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<img src="https://ianjs.micro.blog/uploads/2023/image.png" class="cover-image" width="600" height="387" alt> I was walking along the Warburton Trail the other day and I passed through a grove of pine trees. There was a breeze
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Here's an excellent video from @karpathy@sigmoid.social with some intriguing ways to think about Large Language Models: 1. They are a lossy compression of the Internet. 2. They could be seen as "... the kernel process of an emerging operating system". -- they coordinate a lot
Google Assistant seems to be doing a HAL 9000… Ever since Google’s started cutting back on that product she’s been slowly losing her mind. When she reads the news now it’s 50-50 whether she’ll read it, or just show a search result, or sometimes video with
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I can't seem to find Elon Musk's Mastodon handle to follow. Please advise.
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Over a week ago I read this article by Cory Doctorow and it sparked a cascade of neurons that have been tickled over the past few years. It was a short hop from that article, to the state of the IndieWeb, to realising what a shit-show the whole social-media world
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Wow, that was a whole new rabbit-hole. I wanted to consolidate my identity, cross-post to Mastodon and dive into the whole IndieWeb thing; micro.blog ticked all the boxes. Of course, that was a whole new world of procrastination because it had to be set up perfectly. Almost there...
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I like to write and I'd like to get better at it, but if you think you have to come up with something profound it's a great excuse to procrastinate. Twitter is quick and ok for random shower-thoughts, but not for anything meatier. Google+ used to
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My dad, Edgar (Ted) Slinger, found these photos and thought they would be of interest to anyone who attended Merlynston State School in the 1940s. This is from 1942 when he was in Grade 5. <img src="/uploads/2023/d642dbc329.jpg" class="cover-image" alt caption=
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<br/> <img src="/uploads/2023/media.jpg" class="cover-image" > <div class="afterthought">Yes, that’s us. Sometimes it feels like I’m still living in the seventies. Well... a bit.</div> My adult life has roots
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It's Autumn and it's a Friday. In Melbourne that can mean a dreary end to the week, but sometimes it's a surprise; cool but sunny. Being a Friday, grandchild #1.4 is over for the day. She's two, so if I suggest
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Sigh. I came across this archive of all the Byte magazine covers which some energetic soul has scanned. They go all the way back to the first issue in January 1977. Major flashback! Here’s the first one I bought at McGills Technical Books in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne: <img
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{{< figure src="/uploads/2023/d17a553c40.jpeg" >}} My Dad asked me to scan some photos taken when he was working as a maintenance carpenter at Mount Buffalo Chalet in 1952. He was employed by the Victorian Railway and in those days they owned and ran the Chalet.