This was another great ep following the one with Simon Willison about finding the boundaries of LLMs oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/…

#podcast #machineLearning #LLM #adversarialML

Bluesky, blue building πŸ“Έ

No edits. Taken from the north side of Osaka Castle park.

Photo of a cloudless blue sky. To the bottom right is a building with a dark glass blue colour

Gorgeous spring day. Hung around Umeda enjoying the warm. There are still no cherry blossoms outside yet due to the cold, but the Hilton has a bunch of trees growing on display in the lobby that are fully bloomed! πŸ“ΈπŸŒΈ

Photo of street in front of JR Osaka building from the 15th floorWindows of the 15th floor looking down on the center of UmedaFlowering trees inside of a hotel lobby. A low shot showing the high cieling of the hotelclose up of a cherry blossom

Today I found out about Rev. Joanne Yuasa who this year started working as a chaplain at Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Base Kingston, where I went to graduate school. She is the first Buddhist chaplain in the Canadian Forces! Wow!

Finished Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@social.coop) πŸ“š A positive read with a bunch of interesting branches to explore next. You can see some short chapter overviews: www.goodreads.com/review/sh…

Appreciated this discussion about operations research and the “universal science” of advertising. Surviving adtech like I have, I was really nodding my head along with the discussion about how ad agencies play both sides of the transaction

www.patreon.com/posts/328…

Really itching to go out on a photowalk. I’ve been on the backstreets at night but need to capture more. This rando snap I took since I liked the mix of stopping and going in one moment. πŸ“Έ

Anywho, next week the sakura 🌸 will bloom so I will definitely be taking lotsa shots

Late night photo. Train passes by. Below is a short tunnel under the tracks, with someone about to walk through. The foreground shows an empty crosswalk scramble.

This is fun to play with

jnolan.shinyapps.io/Populatio…

RIP Vernor Vinge

file770.com/vernor-vi…

Haunting #longread on Irish remembrance & forgetting against the background of extremely low corp tax rates, 80+ datacenters (with 40 more approved!) using a fifth of electric output causing

www.theguardian.com/world/202…

Appreciated this accessible piece on the antitrust case against Amazon. (TLDR; jacking Marketplace fees to subsidize other parts of the business)

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

Really enjoyed this interview of renowned scholar of Japanese history Thomas Conlan by the always excellent @becedo.bsky.social on his fascinating account of the Ouchi family. I am definitely picking up this book

newbooksnetwork.com/kings-in-…

#japan #history #podcast

Handy comparison of Free and OpenSource Photo Libraries

https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/

#photography #FOSS

Getting a boba at this neighborhood Taiwanese and Vietnamese cafeπŸ§‹

Chad sitting in front of a restaurant called Bobo Tea with a cup of bubble tea in his hand

Lovely day to explore the backstreets of Nakazaki, home to many tiny coffee shops and art galleries #osaka #coffee β˜•οΈ

A narrow alley leads to a cafe. The walls are covered in bright muralsAnd old house with exposed rafters and concrete floor converted into cafe with some seating and a wall full of booksChad sits outside of a cafe under a trestle covered in vines with a cup of coffee and slab of cheesecake

Currently reading: Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider πŸ“š

I would really like browsers to track the β€œReferrer” for new tabs. For example, if you click on a link in an email, from a social media post, or Discord/Slack/Signal/Messages/etc please store a link back. Especially useful in the age of the cozy web, where I have a number of small social networks.

Started Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace by Feargal Cochrane πŸ“š

Takoyaki right from the traditional source πŸ“Έ

Sign for a takoyaki restaurant called ZIPANG, an old name for Japan used by Marco Polo. Tho this could be a reference to a beloved Manga series

Started listening to Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) by China MiΓ©ville πŸ“š