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  • Grow your own meat ...

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    wtgW
    I think I'll stick to growing veggies and keeping my sourdough starter alive.
  • The fruit detective

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    dolmansaxlilD
    My recent favourite (within maybe the last 10 years) are ambrosia apples. But they don’t store terribly well so they are best in the fall.
  • LOLcritters

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    Watched mares with foals a lot when I was a kid. Never saw anything like what is in those pictures.
  • Enhanced Games 2026

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    @Axtremus Kennedy will probably try to worm is way into it.
  • Small World in Motion competition

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    I like the first one.
  • Now Jimmy Kimmel

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    wtgW
    Nexstar is bringing him back, too.
  • H-1B visas

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    ShiroKuroS
    Wow, thanks for posting this! Very informative!
  • TikTok deal

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    ShiroKuroS
    @wtg said in TikTok deal: Or is it a shakedown? this.
  • Anybody get "raptured"???

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    Piano*DadP
    Raptured: Verb, past tense. Someone who has been captured by a raptor after it ruptures you.
  • Data, data, who has the data?

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    I see nothing! I hear nothing! Sgt. Schultz
  • Ketchup bottle feature

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    RontunerR
    Just one of those random "well this works too" kindof observation. The little pointy thing is most likely a plug for those types of squirters on bottles meant to store with the cap down.
  • Crossword puzzles

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    dolmansaxlilD
    Is 5d recess?
  • Another TACO Tuesday

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    Both parties have included in their funding bills additional money for the security of Congress, judges and executive branch officials in response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Republicans have proposed $88m in spending, while Democrats have offered $326m. IMO, they shouldn't get a dime in additional security money until they get serious about reasonable gun laws.
  • Me Learning LLM Reasoning

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    ShiroKuroS
    @Axtremus said in Me Learning LLM Reasoning: There probably is a lesson somewhere in this experience for multilingual LLM machine learning/reasoning, but I don’t know what that is yet. Well, to me one obvious lesson is not about machine learning, but rather that, even if you’re very knowledgeable, you have relevant information, and your ideas are good, how you present it matters immensely. Being able to present complex information in an accessible way is the essence of good teaching. I notice that video #1 says High-level overview of reasoning in large language models, focusing on motivations, core ideas, and current limitations. No prior background is required. But reading your comment makes me wonder if in fact prior background is needed… Because being able to present new ideas in an accessible to someone with no background in the subject is the essence of good presenting. I’m curious about the subject matter in the video (for example, I want to hear about chain-of-thought prompting and chain-of-thought reasoning, and I want to know what they mean by in-context learning), but reading your post makes me hesitant to watch it…
  • 70 years of ITV

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    Some of those I still watch daily i.e. Sweeney, Professionals, Minder, Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abbey, Morse, Poirot, all currently being shown here on freeview. I'd like to rewatch Prime Suspect and Broadchurch. Thunderbirds is so dated for me, yet the original Star Trek from 1966 remains fresh and attractively primeval. Do you get those old crime series in the States? The Sweeney & The Professionals show London when I first moved there, and classic cars of my youth
  • Happy Autumnal Equinox!

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  • Happy New Year and Welcome to Fall!

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  • Starling Lawrence, editor

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  • Long Connection at Heathrow ... what to do?

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    Although the long lasting Tube strike is over per se, but if your plans depend on using it be aware there are "rolling strikes" going on now - unpredictable. Need to keep abreast of what's going on transportationwise. Link to video
  • Shell game

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    AdagioMA
    That’s fun! I have an open dish of shells on my powder room counter. They could probably use a rinse. They’re all from different trips; I can’t remember which came from where any more.