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Six years ago I spent a week training a neural network to write blog posts and the results were terrible. Now with LLMs I want to see how much easier and better the results are.

“Things I’m Not Eating Anymore” is a photography project I hope will also serve as motivation to continue improving my overall health and eating habits. You can read the first post in this series that does a much better job of explaining all that, here. For a brief period during elementary school, I attended after-school care at Mrs. Murray’s house on the Main Street of my hometown. She watched a …

I'm really proud to announce that my new book, Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works, is out now. This is a book that I would have devoured as a kid, as it makes critical connections between modern and prehistoric animals. Growing up it felt like we learned about two totally separate groups of animals: extinct dinosaurs and living everything else. The dinosaurs had their time, and now modern species had …

A Warren Buffett 'aphorism' from the FT.

At this point we may have recorded all of the instrumental parts. I mean, we reserve the right to add a trombone here or a french horn there, maybe a synth part, etc., but for now we have got all the instruments recorded according to the current plan. Next month we’ll work on backing and […]

Last year, I bought a Raleigh Randonneur touring frame, which I used as my commuting bike for work. For a while, it was brilliant, but last winter was pretty hard on it, and there were parts of the frame that weren’t properly painted or protected from the elements. So it got rusty, parts broke, and at the start of this year I abandoned it in favour of a NoLogo singlespeed. …

I know nothing about Deleuze and I’m not sure I know anymore after this but I learnt some things about cute / a book written by Oliver Sack’s partner about New York / public sector backlogs / a 2009 interview with umberto eco / increasing the accessibility of Powerpoint slides / Sono Electro 2024 Festival is coming up and run by a friend / the compositional device of Rückenfigur / …

Noren 415 / 514 This is a thing I've been working on since last year. The first time I made this image it was on the wooden palette that a block of frozen fish had been packaged with. Eventually it became a pen and ink drawing. Then a hoodie. And then a t-shirt. Both the hoodie and the t-shirt were unwelcome windows on to the limitations of contemporary print-on-demand textile …

“UW HUB Stop” by Oran Viriyincy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. This is a revised examination of a measurement of how individual transit routes contribute to overall access in Seattle. The first attempt was subject to a computational error that caused incorrect figures to be reported for certain routes. This iteration fixes that issue, and also uses updated schedules for King County Metro and Sound Transit that will take …

I carried out a preliminary excursion a few days in advance of Terminalia. I wanted to check if there was any safe and legal route I could take from the Beech Woods to Fulbourn Road. The Beech Woods are immediately South of the Worts Causeway, a road which sits on the boundary of the City and South Cambs District, at the Southern extremity of Cherry Hinton City Council Ward. But …

15 years ago I wrote about the names I give to devices I plug into my Mac:Macintosh has been associated with Apple since the launch of its original all-in-one computer in 1984, reportedly named after the pocket-sized McIntosh apple cultivar. So when it comes to providing names for the external devices I plug into my Mac (backup drives, iPods and my iPhone for example) it seemed like a good idea …

If you’ve been considering backing the Magick Show project on Kickstarter, you’ve got just 24 hours to go (depending on the time you are reading this of course.) It’s been a fun and super-rewarding process. Old friends—many who...

WHAT I SMELL: L’ÂME D’IRIS opens with a tender embrace of cashmere iris, warmed by a subtle kiss of mandarin. Dreamy from the first spritz, it feels like a celestial whisper. As time unfolds, the soft perfume is gently powdered with violet, replacing the mandarin’s sparkle. A familiar note of makeup emerges, fresh and promising, hinting at a glamorous evening ahead. Yet, this is no ordinary night; it’s an opera-worthy …

I do want to write about stock-picking. Because that morning, I had checked in on my portfolio. I finally got around to calling old 401k institutions to rollover the funds from old workplaces into a Traditional 401k. When I scrolled through my accounts, one stock caught my eye. I saw it and laughed. The post The Stock Pick That Tanked first appeared on Financial Mechanic.