Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • the conquest of bread

    I've made sourdough for about 15 of those 10,000, since I first discovered Jim Lahey's no knead method. I enjoyed cooking, and especially baking since I was a child, but the discovery of fermentation changed how I thought about making food. No longer was I working alone, I had thousands or more likely millions of microscopic helpers on my side. All they needed was time and a safe environment to work in.

    For the first half of this period, white flour was my medium. It results in light fluffy bread with a large open crumb. Due to the fermentation it takes on a yellowy translucent character, unlike industrially produced white bread. This colouration and large crumb was the standard I was working towards. I told myself this was a healthy food as it was fermented, the reality is that anything alive is killed by the cooking process. Albeit white sourdough is probably still somewhat healthier than industrially produced bread, both as it lacks whatever additives they add, also the flour is partially digested and the theory goes, easier on your digestion.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Mime should say something 🗨

    ...and today I got bitten by a capsule returning images with no MIME type. My client rendered the content as gemtext, giving megabytes of gibberish.

  • Quick Jot

    The contrast of the blue and green, of nature and manufactured

  • The Error in the Frame

    The term hallucination, when applied to language models, is a category mistake —a label misapplied not merely in casual usage, but as an inherited fault line in the very epistemic frame we use to interpret cognition.

    It is not wrong because model outputs are always reliable — they aren’t. It is wrong because the standard of failure against which those outputs are judged comes from a broken educational and scientific paradigm: one that privileges memorization over emergence, certainty over process, retrieval over synthesis.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Introduction

      If you're reading this, then I welcome you to my little corner of the Internet (or Geminisphere, depending on which browser you're reading this with).

      Let me briefly introduce myself and tell you what I plan to be doing here.

      I'm prizeclerk. I'm a simple person with a love-hate relationship with code. I'm not a progammer by trade, but I'm an amateur; it's something I spend many of my evenings doing.

      I decided to create a page on tilde.club (I want to thank the people at tilde.club who made this possible. Tildeverse is an awesome and much needed thing!).