https://whitebeard.blog/tags/musings/Recent content in Musings on Whitebeard's RealmHugo -- 0.164.0en-gbMon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/learning-about-myself-through-elm/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/learning-about-myself-through-elm/In which the author explains why Elm gives him joy, confesses to a memory that once won a national competition but cannot manage a shopping list, and learns a bit about how his mind works.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/what-kind-of-machine-consciousness-denier-are-you/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/what-kind-of-machine-consciousness-denier-are-you/In which the author sorts the many ways of being certain about machine consciousness into eight tidy boxes, supplies a flowchart, and neglects to mention which box he is standing in.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/unequal-and-hungry-for-it/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/unequal-and-hungry-for-it/In which the author reviews Eugenia Cheng’s Unequal, enjoys the maths more than the politics, notices he finds progressiveness thrilling now, and gets extremely hungry.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/theres-a-star-man/Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/theres-a-star-man/In which the author, between jobs and stalling magnificently, builds an AI coach to drill the STAR interview method instead of actually applying for any.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/the-diving-watch-i-never-knew-i-wanted/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/the-diving-watch-i-never-knew-i-wanted/In which an unexpected Christmas gift reveals the quiet delight of a rotating bezel, and the author wonders why such useful timekeeping is dressed up in such macho clothing.