Tuesday, August 11, 2026

music books

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century

- Book by Greil Marcus

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

roguelike (Dungeons & Dragons)

- Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI - The GitHub Blog

AIAD - AI Generated Code, Reviews and Testing

Code Reviews

Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here's how to review them. - The GitHub Blog

Saturday, April 18, 2026

- "American Hijiki" is a 1967 satirical short story by Akiyuki Nosaka that explores the psychological aftermath of WWII on the Japanese, focusing on insecurity, shame, and complex feelings toward the American occupation. The protagonist, Toshio, navigates postwar life by attempting to flatter and "colonize" his American guests, highlighting themes of cultural conflict and residual trauma.

… penguin book of Japanese short stories

- k v good - Japanese Ghost Stories - book by Lafcadio Hearn

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Crime/Thriller Fiction

Harm Reduction - by Todd Grande

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Exercise (health)

Thriving Beyond Fifty (Expanded Edition): 111 Natural Strategies to Restore Your Mobility, Avoid Surgery and Stay Off Pain Pills for Good

Book by Will Harlow

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Historical Fiction

Blackcock's Feather (from H.)

- Maurice Walsh

Wolf Hall (from Dina) [have paperback]

- Hillary Mantel

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Italian Short Stories

read: The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

- Jhumpa Lahiri

to read: Neapolitan Chronicles (Il mare non bagno Napoli)

read: **A Pair of Eyeglasses

- Anna Maria Ortese

Alberto Moravia

- **read already: the other side of the moon (fast woman)

Elsa Morante

- read already: The Ambitious Ones

Georgio Manganelli

- **Centuria (good, short)

Primo Levi

- Quaestio de Centauris

Tommaso Gandofli

- Gogol’s Wife

Carlo Emilio Gadda

- **The Mother (v good writing, phrases)

Ennio Flaiano

- Diario degli errori (book)

- A Martian in Rome

antonio delfini

- The Milliner (from Racconti)

Grazia Deledda

- La cerbiatta (the hind)

Silvio d’Arzo

**english translation ?** - Casa d’altri

Fausta Cialente

- Malpasso**

Carlo Cassola

- At the Station***

Cristina Campo

- The golden nut*

Latemar - mountain in the dolomites

The "Wizard of Latemar" likely refers to a character in the Latemar.Adventure, a series of trails and interactive experiences in the Dolomites region of Italy, specifically designed for families and children. These adventures involve a magical element, often featuring a wizard or other mystical characters, and incorporate storytelling, puzzles, and games related to the local environment and legends.

Specifically, the "Latemar.Adventure: Vaia's Wrath" trail involves a story about a missing calf and the impact of a storm, while "Latemar.Adventure: The Secret of the Venetian" features a search for a hidden treasure.

Dino Buzzati

- And yet they are knocking at your door** (like Poe)

- Larger than Life (sci-fi)

- the tarter steppe

- sette piani (seven floors)

- sessanta racconti (collection)

Massimo Bontempelli

- The Miraculous Beach***

Romano Bilenchi

- A Geographical Error**

Liciano Bianciardi

- the streetwalker ***

Giovanni Arpino

- The Baboon**

Corrado Alvaro

- Barefoot ***

Italian language - standardised 19th C to Tuscan dialect (Florence, Sienna) (north of Rome).

Monday, March 24, 2025

Applied ML - genai in domains

Architecture (buildings)

Image generation

mid journey (best)

stable diffusion

dall-e

controlnet

- https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet

- ControlNet is a neural network structure to control diffusion models by adding extra conditions.

Code Generation (Programming)

- Cursor IDE

- Kiro IDE (source code analysis)

3D modelling (structure)

rhino 3d modelling tool

https://www.rhino3d.com

grasshopper model scripting

- part of rhino 3d

- scripting tool, DSL for Rhino3D

- scripts help enable genai

What is Grasshopper and Why Use it

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKpqK23Q5pM

what is lacking:

- AI models with physics

- AI models with structural understanding

- AI architecture model that also uses or is integrated with AI material modelling

- an integrated genai workflow

- AI currently seems to fill in at a high-level (e.g. from a drawing with colored 'areas', but has poor quality on details. Also issues with counting (number of floors, windows...).

project - Deep Himmelb(l)au

- https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Deep-Himmelblau-by-Daniel-Bolojan-Bolojan-also-conducted-the-Gaudi-Hallucinations_fig2_350740286

Art and Design

Lovart | The World’s First Design Agent

Web Site Generation

https://gamma.app/

General Business

(AI in Business) - Applied Artificial Intelligence

https://www.bookdepository.com/Applied-Artificial-Intelligence-Where-AI-Can-Be-Used-Business-Francesco-Corea/9783319772516?ref=grid-view&qid=1592465308969&sr=1-1

Geoff Woods - The AI Driven Leader

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Japanese phrases

Kaizen is a compound of two Japanese words that together translate as "good change" or "." However, Kaizen has come to mean "continuous improvement" through its association with lean methodology and principles. Kaizen has its origins in post-World War II Japanese quality circles.

Nana korobi, ya oki" is a Japanese proverb that translates to "fall seven times, get up eight

Ichi-go ichi-e (Japanese: 一期一会, pronounced [it͡ɕi. ɡo it͡ɕi. e], lit. "one time, one meeting") is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment.

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Data Science (and R - Statistical Programming)

by Roger D. Peng [John Hopkins University]

[R Programming]

[The Art of Data Science]

AI and Agents - Conferences and Organisations

Multi-Agent Organizations and Conferences

IFAAMAS = International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)

AAMAS 2025 Detroit = International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Exploring Multi-Agent Frameworks, Books and Papers

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), open-source libraries and frameworks have emerged as valuable resources for developers and researchers. This blog post aims to provide an overview of some notable open-source AI agent libraries, their features, and potential use cases.

LLMs: Lessons Learned and Evaluation

Applied LLMs: What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs
https://applied-llms.org/

Lessons Learned Building Products Powered by Generative AI

https://tech.buzzfeed.com/lessons-learned-building-products-powered-by-generative-ai-7f6c23bff376

EvalGen - Who validates the validators - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12272

Your AI Product Needs Evals

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/

LLM evaluation metrics

https://www.confident-ai.com/blog/llm-evaluation-metrics-everything-you-need-for-llm-evaluation

Your AI Product Needs Evals – Hamel's Blog

Asian classic texts

Journey to the West

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West

Friday, October 11, 2024

AI - Reinforcement Learning and Robotics

# Robotics

- Majko Physics Engine - https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco

- book: Sutton & Barto - "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction"

- free eBook

- Robot Operating System (ROS) = https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/www.ros.org

Saturday, August 31, 2024

War-time and Spy Books

Exile's Return

cowley - killing thatcher (doug)

Seventeen Moments of Spring (soviet spy)

(done) operation mince meat

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Food and Cooking - recipes

from Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain

Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London.

Nicolas Freeling's The Kitchen,

David Blum's Flash in the Pan,

the Batterberrys' fine account of American restaurant history, On the Town in New York,

Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel.

Read the old masters: Escoffier, Bocuse et al.

as well as the Young Turks: Keller, Marco-Pierre White

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Jamie Oliver recipes

Caponata - aubergine stew

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/incredible-sicilian-aubergine-stew-caponata/