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trillic··on CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective
This was the case at UofM. When it's time to collaborate, it was group projects that were less specified.
trillic··on Saving Jet Fuel
I have this for sailboat routing: https://leebow.dev/research/how-the-race-to-hawaii-is-won. It solves the optimal route for every Transpac and Pac Cup start since 2011, using each race's own verified wind data (ERA5). Then it compares that route to what the fleet actually sailed. It shows the median hours the fleet gave up, how often the optimal route even falls inside the fleet's own spread (16% of the time), and how much that pattern holds from year to year. A second figure runs the same solve across 108 routes over 70 years, so you can see how much the optimal route itself varies, not just one good example.

One difference from the OpenAP/scikit-decide setup: my router doesn't search a fixed grid with A*. It runs a continuous isochrone search that expands a fan of headings against the live forecast each step. That's closer to how routing is actually done for this problem, and it's what both the live product and the backtest above use.

trillic··on I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Listers: A Glimpse into Extreme Birdwatching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo

trillic··on El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades
Chicago?
trillic··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
The more interconnected the grid gets, the more true this becomes.
trillic··on Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
Is the intention to use/charter "Skorpios" which you use on the site or are you proposing a full new program from the ground up?
trillic··on Iowa et al asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed
Correct, no mens rea, unless we're talking the internal reasoning trace of the model.
trillic··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Did IoT cause the fire?
trillic··on Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered
I think it might honestly be of organic origin
trillic··on Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
with any view of the sky multi-band gps is damn good these days, my watch gets good locks through airplane windows even in the middle seat. In aluminum 737s, not compostite frames.
trillic··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
There are no air ducts to move air between the units. They are old brick buildings and retrofitting central air you might as well tear down and rebuild a lot of the time.
trillic··on Alternate clock designs and time systems
10 fingers….
trillic··on Michigan's explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite jumps to over 1,200 cases
Shitwater in the food supply? https://www.michigan.gov/msp/divisions/emhsd/2026-statewide-...
trillic··on Jim's TrueType QR Code Font
Font rendering should scare you
trillic··on Strata – An app that talks me out of dying outdoors
Should I climb this mountain? Analyze the data. Make no mistakes.
trillic··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
The biggest forest fire I know of in Southern California this year was caused by a boater using his government mandated safety flares.

If there was not a law regulating the use of these incendiary devices, Santa Rosa may not have burned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Rosa_Island_Fire

trillic··on The rise of South Korea’s weapons business
Correct it’ll be in Yen
trillic··on Naphtha shortages in Japan
Burning trash is recycling now?
trillic··on Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014)
These particular sailboats are stored in the winter at either Chicago Yacht Works or the Canal Street Boat Yard.
trillic··on The rise and fall of snake oil
I do lite salt, maltodextrin, magnesium glycinate, and lemonlime powder.
trillic··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
yup you just get an email saying "A new grade has been posted for EECS 420"
trillic··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Liquid Assets:

May 2020: $570.3 million

Jan 2026: $9.013 billion

trillic··on US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
Mexico City was built on top of a lake that was dried to facilitate the expansion of the city.
trillic··on Networking changes coming in macOS 27
I use this for networked Time Machine backups for multiple Macs in my household. Works just as well over tailscale VPN.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Netatalk

trillic··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
I've found hot water has the same laxative effect as coffee in the form of herbal tea.

Same ritual each morning without the unknown dosing of a stimulant drug.

trillic··on Notes from the SF Peptide Scene
What are the peptides you're using for hEDS?
trillic··on A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace
It's a well known fact that 1 Picture == 1000 words.
trillic··on Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
Priced into the premium. It's not your run of the mill health insurance.
trillic··on Recover Apple Keychain
Same anecdote, keep my phone in my saddle bag now.
trillic··on Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store
I haven't been in the App Store ecosystem in a while, but the restriction is generally on running new Machine Code, all machine code needs to be signed on iOS. Interpreters get around this limitation, only the interpreter code that is compiled AoT and signed is actually running.

This tracks as the reasoning behind a lack of other browser engines, nobody can get comparable performance without a JIT, which would be compiling net new machine code that wasn't shipped with the binary.

The best way to handle this I would imagine within the current bounds of Apple's restrictions would be WASM.

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