Every time I watch this movie, I pick up some other meanings I didn't before. Sometimes you just need to shrug it off and go bowling.

Anything can be anything! Until the next game starts, of course.

Conservative antipathy toward the institution began long ago: with the bones of Bible giants. Did you hear the one about the Smithsonian hiding the bones of Bible giants in the basement? No? Well, Missouri Republican Representative Eric Burlinson did, and he recently said ...

👨‍💻️ I've wanted to align my fediverse handle and email address for a while, and have prevaricated for a few weeks over how best to do it. In the end I set up a family server on my prry.uk domain, hopefully ending the inertia. 🪴 in

I spent the majority of my morning panicking about something that will blow in my face on Tuesday and getting no assistance, and the rest of the morning working out favors from different people so I can do it myself tomorrow. How’s your Friday been?

Talk Python: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators I recorded this podcast episode recently to celebrate Django's 20th birthday with Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplet, and Thibaud Colas. We didn’t know that it was a web framework. We thought it was a tool for building local newspaper websites. [...] Django’s...

I have a tonne of songs in my #Apple Music library, but it feels like it's only shuffling the same hundred or so tracks. #Spotify felt way better in this …

Yo, check it! A contest! Win a pair of seated tickets to the next Cyberdelia by guessing how many floppy disks are in this basket! Per longstanding tradition, for this, the THIRTIETH Anniversary of HACKERS, we will have: A screening of Hackers at 8pm; Hackers costume ...

Sinners (2025): Absolutely glorious vampiring. Perfect, no notes. Fear Below (2025): I thought this was going to be just another "divers encounter a shark" movie (which is fine, I like that movie) but it was way better than that. It was "Australian mobsters in the 1950s ...

The perils of vibe coding I was interviewed by Elaine Moore for this opinion piece in the Financial Times, which ended up in the print edition of the paper too! I picked up a copy yesterday:

We're in the process of getting a new roof put on the house, so the entire thing is covered in scaffolding, which the kids *love* playing on despite our *many* …

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Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang). The key thing is to develop an intuition for questions it can usefully answer vs questions that are at a level of detail where the...