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Yep, last year I didn't get the vaccine because the £100 it costs here seemed excessive, but then ofc I got COVID and couldn't take extra work because of that. If I got free vaccination, I would have likely paid that back in taxes from that missed income alone.

I've learned my lesson

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Do you know what went wrong? Are they lacking a good process, or do you think it's malicious?

Post something Halloween-y!

Housing policy: Who Does It Best? - Part 1 — The Europeans Why is your rent so high? What are the policies that created this housing crisis, and what policies can get us out of it? This week we launch the first two parts of our new series, ‘Who Does It Best?...

Our first stop: Housing Policy.

Why is rent so high? Is the crisis actually being solved anywhere? And what does the crisis have to do with wealth inequality?

Katz takes us to Vienna, Finland, and Paris in search of the policies that work.

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Artist! Quote with your night art. 🌒⭐

#Art

Quote with your night art!

#art #mushroom

My condolences

Everything is annoying me today, please send help. Or art

Oooh, I love the mood!

#the_color_wheel challenge was quite difficult for me, a lot of digging up old art. I need more yellow and purple stuff #art

...one second thought, I just need to draw more :D

Round birb 🖤

You tricked me not only into following you, but also reading and enjoying Book of CoL 😱

I once saw a guy alone on a tandem bike, carrying a bouquet of flowers and to this day I sometimes wonder what was the story behind it

I love them! The labyrinth is intriguing

Now these platform have enough tech and compute to train a single recommender system using all their users data. So, they better guess what's similar to what you already like, but are less likely to "by mistake" recommend you sth new, and will be biased towards the average user taste

But, there were many companies that wanted to recommend to you stuff that will keep you the longest on the platform, and one of them was Netflix, who created the famous Netflix Prize for the best recommender algorithm (that's the only connection to Netflix, yes it was clickbait)

I'm _guessing_ that they chose that partly because a) it was a good heuristics that people would like stuff that "similar people" like and b) because it was easy to optimise computationally, you didn't have to have huge clusters or burn rainforests

For example, ages ago @last.fm let you listen to your "musical neighbourhood", i.e., to music that people with similar music taste listened to. It was almost like getting recommendations from talking to people during a concert break (not that I did that a lot, I'm a nerd).

In my educated guess, one reason why the recommendations by these "recommended systems" seems less interesting, not pushing you to explore new music is that machine learning algorithms got better and compute cheaper.

I just listened to a fascinating Factually episode about Spotify where @adamconover.net taks to @lizpelly.bsky.social. They said that Spotify (and others) used to have recommendations (of new stuff) and now they have just "for you" (more of the same).
And I blame Netflix on that! (nerdy thread)

I like this one! 💚 Could see it turned into a pattern for s fabric or something

This is wrong on so many levels

Very cool, love the combination! Reminds me a bit of a drawing I've started over a year ago and "should finish sometime"

I'm not native English speaker and my mental image was close to the image I got when I googled the Carolina dog, if that helps. I'm guessing if we are talking about mutts then the size etc doesn't matter?

Accidental renaissance painting 🧡

🤍🖤 Atmospheric!

came here to say the same, very cool palette

QRP with your wings art! #art

Character from Sombulus comic by @delphina2k.bsky.social

As much as not the fan all this, it looks like you have to enable it to see your screen. I would also guess that there will be an option to disable it for the whole org, because there is too much money in the private sector who wants to stay private