Of Psion and Symbian
In 1984, there was one company whose vision was far beyond any other. This company wanted to put a computer complete with a screen, keyboard, solid state storage, and software in the user’s pocket. Psion Organizer advertisement David Edwin Potter was born in East London, South Africa in 1943. He was raised in Cape Town, […]
Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4
Recently I had to go on journey into the Vector Database world and pick one for a particular project. And oh boy, was it a ride. Recently Vector Databases have gained a newfound attraction and spotlight thanks to the rise of LLMs. Such situation is both a blessing and a little bit of a curse, […]
What scripting languages come out of the box on Debian 12?
Poking around in a fresh VM in Vagrant, I see bash dash, a POSIX compliant shell linked under sh python3, 3.11.2 at the time of writing awk, specifically mawk sed, if you count that (I do) perl, specifically Perl 5 There may be others I missed. Why I’m curious: Knowing that a language is installed […]
I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop participants 😉 ), which makes this classic chart type unnecessarily unintuitive, hard to grasp, and prone to misinterpretation. This has caused innumerable distribution-based insights to fail to land with audiences […]
Richard Stallman, su, and the ‘wheel’ group (2004)
I’m sure this is old news to those familiar with the unix-like operating systems and Stallman’s Free Software Foundation, but I just recently stumbled across the reason why the GNU version of su does not support the common wheel group. Taken from this website: Why GNU su does not support the `wheel‘ group (This section […]
Explained: The secret City of London which is not part of London
The famed English author, poet, and literary critic Samuel Johnson once said that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Say this in 2017 and it still holds true, as London continues being one of the most visited cities in […]
Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone
Music is widely considered to be a freeing experience of self-expression. But you may be surprised to learn that the twelve musical tones that shape our very understanding of Western music today is extremely narrow. Most musicians today are actually creating songs using a very limited number of notes when far more are potentially possible. […]
Why *not* parse `ls` (and what to do instead)
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Native American Indian Star Charts
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TinyLetter Shut Down by Mailchimp, So I Built the LetterDrop
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