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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

Posted on 13 June 2025 by ChrisC
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Nice Seagull, Shame about the Bin…

Posted on 10 June 2025 by ChrisC

Another yarn-bombed post-box after the one I found in Malton – this time it can be found in the rather lovely Runswick Bay! It’s slightly smaller than the Malton topper, however the views more than make up for the reduction is size.

It’s just a shame that bin is there…

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Posted in Art, Yorkshire | Tagged Ephemera, Photography, Runswick Bay, Yarn-Bombed

December Sunrise – A Timelapse

Posted on 6 June 2025 by ChrisC

A sunrise time lapse over Malton and the Yorkshire Wolds. Taken in December 2024.

Gallery: 2024 Miscellanea

Posted in Photography | Tagged Drone, Malton, Video, Yorkshire, YouTube

Bury Me With It / Modest Mouse (2004)

Posted on 30 May 2025 by ChrisC

Bury Me With It by Modest Mouse from 2004.

Posted in Music | Tagged Modest Mouse, Music, YouTube

Prompt Theory

Posted on 24 May 2025 by ChrisC

Shamelessly stolen from this Twitter Post…

Apparently it’s entirely made via ‘Veo 3‘.

Posted in AI | Tagged A.I., Geekery, Tech, Video

NVIDIA Verses A Conspiracy Theory

Posted on 23 May 2025 by ChrisC

Sadly lost to the mists of time the Wayback Machine, here’s NVIDIA’s recreation of the Apollo 11 moonwalk – complete with accurate, conspiracy-busting lighting!

Posted in Geekery, History | Tagged Apollo, NVIDIA, Space, Wayback Machine

Got to Have Love / Pulp (2025)

Posted on 22 May 2025 by ChrisC

Another new Pulp track.

It’s a nice listen – and possibly better than the first one they released from this run. It makes me think that the new album will be a good listen.

Posted in Music | Tagged Music, Pulp, YouTube

The 185th Anniversary of the York Minster Fire of 1840

Posted on 20 May 2025 by ChrisC

It’s the 185th anniversary of the fire at York Minster on 20th May, 1840 and here’s a print to mark the occasion!

© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
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Posted in Art, History, York | Tagged 1800s, Art, Fire, York, York Minster, York Minster Fire

Meeting in the Aisle / Radiohead (1998)

Posted on 16 May 2025 by ChrisC

Radiohead’s Meeting in the Aisle from 1998, a piece that I first heard as part of the Meeting People Is Easy soundtrack.

Posted in Music | Tagged Music, Radiohead, YouTube

‘Magic’ and ‘More Magic’.

Posted on 12 May 2025 by ChrisC

It’s an old one but, from the jargon files, A Story About Magic.

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