The Matrix Trashfire
For reasons, I tried to evaluate the distributed Matrix chat and their clients. That did not work out very well. I was told that the default Matrix chat client is called Elements, so I looked it up on the iOS App store. Unfortunately, there are two, “Element” and “Element X.” No explanation is given, and […]
UFO: A UI-Focused AI Agent for Windows OS Interaction
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I Grew My Substack from 439 to 451 Free Subscribers in Just 11 Months
And how YOU can too! A lot of people have been talking recently about how to grow their platform on Substack. And since I’m something of an expert on Substack growth, I figured I’d chime in. Because I’ve grown my Substack from 439 free subscribers to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months. I know […]
The cruel Thames: the job of pulling bodies from a dark, dangerous river
Historic placenames along the River Thames in London once summed up its macabre past. There was Dead Man’s Dock at Deptford, Dead Man’s Steps at Wapping, and Dead Man’s Hole, which still exists, at Tower Bridge. They evoked stories of people who were executed, murdered or killed themselves. News that during the search for the […]
You Can’t Handle Errors
Well… not directly. It’s complicated. Having somewhat recently become a father (one of the reasons my writing has slowed down to a crawl), I’ve had to deal with a very particular kind of error output: crying. From a computational perspective, it’s about equivalent to the following: Loud and unspecific. Well, at least with a baby […]
Not all TLDs are Created Equal
Posted: Tue, 13 February 2024 | permalink | No comments In light of the recent cancellation of the queer.af domain registration by the Taliban, the fragile and difficult nature of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) has once again been comprehensively demonstrated. Since many people may not be aware of the risks, I thought I’d give a […]
UC Berkley: World Model on Million-Length Video and Language with RingAttention
Current language models fall short in understanding aspects of the world not easily described in words, and struggle with complex, long-form tasks. Video sequences offer valuable temporal information absent in language and static images, making them attractive for joint modeling with language. Such models could develop a understanding of both human textual knowledge and the […]
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
‘When it comes to the point’, wrote Roy Jenkins, ‘one of the clearest prerogatives of a Prime Minister is that of choosing the date of an election.’ Prime ministers agonise over the decision. But before 1918, the government only set the date of dissolution: the responsibility for choosing the nomination and polling days in each […]
Bob Moore, who founded Bob’s Red Mill, has died
A former gas station owner, he was learning to read the Bible in its original languages when he changed course and started what became an artisanal-grains powerhouse. Bob Moore, the grandfatherly entrepreneur who, with his wife, Charlee, leveraged an image of organic heartiness and wholesome Americana to turn the artisanal grain company Bob’s Red Mill […]
Portal
This page is a wiki. Please login or create an account to begin editing. Where are all the humans? Upon returning from your 100 year voyage in the milky way, you find earth empty and abandoned. Between the decaying remnants of civilization, you discover a terminal for Worldnet, the global network that recorded all human […]