Brown bear scat by the trail right next to our house - less than 12 hours old.

Day of the Dead, at Nova Lux.

Ready for tomorrow

I asked Elon Musk's Grok AI for a rewrite of the Horst Wessel song from 1930s Germany but featuring Charlie Kirk, framing his public speeches and writings (BTW, ChatGPT refused to do this). This is what it gave me:

I made Hatch chili sourdough cheese bread in my new Pullman style cast iron loaf pan.

I prepared for tomorrow’s protest at the New Mexico Roundhouse…

From the Declaration of Independence: “For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury—For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences—” THIS will be on the placard I shall carry tomorrow, as protest. Accompanied by the original 13 star flag.

"Theory of mind" ghosts memories, dreams, reflections ...they are gone, not passed

Yesterday I got an email from Boesen the Florist in Des Moines reminding me to order flowers for my mother, as I have done every year for decades. She died April of last year. I am going to keep that reminder alive. www.boesen.com?srsltid=AfmB...

We are out to the protest at New Mexico’s Round House in Santa Fe. Brenda is wearing the Star Trek dog tags I designed for her back when she was teaching at Art Center College of Design - with the nuclear release key. She is dangerous.

Therapist: "Can you tell me where on this copy of The Constitution where Elon touched you?"

Got the lens in my right eye replaced today - cataract surgery. The color shift is dramatic. Having teeny knives stuck into my eye was… interesting. I was very still. Left eye in two weeks.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The impact of daylight savings time on dogs… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The denial of service attacks on Deepseek are annoying. I've been doing rapid prototyping using Deepseek-chat using the Cline extension in VS Code; now there's friction. I got a couple of distilled models of Deepseek R1 running locally; one is so large and slow its not usable. The other is "dumb".

@brendalaurel.bsky.social and I went with friends to see the La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs. We had a bit of a rough time on scree, and will need to return to better sample the site... ...this anatomically correct fellow greeted us:

Do NOT hot-plug the Raspberry Pi AI camera with its ribbon cable. It will make a small “pop!” noise, and the smoke will be let out. And the camera will no longer work.

A logistics attack surface… “[…] proof that one of the largest data brokers selling to both commercial and government clients appears to be acquiring their data from the online advertising ‘bid stream,’” rather than code embedded into the apps themselves” www.wired.com/story/gravy-...

Re: AI and coding - I am now exploring using DeepSeekV3 with Cline in VS, along with Cline Memory Bank. Github CoPilot is still along for the ride as a sidekick... kinda like Gabby Hayes. The results are rather amazing. This is a screenshot of a difficulty that Cline/DeepSeek3 resolved immediately:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Gamers on fire off the shoulder of Microsoft. I watched the browser wars kill the bbs's. All those moments are memories, frozen like words in wikis. Time to reflect.

Github Copilot has been quite helpful in my current OpenCV project (bird tracking for an ag drone stealth start-up). Starting yesterday, I'm exploring adding Cline / Claude 3.5 Sonnet as an AI agent in Visual Studio Code. How I program is changing *again*. It's been a long trip from punched cards.

I'm reading a new addition to my nuke library - "Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall" 2nd ed. 2001. Boy, did Heisenberg get a bunch of physics wrong, after a promising beginning! www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

@brendalaurel.bsky.social Beautiful smart sexy humane lover, partner, and co-creator… Happy birthday! …and thanks for all the fish!

I'm exploring bird detection/tracking using OpenCV. Background subtraction, backgrounds updated, contours found, minimum contour area is imposed. Noisy contours improved by Thresholding, Erosion and Dilation, & Contour Filtration by minimum area. No tracking of objects across frames is done.

Yesterday I renewed my expired passport at the Santa Fe DeVargas post office. I paid extra for expedited processing and overnight delivery. ...the requisite dorky pic:

Morning light, at Nova Lux. With @brendalaurel.bsky.social

“The partial pairwise coherence between mFC neurons suggests that such neurons might be organized into task-space modules akin to the modular arrangement of grid cells mapping physical space.“ Task-space… a higher order vector space. LLM approaches seem applicable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Snow accumulation at Nova Lux.

Morning snow at Nova Lux.

I had a gig at NASA Ames. ...I got to "fly" the lunar lander simulator. It was 8 stories tall, and could pull negative 3G. I crashed.

Venus setting in New Mexico sky. At Nova Lux.

New Mexico rain squall, to the West. At Nova Lux.

Time to turn off the drip irrigation system to garden, trees, and roses. Not only because 1st frost is nigh - but because of the insane thunderstorms the last couple of days in Santa Fe. I've not seen standing water like this across the desert since we moved here - or in 30 previous years of visit.

Harvest time, at Nova Lux. ...benefits of Full New Mexico Sun!

Just blocked an aggressive newbie account that smelled badly like a pseudo-TERF trying to excite responses. They will lack "reward".

My twin Crooke's radiometers, above my desk. They spin, slowly, in setting New Mexico sun. At Nova Lux.

Comet seen from our driveway at Nova Lux.

"What's on your mind, Rob?" Workplace conflict resolution... "Open the pod bay doors, Hal." "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbDb...

"What's on your mind, Rob?" Remembering the late fifties and early sixties when chemistry/physics sets were real. BOOM.

Brenda Laurel can easily find her husband at night - he glows in the dark from tritium decay.

After two years of experiments I have finally come very close to replicating the green chili cheeseburger found at The Mineshaft tavern in Madrid, NM. Bonus… perfected onion rings along with the battered deep fried Hatch whole green chilis. Brenda praised me. :-)

Pumpkin spider against blue sky, cast shadow. At Nova Lux.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #79,080!

"What's on your mind, Rob?" Martian sand dunes. science.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

Brenda Laurel and I are safe, for now, from the shambling/honking hordes of self-driving cybertrucks eager to consume our cats. I'm preparing dazzlecam printouts of Transformer vectors to cause them to circle into a confined hexagram at the end of our cul-de-sac. They'll circle, and slowly die. ;-)

Russia, Russia, RUSSIA! …note the details; use of the wayback machine by the FBI, and AI generated content. www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/d...

My spouse/partner Brenda Laurel and I have launched a website documenting her life and career: neogaian.org I admire her greatly.

Sunflower sunset, at Nova Lux.

Joe Engle died yesterday. An exceptionally memorable pilot and astronaut. I remember with sheer admiration his audacity on the very first flight of the X15 - he did two *barrel rolls*! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzPR...

Thank-you, Brenda Laurel, for taking care of me today. …second atrial ablation. All went well. At home, resting.