Is your relationship entirely too smooth? Need to bring up those resentments but don't have the opportunity? Have you considered a tandem bicycle, the ultimate relationship accelerator? We bought this one back in the naughts, it's served us well, but with the quadricycle it's time to sell it and get the garage space back.
And this is the easiest way to get the picture over to my computer from my phone...
Just posted this foot tall ceramic rooster on the local free stuff group, and managed to avoid referring to it as a 12" cock. I think I deserve a cookie.
Neighbor gave us this bottle of Travinni Vineyards Two Dog Cabernet Sauvignon 2019, apparently his friends are involved in the creation of it, and I don't drink much these days, but dang this got my attention. Fruity, but not sweet, didn't want to be drunk fast, but in a world where when I drink it's generally a project or something gifted this made me think I'd go looking for it.
A morning discussion about a company that's creating LLM generated newsletters, and this comment about adding bots to a Skype channel is making me think about bot-free spaces, how to make sure that people aren't violating the social contract of creating and enforcing them.
(Also, people must read way way slower than me to make Gmail's "summarize this email" remotely interesting. I, once again, do not get it.)
With the news that _Google is expanding the "AI Overviews" in search mode_ (https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-search/), via _Pivot To AI which mentions that you can remove all facts from your search for an extra $20/month_ (https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/07/oops-all-ai-google-replaces-search-with-the-ai-overview/), it's worth pointing out this example of Google uncritically stating joke content as though it's real.
_Wikipedia explains the joke_ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_haggis).
This entire thread, from the top, but the observation that LLMs are most useful for applications where truth is irrelevant and lying is (more?) effective for achieving the goals is landing this morning.
https://thepit.social/@peter/114121763629051621
The fascinating things about having blogged for 27 years is that I can go back and read my own political transformation, complete with cites of all of the "this is interesting" articles that accompanied it.
More things to resent my educational experience for.
As if we needed any other clues that the tech industry isn't evidence-based: How many years have we known that optimal work hours per week for knowledge workers is far less than 40, and even that is about structuring a few hours of flow time per day?
And yet Sergey Brin is calling for 60 hours? Against all evidence?
Proof that the office isn't about productivity.
Thinking about those halcyon days of journaling, and then "Quantified Self", of thinking that it would be fantastic to gather more data about our lives and through looking at it, gain insight into ourselves.
Rather than knowing that every bit of data amassed is a liability that can be exploited by hostile actors.
Neighbor brought this ceramic butterfly back from a trip as a gift for watching their house. We have a hole in the wall in the kitchen where the doorbell used to be. Made this plaque to mount the butterfly and put over the hole.
Thinking about coding with LLM assistance as a natural progression to higher level languages reinforces my feeling that CoPilot is the Matt's Script Archive of this era.
I have rolled my eyes at "AI" video generation, but I think I've finally found a faked image that I endorse...
https://libretooth.gr/@dougiec3/114088083085011874
As the sort of person who's found bugs in compilers, and who's spent time looking at the output machine code and with an oscilloscope, this comment about compilers as abstraction layers, and LLMs as an extension of the abstraction layer, is making me think a little more charitably about AI as code generator.
https://mastodon.social/@mkb/114083167517852985
Apropos of nothing, you know what I like about USB-C driven HDMI? You can test the individual components and they can all work. They can all even work with every bit of low end display hardware you can throw at them.
But plug them into a mid-six figure projector, and it's a crapshoot...
Anybody know how to calculate efficiency loss for a solar panel at 0° (flat) vs 25° oriented south at latitude 38.23N?
Trying to figure out how much to push back on our solar install.
JFC, AT&T door to door salespeople, starting out the conversation with two obvious lies (beyond ignoring our "no solicitors" sign) is not a good way to start.
Today in "are you fucking kidding me?", our new Enphase controller didn't like one of "&" or "!" in our wifi password. So now I have to reconfigure our cameras and laptops and... Ugh.
#ClownShow #WTF #WhatMilleniumIsItAgain
Seeing a lot of people talk about boycotts and shutting down the economy, and I get the sentiment, but these fuckers are doing their damnedest to destroy the economy anyway. They've publicly said that there is going to be economic pain.
Just not sure more of that makes the point to them.
Charlene wanted dessert last night, so I went into the freezer, found a Makrut lime and a couple of leaves and some cranberries left over from Thanksgiving
Tossed those in a pan with some sugar and a can of coconut milk, simmered for 15 minutes, added some starch , and... Would make again.
Thinking about how there are so many interesting cool challenges that people have that software could assist with, but most development these days seems to be focused on how to get recurring revenue for services that users would rather not have at all.
Gotta post the failures along with the successes. This was gonna be some boxes for square dance Christmas parties, then it spiraled into bad decisions, and today I decided to take the remaining parts and do something.
Drivers stop for pedestrians in crosswalks challenge: cause damn some of y'all could use some skill improvement and we need to start with the little things.
The case for more bike parking. 4 on the sign, 2 on the rail.
But thank deities we provide sufficient space for drivers to park close to the beer garden.
Playing around with rosette and inlay techniques. Learning a lot, from bandsaw resawing and alignment techniques to glueups), but clearly not yet ready for prime time...
Interesting ChatGPT Pro results this morning, we asked it for a timeline of the recent Israel-Hamas-Palestinian conflict, looks like it plagiarized a Reuters timeline, introduced some weird language, and a few weird date mismatches.
Listening to the Re: Dracula podcast.
"I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be."
https://redracula.live/
Anyone else read a recipe, run across a phrase, and just wanna table flip? From a David Lebovitz recipe: "Kosher salt is also discussed in the book as some brands are saltier than others", and... okay, yeah, if it makes a difference, this is why we don't specify some ingredients by volume, kids.,
I haven't been following such things, but I just learned that GE was delisted from the DJIA in 2018, and completed a 3 way split last year, and Wikipedia sarcastically notes:
"Upon his retirement from GE in 2001, [Jack] Welch had stated that his effectiveness as its CEO for two decades would be measured by the company's performance for a comparable period under his successors."
That's been a long slide, but one that many predicted...
For work I'm playing around with hierarchical summarization techniques and ChatGPT4-o, and it's kind of astounding how different the output from separate runs with the same input text can be.
Like bullet points that are present in one query completely disappear on the second query, and of course the prioritization of such things is always very different.
It's good to know that in an era where Mozilla could be working towards browser parity, or making PDF handling not suck, or reducing memory consumption, increasing speed, and making sure I see fewer spinning beachballs, they're working on what's really important.
An AI sidebar.
I'm which Google provides a search result summary for "Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary - HBO" as "Focusing on a year in the life of rapper Earl “DMX” Simmons, the film bears witness to a man searching for reinvention and redemption", and... I wonder what language model failure led to this, 'cause I'm not able to replicate it on my laptop.
The best part about this recommendation to sprinkle diatomaceous earth around your home to get coffee stains out of clothing is that the author, reviewer, and fact checker, are all independently credited... https://www.thespruce.com/remove-coffee-stains-from-clothing-1901014
Honesty in guitar labeling: "We guarantee this Supertone instrument to be free from defects and flaws and to compromise the best materials and workmanship and tone that is available for the price. Sears, Roebuck and Co."
For the price...
Is your relationship entirely too smooth? Need to bring up those resentments but don't have the opportunity? Have you considered a tandem bicycle, the ultimate relationship accelerator? We bought this one back in the naughts, it's served us well, but with the quadricycle it's time to sell it and get the garage space back.
And this is the easiest way to get the picture over to my computer from my phone...
