this physically pains me

Saw this on the ceiling of my wife’s OB/GYN appointment room. (Today’s our due date for #3, but no sign of labor yet.) Sent me down a ChatGPT rabbit hole. Turns out that nature imagery has been causally shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and pain during procedures. Interesting!

I really really really hope my kids get into sci-fi/fantasy when they're old enough. It would be so fun to nerd out about the books that I read around this age but had no one to nerd out about with. Enderverse, all the Crichton books, Redwall, etc.

5yo's main interests these days are chess and fishing, which lend themselves to us spending long stretches of quality time together. 3yo has hopped on the fishing bandwagon too. Makes evenings and weekends genuinely awesome. HIGHLY recommend to other parents of young kids.

Better yet, bring back gas lamps! Or as Robert Louis Stevenson called them, “biddable domesticated stars.”

Just looked back on a mini AI thesis I wrote two years ago as part of an all-team offsite exercise. Basically, I wanted someone to build Jane from the Enderverse (Ender Wiggin's all-knowing AI companion in books #2-4). In practice, that meant: - Physical form factor (e.g.