I had meant to dig into some more machine learning stuff to blog about this week.
But instead, I fell down a rabbit hole of building a weird #webcomponents tech demo to better visualize this topic clustering thing
Also, Catsby’s gained a bit of weight since the scare we had with him earlier in the year.
The vet put him on budesonide as a steroid for IBS. A compounding pharmacy mixed it up with chicken flavoring for us and he very vocally demands it every night. So glad I don’t have to wrestle it into him, since it seems to have fully turned him around #cats
@evan (shakes a cane at the clouds)
x; twitter; elon musk
Welp, he actually finally officially did it. Twitter is an ex-website.
re: x; twitter; elon musk
I guess I'm kind of looking forward to folks stopping calling it "x-you-know-twitter" because they can't stop themselves covering for Musk's branding fuck up
re: x; twitter; elon musk
Like, just let the man crater his acquisition in peace and stop trying to resolve the awkwardness.
I feel like a lot of favors are done for jackasses when folks edit and smooth over their emissions in reporting and press
re: x; twitter; elon musk
@LambdaCalculus probably pining for the fjords
A bunch of meetings just disappeared from my calendar today. Very tempted to wander off for the rest of the work day, starting with a mid-day bike ride since it's not awful weather out. Haven't been able to do that sort of thing in a long while.
Part of me is feeling the lure of an afternoon ride to St. Johns for a couple of slices of pizza under the bridge.
Shower thought: One of the things that really bothers me about the current era of commerce is this thing where companies sell things yet also still retain possession of them?
Like, here, we sold you this car / television / phone / thermostat and it's yours - but also it's a deployed component of our corporate global data collection & surveillance system.
Or, here, we're selling you cloud services and managing data on your behalf - but also your databases are our databases and we're going to mine them for insights and train models.
Like imagine if Taco Bell sold me a burrito but then were also like "the beans have micro-transmitters that collect gut health telemetry for our in-house analytics" because they still assume possession of the burrito after I've eaten it.
Like, pipe down, it's all in the terms of service that we get to have your cake after you eat it too
Food
It’s not pizza, it’s pho and a beer. But close enough for today
Also said screw it and took a bike ride. Turns out the cargo rack of my bike makes a good desk for reading a PDF and doing some writing
Back home from the bike ride. As I pulled into my yard, a kid went running past my house screaming “YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO EAT A TURTLE!” and no one else but me seemed around? I didn’t stick around for further observations.
@punch yeah, it’s pretty great! I mostly use it for notes, too, but have read a pile of comics on it. Been trying to read some papers in PDF for work on it lately too, which works rather well
@tankgrrl absolutely not!
I’m gonna call this bike ride a work trip since I stopped for a half hour in the middle to read part of a paper claiming that Hallucination is Inevitable in LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817
I have just been made aware that there is a Transformers / Back to the Future mashup DeLorean named Gigawatt with a flux capacitor in its chest and I think I need it
As stolen from Discord
