Damn you #JonathanSwift!
If you had only kept your mouth shut! 😂😂😂

He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.

This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.

…

He assured me “that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech

via #thechipletter’s latest, https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine

#LLM #AI #GPT

#jonathanswift, #thechipletter, #llm, #ai, #gpt

figured out how to disable RSS for select posts in #hugo

https://janusworx.com/work/notes-now-has-no-rss-feed/

#hugo

Jon Batiste, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger & Taylor Swift don’t earn as much as Daniel Ek …
https://aus.social/@bananamangodog/113694455623377938

A love letter to some really good things on #movies and #tv this year.

Somebody please write something as lovely for India. We had lots of wonderful stuff this year!
https://reactormag.com/a-few-things-that-brought-us-nerdy-joy-in-2024/

#movies, #tv

Also this gem …

“Because, yes, the way you make money as a band is to actually be a garment retailer.”

#SkinInTheGame

#skininthegame

“When you’ve run a nightclub for 24 years and had it survive through an 18-month pandemic closure, I will give your fiscal theories all due consideration.”

This! THIS!

Have some #SkinInTheGame before spouting your foolish advice!
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/03.html

#skininthegame

Such a good list!
#Books #Reading
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/booklish/

#books, #reading

The title of the article is, “Once again, the only way forward is the Mac”

My title woulda been, Why I moved to Linux on the desktop and why I try and use my iPhone as little as possible.
But I realise that is a mouthful

https://www.macworld.com/article/2525708

“Take this quote from William Hamilton […]

We belong to opposite poles of algebra; since you… seem to consider Algebra as a ‘System of Signs and of their combinations,’ somewhat analogous to syllogisms expressed in letters; while I am never satisfied unless I think that I can look beyond or through the signs to the things signified.

You catch that? William Hamilton, who gave us our bizarro non-commutative generalization of the complex numbers, didn’t want algebra to be a science of symbols alone.
[…]
In brief: Algebra isn’t just hard for surly teens. It’s hard for anyone with an intellectual commitment to symbols having meanings.”

— Ben Orlin, What’s the use of math history?
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/11/19/whats-the-use-of-math-history/

#Maths #Mathematics #History

#maths, #mathematics, #history

#Go #GoLang friends, what library can I use to extract cover art from an mp3 file?

#go, #golang