The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study. The club was founded in New York City in 1904 and has served as a meeting point for explorers and scientists worldwide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Explorers_Club (more)

Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is a research and scientific development company that currently belongs to Alcatel-Lucent. Its headquarters are located in Murray Hill, NJ, in addition to other laboratories around the rest of the United States and in other countries. (old note) (more)

Dan Hon: s14e03: Success Criteria; Chat. 1.1 Another thing that stuck in my head from Tim Bray’s essay about search on Mastodon was his section on success criteria. Here’s the first para, but I encourage you to read the rest..... (more)

50 Years of Text Games - From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction. https://if50.textories.com/ (more)

The future of Python notebooks (Jupyter): marimo is an open-source reactive notebook for Python — reproducible, git-friendly, SQL built-in, executable as a script, and shareable as an app. https://marimo.io/ (more)

yet another Python Web Framework - heavy MVC mentality http://www.djangoproject.com/ (more)

ChromiumOS (formerly styled as Chromium OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution designed for running web applications and browsing the World Wide Web. It is the open-source version of ChromeOS, a Linux distribution made by Google. ChromiumOS is based on the Linux kernel, like ChromeOS, but its principal user interface is the Chromium web browser rather than the Google Chrome browser. ChromiumOS also includes the Portage package manager, which was originally developed for Gentoo Linux.[4] Because ChromiumOS and ChromeOS use a browser engine for the user interface, they are oriented toward web applications rather than application software or mobile apps.[5] Google first published the ChromiumOS source code in late 2009.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromiumOS

Google kicked off the launch of its ChromiumOs project today with a presentation on Google Chrome OS. The first thing you'll notice is that the name of Google's consumer product will be Chrome OS, while the Open Source project is named Chromium OS... Google Chrome [[OS will be completely "cloud-based". As in, no local data. As in, all WebApps all the time. (more)

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google.[3] It is a widely-used codebase, providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera. The code is also used by several app frameworks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)

Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell[5]) is a free and open-source software framework developed and maintained by OpenJS Foundation.[6] The framework is designed to create desktop applications using web technologies (mainly HTML, CSS and JavaScript, although other technologies such as front-end frameworks and WebAssembly are possible) that are rendered using a version of the Chromium browser engine and a back end using the Node.js runtime environment.[7] It also uses various APIs to enable functionality such as native integration with Node.js services and an inter-process communication module. Electron was originally built for Atom Editor[5] and is the main GUI framework behind several other open-source projects including GitHub Desktop, Light Table,[8] Visual Studio Code, WordPress Desktop,[9] and Eclipse Theia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)

a Programming Language (more)

The loony left is a pejorative term used to describe those considered to be politically hard left. First recorded as used in 1977,[1] the term was widely used in the United Kingdom in the campaign for the 1987 general election and subsequently both by the Conservative Party and by British newspapers that supported the party, as well as by more moderate factions within the Labour movement to refer to the activities of more militantly left-wing politicians that they believed moderate voters would perceive as extreme or unreasonable... The 1980s UK press campaign against the "Loony Left" was echoed in the 1990s in the United States where sections of the press campaigned against political correctness (Politically Correct), using much the same rhetoric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left (more)

The Proximal Origin is a reference to a scientific correspondence titled "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" and the events of scientific and political controversies arising from it.[1][2] The letter, published in the journal Nature Medicine on 17 March 2020, was written by a group of virologists including Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes and Robert F. Garry. The authors examined possibilities of an accidental lab-leak of a natural or manipulated virus from a laboratory, and concluded that genomic analyses indicated that "SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus."[3][4][5] The letter was highly influential in establishing the natural origin of COVID-19 in the early stages of the pandemic and generated controversy over the arguments it made against any lab-based origin scenario, and the link later drawn between its authors and public health officials alleged to have funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the pandemic. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximal_Origin

inspirational character in Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy

(named in honor of british "Mind The Gap") (more)

drink 1 cup coffee then take 20min "nap" (set alarm, wear eyeshades) (more)

Trying LLM for my Local Notes and Ebooks (more)

aka Supreme Court of the United States

possible origin of covid-19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory (more)

headless MacOs X machine - many generations 2005 'til now - since they stopped making 27" iMacs in 2021, the MacMini + monitor has become the primary replacement. (more)