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Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an NVIDIA Spark via brute force using Claude Code

My talk at Columbia University Computational Complexity and Explanations in Physics Last week, I gave the Patrick Suppes Lecture in the Columbia University Philosophy Department. Patrick Suppes was a distinguished philosopher at Stanford who (among many other things) pioneered remote gifted education through the EPGY program, and who I was privileged to spend some time with back in 2007, when he

Claude Skills are awesome maybe a bigger deal than MCP

VCF Midwest was even better than I expected VCF Midwest was even better than I expected Earlier this year, I inherited a bunch of old Macs and computer parts, including the PowerBook 520 pictured above. And, for the past three years I’ve been trying to visit VCF

NVIDIA DGX Spark great hardware early days for the ecosystem

Design for lingering This is Part 4 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also read Part 3, or check out the reading list behind this series. The hsiang-yin (香鐘 or, in pinyin, “xiāngzhōng”) is an ancient Chinese timekeeping device first developed during the Song dynasty. Used in China

Philosophy for Designers 4 Design for lingering This is Part 4 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also read Part 3, or check out the reading list behind this series. The hsiang-yin (香鐘 or, in pinyin, “xiāngzhōng”) is an ancient Chinese timekeeping device first developed during the Song dynasty. Used in China

Notes on using LaTeX to generate formulae

Resizeable BAR support on the Raspberry Pi Resizeable BAR support on the Raspberry Pi While not an absolute requirement for modern graphics card support on Linux, Resizeable BAR support makes GPUs go faster, by allowing GPUs to throw data back and forth on the PCIe bus

Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now