Monthly recap: April 2024
Major update * Couple of great hikes: Wunderlich Park, and California Coastal Trail * Got done with some bathroom remodeling and painting without much disruption Minor updates(s) * Returned fro…
Agam Brahma
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Copilots on the cheap
Didn’t realize just what it takes to start out with a programming assistant — expect prices to go up a lot later! Individuals pay $10 a month for the AI assistant. In the first few months of this yea…
A pen-written short post
Mermaid burger
(Joining my daughter with more “Art for kids hub”)…
A juxtaposition
Something I can’t put into words. Like … a “boxy cat building” The moon above these angular shapes.…
Gotta go by the bridge ...
I found something amusing about this pic I can't put into words. Think of it as a little party game of "who do you think this is?" (afaik this is from the 80s, and he was in his early…
An internet of spam
Filing this under "seen on Hacker News today" Clearly we didn't think this through back then. It should have been obvious to us that it is easier to create noise than it is to create s…
Brilliant Fun
Embarked on the "Complex numbers" series at Brilliant, highly recommend. Spend maybe a minute or two daily, not a lot. There's quite a lot you can pick here, and unlike me, you might w…
Monthly recap: March 2024
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Major update India trip (Wasn't going to go, but went, Holi w/ fam, shopping) Bad habits sleep-wise , a regression ... Minor updates(s) * Visited Nvidia GTC * Miraculously updated to busine…
On Languages being all wrong
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An extract from David Moon's presentation of "Lunar": Most current-day programming languages seem to be based on the idea that computation is slow, so the user and the compiler must wor…
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
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One of my favorite songs of Simon and Garfunkel was Scarborough Fair/Canticle I recently came across a song that clearly is the original It was interesting to listen to it, and contrast the lyrics,…
Presidential Bromance
A “blast from the past” 1 , that should feel quite surreal today. For any younger readers who are not familiar with the early 00s, this is George W. Bush, with Vladimir Putin, just two months after t…