Consumption Exhaust

I spent a few hours yesterday developing an evolutionary computation simulator.

It looks like Fabien Sanglard is writing a Quake Engine Black Book.

I’ve developed some new Quake archive projects.

New year, new goals.

Building on yesterdays idea of a Quake Press, a small tech press does sound fun.

I’ve been thinking about mini tech books on Quake for about 15 years.

I read a book about Denisovans this week in the book: The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals It book was not bad, buy not as exciting as Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Hu…

I’m about half way through Nick Bostrom’s “Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World”.

My eldest son started working out at the gym this year.

This week, I finished the book: The Gold of Troy: Story of Heinrich Schliemann and the Buried Cities of Ancient Greece It was great!

My eldest loves playing video games, which is understandable.

I read “Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes” last week.

I’ve read a few books about Troy recently.

I read Artifact by Jeremy Robinson this week.

I read a great course on Greek Philosophers this week and another on Ancient Writings: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity It got me thinking about the corpus for a given writer, e.g.

I tripped over another LLM + Evolutionary search post yesterday on HN: OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution (news.ycombinator.com) OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution (algorithmicsuperintelligen…

I loved learning programming and writing code as a student.

I finished another book on the Ptolemaic Dynasty this week: The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind Very good.

I was thinking, how do we know “who” wrote “what” in ancient Greece?

Thinking about my trip to Athens, Greece.

Reading books about the Ptolemaic Dynasty recently and I was thinking about Alexander’s tomb.

I finished Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut yesterday.

I finished a book on the Ptolemaic Dynasty yesterday: The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Not bad.

I’ve been sniffing around for more niche books on the Greeks.

I’ve been sniffing around for more material on Naxos, an island in the Cyclades I’m plan on visiting.

I enjoy reading books about explorers and adventures, especially in their own words.

Building on yesterdays dig into Phaedrus from “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, I was thinking of ancient Greeks in other books I’ve re-read many times.

Thinking about Greek stuff, I recall that Pirsig referred to himself as “Phaedrus” in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I’ve been sniffing around for documentaries on Greece.

I live in Melbourne, Australia.

XGBoost is all you need (for predictive modelling with tabular data), or so they say.

A nice idea I’ve come across in my reading of the ancient Greeks is what they call “Arete”.

I continue to read books about Greece, ancient and modern.

I finished stuffing my last batch of printed photos into my 2025 photo album yesterday.

I understand why people write travel guides.

I finished an audio version of a course on ancient Greece yesterday: The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture It was fantastic, great high-level coverage of the topic.

I’ve been reading books about the myth of King Theseus.

Related to yesterday’s post on Lovecraft manga, I also recently read illustrated Lovecraft stories by François Baranger.

I’ve been reading manga by Gou Tanabe.

I’ve been casting around for good books for my eldest to read about Greece.

I was reading and re/reading Mark Sisson books this week.

In preparation for our trip to Greece, I was thinking of movies I could watch with my eldest.

Like most (all?)

I’m preparing for a trip to Greece.

In primary school, by eldest son loved the “Percy Jackson” books by Rick Riordan.

I read “Notes on Being a Man” over the weekend.

I finished watching “A House of Dynamite” on Netflix last night.

I finished “The Ape that Understood the Universe” (Steve Stewart-Williams, 2018) this week.

As part of my Quake 2 Bot Archive project, I’ve been doing research into old quake bot websites.

Warren Buffett had a quote along the lines of: if you only had one car for the rest of your how would you look after it… It was a thought exercise and analogy for how you should look after your body.