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Finally took down the "Christmas"/winter lights on the tree in the garden, on the assumption that there won't be much more snow

The excitement about AI right now is somewhat justified but there's also a bit of "not understanding where the knee of the difficulty curve is" when they give it some problems an 8 year old could do.

I'd forgotten how surreal the John Wick sequels were. This was 95% spectacle, more like watching a show than a film. More so since I saw it in the cinema screen with the enhanced sound system.

40-90m diameter #asteroid passing inside Moon's orbit this weekend, visible in binoculars

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65061818

Magnet mould containing a soluble PVA aperture spacer, will be dissolved after vacuum epoxy process next week (not sure if this will work).

The red central spacer is painted to isolate it from the epoxy; other red blocks are PLA plastic dummies to be replaced by permanet magnets.

Nice walk in the woods today

Might see John Wick 4 tomorrow

They've made AI language models trained only on pre-1900 English: https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.48

The Moon and Venus together are quite impressive visually in the early evening, but this is about all my camera could do

Counter-Strike 2 map upgrades using Source 2 engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExZtISgOxEQ

Often see organisations thinking in terms of individual projects, when the important thing is a set of capabilities (people, skills, equipment, ...) that they cultivate. Successful projects are just the byproduct.