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Author: David Faden

  • Have any of the authors of “Attention Is All You Need” written a book?

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    Gemini doesn’t think any of the authors of “Attention Is All You Need” have written a book: Honestly, I didn’t know the answer to this when I asked it. I was curious about this because I was thinking of reading their books if there were some to read. It’s a nice answer at least in…

  • Adding support for MHTML in Chrome’s Apple Script “save” action

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    MHTML is a handy format for archiving pages. In Chrome, you can get it by selecting “Save Page As…” and choosing “Webpage, single file” as the output format. In a Chrome extension, you can get it via chrome.pageCapture.saveAsMHTML, which is what I use in the gg_download extension I’ve been hacking on. In the project I’m…

  • Fixing “xcode-select: error: tool ‘xcodebuild’ requires Xcode…” with one click

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    Going through the instructions for building Chromium from source on Macintosh, I ran into this weird error: This was (and remains) mysterious to me because I do have Xcode installed along with the commandline tools. I was also able to generate the same error message by calling xcodebuild directly: A Stack Overflow user mentioned that…

  • Murdannia audreyae

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    I’m thinking of my aunt Audrey again today. In my previous post, I talked about a succulent named for both her and my uncle Bob, Kalanchoe fadeniorum. But she also has a plant named by Bob just for her, another one they discovered together: Murdannia audreyae. You can see a couple photos of it on…

  • Kalanchoe fadeniorum

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    My uncle Bob is a botanist. Tonight he told me one small thing I want to remember. He has multiple plants named for him, but of all those, he said, Kalanchoe fadeniorum holds a special place for him because, unlike the others, it is named for both him and his wife Audrey (Archive). The ones…

  • Fraction north of Fresno

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    I had a Google Sheet with data like the following: City Count Los Angeles 10000 San Diego 9000 San Jose 1000 Tiburon 10 Palo Alto 5 I wanted to understand what fraction of the count was in cities lying north of Fresno — “Northern California”. My first thought was to look up latitude using a…

  • Sprouts

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    Two sets of sprouts that have popped in recently in our home nursery, representing extremes of germination times: Telegraph weed (Heterotheca grandiflora), sowed October 28 this year; I noticed the first sprouts on November 1, just four days after sowing. The photo below is from November 5th. I saw them blooming on El Monte on…

  • ArcGIS map linking

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    Something I’ve found frustrating with a few different instances of ArcGIS-based maps is the lack of an easy ability to share or link to a particular location. E.g., one of the water districts shares this map: https://valleywater.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=39632100ff6d48dcab9405ee080b142b. After some fruitless searching in regular search, Gemini helped get me on the right track in response to…

  • Fried hummingbird sage

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    Antonio Sanchez sketches a recipe for fried hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea) in Eating CA! Using Edible Plants in Your Diet and Garden (2021): “take the bigger leaves and then… for about 20 to 30 seconds… fry them… turn them over a few times… then you can crack a little bit of salt a little bit…

  • Comparing nodes

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    I thought I wanted to compare the DOM trees for a couple of nodes. I ended up putting this together: How would you have done it? (I’d be unsurprised if this has some bugs.) After writing this though, I realized that comparing the HTML from n1.getHTML() vs n2.getHTML() was better for my purposes. (I don’t…