Updated 23-Aug-2026 See also Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning The future is being made in China. Not all or perhaps even most of the future, but big and important parts. The implications are enormous. China Shock 2.0 Note: The idea that the success of the Chinese EV industry is just a takeover of western automotive ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning See also Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Speech Tesseract Generative AI in Music AI Chat Bots Local LLMs The anti-search engine Put a basic search into Gemini (or any AI chat bot) and compare that with the utter slop of Google or related search results. The quality difference ... Read more
One of my wife's bicycle pedals fell apart. The plastic part degraded. However, I was under the mistaken impression that it was a simple thing to order a replacement online. Not so simple. First off, there are two measurements; The thread width, and the wrench width. They don't necessarily correlate! Ah, a comedy of errors ... Read more
Various interesting sources of information regarding seafood: Global Seafood sourcing imports and exports Mapped: Ocean Fishing and Aquaculture Around the World Fisheries profile: Thailand Seafood Recommendations (full list)
MIT How to Speak, IAP 2018 Instructor: Patrick Winston Students shouldn't go out in life without the ability to communicate. That is because your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order. Quality = Function of knowledge, practice, ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 In general, the arguments both for and against AI are flabby, and don't rely on actual facts. Too much hucksterism on the one hand, waiting for a payout, and too much fear-mongering and ignorance on the other. Both are a disservice for a technology which will be with us for a long time ... Read more
Updated 26-Aug-2026 Ebikes - E-Bikes are many and varied. This article attempts to discuss them in terms of technology, use case, and laws pertaining to them. The main point is that there are two kinds of ebikes, those treated as bicycles, and those treated as motorbikes, based mainly on the technology (motor size, maximum speed, ... Read more
Updated 09-Sep-2026 See also Coming of the Bots from 2016 Rise of the Chat Bots from 2016 Deep Speech from late 2010s Tesseract from late 2010s Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning updated 2026 Generative AI in Music 2026 AI Chat Bots 2026 Local LLMs 2026 Coding AI 2026 Separate from image, video, or music creation, AI ... Read more
Rice is one of the most important crops, but it is grown highly inefficiently in Thailand. SRI is a method to decrease inputs (water, fertilizer, pesticide) and increase yield. Observations of SRI in Nakorn Sawan, Thailand SSR Rice - Thailand Greenhouse gas emissions abatement in rice crops (video)
There are many different variations of solar power - utility-scale, large business, and home use - and many friends of such, making things easier and less expensive, or providing more opportunity to deploy. Solar fences Not just rooftops, but fences (and also of course vertical on walls). Europe install solar fences. Wall mounted (fence-mounted) solar ... Read more
If only we could combine: Soleva AOSAGI Solarky Details needed Needs to be < 3.5 metric tons (3,500kg), for ordinary driver's license. Solar panels and batteries will add a lot of weight, though battery capacity could be less due to on-demand solar charging. Basically 5m length 2m width, 3m height. Current Aosagi has 120 horsepower ... Read more
Updated 09-Oct-2026 Note: Another day of Caddy letting its bandwidth be consumed early into the month. Honestly, get someone to help you out! It is useless to try and use their APT repositories. They even suggest using xcaddy which are also on their APT repositories! Instead, update as needed from their github pulling source. Sigh. ... Read more
Updated 24-Aug-2026 The 125cc equivalent electric motorbike is important because of the vast market and usefulness of these vehicles. Note, this bike is getting close to the spec (70mph/114kph) and the price matches what an ICE 125i costs (in Thailand), about 58,000 THB. From Europe or North America this isn't so clear as they are ... Read more
There are several parts of this but the path is fairly clear with China and Australia leading the way. On the Utility-scale solar, wind (and other) power generation, and utility-scale batteries (including pumped hydro, and Energy vaults. On the Home scale there is home solar, home batteries (Australia is championing this), EVs, ebikes, induction cooking, ... Read more
Updated 12-Jul-2026 See also Audiobooks - Mono in a Stereo World OBS Studio Podcast Platforms Podcasts Introduction To be honest I looked into podcasting about 7+ years ago and never really got into it. Only recently have I found two podcasts that truly engaged me, and that I watch (on YouTube). But it is clear ... Read more
Updated 11-Jul-2026 Legumes are the plant and pulses are the flower (e.g., peas to a pea pod/bean). These are an ancient source of nutrition. Apparently humans ate wild legumes for tens of thousands of years and started domesticating them between 11,000 and 10,000 years ago. Many legumes were consumed in a traditional Roman diet, and ... Read more
Updated 27-Aug-2026 Note, Claws has some ugly bits that just don't go away. I'm currently trying out Aerion email client, which looks quite promising. Claws is a 25-year-old email client that is still getting updates. It started as a fork of Sylpheed, and is now using GTK3. The look is a bit old-fashioned, but it ... Read more
Updated 25-Jun-2026 See also: Music distribution Music royalties Generative AI in Music All articles in the Music category The many royalties Besides royalties from streamers (see music distribution), there are a lot of royalty parts out there. This is clearly a legal minefield. Note that there are no royalties if there are no plays, so ... Read more
See also: Music distribution Music royalties Generative AI in Music All articles in the Music category Distributors The main music distributors are fairly well known. Probably all of them have some kind of problem with them. Many are dealbreakers. The biggest issue is (as is the case with most online services) response time and response ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 Scraping bots (AI and otherwise) have increased to the point where they have become virtual denial-of-service attacks. I'm not against AI in general, as I use it in several areas, but those in charge of these bots engage in unconscionable behavior, a kind of *destruction-of-the-commons" phenomena. Anti-bot mitigation Anubis Zip bombs go-away Note ... Read more