profsummergig

This image of the femur, can anyone shed light on why there are notches carved on the side?

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b6b6509049556deef91d0459df864...

Also, regarding "There is no technology, extant or imaginable, that could extract that marvellous secret from her bones",

I put those under the "famous last words" category.

We cannot predict today what we may discover about bones in the future. There could be something akin to DNA fingerprinting that lets people discover ancestry. Just because we've not discovered it yet, doesn't mean we will never discover it. Not saying we will, but I prefer to keep an open mind about science and human creativity.

The way weeds grow in my lot in the midwest,

wiping out everything else if not tended to every year,

I find it very hard to believe that we can find evidence of intensive cultivation after 3,600 years in such a wet area.

Could be true, but I find it hard to believe.

Steve Jobs said it most profoundly: "love what you do".

This is the opposite of "do what you love".

I wish I understood where he learned this.

It's very profound (and true).

One day someone's going to reboot that computer and I'm going to lose all my carefully curated trauma.

The big bang sounds like how a computer would interpret being turned on.

Anyone else think this is what happened?

How this guy is still alive after all the drugs he did in his youth, and all the testosterone/steroids he takes now, is a mystery to me.

Also, overdoses on methylene blue, apparently: https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1887232439770087608

OK, so the Jews have gotten their NYC situation under control. But what about all the vulnerable populations in SF, LA, etc.? We must group-fund an eruv for those vulnerable populations.

Also, this is a lost opportunity for ambulance-chasing lawsuits. Anyone know if anyone's been killed by their city being surrounded with fishing line suspended 30 feet in the air?

1) I tried it, enjoyed it, thank you for building it.

2) I learned something new: I was aware of how making the exhale longer than the inhale promoted relaxation. Somehow I hadn't thought of inverting it for the opposite effect: more energy. Your app mentioned it and it was an "aha" moment for me. I tried it, and certainly feel something, but too early to say if it's a placebo effect or something real. Thank you for this new knowledge.

3) The pause portion. What does Richie Davidson (or other research say about it). What does it do, please? That is, what is the difference between not pausing at all between inhale and exhale, vs. pausing (i.e. box breathing)? Thanks in advance.

This is an Ayn Rand novel happening in real time. As an enjoyer of Ayn Rand, I'm feeling tingly.

Remember: if he so wants, Musk can get access to all the private messages that MAGA people DM'ed each other on X (well into the past).

A lot of vanity bonfires can happen.

This is so obviously fake news that it's a good litmus test of the people who are boosting it.

There's no way that a team of programmers can ever produce code quickly enough to mimic anything close to the response time of a coding LLM.

Is it usually done in natural settings outdoors, or in a sort of gym, indoors?

This would fit the standard of taxation with representation. Both Trump and Congress are elected, via a representative democratic process.

And these days everything is 2FA. All that phone data is going to start leaking when they need to growth-hack further.

If I search my phone number on certain online white-page sites, every single house I've ever lived in for the last 25 years shows up in a list, along with a whole bunch of other very personal information (e.g. the people who lived in the same house at the same time).

There should be laws against this sort of thing.

I cannot take seriously an economics article about tariffs without charts in it. For quick skimming of course.

Fascinating article. Learned a lot. Especially about Lynn Margulis. What a great scientist. And she married Carl Sagan to boot.

Here's the part I don't understand about Mitochondria.

- I have a love-hate relationship with alcohol. I love it, it hates me. Turns out that alcohol really messes with mitochondria. And could be blamed for the inflammation and obesity epidemic (via mitochondrial disregulation).

- But then I see pics of people at beaches and public squares in the 60's and 70's. They were drinking way more than we do now. And they look skinny as heck. (As heck!)

- And apparently, for hundreds (thousands?) of years in various parts of the world (especially the middle ages West, and ancient Egypt), people pretty much drank water mixed with alcohol all day (it was safer than raw water), and their food was a type of thick beer porridge.

- So it can't be all that simple now, can it?

I agree that it is a useful tool for teaching students about ML.

I'm going to use it in a course to teach a machine to recognize claps vs finger-snaps.

If you know of other simple, light tools like this that can be used to teach / demonstrate ML, please share.

Thank you.

I remember reading this one in the late nineties. Never been able to find it again. It was probably in one of his books:

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pointy haired boss making making a presentation: "research shows that customers want high-quality products at low-prices.

but we make low-quality products.

so we are going to sell them at high-prices and call it a strategy"

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If anyone has a link to the original comic, please share it, I would like to see it again. It captures so many themes succinctly, and was very very astute for the late nineties when corps were doing crazy things and calling it a "strategy".

(I'm saying that both sides dropping nukes on each other would be a good thing. I'm adding credibility to that statement by saying I have skin in the game. I'm expecting downvotes because my post is anti-pacifist.)

Do we need reasons to plant cities in urban areas now?

Look at photos of Tel Aviv. Lush green trees everywhere. Compare it with any other city in the desert. Completely changes the quality of life.

India has amended its no-first-use policy with regard to Pakistan.

It now depends on "circumstances".

Source: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-s-no-first-use-nuc...

That doesn't sound like mutual destruction. It sounds like it would be partial-destruction on one side.

Might be worth it.

One universal internet for the entire world was a mistake.

We need borders on the internet.

I hope it wasn't to a military cantonment in Pakistan. That would be wild.

I tried this prompt in both Gemini 2.5 Pro, and in ChatGPT.

"Draw me a timeline of all the dynasties of China. Imagine a horizontal line. Start from the leftmost point and draw segments for the start and end of each dynasty. For periods where multiple dynasties existed simultaneously draw parallel lines or boxes to represent the concurrent rule."

Gemini's response: "I'm just a language model, so I can't help you with that."

ChatGPT's response: an actual visual timeline.

Your point is fair, and a valid perspective for analyzing the issue.

Here's another valid perspective: the Federal money that went to subsidize the Law student's degree... it could have gone to infrastructure in a way that could have materially improved the waitress's life. Or it could have increased her child credit. Or it could have been used to incentivize her (in various ways) to seek an educational or skills upgrade.

It was an interesting week.[1]

[1] See: the stock market chart.

> eight short paragraphs of text

Fair point. But they are heavily metaphor-laden paragraphs.

Textual interpretation is a highly subjective activity. Entire careers consist of interpreting, reinterpreting, and discussing texts that others have already interpreted. Film critics, book reviewers, political pundits, TV anchors, podcasters, etc.

'In 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution. "Too early to say," he replied'

I had my own sense of what the "coquina" metaphor stood for. I wanted to see other peoples' interpretations. Turns out my interpretation was wrong.

> I can't spell for shit anymore.

This is increasingly happening to me every day. Hope the alien overlords don't have spelling tests (as their version of IQ tests) to separate the serfs from the field-masters.

I was sitting with a D.C. lobbyist at a function dinner. Lawyer at a prominent lobbying law firm. Random seat assignments. He gets a call on his cellphone. After the call he has a shit-eating grin on his face. Tells me Biden just signed student loan forgiveness. He had lobbied on behalf of the banks that had given the loans to the students (and students weren't paying them back).

I asked him if it was fair on the waitress earning $13 per hour to subsidize the student loan of a Law school graduate. He changed the subject deftly.

Accenture and Deloitte pay a lot of money to lobbyists for these Pentagon contracts. After the dust has settled, they'll still get juicy contracts. We will all forget that any of this happened.