Read a blog recently where the author said “LLMs use fewer tokens for input than output so they’re cheap if you don’t use them to generate code” which does kind of ignore that “reasoning” involves models generating text to talk to themselves ad nauseum

Games just look better on 4:3 and we have regressed as a society since we started pretending otherwise

I’m a man of culture, you know

I need to do a little redesign on my blog so that posts don’t absolutely HAVE to have images, because it means I often don’t write because a big “proper” post feels like a huge undertaking and I could be writing things bigger than notes, smaller than posts

In today’s Japanese lesson I learned about たこさんウィンナー (Mr Octopus Wiener) and I have to share it with you

Happy eclipse day to everyone except the guy who brought his DJ decks to the once in a lifetime celestial event

I’ve now read all of Earthsea. Don’t think a fantasy series has affected me so deeply since I first read Tolkien or Pratchett. And now there is no more! I am bereft

Made the trek to Kilburn for perhaps the best coffee I’ve had in London at Killbean

Day for it

Would you believe this thing was marketed as a Small Form Factor GPU