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Acuitas Diary #72 (May 2024)
My primary focus this month has been on an overhaul of the Conversation Engine. The last time I revised it, the crux of the work was to add a tree-like aspect to Acuitas’ memory of the conversation. The expectation was that this would help with things like “one topic nested inside another,” or “returning to…
Food Appliance Anarchy – part 4 of many
This article, lets get to grips with “dormitory/share-house cooking.” The true origin of so many great (and a few, um … not so great) food and cooking hacks. If you ever shared housing or were in a dormitory / “roomies” kind of situation you know how it goes. You go to make a cup of…
We STILL have COVID
Just a quick reminder. And also just a quick reminder that it’s always worth keeping a mask on… Sat at the barber’s I was the only one. Walking around the local shopping mall, I’m one of fewer than five. Picking up fish and chips, you guessed it. And even in hospitals and doctor’s surgeries, masks…
We’re in a Bug War.
What I mean is – we openly acknowledge that we’re in a war with micro-organisms. All there is on this planet is one thing consuming another and then being in their own turn being consumed. To put it more bleakly, “everything becomes something else’s poop, just give it time.) Who knows? We know about “zombie…
Catching COVID isn’t a smart move
It was said not so long back that long COVID could cause cognition / intellect declines in patients. There were also claims that just catching COVID also caused those declines in, well, brainpower. Having now become a COVID statistic myself, I’m aware that I feel slightly less c capable than before the infection. But to…
How Frozen Is Too Frozen?
There’s a suggestion that raising the temperature of your food deep freeze by 3 degrees C could save a huge amount (the article suggests 17 megatons) of CO2 annually. Setting the thermostat from -18C to -15C, it’s suggested, will help the climate crisis. And look – that is NOT the main point of the research…
Anatomy Of A Mini Outbreak
“Gastro.” It’s a bit of a joke – right? Oh all those people with the runs! Ehehehe… Unless it’s you. And in this case, it is. Well, me, at any rate. On one of the worst weeks for it to happen, for us. Wife had two surgeries booked for the week, (which we got her…
How Common Is Long COVID? You May Be Surprised By The Figures.
Long COVID. Here are some findings on COVID19 / Long COVID. (LC) Accoring to this Guardian article on Long COVID there are some common symptoms reported by people who’ve caught COVID and which are symptoms now associated with the condition they call Long COVID. Long COVID Figures Firstly, The Guardian have collated figures that suggest…