The new bike ramp will have a cattle grid, Sw. färist, to keep the deer off the road.

#cycling #wildlife

There's a game named Dark Heresy. I want to design a game named Light Entertainment Heresy.

#ttrpg #pnpde #warhammer

Stuff you miss out on when you've quit #Facebook long ago (my wife told me):

* One old buddy's dead, only he's not, it's some associate or relative of his, and my wife can't tell them apart from pics

* Another old buddy has become a dad

@MArtenp
Älskar Carta Marina! Hade den hängande på väggen i mitt pojkrum på 80-talet. Så mycket coola detaljer!

#olausmagnus dedicated his big book to his powerful colleague Adolf von Schaumburg, the Archbishop of Cologne. In the text of the book itself though, Adolf only features once. This is when Olaus mentions how happy he was when Adolf managed to get a shipment of Norwegian dried cod to the Council […]

I'm going to be tooting a lot about #olausmagnus (1490-1557) in the following months as I read his enormous brick of a book from 1555, "Description of the Northern Peoples".

His pen name means Olaus the Great.* His real name in Swedish was Olof Månsson Svinfot. The last name means "pig's […]

Conan the Barbarian is not a general fantasy barbarian. He is a reimagined 2nd century BC Cimbrian tribesman from northern Jutland.

#fantasy #history

#Goodmorning from rainy Fisksätra. Today: read, select illustrations for a conference paper, bike ride if the rain lets up. And you?

October Pieces Of My Mind #1

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/october-pieces-of-my-mind-1-13/

#blogging

@Virginicus
Yep, that's how I look at the issue right now.

I'm tentatively understanding the news about LLMs offering barely comprehensible solutions to hundreds of hard maths problems in the following way.

#Maths is symbol manipulation according to set rules. You can do this task by training an LLM on a lot of maths writing. You don't actually have to […]

Met an unfamiliar fairly large dog today on a walk with my wife. We made some friendly noises and offered it to sniff our hands. But it was too busy flipping over on its back on the wet asphalt. That was its standard response to meeting strangers who make friendly noises.

#dogs

@eFlex is my toot peer-reviewer. If he approves a toot, then I know it's a good one.

Anybody else into David Lodge? The Campus Trilogy? Such a good writer!

#books

I want to fast forward to the day when most people have a realistic understanding of what current machine learning software can and can't do.

#ai #aibubble #llm

Used small dining table with chairs looks like an affordable proposition.

#home