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Little N scale Beaverbrook doesn’t get out much So I go to it And on the first sunny morning of October we came together as if we were going somewhere.

Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI in the New Yorker started slow for me, and having read a lot …

Maybe electric outboards aren’t just for occasional use or short trips

Cold-weather ski apparel, a remote-controlled smart wagon, and sleekly technical shoulder bags were just some of the top drops that stood out in September. Delve in and discover all of these and more as we check out the month’s best new gear below… EDC Malboro & Kane MiniPen The most handy pen is the one you have on you and with Malboro & Kane’s MiniPen, there’s no reason not to …

Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October!Longtime AI Weirdness readers may recognize some of these. That's because this is a throwback list, all the way back to the times of very tiny language models. These models had not feasted on huge chunks of the internet, but had sipped delicately on hand-curated artisanal datasets. They trained rather slowly on …

Look at how this protective mamma bear holds her cub in her arms to give him a bit of a wash. Her gentle maternal care is truly touching. This mamma has spent late Autumn to Spring in a cave, having birthed them while still hibernation and staying in the den to feed them on her milk.Black bear cubs stay with their mamma for the first one to three years of …

I have not decided yet what this structure is - maybe will later. It was scratch built based on a sketch I drew. It is two stories with an outside stair case. I put a plastic kit carriage on the right side under the upper porch. Above is a front view of the structure. On the upper porch is a figure and a chair. Below the porch is the carriage …

Dan Hancox has written a great piece on 'Debunking the weird myths about London's 24-hour party people' in which he rightly takes to task some dubious claims made in the Times and elsewhere that London nightlife is in terminal decline. He rightly critiques some very dubious data, such as relying on Google Maps to show venues with late night licenses. Specifically he skewers a map included in the Times article …

I've noticed a fair bit of chatter about syndicating to other platforms material that you've published on your own website from the likes of Molly White, Dave Winer, Manuel Moreale, and even n3verm0re. Molly White is singing the praises of what the IndieWeb people call POSSE. Dave Winer gave up on POSSE in 2017 because catering to platforms that didn't support links was making him a worse writer. n3verm0re finds …

Two weeks ago, I published my article UV – I am (somewhat) sold. Since then, a lot has changed for me. I switched all my personal projects to uv from poetry. I have set up a plan how and when to convert our company projects to uv. I am a fan. (And I still hope that I don’t get stomped by the elephant.) After my post, I received a lot …

This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus. Translated by A. Raid. The Hero's Ride. Tallinn: Estonia. (90 p.) 1963.I think the translated title is : "To the Moon with …

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth documentation of Conway's programming language out there. Now Lie In It, a look back at what has happened with Uxn since its creation 4 years …

I often think about writing a feature like writing a story. If I do my job well, it is coherent and easy to read, write, and maintain. When there's a lot of indirection, it feels like a book with its pages out-of-order. There seems to be a lot of similarities as well. We have readers, it just so happens that our readers are machines -- as well as our colleagues. …

Thanks for spelling it out for me. It's been a while since I played a session of this game, and it took me more than an hour to review my past entries and notes and get myself oriented. Rather than spend a lot of time recapping here, I'll direct you to the beginning of my last entry on the game, which summarizes the plot and the major missions as I …

Delia returned to the intimate By Our Own Hands We Make Our Way for its Fourth Happening. The evening began with ambient bliss from C5&C6, followed by a fascinating talk from Caroline Locke about her sound artworks. Headliners, The Low Drift, performed an evocative set of songs about land and place. As ever, host Simon Rudkin tied things together with poetry and storytelling. I love being a part of this …