wabi. These are my first…

Many websites have started running some sort of “human-verification” script before showing the content. I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes (these seem to be much…

Given that I typically take a wait-and-see attitude when Apple introduces a new product, I was surprised to find myself ordering a HomeView within a day of its announcement. I was even more surprised…

Cooke has announced the S4 FF/i series, a set of six full-frame prime lenses that brings the S4 name back in a new format. The set covers 18mm to 100mm at a constant T2.0, in PL or LPL mount, and is…

I don't know if you've seen this, but a CA just got popped. Their keys got leaked, which means the industry as a whole now has some pretty major problems. It was revealed two hours…

"The promotion [of AI] is important, otherwise from both a research perspective and a preparing our students for the future [perspective,] we will fall behind." This assertion, which I will leave…

A document app adds trash and restore. Each requirement looks fine, but together they conflict, and a check written for the old version catches it. A minimal example of formal methods for evolving…

The U.S. consolidated press once again demonstrates its dedication to lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism.

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]The idea is simple: If there’s a fire in a tall building that blocks the main stairwell, people need an alternative way to…

Work is coming along very fast now on my multi-journal app for Mac.

How a Fourier neural operator turns an input into a prediction, step by step, with two small trained models running in your browser.

As a fair warning, this will contain spoilers on the Street Fighter movie as I will discuss elements of the film I enjoy. I am a massive Street Fighter 2 fan. The game came out when I was 7 but it…

Deep in the dense chaparral of California’s foothills, a bizarre predator stalks its prey. Without warning, its jointed legs extend upward like a telescoping tripod, elevating its body far…

My observation of air travel is that if there is one significant impact on a flight, there are guaranteed two additional impacts. An example: if my gate changes at the last moment, it is quite likely…

Every relative that Gabe Kotter told a story about on Welcome Back, Kotter

I perpetually struggle with deciding whether I want to make a big change in a small part of the world, or a small impact that is broader. Part of the reason I have such a diverse range of roles…

I launched Just Movie this week, where I judge cinema as either It’s Film or Just Movie. Basically, I’ve extended this blog with a custom made WordPress plugin that Claude and I wrote,…

Art by Chakkree Chantakad from Pixabay. Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This may surprise you, but... The post TRANS ALLEGORIES IN POPULAR MUSIC, PART 1 first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

The Circleville Pumpkin Show, Lantern Festivals, Markets and more! Welcome back, festival fans. It’s a weekend of biggest Pumpkin Festival that Ohio has to offer! Festivals continue to go down…

Indonesian’s Bunaken National Marine Park is a world-class scuba diving destination known for its dramatic vertical drop-off walls, crystal-clear water, and abundant, diverse marine life.…

After about a year of using CTactical bags, I started feeling as if something was “off.” Could be comfort, could be lack of organization, or could be something else. Sometimes, it’s…

© Howard Gardner 2026As part of a celebration of D-Day, the teacher of one of my grandchildren mentioned World War II. As an after-thought, the teacher added that World War II had been caused by…

I already mentioned the Calibre application in a previous post but this time I set it up properly in order to to store and manage all the books that I bought on Humble Bundle and the Kobo store . To…