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There’s not much in this post, but I wanted to mark a significant date. It is the first day of the rest of 2023, but in addition, it is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Yesterday was my last day as an employee of the University of Southern … Click to continue reading this post → The post And so it begins… appeared first on Asymptotia.

Whenever I’m stuck on a writing project—an all-too-frequent occurrence—I usually try to find my way forward by contemplating a single question: How can I shift what I’m trying to say without reaching for cliches? Because a lot of the time, the reason I’m banging my head against the wall is because I’m taking an approach to the material that’s too conventional or predictable. So I force myself to take a …

202311″ x 7″ x 10″Bronze This self portrait was generated by using a 3D scanner to scan my face, illustrating how the technology imperfectly sees me. The result is full of artifacts. Pieces of skin floating above my face, deranged features, soulless eyes. This is how the machines see us. The 3D scan that the scanner produced is shown below in all its disturbing glory: And here are a few …

I’m writing these notes from a train on Platform 6 in Leeds station, the second of four trains that will take me to Brighton for tomorrow’s Brighton Ruby conference. To be even more specific, as with my past two weeknotes, I’m using iA Writer and Working Copy to publish these on the move. The liquidation of my company is steadily progressing with all debts settled and a shareholders’ meeting scheduled …

Congratulations, Second Life®, for achieving two decades of continuous existence!

Rollage vol6: Traditions EP by Dusk + BlackdownI've interviewed 100s of dance music producers over decades & I've spotted a pattern. Unlike, say, songwriters there's usually more stories behind the music, titles and art work than is immediately obvious when simply listening to the track. I think producers should do more to tell those stories, so walk the walk, here's some thoughts

Last month I was at WashU campus for the Bayesian-for-nuclear-physics workshop. Today I am in WashU again: This time it is for StanCon 2023. Here is some of the random takeaway I obtain from the conference: John Kruschke discussed Barg: the Bayesian analysis reporting guidelines. It is a decision-theory-orientated framework of workflow, including guidance for data analysts, reviewers and method developers. For example, instead of looking at the confidence interval …

Hungary, 1977: CS 05 SZ 1 AVA split-level house with three bedrooms, one of which can be separated into two rooms with a sliding door.A magánlakásépítés ajánlott tervei 1. Családi házak by Építésügyi Tájékoztatási Központ, 1977. (Budapest, Hungary) —from my library

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from all of them: what would Steve (Jobs) say? Steve would call the Vision Pro a “hobby,” just as he did with the original Apple TV. You know I’m correct about this. And the fact that …

Singapore is the only country in the world where it’s legal to sell “cultivated” (lab-grown) meat for human consumption, and Huber’s Bistro in Singapore is the only restaurant in the world that actually sells the stuff. But you can’t just waltz in and try it: only on Thursdays are there 12 portions up for grabs at lunchtime, and to score one, you need to snap it up when bookings open …

One thing you notice, working at a grocery store, is the number of people in your area who are eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also called SNAP, and previously called the Food Stamp Program, but referred to more colloquially as EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer). It’s a government-issued card that helps people in tight financial situations to pay for groceries. Presumably, if you saw someone using the card, you …

Before you read this, I suggest you read section 10 of post 22.10. In post 22.10 we saw that integration reverses the process of differentiation. Suppose f and f’ are functions of x only and that f’ = df/dx. (2) To evaluate the integral we recognise the function f that satisfies equation 2. Then Sometimes this is easy but sometimes it isn’t. For example, in post 22.16, we saw that …

As usual, I wanted a Skaven class for LotFP, as I have a ton of Skaven miniatures. This allows players to pick a Skaven PC, or create leveled Skaven NPCs if you so wish.Class features:High Poison Save (they live in sewers and use a lot of poison themselves)Multiple attacks - the ability to unlock two weapon fighting and tail fighting.Adventures In Parn Playtest IV - Skaven (1 page pdf)Check out …