Musings about life on two wheels
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Vote & Ballot Curing
Tl;Dr: I called to cure ballots in Kansas People vote with ballots. If something is wrong with the ballot (like they forgot to sign it or marked two choices for a single vote) it can still be counted if it is corrected or ‘cured’. It doesn’t really pay if the race isn’t close. But this…
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East of Eden
Tl;Dr: Wow. Just Wow. Read it. East of Eden comes up at a must read routinely. After 50 some odd years, I agree. The prose is very good. Very Well written, and many very good turns of phrase. It’s easy to visualize what he’s describing, very evocative. The characters are interesting, deep and believable. In…
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AI System Safety
Tl;Dr [WIP]
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AI Risks: Bad Actors at Scale
Tl;Dr: AI makes Bad Actors more dangerous, but they’re the devil we know Boogie Man. Bond Villain. Terrorist. They’re all Bad Actors. One of the easiest AI Risks to understand is the Bad Actor risk: According to MIT 4. Malicious Actors Risks related to intentional misuse of AI systems by bad actors for harmful purposes…
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AI and Existential Risk
Tl;Dr: What’s different about _this_ existential risk? Inherrant risk of tech There’s been a lot of talk about AI Risks – things like they may take jobs, the economy may crash, bad people might use them to do bad things, or the AI Agents might do bad things themselves. And if there are risks, then…
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Book report: On Trails
Updated 10/28 GoodReads: On Trails – the book gets 3.94 points. Personally, I’m at 3.5. Mr. David G suggest we read this book, and I’m happy he did. The book is about… (wait for it…) Trails. You know, the thing you hike on, the things animals make in the forest and so much more. It’s…
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Loaf 3!
I think I messed up the liquid on loaves 1 and 2. This turned out better.
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Loaf 2 – getting better
I’ve been baking bread with the help of a neighborhood wizard. My first load was pretty flat – too much water in the mix I think. I am also using a different yeast. I made loaf 2 with less water, and heated the water to 120 degrees as instructed for the instant yeast. Looks… Better,…
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A lovely day for a boat ride
Tl;Dr: boat camping with college buddies, giving blood is hard?? Today we head out on Boys Weekend ’26, our annual disaster. Boating and camping around puget sound. It is lovely to see the boys. I gave blood (in Olympia) today. I tried to give blood yesterday, but Bloodworks NW lets me.make appointments I’m not eligible…
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God damn it Bloodworks – fix your bugs!
I just went to my blood donation appointment and was told I’m not eligible. This is because the blood works appointment system does not follow the eligibility guidelines which apparently have been in place for quite some time. This is a huge waste of my time, and really pisses me off. God damn it blood…
Got any book recommendations?