The View from Aristeia

Yesterday I published the results of my latest testing of German grammar checking systems . Unlike my first round of tests, I included LLMs,...

Update: I have since added Anthropic's Claude to my tested systems, and it outperformed every system I discuss below. Details here .  A ...

In March, I decided to move from Windows to Mac. My goal was texting on the desktop, i.e., texting via my computer. Many people insist on te...

Five years ago this week my search for an electric compact SUV ended with me buying a conventional gas-powered car. I disliked the car (a Ni...

I can speak some German. I'll never be fluent, but I can usually get by. Sadly, I make a lot of grammatical errors. It'd be nice to...

I like to travel. I've been a few places. I have a map on the wall with pins where I've been. Old School, but I started it before th...

Some years ago, I got it into my head that just as there are cookie cutters for cookies, there should be pie cutters for pumpkin pie. I bou...

More than three years ago, I blogged about EVs being luxury goods . Some 13 months ago, I showed that the Nissan Ariya--the only electric co...

You're tootling down the road using a navigation app connected to your car's infotainment system, and you're approaching a turn ...

 This is part 7 of my series on metadata for scanned pictures. Part 1: The Scanned Image Metadata Project Part 2: Standards, Guidelines, an...