It is really amazing the difference in emotional impact. Nicely done in super hi def! Thanks for this.

It's also wild how much more the reverse version feels like an Apple ad over the original.

This implies that birds don’t get eye cancer even though their lenses are different. I wonder what their protection is

At a guess: they don't live long enough for it to outweigh the benefits. While there are exceptions, wild birds often live only a few years.

YouTube is great for watching Opera, although you need the subscription to not be distracted by ads. But, after buying that one entry ticket: state sponsored arts are constantly putting up super high quality new recordings of Operas on YouTube. It’s got subtitles so it’s easy to follow along. Yes the video is high quality watch-a-play-being-performed, not a real movie experience. But it’s great for understanding the whole work.

Otello & Don Giovanni

https://youtu.be/qcuaN3jN29Q?si=KQAoKDKHVeDCSxmk

https://youtu.be/8wEMzWH52FA?si=S80Dc_ssXbCBXUtI

Thank you for this. Definitely interested in Janáček but I’d forgotten about him. I liked some of the Moravian Folk Songs, particularly the one named The Bench (the numbering seems to be confused JW V/2 No. 3 on some recordings?)

You're welcome. The whole of Janáček's music is influenced by the Czech language and folk songs. Warning that Jenufa can get a bit intense though! Thank you for mentioning the Moravian Folk Songs - added to my playlist now.

“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.” - Norman Bourlag

1. Create a mock json document that has the structure you are trying to query.

2. Ask [newest LLM] to write the proper json path to get to the element you want to reach.

Seems easier to create a program where you can click the element and it shows the jsonpath itself

There’s nothing thing wrong with that approach if you’re working with jsonpaths on the regular. It’s all about time management, I guess. With json, and xml, and probably yaml, there is this recurring long-term pattern of:

1. Creat tree-structure document format that is flexible enough to handle all use cases.

2. Write a ton of content in this format.

3. Have to figure out a query pattern to accurately retrieve good info out of these structures.

Generally, I feel we’ve become good at querying normalized table data. But—-and maybe it’s just me being stupid—-wending through tree-structured data is still tricky. And I recently discovered LLMs are great at solving for it, if you ask clearly.

The thing about querying tree-structured data being currently humanly harder than tabular data rings true to me, I always struggle with some very simple tree-sitter queries.

Excited to anticipate next-gen airplanes with slotted wingtips and their vanes controlled by AI for optimal performance.

Also the new swimsuits inspired by penguin feathers.

Props for ships with knobs inspired by whale flukes.

One of the big wins is not so much “build and run your own stuff” but there are very nice low-cost (in terms of compute) performance utilities built on eBPF

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

There are so many utilities in that list; there’s a diagram midway down the readme which tries to help show their uses. bcc-tools should be available in any distro.

Also, Brendan Gregg does a ton of performance stuff that is worth knowing about if you check out his other work. Not eBPF only. Flame graphs are useful.

Thanks for this. Very cool to read these types of stories.

My view: I’m busy, I have a lot of things I’m trying to figure out. For example, All of my free time should be spent getting better at AI programming. Seemingly infinite horizon.

I could carefully track a half dozen signals to correlate consumption to effect, but if the effect is “I’m tired and don’t have much willpower”, that’s hard to remember to track. I just haven’t built up that habit; heck I’m having a hard time keeping up the habit of light exercise.

I have a cousin who was diagnosed with some stage of diabetes; got a continuous blood sugar monitor; ended up losing a ton of weight. I’m definitely in the market for this—something to make it easier for me. It’s undoubtedly healthier for me than mainlining wygovey, which is another option on the table.