Apparently Amazon might be making a browser. Some features I would like in a web browser:
This, my friends, is my two cents. And you can not have it!
Today I read The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models and clicked through to read 137 emergent abilities of large language models.
I have organised my BNC adapter drawer. I gave everything a good scrub with isopropyl too.
I wanted to get some intuition for what made a bigger difference: adding an extra item to a set, or having an extra order of magnitude of items in a set. So I created this spreadsheet and discovered that an extra order of magnitude smashes an extra item in the set.
In the spreadsheet the parameters are ‘x’, which is the size of the base set (called Set A), and ‘i’, which is the number of extra items to add into the second set (called Set B).
If you make x = 10 and i = 90 you break even, Set A and Set B grow at the same rate.
If you make x = 10 and i = 1 it’s no contest, Set A gets much bigger much faster.
I had to replace the globe in the toilet light:
But when I did I managed to snap off the tabs that hold the cover on. So I glued and bolted them back on:
You can see the screws I used are way too big. I had 6mm and 18mm in inventory and had to use the 18mm ones. Realising this gap in my inventory I have just now purchased some 8mm, 10mm, and 12mm ones to flesh out my collection.
I made some notes for my drawer:
I’m happy to report that I’ve subscribed to Silicon Chip for the year. Got a print + digital subscription. My first three copies arrived in the mail today:
I got one of their binders with my subscription:
Look forward to filling that up!
The arrangement of tools on the peg board is a perpetual work in progress. For the archives this is how it looks after today’s rearrangement. I’ve been trying to make some space for the wire rack and storage bins I’m hoping to purchase soon.
This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
Check out this skit from He Huang, she’s hilarious!
The book I mentioned was Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. It’s a postmodern literary classic published in 1973. I have a dead tree version on my shelf (I haven’t read it yet), and I will give to you later this year.
The panopticon is a concept for a prison or surveillance system originally proposed by the philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century.
As we mentioned: if you work on the railways you must see people miss the train all day, every day.
As we discovered: you can’t change displacement without changing time. This was a revelation for me! Even classical space is not orthogonal to classical time! Or perhaps orthogonality and independence are different concepts and I oughtn’t conflate them.
I found the Bill Hicks pick up the gun skit.
I have published my latest weight loss report.
I mentioned the egg drop test. I read recently (and I’m annoyed that I forget where) that academics like using the egg drop test as a clandestine intelligence test.
I mentioned there are two broad types of 3D printer: resin and filament. You can read about resin vs filament. I’m planning to get a filament printer. The one I have my eye on is a Creality Ender-3 V2 Neo.
I will put gluten free muesli and sugar free jam on the shopping list. :)