#stuff

stuff i've bought over the last few hours [music post 02]

talking about, well, duh

millie lockhart off the clock · EN

Notting Hill Carnival

I was out buying stuff and Tamara told me Notting Hill Carnival was on, so I went. Or rather I walked with thousands of others from Paddington. I didn’t get to see the parade, but I saw a lot of people. On the way there a notice by a police van said that facial recognition software was being used. On the way back to Paddington station I looked in the police van and a man was scanning images on a screen, and outside a man in handcuffs was shouting out to his friends – ‘I don’t know why’ and ‘It wasn’t my fault’. I wonder how good the software is? The non sequitur of the two sentences next to on

Brushes With The Truth · EN

Marginalia Search, Money, C++, Rust, AI, stuff

Title possibly signs checks the article doesn’t have backing for. This is just a brief pro forma project update. Not much new functionality or anything to announce, last few months have mostly been bug fixes and technical debt cleanup. Most big parts of the search engine are in place, and while there are many things that could be better, we’re less likely to straight up see massive new features, at least in the immediate future. Per familiar intuition from binary searches, the closer you get to your goal the smaller and more deliberate steps you need to take in order to get even cl

Marginalia Blog · EN