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A good interview with Hani Mahmoud, who's been living with his family in Gaza for the past year (and did before that) and is also a reporter.Comments
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D&D adventure hook: Mysterious gooey blobs washed up on Canada beaches baffle expertsComments
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Thing I thought of saying in a Discord discussion but decided not to post:Comments
I worked at a company that presented algorithmic lists, user-created, and in-house editorial lists. The user-created ones were good enough to train the models that powered the algorithmic lists. But product directors made sure that those were never on the shelves in the home view or the top of search results because they wanted to retain the power to direct the users to certain content. The editorial lists were subject to executive direction and were otherwise metrics-driven, so that’s how control was maintained there.
People in my division wanted to surface content from less popular artists, so we had to do it by creating algorithmic lists for them, so they could make it to the shelves. We had to use our a lot of our own time to show that it could be done, and it happened to catch the interest of a product manager that was having trouble filling out non-western countries’ shelves (the company had way more data on western countries consumption habits) so we got to ship it. It was a lot of work to get around a limitation that made things worse for users and artists. -
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Aurora timelapse over the alps. It’s a living prof album cover.Comments
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A subversive pre-MAD fold-in.Comments
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Ten minutes on the treadmill, ten minutes up and down the stairs.Comments
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Vosk's basic example took forever and transcribed nothing. Whisper is getting stuff, but the "medium"-sized model has taken 1.5 hours for 30 minutes of audio. It did say it would take double the time, so I guess that's sort of in the ballpark?Comments
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Huh, Google Speech-to-Text took forever to process 30 mins. of audio and ultimately failed to produce a transcription. It used to be state of the art. Maybe they've ceded things to Whisper, et al.Comments
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The grilled butternut squash turned out well. It’s got a sweet/mealy/crisp in places/smokey combo.Comments
I was pissed because it took so much longer for it to get soft than expected. Serious Eats says it takes 30 minutes on the cool side of the grill (with the other side at medium-high heat). It took an hour. But if I had expected it to take an hour, it wouldn’t have bothered me. -
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From Graph Drawing, which is a relative light academic book:Comments
Algorithm 9.1 Coffman-Graham-Layering has two phases; the first orders the vertices, and the second assigns vertices to layers. The algorithm uses an order defined on finite sets of positive integers as follows. If S is a finite set of positive integers, then let maxS) denote the largest element of S.
This is the first time T is mentioned in the chapter. It’s not mentioned again in the rest of the chapter. What is it?? Why does it matter?!
Then S < T if either:
• S = 0 and T ‡ 0, or
• S ‡D, T # 0, and maxS) < maxT), or
• S + D, T # 0, max(S) = max (T), and S - {max(S)} < T - {max (T)}.
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35-minute run down the boardwalk and back with all the guys! This is The Good Weather. Keep it here.Comments
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Back workout (all at regular speed, my excuse is Friday), helped the guy practice counters. At one point, he was very quick with them. Now he counters seoinages but lets all these osotogaris go. Hopefully, we can rebuild the habit.Comments
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An essay about how Japan is actually normal about clutter:Comments
Millions around the world continue to turn to Japanese gurus for help in purging their diets, closets and living spaces of all but the most essential items. Books like Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2011) and Fumio Sasaki’s Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (2015) reframe clutter as a dire threat to mental health and spiritual growth. They have become colossal hits in the United States and other countries. However, as the world turns to Japan to tidy up, it’s important to remember that these books were originally intended for Japanese readers; they weren’t written for the world outside. If Japan truly were a minimalist paradise, why would it need Kondos and Sasakis in the first place?
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Money orders are supposed to be as easy to deal with as cash. I went to my physical bank branch to deposit one. A few days later I happened to be looking at the account and found that it was returned. They didn't send an email or call about it. I wouldn't have known otherwise.Comments
I called them, and they said I'd have to call Walmart. WTF. (That's where the money order was bought.)
Also, another strange thing: They asked me to write my first name in "pay to the order of" part of the money order. That seemed weird. I wonder if that's what fucked it up. Maybe Western Union tries to line up that field with what they have in their records.
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Arthropleura was an eight foot long millipede!Comments
A. armata grew to be 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) long.[4] Tracks from Arthropleura up to 50 centimetres (20 in) wide have been found at Joggins, Nova Scotia.[5] In 2021 a fossil, probably a shed exoskeleton (exuviae) of an Arthropleura, was reported with an estimated width of 55 centimetres (22 in), length of 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in) to 2.63 metres (8 ft 8 in) and body mass of 50 kg (110 lb).
Solid random encounter. Except it was probably vegetarian., the authors note, Arthropleura still lacked key parts in the head and mouth—such as structures to deliver venom or catch prey—to make it predatory like centipedes, which likely made Arthropleura feed on debris, like most millipedes.
Perhaps with enough debris, it could be convinced to become a henchman.
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