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External cooling device?

What’s the story behind the naming? (I presume it’s not written in Hy/Hylang, the cute little Lisp that compiles to Python.)

WET, write everything twice

Resale value is important for wheelchairs. My dad had an electric one for about 8 months before he passed on, and the TCO was well under the price of all these alt concepts.

Are you somehow closely related to one Tito Tapia?

> especially the later writing and editing: explaining stuff that is obvious to me and no one else I don’t do this. I write expecting the audience to pretty much have read the enti…

Who said anything about amendments?

To me “Man” has more of a “each and every” connotation. Compare “Man must achieve this.” “Humanity must achieve this.” The latter is more of a collective emergent thing. And in som…

I love the Buddhist expression “these teachings are like a raft one uses to cross the river and then discards”.

I remember writing down everywhere — in notebooks, calendars — all full of teenage fury and conviction: “OBSERVE THE MASTER / IMITATE THE MASTER / BECOME THE MASTER”. An edgy 14 ye…

So like chromadb

> delve

I talked to Pi for one New York minute and it came up with the good ole “Ahhh the X Y of Z” LLM-ism. So much for an unique conversational tone.

You’re able to capture a whole world of proximity relations through echolocation.

*Title: The Soul of Creation* by Nick Cave (Verse 1) In the dawn of all existence, in the silence of the void, God spun the world in six days, in a dance of cosmic joy. On the seve…

Ezra Pound says “a charge for the use of purchasing power, levied without regard to production; often without regard to the possibilities of production.” Of course, Ezra Pound was …

Also not all notions of God are dualistic — where you get to (notionally) talk to the guy using “you” and “I”. India’s Advaita Vedanta, Ibn Arabi’s version of Sufism and even some …

The pdf is just the pullback measure. A random variable is a function X(w) taking (eg) real values. In your probability space you already have an ambient measure space and an ambie…

Suggestion: stack the images vertically or horizontally. Frequency spectrum compression schemes like JPG will see the similarity in the fine details.

There was a subreddit called something like r/bubbling where people would edit pictures of women in bikinis and actually cover more of the image, but in such a way that your brain …

An interesting exercise would have been to run a Gaussian Graphical Model (like the “graphical lasso”) to sparsify that correlation matrix. In the Gaussian case, those methods are …

Somehow I expected something something Peano something something