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[Web master's note: Northern California film critic Derrick Bang — the eldest, youngest and only son of this site's primary jazz guru, Ric Bang — has surveyed the holiday jazz scene for more than a …

The fourth path TL; DR – AI systems enhance human autonomy if we deliberately design them that way. This piece proposes one piece of that puzzle: ensuring the data that underpins AI models is bespoke, …

I’ve noticed some erratic behavior with the Spotify for Creators app lately. Every morning, over coffee, I read through the comments on the app and reply when appropriate. However, I haven’t been able to access …

Important things first: 27 January there's a python meetup in Leiden (NL) of the new python Leiden user group. Meetup groups come and go, often depending on one or two people or on a company …

I run some lightweight privacy-respecting self-hosted analytics for my blog, so I know what my most popular posts were in 2024. It's hardly surprising that many of these were also published last year, but they …

The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent display of fascism. (Don’t call them camps!) But even if it’s a …

8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!

Sometimes, I’ve just felt a meeting or pitch slipping away from me. In desperation, I start to thrash around for a way out – throwing new ideas or angles into the conversation, trying to dig …

This is a test to see if I can write from the comfort of my bed using a wireless keyboard with my Onyx BOOX Note Air 2 e-ink tablet. The answer, with a bit of …

Robin Rendle quoting Chris Armstrong: … Chris [Armstrong] argues that personal websites could become more like wikis instead: With digital gardens, every new piece of content in the network has the potential to add depth …

Today I learned that if you suppress the exception KeyboardInterrupt then your program is still interrupted but it doesn't display a traceback. Interrupting scripts without tracebacks The module contextlib provides a context manager called suppress …

We just wrapped up our 13th conference. This was our first three-day event. Up until this one, all past FLOCK events basically fit into a single day. Each event has its own theme, curated for …

You’re forgiven if you have never heard of “I Prefer Rewards.” I hadn’t until they were added as a Citi ThankYouPoints transfer partner. And when they were added, it mostly didn’t matter. The program was …

[This post has been auto-deleted several times, presumably at the request of Carla Rossi, and every time it is reviewed, Google reinstates it quickly ... again and again]A couple of weeks ago I said on …

I covered Showtime’s marvelous film noir series, Fallen Angels, in my second volume. This anthology show delivered six episodes in the summer of 1993, followed by another nine in the autumn of 1995. Each playlet …