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A Dent on the Floor
When we moved into our current home, we prioritized replacing the floors with hardwood flooring on the advice of our realtor. It made sense; it's a lot more painful to clear away furniture and items to rip up…
Review: The Ride of a Lifetime
I was recommended a few years back by a colleague to read through The Ride of a Lifetime. It's an autobiographical memoir from the then—and current , unretired—CEO of the Walt Disney Corporation, Bob Iger. His book…
The Staff Meeting Ritual
Ah, the dreaded staff meeting. Chances are, if you work for a company of a certain size, you'll have been pulled into a staff meeting at some point. I'm not talking so much about the scrum…
Fueling Infrastructure
It's a shame that hydrogen fuel cells didn't work out for cars. On their face, fuel cells were natural successors to gasoline for consumer vehicles: the energy density by weight is superior[1]; the refueling mechanism…
Review: Interior Chinatown
Some 18 months ago, I noticed and wrote about the surge of Asian-American cinema in Hollywood. Crazy Rich Asians was the breakout movie, but Everything Everywhere All at Once made the movie subgenre mainstream, dominating the 95th Academy Awards…
Translating Culture
Before ChatGPT made AI mainstream, Google and others had already experimented with, successfully, adding aspects of machine learning to traditional rules-based language systems to get more accurate translations. LLMs, too, seem to do a pretty good job—with the…
