Adequate and Cheap: The AI Threshold We Are Not Watching
The consequential moment in AI may not be when models achieve flawless genius, but when useful machine competence becomes cheap enough to loop, verify, and scale.
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RDSPs in Canada — The Practical Basics
A practical guide to Registered Disability Savings Plans (RDSPs) in Canada, including government grants, bonds, DTC eligibility for autism families, and carry-forward rules.
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AI | Photography | Technology
Printing Bespoke Children’s Books on the Canon PIXMA PRO-200
How to create one-off, bespoke 12-page children’s books on a Canon PRO-200: saddle-stitch imposition mechanics, paper choices, consumable costs, programmatic generation, and scaling beyond one-off printing.
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Canine Phytotherapy: From Research Brief to Course Foundation
How an 877-line research brief and a 41-page ChatGPT Deep Research PDF became the foundation for a canine phytotherapy course.
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Halifax Observing Guide — Falcon 9 Lunar Impact, Aug. 5, 2026
A guide to observing the Falcon 9 upper-stage lunar impact near Einstein Crater on August 5, 2026, from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Safe Vegetable Fermentation at Home
A practical, research-grounded guide to safely fermenting cabbage, carrots, garlic scapes, and other vegetables at home.
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A Prompt for Tackling Stale Repositories
A prompt for approaching old codebases by treating the existing implementation as a behavioural specification, not a problem to be replaced.
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Thunderbirds
I really enjoyed the Thunderbirds when I was a child.
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Which Historical Figure Would Have Been Most Intrigued by Today’s AI?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent his life imagining a universal system of knowledge and reasoning. He would have seen modern AI as the incomplete birth of that dream.
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Turning Ordinary Video Into a 3D Scene With LingBot-Map — Without Buying a New GPU
LingBot-Map reconstructs navigable 3D point clouds from ordinary video, but its NVIDIA CUDA requirements make rented GPU resources more practical than buying dedicated hardware.