Polymath at Large

A guy in late middle age with many interests.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

How to train your genie

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 kw: book reviews, fantasy, archetypes, genies At the end of the animated film Aladdin , Aladdin uses his third wish to set free the genie. ...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Looking past old bones

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, geology, paleontology, plants, evolution Cyanobacteria, which were called "blue-green algae...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Getting to know a hive mind

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 kw: book reviews, science fiction, mysteries, murder mysteries, space fiction, space aliens, sentient starships, writers, generated images ...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

Dominance of the spineless

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, oceanography, biology, invertebrates, medicine Behold a gallery of sponge animals. They headline The...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Build and run hospitals that don't kill their patients – F Nightingale

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, history, bacteriology, public health, epidemiology, antibiotic resistance The title of this review is not qui...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

AutoArt folder distribution

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 kw: analytical projects, art generation, ai art, statistics, statistical distributions, lognormal, scale free I began using art generating ...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Create allies, not gods

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 kw: artificial intelligence, simulated intelligence, philosophical musings, deification No matter how "intelligent" our AI creati...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

A global cabinet of curiosities

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, natural history, compendia, collections Atlas Obscura Wild Life , by Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer and a host o...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Circling the color wheel

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 kw: color studies, spectroscopy, colorimetry, spectra, photo essays Recently I was cleaning out an area in the garage and came across an ol...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

I want a Gort . . . maybe

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 kw: ai, simulated intelligence, philosophical musings, robots, robotics I saw the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still in the late 1950...
Thursday, January 01, 2026

Upping the password ante

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 kw: computer security, passwords, analysis Almost thirteen years ago I wrote about making " million-year passwords ", based on th...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Just beyond the edge of the usual

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 kw: book reviews, science fiction, short stories, ekumen series, space travel, anthologies, collections I read some of the stories collecte...
Monday, December 15, 2025

How to not be seen

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 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, optics, visibility, invisibility In a video you may have seen (watch it here before continuing; spo...
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