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I miss blogging. I’ve been publishing a newsletter on Substack for years, since it was a simple platform to publish a letter. These days, it feels like so much more. So many things going on, so much noise. It feels like a social media platform now. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I know lots of writers (and celebrities, content creators, podcasters, etc.) that are thriving in this environment. Substack …

I remember, in the dilapidated church of Thouzon, which we visited on one of our excursions in Vaucluse, the Cathar dove carved inside the architrave of a window in such a way that no one could see it without looking in the opposite of the usual direction.from Self-Portrait in the Studio by Giorgio Agamben

There has been a need for lots of spells recently. Yesterday Mr BW found a dead sparrowhawk in the greenhouse...

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I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people never read books—they just write them. To write a book, of course, one must read a good few. But the distinction I …

What is the smallest number of points in the -dimensional (hyper)cube needed to hit every -dimensional subcube? To be clear, a subcube of dimension is obtained by fixing coordinates to some specific values and then letting the other coordinates vary. Therefore, in total there are copies of in and our set of points must intersect each of them. For example, and an optimal construction is shown below with the red …

How do you pronounce the name Jrue? The question is straightforward enough. The answer, though, leads us into a thorny maze of names, language, culture and identity. Because Jrue, as in basketball star Jrue Holiday, is a phonetic spelling. It’s the familiar name Drew, but spelled like it sounds…to some people. The D/J Divide English speakers are split on the pronunciation of the consonant combo DR. To some it’s simply …

Photos by Kasper Mundt-Nielsen This editorially independent podcast has been supported by VISITFLANDERS as part of the “Straight Talk” series of podcasts. podcast is about Belgian Beer World, the new visitor experience housed in the iconic Bourse building in Brussels’ city centre. The podcast features an in-depth interview with Krishan Maudgal, Director of the Belgian Brewers Federation, about the obstacles the project faced: the huge costs required a robust public-private …

The Little Park, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, gouache on parchment, roughly 8 x 10″ (20 x 24 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. I had the pleasure of seeing this delightful little gouache painting by the 18th century French Rococo painter in a show at the Morgan several years ago. I was aware of the larger oil of the same subject in the Wallace Collection in England …

Translating the title is a neat illustration of how, even in prose, “literal” isn’t all people care about. The Russian title Ottsy i deti (Отцы и дети, 1862) has symmetrical regular plural endings and means “fathers and children.” The possible alternative Ottsy i synov’ia would have unmatched endings and mean “fathers and sons.” (IIRC Nabokov preferred Invitation to a Beheading to the literal Invitation to an Execution for the opposite …

A small release of swindle, a blackmagic derivative with rust in it :Changelog (short):- Better CH32v3xx support (host and target)- Rewrote ADiv logic so that we can ...- Use RP2040 PIO hardware to drive SWD- Update to latest blackmagicand still the Main features :- Run on GD32F303, CH32V303, RP2040- Support ARM devices and WCH riscv devices (CH32V2xx and CH32V3xx)- Soft breakpoint to debug code in ram (Arm only for now)- …

A raw, stylised yet functional site for Chesas da Cultura Engiadina, featuring an almost isometric slideshow transition of architectural images with use of mix-blend mode, blurs and opacity sitewide creating a soft layered effect. View on hoverstat.es

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 …