David Barry
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I think that Saloni's choice is the best:
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I think that Saloni's choice is the best:
Sixth Test team innings containing 11 scores in double-figures and no centuries: stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/st...
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Sixth Test team innings containing 11 scores in double-figures and no centuries: stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/st...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_...
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_...
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
This is for skilled migration (educational + professional), based on a large Linkedin dataset: www.nber.org/papers/w32352
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is for skilled migration (educational + professional), based on a large Linkedin dataset: www.nber.org/papers/w32352
Joining an unexclusive club and sending an Excel tip to Mr Excel, mixing LET and TEXTSPLIT. I still feel a little of the excitement I used to feel ~15 years ago when getting a reply from a famous person on the Internet.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Joining an unexclusive club and sending an Excel tip to Mr Excel, mixing LET and TEXTSPLIT. I still feel a little of the excitement I used to feel ~15 years ago when getting a reply from a famous person on the Internet.
Anonymous Lichess bullet anecdote: a rare case of a Lichess game result differing from FIDE laws. There is no sequence of legal moves that leads to checkmate, so this is a FIDE-draw, but the simple Lichess heuristics don't detect that it's a fully dead position and awarded me the win on time.
November 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Anonymous Lichess bullet anecdote: a rare case of a Lichess game result differing from FIDE laws. There is no sequence of legal moves that leads to checkmate, so this is a FIDE-draw, but the simple Lichess heuristics don't detect that it's a fully dead position and awarded me the win on time.
Kodak ad. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Kodak ad. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
DW Griffith in 1924, on movies in 2024: "I am quite positive that when a century has passed, all thought of our so-called speaking pictures will have been abandoned. It will never be possible to synchronize the voice with the pictures." babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
DW Griffith in 1924, on movies in 2024: "I am quite positive that when a century has passed, all thought of our so-called speaking pictures will have been abandoned. It will never be possible to synchronize the voice with the pictures." babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
Definitely my favourite aperiodic data release from the Planetary Data System in a while:
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Definitely my favourite aperiodic data release from the Planetary Data System in a while:
Entertaining slide from an OpenAI person: secondthoughts.ai/p/what-i-saw...
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Entertaining slide from an OpenAI person: secondthoughts.ai/p/what-i-saw...
Feeling a rare pull toward Blueskyism as I read Matt Yglesias argue that the Louvre has too much material, based on him not having found the Galerie d'Apollon in five visits. www.slowboring.com/p/break-up-t... (full piece is paywalled)
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Feeling a rare pull toward Blueskyism as I read Matt Yglesias argue that the Louvre has too much material, based on him not having found the Galerie d'Apollon in five visits. www.slowboring.com/p/break-up-t... (full piece is paywalled)
My favourite bug in recent Windows 11 releases is MS Paint's gigantic dialog box asking if I want to save changes.
October 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My favourite bug in recent Windows 11 releases is MS Paint's gigantic dialog box asking if I want to save changes.
A peculiar GPT-5 Deep Research hallucination, in which a paper is fabricated but marked as such. '(Hypothetical example for structure – Note: Replace with a real study if available.) ... (The above “Jones & Uhr” entry is a placeholder example; ensure to use actual studies in final output.)'
October 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A peculiar GPT-5 Deep Research hallucination, in which a paper is fabricated but marked as such. '(Hypothetical example for structure – Note: Replace with a real study if available.) ... (The above “Jones & Uhr” entry is a placeholder example; ensure to use actual studies in final output.)'
AI video not yet able to realistically portray tennis between a human and a giant ant.
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
AI video not yet able to realistically portray tennis between a human and a giant ant.
I had a minute's worth of credit in my OpenAI account, so making some slop. Prompt: "Cartoon anthropomorphic chess pieces; white bishop, queen and knight discussing a sacrifice bishop takes h7."
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I had a minute's worth of credit in my OpenAI account, so making some slop. Prompt: "Cartoon anthropomorphic chess pieces; white bishop, queen and knight discussing a sacrifice bishop takes h7."
The personal Elo ratings on elotaylor.com are meaningless because if each pairwise comparison has a deterministic winner, then the ratings diverge.
October 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The personal Elo ratings on elotaylor.com are meaningless because if each pairwise comparison has a deterministic winner, then the ratings diverge.
Strange Google Trends bug: searches for 'ipad' didn't get categorised as being in the 'iPad' topic during an almost three-year period. trends.google.com/trends/explo...
September 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Strange Google Trends bug: searches for 'ipad' didn't get categorised as being in the 'iPad' topic during an almost three-year period. trends.google.com/trends/explo...
Slow-running edit war on the Wikimedia page for the world map in Vat. Urb. gr. 82: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pt...
September 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Slow-running edit war on the Wikimedia page for the world map in Vat. Urb. gr. 82: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pt...
59 on Puzzle Storm, huge new best!
September 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
59 on Puzzle Storm, huge new best!
I'm pretty most of my Substack subscribers were trying to subscribe to Dave Barry the American humour columnist, so I'm surprised I don't get more of these "Email disabled" notifications after posting something.
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I'm pretty most of my Substack subscribers were trying to subscribe to Dave Barry the American humour columnist, so I'm surprised I don't get more of these "Email disabled" notifications after posting something.
Surprising photo to open today's Slow Boring.
September 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Surprising photo to open today's Slow Boring.