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Fwiw they still have an internal API endpoint that connects to the lava lamps but they don't really use it these days. It is fun to joke about though.

The Mexican Jarritos Instagram account has fewer followers per capita (1 in 2940) than the South Korean Jarritos Instagram account does (1 in 2810).

chocolate glazed

I feel like the US federal government must have better sources for inflation numbers than Doordash.

stranger on the train asked me what brand my boots are. total menswear victory

MJ Lenderman bf / Faye Webster gf

I had no idea what Fiserv does until I looked up their website. Their website says that they offer "insights" and "solutions" to "move businesses forward." So I guess that's what they do.

The main discourse drivers on liberal twitter are media people because a lot of the normies are on blusky. The article's writing style is great if a bit navel-gazing, but there's not much to say about it except to announce to everyone that you are a reader of highfalutin culture pervert writing.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of Joanna Newsom's latest album, Divers.

Yeah I'm trying to lower my bar a little bit for this one because the thoughts keep sticking around, and I still feel like they're useful enough even in an inchoate form.

I will once I figure out where gamma distributions come from!

(There will also be PCA!)

This is fueled a little bit by arrogance perhaps, or maybe because there's a soft ceiling to the audience I attract, but my general feeling is "if I don't understand this, I bet 95%+ of my audience won't," and it's not fair to pretend like I do understand it. It's tricky stuff!

The challenge for me is my thoughts are rather informal. There are some formal bits and pieces but I don't really feel fully comfortable with them. Mainly, I still don't feel in my bones a strong intuition of where the Gamma distribution as a prior for precision comes from.

I'm writing a blog post for the first time in over a year. I've had some thoughts floating in my head about vector embeddings that I haven't seen articulated anywhere.

So you're saying cultural appropriation is OK? Got it. 👍

I'm with you, Joe. Halloween is a holiday where people constantly culturally appropriate from marginalized communities, and women denigrate themselves to appeal to the male gaze. Far from being celebrated, the holiday should be actively shunned.

A friendly reminder as Nobel season approaches, the Nobel Prizes are not real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Alexis Trousset would have loved Valorant.

I have yet to have the mythical 95th ptile biryani so I guess I need to be on the lookout

Is there any food with a higher delta in quality between the 80th percentile and 95th percentile than baklava? Like a good baklava is whatever, but an amazing baklava is to die for.

nothing these guys are mad about is comprehensible to a normal human being

kinda fucked up that marine mammals exist. born to live on land, forced to live in the ocean.

geocentrist celebrating their birthday: I'm grateful for another trip the sun took around me

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@grok is this real

today I saw a herring gull dragging a dead rat into the crosswalk while the cars were stopped so that the cars would run over the dead rat's body. Nature is beautiful.

The version of the survivorship bias plane that you usually see is the American one. This is the version that they use in Germany to illustrate survivorship bias.

I'm struck watching this what an absolute moron you would have to be for it to provoke any positive nostalgia at all.

A friendly reminder as Nobel season approaches, the Nobel Prizes are not real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel.