Progress

And I'm ill again. It does not end!

Articles

• Introducing UTF-21, a toy character encoding
• Magnets Interfere with Pigeon Homing - pnas.68.1.102.pdf: "Magnets glued to the backs of experienced pigeons often resulted in disorientation when the birds were released from distances of 17-31 miles (27-50 km) under total overcast, whereas no such disorientation occurred during similar releases under clear skies. The magnets did, however, often cause disorientation when first-flight birds were released under sun, and there was some indication of disturbance to experienced pigeons released under sun at longer distances."
• Are Trackless Ride Systems the Future of the Disney Parks? - AllEars.Net
• Studebaker Tree Sign – New Carlisle, Indiana - Atlas Obscura
• Austrian Social Democrats announce wrong leader after ‘technical error’ -- Austria -- The Guardian: "Austria’s Social Democratic party has admitted a “technical error” in an Excel file led to it announcing the wrong candidate as its new leader."
• Driverless cars: Researcher disguises himself as car seat in study - BBC News

• McDonald's Just Dropped A Brand New Game Boy Game In 2023

• Corey S Powell: "24 hours of Earth's rotation, …" - Mastodon

• Art Universe  •  Creative Astrophotography
• Video to video with Stable Diffusion (step-by-step) - Stable Diffusion Art
• This is valid Python syntax - by Nobody has time for Python
• How to make a QR code with Stable Diffusion - Stable Diffusion Art
• Generating income from open source
• ChatGPT and beam bending - All this
• Knight v Snail - Medieval manuscripts blog
• Point of View: Beware ‘persuasive communication devices’ when writing and reading scientific articles -- eLife
• Everything Must Be Paid for Twice: I strongly disagree with this position and will outline why and how in a future blog post.
• Falcon LLM - Home
• Home -- Infinigen: "infinite generation of landscapes", open source in Blender
• ype html>The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place -- by Galina Alperovich -- May, 2023 -- GoPenAI

Libraries, programming, etc

• dolthub/transparency-in-pricing - Query -- DoltHub
• GitHub - openobserve/openobserve: 🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces).
• GitHub - unit8co/darts: A python library for user-friendly forecasting and anomaly detection on time series. (via Jochens weeklog)
• openlm-research/open_llama_13b · Hugging Face

Books

• Use Of Weapons by Ian M. Banks

Games

• Sea of Thieves
• The Invisible Hand: A reflection on the world of Finance, showing how addicting it is to make numbers go up. Good for one playthrough and talking about it with a friend. 7/10
• Walkabout Mini Golf (VR): So chill! So cute! You walk around. You play minigolf. You look at the environment. And relax. Perfection! If you ever want to play with me (which I assume is a great experience), please please let me know! 9/10

Backlog

• Winds & Leaves (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Warplanes (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Virtuoso (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Rocket Skates VR (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Operation Armstrong (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Federation77 (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Audio Trip (Fanatical VR bundle)
• A Knight in the Attic (Fanatical VR bundle)
• Honey, I joined a Cult (Humble choice)
• Turbo Golf Racing (Humble choice)
• Meeple Station (Humble choice)

Recipes

• Schokoschnitten
• Schokoladenkuchen mit Käsekuchen obendrauf
• Klöpisa
• Maukasa

Other media

• Taskmaster, finished series 7
• How It Works: Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway - YouTube
• How the portal illusion works - YouTube