Картина и курильница как свидетельства о жизни Александра Герцена

Хожу по музеям «за сувенир». Так бы я...

Sketches

I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face.

Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of what I draw looks like a face to me. Facial recognition does seem to be a pretty innate, brain-region specific thing, though I'm not one to guess about neuroscience.

Faces are an unforgiving subject. If I'm drawing a boat or a seaplane or some plants, there's room for whimsy....

Прошел игру Grand Theft Auto III

Выставка "От ткани до космоса"

Продолжаю рассказ о выставке «От ткани до космоса....

Quantum is my happy place

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=bMdoBxa6YkE

Here’s a 53-minute podcast that I recorded this afternoon with a high school student named Micah Zarin, and which ended up covering …[checks notes] … consciousness, free will, brain uploading, the Church-Turing Thesis, AI, quantum mechanics and its various interpretations, quantum gravity, quantum computing, and the discreteness or continuity of the laws of physics. I strongly recommend 2x speed as usual. QIP’2026, the world’s premier quantum computing conference, is happening right now in Riga, Latvia, locally organized by a team headed by the great Andris Ambainis, who I’ve known since 1999 and who’s played a bigger role in my career than...

Былое

Былое нельзя воротить…

 Булат Окуджава

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Памятка по профилированию кода на Rust

On thugs

Those of us who tried to stop Trump from ever coming to power—and who then tried to stop his return to power—were accused of hysterics, of Trump Derangement Syndrome, when we talked about authoritarianism and the death of liberal democracy. Yet masked government agents summarily executing protesters in the street, under the orders and protection of the president, is now the reality and even the defining image of the United States—or at least the defining image of Minnesota, and the model will soon be exported nationally if it isn’t stopped right now by coast-to-coast revulsion and defiance. Let all those...

Язык Rust, как типизированный и более быстрый Python

Птицы у дороги

Среди соседствующих с нами в городской среде воробьев,...