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- Heat wave in Paris in June 2026, compared to that of August 2003
- COVID, October 7, the Houthis, Iran – how travel to and from Israel has been restricted since 2019
- Vibe coding in 2025 vs. vibe coding in 2026
- The War To End All Wars
- Ten Years of Roadster Promises: When Will People Stop Having Faith In Elon Musk?
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Post updated July 12, 2026: The figures now cover the complete June 2026 heat wave, including observations through July 3. Data source and script The data come from the Météo-France daily or hourly climatological observations published on data.gouv.fr. The script used for the calculation is available as a GitHub Gist: joseph-sch/5b6399552efa0c431b6a2bfe94a88218. Final summary for June…
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I’ve done some crawling and data visualization, with the help of Codex. Chart 1: Monthly International Flights and Passengers The following chart shows: Total count of international flights per month (incoming + outgoing) – on the primary axis Counts of incoming and outgoing international passengers – on the secondary axis Disruption overlays for closure/restriction periods…
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According to Wikipedia: The term “vibe coding” was coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025; Merriam-Webster listed it as “slang & trending” in March 2025; and Collins picked it as Word of the Year for 2025 (link, link, link). Back then, in early 2025, it was a more-or-less derisive term, depending on who used it.…
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Before it was called World War One, WWI was called in French “la der des ders”, in English “The War To End All Wars”. Here in Israel, there is still a prevalent thought that another road, another lane, another interchange or another tunnel will “put an end to all congestion (forever)”. Road 6 was supposed…
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Elon Musk has been so wrong about so many things for so long… But I want to focus on the Second Generation Tesla Roadster. Tesla asked for serious money for the second-generation Roadster: about $50,000 for a regular reservation, and $250,000 upfront for the Founders Series. Just the Founders batch was capped at 1,000 people,…
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I was thinking overnight – I wouldn’t be surprised if the searches on Google for “Strait of Hormuz” peaked every now and then when the situation in the area gets tense. Most of the time, no one really knows or cares about what the Strait of Hormuz is. But I wasn’t ready for such a…
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Another war… Sirens… Giving blood… The situation won’t ever be the same… Until the next time…
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I might have applied quite heavily the filter (increased saturation, etc.) but only in order to be truthful to the sensation. Photo taken November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM, local time.
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In the previous rambling, Randomness in LLMs, preamble 1, I tried to illustrate how the LLMs I’m familiar with inherently use randomness to generate their answers and as such do effortlessly something that we humans are not very good at – at least I’m terrible at playing the categories game, or at coming up with a…
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I am amazed by the ease with which an LLM like ChatGPT can come up with random “ideas” – initially the LLM picks one token in a probability distribution of tokens, then it repeats this operation for the next token, etc., and in the end you get a random “thought” from a distribution of phrases…
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