We use ours for pork and, oddly enough, falafels. Just soak the chickpeas and grind them with onions and herbs

Excerpt from the article noting that Obama was one of 22 senators to vote against Robert's because he too often used his legal talents to support the strong over the weak

And you've got to admit that Obama was right...

But at least their beer is cheap 😀

Resolving a long thought philosophical question :-)

So, the Bike of Theseus?

They Might Be Giants striking a dual pose playing a Melodica & accordion

deny it if u want but this is what peak musical performance looks like

Scatter plot with the median price of a pint of beer on the y-axis and the median income on the x-axis. There is a regression line drawn that indicates that the price of beer goes up with income. The greatest outlier is New York with a high cost of beer and not as high median income.

Quick and dirty analysis... seems to correlate to median income

I've handed it off to the 12 year old who thought it looked interesting. I'm guessing she'll read it tonight instead of sleeping. 😀

Okay - I've read it and loved it again. It's so much fun to get to read the first couple of chapters straight through, but also to see the foreshadowing that was set up for things we're just now seeing online.

A physical copy of SideQuested Book 1, a graphic novel by Ale Presser and K. B. Spangler.

Sometimes, your preorder shows up early. So excited! 😁

@alepresser.com @kbspangler.com

We had this discussion the other week and decided the same was true for squash and squashes.

Anyway, long story short, we're looking forward to the Feast of the Seven Squashes this fall

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It's so good! I've read it at least twice

Could be worse - I was afraid you had 70 cites :-)

Absolutely! But for a lot of work in R, it seems like the approach is to type in some magic commands that you don't really understand, get the results and then manually change other numbers in the next commands

A good bridge between R and software engineering practice will be a huge help

This is very exciting. My partner is doing genomics research in R and as a software engineer, I've been fairly surprised at the state of reproducible R code.

Thank you for putting this together, I can't wait to read it

I grew up in Louisiana and in the 30 years since I left, I've only found one restaurant that does good Louisiana/cajun food

I wouldn't trust the (any?) number from Sam Altman and it almost certainly isn't an apples to apples comparison with the Netflix analysis

I'll note that .34 wh works out to be a 250 w GPU running for 5 seconds (almost exactly). This sounds low for ChatGPT and also ignores the external costs of transmission, the receiving computer, etc that are rolled up into the Netflix analysis

Maybe I've lost the point, but this is embarrassingly wrong. It's spitting out a 10x10 grid with 9 numbers between 1-10 (no 9 on the top row and no 10 on the first column) and the math is obviously wrong. What is this supposed to prove?

I'm pretty sure you can drag the new window back into the old window and the new window goes away and becoemes a tab again. It's definitely undoable. Now having way to turn off the feature for those who don't want it makes sense :-)

So I guess from a technical standpoint, I would be cautious. And that doesn't even get into the jobs aspect

I've heard of other similar issues in translation software using genAI. IIRC, there was a recent story about K-pop demon hunters using ChatGPT to help with songs, but it turned out to be an artifact of the translation software

For example, the medical transcription tool whisper (from OpenAI) has been shown to invent entire conversations, in part bc of weird context attention, and in part bc once it gets one thing wrong, then the whole transcription can go off the rails.

The other form of AI translation is based on generative AI, think ChatGPT. These are predictive models that try to predict the next word based on what's come before and the current input. The problem with them is that they are less grounded in the original

Google translate is based on a sequence to sequence model that tries to map lang A to lang B. It is fairly accurate and grounded in the meaning of the original text. There are also seq2seq models for spoken to written text.

It sounds like the goal is have spoken language translated into another spoken language? Or into another written language?

From a technical standpoint, there are two approaches that are broadly labeled as AI.

Agreed. And several of the examples provided (boiler plate code, website templates, etc) are probably better accomplished with an actual code template.

It's like glitter...it's been hundreds of years and we're STILL finding Vikings everywhere 😆

And this is why you're the brains of the family - or at least the memory 😁