Some cities in our area do “beggars night” a few days prior to Halloween
And others do Trick-or-Treat on Halloween, as the Founders intended.
So the kids were stoked to do double-dip on Thursday and again tonight.
I am pleased to inform you that the Criterion Collection is releasing The Right Stuff on Blu-Ray next month.
Finished reading: The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore 📚
Actually finished the re-read in the summer for the movie. But forgot to clear it from my bookshelf.
When in Rome, do as the Austinites do… (@johnchandler would be proud.)
Heading to Austin in the morning for ~48 hours. Very excited to get some tacos, In-N-Out, and good coffee.
Finished an intensive course on AGI with BlueDot Impact this week. Strong endorse regardless of your career. Very helpful in getting up to speed about AI safety.
Ladies and gentlemen, 11
Officially a pre-teen.
My five-year-old is having an existential crisis about her big brother’s birthday. He won’t be ten anymore, you see. He’ll be eleven. So we won’t have anymore ten-year-old big brother.
It is the most #girldad moment I have ever had.
Paco would have been 9 today. Happy birthday, pal. We miss you.
🎥 The New Firefox Browser, YouTube.
Built in VPN! I already have one but this might be there best feature to encourage wider adoption.
Nature is healing. Been years since I’ve seen a neighborhood house Tee-Peed.
Finished reading: Generative Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Kaplan 📚
Non-technical review of the state of the field. Very good chapter on how AI works and subsequent chapters on how AI impacts diverse fields. Chapter summaries written by GPT-4.
Finished reading: Skateboard Culture by Morgan Bouvant; Sébastien Carayol 📚
Delightful but big photo book archiving the development of skateboards. Got it at the library but might have to buy my own copy soon.
🗞️ Doomsday Warnings About AI Reveal a Simplistic Conception of Human Affairs, Yuval Levin, National Review
The idea that if you can just pile enough computational intelligence together then you can overcome all obstacles not only in the digital world but in the physical and social worlds is implicit in the hopes as well as in the fears we have about AI.
Little Round Top, Gettysburg
It looks so nondescript but this was a crucial killing field during the Battle of Gettysburg.
You can have your NFL… Nothing… Nothing beats college football. I left a game watch party in Columbus, Ohio at half-time when everyone else was thinking “it’s over, Buckeyes got it”, but in my head thinking “IDK, man… Longhorns looked better than folks are sayin.”
What a comeback. Damn.
When it’s game day and you have degrees from both teams…
Dinosaur Sighting 📷
