Hello there!I used to be a full time VFX artist working as compositor, 3D artist, producer and supervisor.
These days I am mostly home-bound due to health reasons, so my focus is mostly on tending to my family as the resident cook and doing the occasional remote work for film and TV projects.
You can find my work history on IMDB or LinkedIn and I do have a rather old showreel on Vimeo. Apart from that, this is my online home. Feel free to get in touch via email or on Micro.blog.
Daring Fireball: The Spectacle of Incompetence
Stupidity and ignorance as a governing style. That’s it. They are exactly who they claim they are, and in private speak how they do in public. There is no secret plan.
Inside the Mind of Claude: How Large Language Models Actually “Think”
This issue persists even in newer models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which can generate long “chain of thought” explanations. In some cases, these are faithful, reflecting real internal computation. But in harder problems—like estimating the cosine of a large number—Claude may generate confident reasoning steps without performing the actual calculation. Researchers describe this behavior as a form of philosophical “bullshitting”: generating plausible reasoning without concern for truth.
Sounds like me. I’m also bullshitting my way through life.
We had a really nice Sunday dinner. Potatoes fluffed with parsley and butter, cauliflower and white asparagus. Topped with some honey glazed ham and loads of homemade hollandaise sauce.
(Image courtesy of MidJourney since I was too slow to take a picture before the family gobbled everything up.)
Micro.social is shaping up to be a really great Micro.blog client. @gregmorris does a great job. Go on and support his efforts by trying it out. And if you like it, give him a tip.
I had a terrible coding day yesterday but seeing people use @microsocial features makes me really proud. Incase you missed it - Locations!
I’ve been using locations in a couple of posts and they work great. Makes me remember the FourSquare days. 😁
Universität Heidelberg. 📍
Heute war Nierenforum in der Uniklinik Heidelberg. Es gab wieder einige sehr interessante Vorträge. Aber je mehr ich über die Prozedur erfahre um so mehr bin ich skeptisch ob ich mir das wirklich antun möchte.
The Superman Sneak Peak looks great. They really captured having a pup that wants to play. However, I wonder how they will balance the story with that many supporting heroes/villains.
Hmm…
Off to visit a local pasta factory!
Is it just me or is Trump getting more orange?
A Difference of Opinion
I always find it utterly baffling how people see the world totally different when presented with the same set of facts. (I had a discussion with my wife this morning and we both drew completely different conclusions.) The important thing when encountering that is to stay calm and acknowledge that the other person has a right to their opinion. Not every discussion should devolve into a mud slinging contest. In fact, it‘s best when most don‘t.
Off to the optometrist to get a pre-surgery checkup. Cataract is no fun. Let me tell you.
Has anyone else‘s constitution gone down in the last few years? It seems like me and my family are in a constant state of not quite well in the last 2-3 years. Not really sick, but constantly on the verge of. It is really annoying.
I’m really bad at multitasking social connections. Contact to other people goes out the window first when things get busy at home. I can’t even hold an online conversation for weeks at a time. And yet I value my friends. I do hope they know that.
It’s really weird to see someone you only know as an actor explain visual effects and production logistics and make it actually make sense. Huge props to Ben Stiller and Adam Scott.
I really enjoy vibe coding as it has become to be known. Claude Code to be specific. It really helps me push along my iOS app nicely. Not very cheap, but also not outrageously expensive for the amount of productivity I get from it.
Quick question to all iOS developers. I want to add iCloud Drive to my app. How do I best test this? It seems to write the correct files in Simulator, but Simulator doesn‘t seem to sync properly. Should I go straight to TestFlight and test on my real device?
Finally heard back from a support request I sent in January. About time. That’s a six or seven weeks response time.
When you run out of of two spools in one print.
Also der Rheinmetall Beitrag in den Tagesthemen vom 26.02.26 war ja wohl eher eine Werbesendung als ein ernsthafter Tagesthemen-Bericht. cc @tagesschau@ard.social