Jeremy Cherfas

In the latest Eat This Newsletter, the surprisingly rapid recovery of Pacific Bluefin Tuna, more than 10 years ahead of schedule. Naturally Japan now wants to increase the quotas that enabled that recovery.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-244-tuna/

My first thought was “false flag”. That’s what these times have done to me.

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240709-W-B0O8O3

Described in more detail at https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/rabbit-quest-20240709wb0o8o3/

* On foot
* 42.759728, 12.353907
* Tuesday 9 july 2024
* 421.44 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.759728&mlon=12.353907#map=14/42.7597/12.3539

Interesting article on whether LLMs are writing PubMed articles, that seems to conclude that on balance they aren’t. Yet. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a linguistic analysis, says nothing about the quality of the articles, no matter who might be writing them.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64877

I wouldn’t be sad if all the mosquitoes in the world went extinct. Does that make me a bad person?

Is this the most interesting newsletter ever?

No, of course not. But it does give me the opportunity to pour scorn on sub-editors who question everything.

Say Yes to ETN 242: Ontological uncertainty.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-242-ontological-uncertainty/

A nice article extolling the virtues of do-less gardening, both in the garden and on the planet, which I definitely appreciate. I will just say that all this is much more difficult with pots on a terrace, circumstances even less natural than a garden.

First time in my puttering I think I have a need to normalise my CSS. Any hints as to the best of the many options out there gratefully received.

Tragically, Emeritus Professor Robert Eric Frykenberg has still not seen fit to correct the egregious howler he perpetrated in 2008, to which I drew attention back then. Talk about being a non-influencer.

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/a-snaffle-bridle-on-a-17th-century-pit-pony