Morning walk was so cold and so wet.

So You Want to Turn an Office Building Into a Home?

Interesting article about the conversion of office buildings into aparments, one of the hurdles is the footprint of office buildings have been getting larger.

Made Coffee Coffee Cake from Claire Saffitz’s Desert Person.

A Coffee Cake I made today.

Illuminated mushroom at Ontario Place

Snowy day in North York.

What’s the point of these language models if it won’t make all our lives easier.

Journalist asked Microsoft’s new Bing to write them a cover letter and it refused saying it would be unethical

Sunset from Ontario Place

I super agree with Kalynn Bayron, AI should be doing more the stuff people hate than the stuff that brings people joy.

I don’t get it. Why not focus on getting AI to perform more mundane tasks that don’t require creativity and nuance? Use it to free up time for actual human beings to focus more on the things they love? Pushing for it to write novels, make music, and create art is weird as hell.

Beautiful morning in Whistler.

Built a couple Dogsheep utilities this past week to save data into SQLite:

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Doing the holiday party circuit, this really resonated with me.

I’m Thrilled to Announce That Nothing Is Going On with Me by Alex Baia.

Made some chocolate toffee cookies today.

I’m kind of obsessed with this zoo in Sweden where 7 of their chimps have escaped and are trying to take over the zoo. The ring leader, Santino, has a pervious history of uprising when he lead his troop in a previous revolt by throwing rock at the zoo visitors.

It’s a bit windy in Toronto today.

Sunset at the farm

Clive Thompson writes about what design lessons we can learn from guitar pedals.

🔭 First image for the James Webb space telescope.

Image of distance galaxies from the James Webb space telescope

Snazzy Labs has an awesome video demoing Apple’s Tools to repair an iPhone 12 Mini. The simple repair, replacing the battery and fixing a broken screen, requires 44kg of tools shipped in two pelican cases. It’s incredibly overkill.