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I’ve had an idea for a new blog series for quite some time now, and I thought that today was a perfect day for my first entry. Over the decades, I’ve seen innumerable noirs – …

Downtown Atlanta. (Source: Flickr/David.) North American office districts still haven’t fully recovered from pandemic-era declines and subsequent shifts toward remote or hybrid work. Many American cities have a crisis of available or affordable housing. Atlanta’s …

In late February, the BART board held its annual board workshop. Major themes this year were financial stability and improving customer experience to regrow ridership. The need for a sustainable funding strategy including new funding …

Happy Friday! Happy St. Patty’s Day! As far as I know, I’ve no Irish in my ancestry. I will be wearing green today – unintentionally. I grabbed a green shirt from the drawer when I …

NB: The featured image is of snowdrops in one of my back beds — the recent snow melted in that area and there they were, on March 18. Spring is springing! (I mean, here in …

Zabrałem się w wolnym czasie za nowy projekt i powoli powstaje nowe oprogramowanie, niebędące grą, na Amstrada CPC. Pomyślałem, że dzielenie się przemyśleniami z tego... Read more

We think of people as settling down when they get older, getting more set in their ways. But that hasn’t been my experience. Instead as I get older, I’m itching to get weirder. I think …

How it started: How it was going: How it ended: (Yes, I sliced my mozzarella instead of tearing it. I know it’s not traditional, but I like the more even covering.)

This is one of those posts where the title pretty much says it all, but here’s the detailed version. Recap: the 2013 paper In Matt’s and my 2013 paper Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in …

In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that …

Whenever people think of AI's going rogue, they think of a Terminator like scenario: the AI says F*ck it, don't need to humans no more. Let's kill them allCue inspirational music and our heroes fightin' …

Today I'm working on the chapter of The Art of Insight devoted to Deniz Cem Önduygu. Deniz is the author of an impressive mnemonic interactive diagram of influential philosophers. He designed it for himself to …

My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than decent. For most things the camera is good enough. It has a headphone jack. Good …

Conversing with Destiny A Dialogue on Free Will between AI and Humanity · March 15th, 2023 Content Warning: Strong language A friend of mine wrote a ChatGPT IRC bot recently, which is great, because now …

I’ve gone down into the depths these last couple of weeks with IndieWeb, POSSE and a whole bunch of other arcane terminology. Now that I’ve come up for air, let’s chat about it.