Robin Hobb’s Infrequent and Off Topic Blog
The animal is aging. Not surprising; I knew it would happen eventually, but I didn’t make any provisions to deal with that eventuality. Somehow the reality crept up on me. And now it must be dealt with, day after day. Read more
Weeknotes: Vaccinate The States, and how I learned that returning dozens of MB of JSON works just fine these days
On Friday VaccinateCA grew in scope, a lot: we launched a new website called Vaccinate The States. Read more
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
(via) I’ve seen the trick of running SQLite compiled to WASM in the browser before, but this comes with an incredibly clever bonus trick: it uses SQLite’s page structure to fetch subsets of the database file via HTTP range requests, which means you can run indexed SQL queries against a 600MB dat Read more
Plot & Vega-Lite
Plot & Vega-Lite. Useful documentation comparing the brand new Observable Plot to Vega-Lite, complete with examples of how to achieve the same thing in both libraries. Read more
The details of Apple’s new podcast program agreement
Gathright notes, as I did, that Apple says it can provide transcription—according to my Rebound co-host and podcast industry bigwig, Apple already does this to an extent to enable search and sometimes automatically detect hosts. Read more
How KFC Was Made from a Gas Station Chicken Recipe
Making the perfect fried chicken as we know it — juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside — used to be a luxury. But a man named Harland Sanders changed that after mastering his own recipe – inside a gas station. Sources: [KFC] https://ift.tt/3bzqT6I https://ift.tt/2PhupO9 Read more
Kyudo〜弓道①〜
In Japanese kyudo, archers use traditional asymmetric bows over 2 meters long as they attempt to strike a target from a distance of either 28 or 60 meters. Self-mastery is key in this exacting martial art, where the target is said to reflect the heart, and correct attitude and technique are seen as Read more
Finally, Differentiable Physics is Here!
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases here and sign up for a free demo: https://ift.tt/2YuG7Yf Their instrumentation for this paper is available here: https://ift.tt/38IHcgz 📝 The paper “DiffTaichi: Differentiable Programming for Physical Simulation” is available here: Read more
What is the Real Book? (a jazz shibboleth)
What is the Real Book and what in the heck is a jazz shibboleth? A history and analysis of the most influential book in jazz music of the past 40 years. SUPPORT ME ON PATREON:https://ift.tt/2qhpizf Nolte’s video on abandoning her Real Books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMiCg…Bar Read more
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