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Article. These “blogger beware” articles have become pretty standard fare of late. What the article says is entirely true. People should be careful what they share (compromising pictures? Cell phone numbers? Are they insane?) and what they say about their workplace. It’s a rough and unfair world out there. Be careful. I just got my copy of “What Really Happened To The Class of ’93”. This is a book about my high school class, with specific stories about where particular people went and what they did. Some founded businesses, others got sex change operations. I talked to the author briefly, while he was researching it, . . . → Read More: Book On the train for my morning commute. God, I’m really glad that I don’t have to chase the train every morning. Really, even putting on pants every day is something of an imposition. Someday, this blissful period of my life will come to an end, and I may have to <shudder> wear a tie and . . . → Read More: Childs play It’s hot today. My plants were wilting. I put out the sprinkler, and I’ve been moving it around all day to soak the entirety of the grounds. Most recently, I put it directly in front of my office window. Shortly after I came back in, I noticed activity. The house finches (little brown common birds) . . . → Read More: a summer vignette A friend of mine wants to write a program to play online poker. It would interact directly with the web interface (as a macro program on the desktop), and would thus be identical to a real human on the server side. I’m a little concerned about this. Creating synthetic online poker players only hastens the . . . → Read More: AI Made the Mountain Brew this afternoon. This, for those who haven’t been paying attention, is a batch of beer where a crud-load of the fermentable sugars come from 2.5 gallons of Mountain Dew. That’s 24 cans, or approximately half the fluid volume of the batch. Supposedly, the yeasts don’t eat the caffeine either, resulting in . . . → Read More: Good weekend Ran too far. Now I ache. All y’all psycho supermarathon runners can go talk amongst yourselves for a while. Eight miles is far for me. Here’s the map: no idea if this like will work for you. If the link does work, click on the “satellite” button on the upper right of the map. . . . → Read More: Run Here’s a link to a story about some students of something called “mechatronics” (<grouchy old man>Seems like RO-botics to me, at least that’s what we called it back in the day…</grouchy old man>) who have made a robot to play a guitar. Soon, all those ovrepaid, union slaves to the assembly line of pop will . . . → Read More: Git-ar Spent the day doing phase two of that for which yesterday was phase one. We parallelized. We tuned. We tweaked, and we timed. We found stupid bugs up and down the chain, and we removed them. We automated. We timed again. 0.26 seconds per compound/CPU, for those who are keeping track. At five, the boss . . . → Read More: Code Warrior |
