Monday, September 07, 2026

'Kickin' Off'

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This is the ' Kickin' Off ' solo, the first one, from James Shipway's book shown above. I last played the guitar i...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Guitar progress report: August 2026

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After about nine months of serious guitar practice, I've reached the point where progress is apparent but deficiencies are...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

The Best Instant Coffee?

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Grind My question: " Grind is pretty good instant coffee, but it is by no means the most expensive. Could you recommend an instan...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

A Child's Guide to the Quantitative Sciences

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Mathematics is the study of surprising relationships between patterns. Almost nobody outside the subject can see why anyone would want...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

The Diarist and his Wife Elizabeth (1660s)

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Portrait of Elizabeth and Samuel Pepys at home in the 1660s - in oils by GPT-5.6. Elizabeth's likeness from the National Portrait ...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Today: after the style of the Diary of Samuel Pepys

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Amazon I'm currently reading the abridged diaries of Samuel Pepys to Clare. As of today we're in early December 1660. I though...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

ASCII Art

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John Cook had an interesting post using LLMs to generate ASCII art - a tedious process by hand. His application was mathematical but my int...

Four Guitars

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Not a Fender Strat, in the video I misspoke; a Sire S3 HSS . Today's post celebrates the arrival of my new Alvarez AF30CE electro-ac...
Monday, August 17, 2026

The Galactic Beetle

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Me: "When I said that LLMs are like when you induce a vast network of instincts the size of a galaxy , that was amusing hyperbol...
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Call me Pollyanna

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Question (to GPT-5.6): "Does a large language model have a concept of knowing something but not believing it. In the way that, ...