Jeremy Cherfas

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240709-W-B0O8O3

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• On foot
• 42.759728, 12.353907
• Tuesday 9 july 2024
• 421.44 ppm CO2
• OpenStreetMap www.openstreetmap.org

Interesting article on whether LLMs are writing PubMed articles, that seems to conclude that on balance they aren’t. Yet. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a linguistic analysis, says nothing about the quality of the articles, no matter who might be writing them.

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

I wouldn’t be sad if all the mosquitoes in the world went extinct. Does that make me a bad person?

The cold reality is that Brexit has merely shown that the United Kingdom has no one to blame for its problems but itself.Unmissable analysis from Fintan O’Toole in Foregin Affairs. The UK has a chance at reinvention, and it will not be easy, but it has to try.

Is this the most interesting newsletter ever?

No, of course not. But it does give me the opportunity to pour scorn on sub-editors who question everything.

Say Yes to ETN 242: Ontological uncertainty.

buttondown.email/jeremyche…

A nice article extolling the virtues of do-less gardening, both in the garden and on the planet, which I definitely appreciate. I will just say that all this is much more difficult with pots on a terrace, circumstances even less natural than a garden.

First time in my puttering I think I have a need to normalise my CSS. Any hints as to the best of the many options out there gratefully received.

Just the facts …… not that the facts will change those whose minds care nothing for truth of any kind.

Tragically, Emeritus Professor Robert Eric Frykenberg has still not seen fit to correct the egregious howler he perpetrated in 2008, to which I drew attention back then. Talk about being a non-influencer.

www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/a-sn…

Really great to see this little comic from Lucy Bellwood. A couple of panels to update some of the information would be the cherry on the cake.Is Ceiba operational yet? The website doesn’t say, but I don’t think so.

Latest episode: Palatable is not Potable

Whatever you think about bottled waters, the story of supplying clean, safe water that people actually want to drink is a fascinating one. Christy Spackman talked to me about her new book, The Taste of Water.

eatthispodcast.com/water

Roman roads visualised as a tube map. I cannot see any possible use for this in my own life, but I am thrilled beyond words that someone saw fit to make it.

sashamaps.net/docs/maps…

Back in 2008, I asked why organisations don’t get rid of people at random when they have to downsize. “Management would not be required to make difficult decisions that are almost certainly wrong in at least some cases”. Has any one tried, and if not, why not?

www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/let-…

Such a great talk and slides from Maggie Appleton. And from my own experience, barefoot developing for myself alone, I think she is absolutely right in her forecast and in the things the future she imagines will need.

• On foot* 43.149186, 11.449313* Tuesday 4 June, 2024* 423.81 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap Not quite as close as I could be, but a better view. The quest is somewhere behind the bush on the left.

Latest episode: Women Butchers.

Cheap supermarket meat has made life hard for butchers. At the same time, a few younger people are taking an interest in butchery. I shouldn’t have been surprised that many of them are women, some of whom agreed to tell me their stories. eatthispodcast.com/butchery