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Distinguished fellow of Some Such Nonsense Studies. Data science and experimentation. Keep it wavy. mattpolicastro.com
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.
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Man, obviously I'm not in Michigan and maybe AES and I might have different policy preferences on, like, the right marginal tax rate but damn is it hard not to like the guy and the way he wraps himself in the Constitution, in our best traditions here is how all of our politicians should sound.
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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I’d been seeing ads for these but holy crap I didn’t realize their sizzle reel had MUSIC www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...
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help me find my Yuba Kombi, taken from my garage today when I left it open 😱 bikeindex.org/bikes/1395170 (my other bike was taken too but it has turned up before b/c it isn't worth shit)
Not 100% it was the first, but watching Signs in my friend’s basement messed me up. To this day, if I end up in a dark enough basement I will conclude there are aliens and I will react accordingly
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
They’re literally doing the Clear and Present Danger thing, except dumber?
Per declaration from the Pentagon's General Counsel, the OLC boat strike memo is TS/SCI, exists in hard copy only, there are only four hard copies, and DoD's sole copy is secured in his safe. Umm, ok This is not some sort of super secret squirrel CA program www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
Introducing the VC class to Factorio or Satisfactory is now a matter of national security. I promise guys, it’s plenty cool when you can use your jet pack to watch the fuel rods on the conveyor belts.
SCOOP: Valar Atomics is planning a massive nuclear powered data center on public lands in Utah. The 9,600 acre site would include 456 reactors, along with fuel fabrication and waste storage facilities. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
Ok. Definitely rushed the final act to the ending but already feeling the tug to reload some saves, if not start fresh entirely. Messy (especially skills/conditions) but some fantastic characters and voice performances. Very curious how different the director’s cut stuff will feel like in a few days
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@rangedtouch.bsky.social I am playing catch up on Shelved by Genre, anf regarding the modernizing forces in Mordor and orc specializations in Return of the King: Hundreds of Beavers should be a bonusode because (spoilers) the enemy is doing society
*Spirals in precision/recall* Weird stuff, but potentially really neat
so it turns your plaintext query "will this person default on their loan? Here's everything I know about them race: [yadda yadda yadda]" into some embedding using, presumably, transformers, but it uses that to just output a single probability instead of a vector of token probabilities