[nravic]

The Philistines were a people living on the coast of Canaan - thought to have settled there around the late Bronze Age.

Last night, I finished the Book of the Short Sun, which wraps up a year of wrestling on and off with the entirety of the Solar Cycle, from the Book fo the New Sun to the Book of the Long Sun through to the Book of the Short Sun.

I knew a Californian who read his poetry aloud at parties until his friends learned to silence him.

I’ve spent the past year slowly working my way through Roberto Bolano’s 2666.

This April, I co-read Philip K Dick’s VALIS and Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun (including Urth of the New Sun).

El mar - Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma.

We just moved to a new place with large windows, and Marcy (our dog of unspecified breeding) has taken full advantage of the sunlight.

Rendezvous in orbital dynamics is a pretty interesting problem.

p(doom) & AGI People have been throwing their AGI timelines around as we speed towards the end of 2024.

Another year, another low-hanging fruit idea to juice those post numbers.

We just got back from watching Dream Scenario, and I’ve got a lot of thoughts.

These two things are the same.

I ended up fitting a lot of reading into 2022, and thought it’d be fun to start a retro series at the end of every year to track the memorable reads of the year.

We’ve got a 3 week vacation planned, and a subject of contention was over how to deal with our great deal of houseplants.

I’ve been working on and off on the Planetary Defence Challenge, a competition hosted by ESA.

I appreciate birds (but not enough to birdwatch) and funky Neural Network achitectures that aren’t a product of mixing a bunch of functions in a pot and optimizing hyperparameters.

My toes almost fell off (slight exaggeration) because I didn’t plan ahead and wear warmer socks.

A couple weeks ago I found myself getting a little frustrated with Python and Matlab, for reasons that don’t necessitate a long-winded explanation.

I’m out of school a couple months now, but I’ve had this idea rolling around in my head for a while ever since I saw someone struggle with a nonsense mnemonic.

My girlfriend and I recently got back from a trip in SE Asia, dividing the time equally between Thailand and Vietnam; during which we managed to come up with a few ideas for this blog while food drunk.