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I asked an AI bot to do this just this morning and it also suggested: - Epic - Tale - Saga - Chronicle - Legend - Logos

I read it recently. I liked a few of the chapters especially how policy classes fix some issues with OO design. I do recommend asking an AI chatbot to summarize each chapter and sa…

My TI-85 story involves the fact that it only had 2D plotting (though I think newer models such as the TI-89 had 3D). I had a 3D calculus class so I wrote a program in it to plot a…

You built your wife?! This robotics stuff has gone too far. Next you will be telling me that you threw your cow over the fence some hay!

Not as long but similarly lost at sea, crossing the Atlantic in a life raft: "Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea" by Steven Callahan.

McPhee was recommended as someone whose writing "makes boring things interesting". I did enjoy The Curve of Binding Energy (nuclear science) and to some extent Coming out of the Co…

Also: "Roughly 85% [of a data center's energy use] is data collection from sites like TikTok and Instagram, and cryptocurrency." What a waste!

As I recall, Apollo 11 was off by 4 miles downrange, which was considered good but not precise. More work on the guidance / navigation system allowed for a precision landing in Apo…

The government itself self-reports $149B in "improper payments" https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-musk-government-was...

Remarkably preserved for having had the keel crushed by ice. Seems the icy waters kept the wood from decaying. Looks pristine. Jimmy Chin is the director. He just discovered some r…

I asked mine, and he said the wisdom teeth can crowd teeth if the jaw size is too small causing buckling (a cosmetic issue). More seriously, it can interfere with nerves in your ja…

I prefer this video of A* pathfinding on a real map (Chicago and Rome): https://youtu.be/CgW0HPHqFE8?si=9aw_eHy3IedXY1Ro

I couldn't find any citations that mention molybdenum as a way to increase metabolism of caffeine. However, I found one reference [0] that mentions, "Consumption of broccoli and br…

I have a Hawthorn. My brother-in-law, who is a landscaper, came over to show me how to prune what we thought was a flowering crab. However, on closer inspection, he exclaimed, "Wai…

Cause storms do?

You can buy a cheap dongle to plug your headphones into the USB-C port. It works fine, but now you have the problem of keeping track of the dongle when they kids unplug it.

Cool, but I couldn't tell if it reached the point of spaghettification [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification

I tried running Deepseek 33b using llama.cpp with 16k context and it kept injecting unrelated text. What is your setup so it works for you? Do you have some special CLI flags or pr…