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OpenAI (who owns ChatGPT) released a new model today. It is called o1. The main difference between models like 4o is it inherently performs chain of thought reasoning when producing an answer. What is chain …

Olympic Silver Medal Finally Awarded to Tim Koleto Today, my friend Tim Koleto was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal with the Japan figure skating team in Paris at the Victory Ceremony near the Eiffel Tower …

Oh. I am so excited for this one!DC Heroes Role-Playing Game 40th Anniversaryhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze/dc-heroes-role-playing-game-40th-anniversary?ref=theotherside I really had a lot of fun with DC Heroes, and I am a huge DC fan. This Kickstarter is not yet …

Today’s post is by author Elinor Florence. Several years ago, I participated in National Novel Writing Month, a creative writing event known as NaNoWriMo. I joined hundreds of thousands of other writers around the planet …

I’m doing some cleaning, made a checklist, then thought: A checkbox has 2 states: ( unchecked, checked ) Hmm… So, I start thinking: a To-Do list of checkboxes a ToDo list of 2 state entities …

In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. …

Pre-made "skinny" stones being bulked with foam. Inspector Vulture approves.Shaped and coated with joint compound over paper mache'.Painted black and dry-brushed white.While I have several ideas for scratch-built monuments, this was another year to simply …

The night side of Pluto spans

I thought it’d be fun to celebrate spooky season with a little stats punny plot. We’re going to turn a normal distribution into a paranormal distribution! HA! Ok first let’s get some packages. library(tidyverse) library(tweenr) …

At the age of seven, I waved a medical encyclopedia in front of my parents and announced that I had “free-floating anxiety”. The book was one of only a few we had in the house, …

Sunset in a wing mirror Seen while driving on a Summer evening in West Cork, many years ago. Quote of the Day I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time …

Stories are Weapons by Annalee Newitz (Norton, 2024) Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different. Here, Annalee Newitz outlines the ways that psychological warfare evolved from a tool …

Fishing of late has taken bit of a back seat recently owing to my constant hectic work schedule, so in this episode of James' Angling Adventures we re-cap on the highlights of how my season …

My relationship with photography continues to evolve. Lately it’s become much more personal, useful for holding memories of family and travel close to the heart and less to discover poetry in light. Yet there are …

Having boarded our flight to Türkiye (estimated flight time of three and a half hours) with a two- and a four-year old, E—— received a text from the airline telling us our flight had been …