Work In Progress

Linkdump AI Links very loosely on the theme of self-improving harnesses.

I finally migrated this site from Quartz v4 to Quartz v5.

I’m coming to the conclusion chatbots work better (for programming) when constrained.

Is the current LLM boom the first time an entire industry has been bootstrapped from a philosophical thought experiment ?

I’m thinking about archaeoacoustics , and I’m thinking about Alvin Lucier sitting in his room (different from the one you are in now).

I updated my postcard project today.

Notes to help me date postcards.

Static Water Supply sign I didn’t know existed

A project I’ve been working on for a while has just moved to maintenance mode.

Lovely bit of found typography.

Semi-regular link dump.

An extended link dump from Clive Thompson’s Linkfest .

A rebase mind trapped in a merge reality.

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything.

Sora.

Link dump Maps geojson.io overpass turbo MapIt UK Input a postcode, and MapIt knows which constituency, parish, council area it’s in – and lots more. felt.com Make maps, apps, and dashboards in seconds.

Exploring ChatGPT's new multimodal image generation capabilities.

Exploring ChatGPT's new multimodal image generation capabilities.

Exploring ChatGPT's new multimodal image generation capabilities.

Exploring ChatGPT's new multimodal image generation capabilities.

Exploring ChatGPT's new multimodal image generation capabilities. can you tidy this cartoon up a bit please?

I’ve had these links on salt production open for weeks https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/2010s/Vol_67ii/Greenwood.pdf https://salthistory.yolasite.com/post-medieval-sea-salt-industry.php The dirty secret of pair progr…

https://threadinburgh.scot/ blog to emulate

A lot of the shopping districts in Southsea actually started out residential, before being repurposed (North End too.

Rops, Félicien (1833-1898) Pornokratès. source Those weeping muses.

Dew ponds Why are there so many postcards of the Chanctonbury Ring dew pond?

Great artists really do steal.

Had honestly forgotten how nice working in a functional, mature environment is.

Quote Psychoactive Substance Consumption and Negative Cadaveric Coping in Anatomy Students In preliminary studies we found a significant level of consumption of psychoactive substances among students of Anatomy in the Medicine course, mainly among those w…

The top of the harbour Reshuffling a couple of images I’ve already posted.

At the Sign of Milton’s Head Quote in [1777, R.

I bought a thing.

Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands

I built a thing - or rather, I didn’t build a thing.

Looks like I’ve done something that caused Google to dump this entire site from its index.

Todo Punishment of Frauds Act, 1857.

Been a while since I’ve written one of these.

Hyperlinks inhibit knowledge sharing.

Saxon speech is gut speech.

A Solid Silver Yacht The Royal Albert Yacht Club’s Nicholson Trophy source “comprising a silver model of sailing dinghy with drop keel, rudder, clinker hull and sails set, mounted in ebonised display case with plate inscribed ROYAL ALBERT YACHT CLUB TROPHY

Another before-its-time object (although less so than the Staffordshire Caneware or the Spirit Painting) American sweater (c. 1895) source Field, M., & Golubitsky, M. (1992) Symmetry in Chaos [Book cover].

The Castle at Apple Dumpling Bridge, Gosport

The time for the GitHub Action to deploy the site has dropped from about 1m10s in January to about 1m today.

AI Dreams Come True All these are, more or less, prescient: Quote The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder.

The Kingsclere Massacre https://bmmhs.org/the-kingsclere-shootout/ Bloody hell.

Dreamfish Quote They may induce hallucinogenic effects similar to LSD if eaten.

You maniacs!

For true dominance over the other devs, pair vim with this keyboard Do not break eye contact.

The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with JavaScript (Daniel Shiffman, pub. 3 Sept. 2024) Modeling Life: The Mathematics of Biological Systems (Alan Garfinkel, Jane Shevtsov, Yina Guo) The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic (Alan Moore, Steve…

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