Teaching folks how to use AI includes conveying the scope of what aspects of problem solving can benefit from use of AI. The following list is not exhaustive, but is sufficient to help newbies…

How to design agents as a graph, run them through a harness that keeps them reliable, sandbox them because you can’t just trust what they do. (This is a follow-up to AI Writes Code, You Own the…

And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]

Oberbozen is situated above Bozen, and you get a nice view of the Dolomites. Bozen, however, didn’t convince us as much - we should’ve returned earlier to Lago di Caldaro to swim some more.

Hello! I am super uber busy with school at this moment, hope everyone is having fun in their first week of school, even though I started early.

In May 1942, the high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”, was attacked in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance agents in an assassination operation…

One of the things I’ve spent a significant amount of time on is some Agent Foundations-adjacent philosophy work.While I’ve put together reading lists and simulation environments, I have mostly…

I wrote a whole other post that was super long just talking about how shitty I feel but frankly rereading it made me sick lol. Coping is the mechanism in which we as sentient creatures use to process…

I've been saying "life is so beautiful" more often because my best friend started saying it. Whenever I eat a yummy dish or something nice happens to me or i have an exceptional bowel movement, ive…

cw: smoking Since my last relapse post, I've struggled on and off to maintain a general sobriety from smoking cigarettes. I bought two packs the other day despite telling myself I would only get…

weather: ☀️ melting critters: fuck going outside today, honestly the proust questionnaire was floating around bearblog some months ago--let's do the rosanna greenstreet one from the guardian what is…

In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.

I thought it prudent after the last entry to refrain from further comment on Bartz until after all appeals were timely filed. Two were: Edelson, PC v. Anthropic PBC, No. 26–5391 (9th Cir., filed 18…

Spotify lets you request all the data it has on your account. It provides a ton of data, including detailed data about every track you’ve ever played on the service … Continue reading…

On the second day of a road trip I took last year, my trunk was already full and my mother was sharing the back seat with four bottles of wine, two hats, a few liters of apple juice and a box of…

I'm still cooking.

In the last version (1.5.2) I added the Contrast group blend modes: Soft, hard, vivid, linear and pin light as well as hard mix. But that picker menu was getting awfully long and it could sometimes…

My hobby: following GOV.UK to look for interesting announcements. Today was an update on the MOD’s Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce which was previously announced in June during London Tech Week. I…

Ignoring this site for as long as I have has led to it being broken for a couple of months. If you’re seeing this post, great! It works again. What happened? Well, my site’s been running…

Scripts and instructions for migrating a VBulletin5 system to Discourse

I don’t usually, but did today. I stopped at a Starbucks I used to frequent because I had some time to kill. I figured if I was going to sit for a while, I would be a considerate person and…

There's a term I like: 'innovation theatre'. It's used to describe when a business does things that look like innovation but really aren't. Hackathons with no real meaning,…

It's time to decide what this art means At least to me Is it tugging heart strings Or an echo chamber for hollow screams That never reach Practice what I preach But I'm too empty to fill these cups…

Teenage Engineering SP-1 Stem Player I know very little about this device and only recently even heard that it existed; however, what I have learned is that at some point Teenage Engineering and…

Big announcement! An exciting and important update: I’m very pleased to announce that OldInsuranceMaps.net is now officially a Charter Project of OpenStreetMap US! OSM US is a US-based…

August 25, 2026 I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard Shaw noted,…

Esports has become a thing - and with it a whole industry branch around it.

I frequently see statements about differences between strongly ordered architectures (like x86 or SPARC) and weakly ordered architectures (like ARM or RISC-V), with the confident assertion that…

I have scanned in lots of 1990/2000s "Palmtop" magazines and list some of the articles within them, and their future predictions: "Do you remember when you didn't have a palmtop computer? Life was so…

I was the guest in the newsroom at KTVU, based in Oakland, CA, to talk about my Water Tasting Classes. The segment went super fast, but I overcame my cringe to watch it and I think I did pretty good!…

My last harvest of the 2026 season with Glorious Grasslands on a rescheduled day due to heavy rain forecast later this week....

I’ve never been too far from a camera. Ever since my parents gave me a Miranda Sharpshooter for Christmas at the age of 8, I’ve had a succession of different cameras. As I reached my late 20s and…

Everything in my lyfe is going to get a little more enchanted over the next couple of months and I can't wait but also I can because tbh I need to take it slow and enjoy summer because it's sooo…

i'm still smiling, in spite of it all the ache in my chest doesnt quite go away, but it's balanced out by the golden sparks crackling along my ribs butterflies in my tummy orbiting their ball of…

Overview Last week’s post closed with a promise that was really four promises: preview environments per change, release trains where stable and canary share a namespace, weighted traffic…

when people can’t control you, you may witness them try all tactics and throw all kind of drama at you. when people can’t influence you, they may get very angry at you. when people can’t overpower…

Thoughts 💭 I saw a YouTube video titled "Gen X aren't burnt out, they're done." I absolutely feel that. I'm done with the crap. I'm done with the endless struggle. The endless and ever…

Illogical Assumptions About Names (421 words) by ilzolende Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek , Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply…

First, a modeling progress update Since my last post about interesting machine learning challenges in Magic: The Gathering, I’ve made some really promising progress on training a modified…

I didn’t even have a chance to forget that awful runoff today. I went to my allergist for a shot, and as I was leaving… there was Henry. Also waiting for a shot. I stopped to say hi, and…

Full transcript Page 1 Panel 1: A woman with short spiky hair, jan Aki, is walking down the street. Panel 2: jan Aki: "seme?" Panel 3: The panel shows a second person, jan Mamolu a tired looking…

In 1936 a revolutionary movement swept the Spanish state. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918/1919 it was one of the most important workers' revolutions in history.…

Well, truth be told these are not all that new (couple of months), but I finally have gotten around to research it. So, let's see what's what. For starters I need some test data. Luckily, I have…

Collectively speaking humans have always been terrible at programming. Let's look at some real examples

Sometimes when I see a plane flying overhead, I’m thankful I’m not on it. That I can stretch out, that I’m comfortable, and that isn’t me. This is not one of those times.…

At last, September is coming. The summer is officially ending, brats are going back to school, parents are going back to work, there are less and less insects attacking you in the forest, you don't…

Nothing makes me miserable than a leaky roof, I seldom thought of this when living with my parents. At first I was defeated, it was just “broken”, in reality nothing exist in a binary…

It was around noon on Friday and I was sitting in my office at work. My boss had left about an hour earlier, and my side of the building had turned into a ghost town as it usually does on Fridays and…

Adam McKay, director of Don't Look Up, points out what should be obvious but is easy to ignore. Like all grand lies, “we have more time” takes many different forms, often focus-grouped. There are the…