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Too obvious now.

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Can’t be bought yet. Later this year they say.

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If only I could buy it.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one...

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Google keyboard was even better that Swype back then. Only when they started trying to make it smarter by scrubbing all our text input did it start getting worse. However they need the pretense to collect all our input so they’re never going back.

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Google keyboard predates gboard. App view here says 2013, so not quite that range but close.

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What has two thumbs and doesn’t like Tom Cruise?

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It could also be vitamin k deficiency, my wife had to supplement vitamin k for a bit when she started bruising easily.

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Wouldn’t N by M be a tensor? Magnitude and direction only need one entry per DOF.

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All vectors are tensors but not vice versa. And every page/definition of vector I’ve seen references magnitude and direction, even the vector space page you linked.

It looks like “vector” commonly refers to geometric vectors which is what most folks in this thread are discussing.

Would N by M vectors be imaginary, where each DOF has real and imaginary components?

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At a batman movie

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It would still take a while to edge individual blades of grass

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It’s ads all the way down

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Who sencha?

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Degauss. However I’ve NEVER seen that option on a TV, only electron microscopes. Apparently it exists.

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music.youtube.com/watch?v=uiKzKdLk-iQ&si=k-LIlWiW…

Type O Negative - Summer Breeze. Particularly poignant after Peter’s passing.

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That dude’s face is messing with me. Was it shopped?

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Power+volume up > lockdown

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So this may be a more efficient use of computing power. Brute force calculation of combinations is costly because there are so many possibilities. A learning model can be fed data from brute force calculations and from humans tasked with packing efficiently to develop an empirical model (this is the AI part) of how to package assorted items. That model could take much less computing power than the Brite force method.

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Arbitrary decision is arbitrary.

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Good song, but Bowie is not obscure.

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Wow, this is why I’m here.

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Do obscure rap samples count? Because I love these two:

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy9nSEYZQzE&si=6x72ueIz…

music.youtube.com/watch?v=4TqyGMjeIpA&si=RkaU_sQJ…

To the original question, I would pick RHCP cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s song If You Want Me To Stay.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzWSL-gEO4&si=l-LP8ose…

music.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXkP0HTf3w&si=OrswIwjo…

Also Type O’s cover of Seals and Croft’s song Summer Breeze

music.youtube.com/watch?v=ywL6tMQdG4c&si=9uM1HqkG…

music.youtube.com/watch?v=uiKzKdLk-iQ&si=pQRsVqWN…

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Real shower if you can, French shower if you can’t. Wet wipe the pits and butt, air dry, brush hair, deodorant, and some pleasant parfum. Bring a change of clothes.

Or you could just bike slowly and not get all nasty but who wants to do that.

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Waking up at 4:30 to hit the gym before work. Took some getting used to, just commit to waking up when your alarm goes off and go through the motions, you will feel good once you start actually exercising. Then eating a nice breakfast after, the best.

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*absinf

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This scenario has a high risk of confirmation bias.

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I have a flashlight at work that uses them. It’s a PITA because we don’t stock AAAA batteries at work so they have to be special ordered.

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The variants of Mr Self Destruction on Further Down the Spiral are even better all together.

But I have to disagree about Hurt, it is as good as they say it is. I play the NIN version on guitar and it gives me goosebumps.

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My biggest beef with the Cash version is “crown of thorns”. It’s almost as bad as when Ceelo sang “all religions true”.

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He was messed up but I don’t think he was a pedo. He loved kids but not in that way.

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I haven’t figured out how to get a good edge with stones. “it’s all in the angle” but without some kind of guide I can’t find the right angle. I tried marking the edge with sharpie, it helped a little bit still not as good of an edge as I get with other means.

On the flip side, I am a professional metallographer so I am extremely experienced in progressive polishing to insanely fine grits. I just don’t have a good feel or control of the angle. Metallography has to be perfectly flat.

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Those rotary slicers are great. I make apple pie and those make it a breeze.

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Wow

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Suss out medical causes through blood work, sleep study, etc. Work with your Dr on this.

Also work on sleep hygiene. Strict routime (go to bed and wake up at the same time every day), comfortable bed, cool dark room, preparation (nothing exciting, no screen use, no caffeine leading up to bed time), and mindset (we sometimes use headspace to help with bed time anxiety). My anxious kid has a weighted blanket and that helped him a lot.

Exercise during the day helps a lot with sleep and general well-being. I feel better and sleep better when I avoid sugar.

I don’t know how to learn decisiveness but I believe it can be learned through practice and I believe that being decisive helps you sleep. You know you did what you thought was right, there is less worrying about your decisions afterwards. My other son and I are this way and we sleep like babies. Speculation, there is definitely a correlation there for us so maybe it is causal.

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I have the titanium and love them. They are perfectly adequate for listening to audiobooks on runs. On the road bike it can get drowned out by wind noise so hard to hear spoken word but music is OK.

They really shine when doing construction. I can use earplugs and the sound is way better with them in.

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Depending on your interpretation of the Drake equation, they are either impossible or inevitable.

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I kept waiting for the part where he’s super religious, but was ultimately let down. I may have to read his book.

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So you’re saying it’s 50/50. Half the time it works every time.

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Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?

Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor’s office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it’s always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I...

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This happened to me today. Dreading the hold times tomorrow.

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He sucks. He always sucked. All of his movies inexplicably pair himself with young beautiful women. Gee what happened to the art?

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Strength is the ability to do hard things. Hard is relative. Gender doesn’t play into it at all.

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Groundhog Day. It gets better with subsequent watches.

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You can say that again

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Capresso Infinity. It is an inexpensive conical burr grinder. I bought mine in 2012.

Mine lasted about 4 years before the thermister died. I replaced it with a 1Ω resistor and it works no problem. I’ve had to replace that resistor about every 4 years, three times so far, most recently a couple months ago. I would guess it is there to limit heat in the motor but the motor has not yet failed so 🤷.

I grind 60g of medium fine or 40g of coarse just about daily and it has otherwise held up fine. In the summer for the last few years I grind 120g of coarse every few days for cold brew, that is a longer grind and probably the most risk of overheating but hasn’t really affected the life AFAICT.

You may be able to spend more on a grinder that lasts more than 4 years, but this is a cheap and easy fix if you’re handy with a soldering iron.

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Mouse, meet cat

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My favorite class in grad school. I absolutely loved deriving the laws of thermodynamics from first principles based the random motion of atoms. It was beautiful.

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Steel etching with Winsteard’s reagent. It is a bit dangerous because if done wrong it forms explosive dust. It was also long and tedious because the liquid must be near boiling and stirring so it evaporated quickly and has to be topped off and brought back to temperature often. The etch itself requires a long temper of a quenched sample and has an iterative process of etching and back-polishing to gradually remove surface roughness but leave the slightly deeper grain boundaries.

It took several hours of preparation and several hours of active work per sample and even then had a 50/50 success rate. I was professionally trained by a third party who learned this process from the person who perfected it, George Vander Voort.

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