June 2, 2026 · 6 min read AI search summaries feel like progress. They aren’t. Here’s the case for search that returns results and nothing else. The shift happened gradually and then all at once. One day you searched for … Read more
Arguably the most important bit of information about timers is how to express a schedule, whether a repeating period of time (which the manual usually refers to as a time span) versus a calendar event (or a timestamp). Fortunately, I … Read more
Or, why your AI subscription is worth analyzing Most people pick subscriptions the same way they pick snacks. Subscriptions, however, are more like roommates than Oreos. Anything you subscribe to gets a small, recurring vote on who you become. Being … Read more
location_surface_grids = {} with location_error_gp_model: for multiplier, X_noisy_value in zip(multipliers, noisy_xs): pm.set_data({“X_noisy”: X_noisy_value, “σ_s”: multiplier}) posterior_mean_point = { name: location_error_idatas[multiplier].posterior[name].mean((“chain”, “draw”)).values for name in [“μ”, “σ”, “ℓ”, “σ0”, “Δs”, “X_true”] } f_mean, _ = gp_location.predict(Xnew, point=posterior_mean_point, diag=True, pred_noise=False) location_surface_grids[multiplier] = … Read more
By Susam Pal on 23 May 2026 This is going to be a rant about modern web design practices. But before I get to that, let me begin with a familiar principle from the world of cryptography. Among software developers, … Read more
In case you want to get roasted in your own language: If your reply starts with “Here’s what Claude said:” or straight eight hundred words of unedited ChatGPT text, congratulations: you just proved your brain is a gizmo, Darwin would … Read more
I have the feeling that every organization out there is, at least partially, focusing on process optimization, something that often happens when the market is down. These days there is also the AI angle to the entire thing, and the … Read more
Reading Time: 13 minutes This second installment in the “You don’t know HTML” series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together. We’re skipping over the MDN and W3Schools introductory pages and instead … Read more
[embedded content] The gravitational constant, affectionally known as “Big G,” is one of the most fundamental constants of our universe. Its value describes the strength of the gravitational force acting on two masses separated by a given distance—or if you … Read more
I really appreciate that you’re enjoying the software I’m maintaining and want to help. But we need to rethink this collaboration, because I feel like we’re increasingly wasting each other’s time. Why I don’t want to merge your PR# Since … Read more