Fun use of an AI agent: take a quick video of books in a book exchange and ask the agent to extract the titles and recommended a book based on your interests. Thanks Hermes Agent!
Nick
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I’m an engineer, trail runner, father, learner, teacher and dreamer.
Golden hour
GM!
Learning to sail has been super fun.
After seeing that what3words has put stuff behind a subscription paywall I’ve now switched over to using the open source Plus Codes.
Plus Codes are built in to Google Maps, Organic Maps, CoMaps.
Open source for the win.
GitHub
GitHub - google/open-location-code: Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.
Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't ex...
I enjoyed the recent paper on the Bitcoin power law. So much so that I updated my Priced In UK Cost of Living explorer to include the Bitcoin power law as a denominator option. This smooths out the volatility, particularly in the early days of Bitcoin.
Paper:
Priced In Web App:
Blog post: 
Zenodo
A Mechanistic Derivation of the Bitcoin Price Power Law: Network Adoption Dynamics and Generalised Metcalfe Scaling
We demonstrate that the price of Bitcoin follows a robust power law in time,P(t) ∼ tβ, with exponent β = 5.69±0.05 and coefficient of determin...
Priced In — UK Cost of Living Explorer
Pricing the World in Bitcoin, Without the Noise
Adding a Bitcoin power law denominator to Priced In, based on the Santostasi and Perrenod paper.
#RUNSTR #Walking
New blog post: covering the rationale behind my UK cost of living web app.
UK Cost of Living Explorer - Priced In
Data-driven app to explore UK cost of living when priced in fiat, gold and bitcoin
Exploring the footpaths near Chudleigh Rocks
GM. Water and light.
You don’t have to compete in games you don’t want to play
Ilsington Church 🏴
Numbeo summary of price inflation in Exeter, UK. Has your salary kept up with these rises?!
Notice how proper food (eggs) is the worst affected.
My UK cost of living explorer has much more data and going back much further if you want to find out more:
Priced In — UK Cost of Living Explorer
GM (belated - I had issues with Primal and uploading images earlier!)
GM!
This is an interesting piece from the Mises Institute: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-are-living-fourth-american-republic
The evidence would point to the Fourth American Republic being over now, and it's now the rise of the American Empire. Some great lessons in history from the fall of the Roman Republic...
“Nothing stops this train”
Inflation can mask the true value of your time and energy.
I built a web to explore the data and the results are suprising.
By changing the denominator and pricing houses, eggs, or butter in hard assets like Gold or Bitcoin you can strip away fiat currency devaluation and see what’s really happening your purchasing power.
Priced In — UK Cost of Living Explorer
GM
Multi-tasking nowadays is having 3 separate conversations with 3 separate LLMs at the same time.