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.

@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…

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

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

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.

Turns out many of those gun owners like just tyranny just fine. Who knew?

Rosemary, tarragon, chives. https://share.icloud.com/photos/0d4CxeJ80byYsG9zbl_vtpXAg

@Rontuner said in As it should be: Time for police to arrest ICE contract workers? I think this should be the norm for contractors without visible ID or warrents. Speaking of contractors, I think an additional problem is the trend for subcontracting across many areas of law enforcement — ICE yes, but also prisons, other aspects of border patrol, all of it. It seems like it’s almost completely under the radar, but for-profit anything related to law enforcement is an inherent conflict of interest and recipe for abuse. Surely that’s playing a role in what we’re seeing but with all the problems happening at once, this one seems to not get much attention.

@wtg That was really hard to read. What happened to that family, that man, and countless others like him, is unfair, unkind, probably illegal, and definitely unAmerican. And I hate that this is happening across our country. I am truly sympathetic for the man in the article and his situation. But I cannot understand the continued willingness of him (and people like him) to support the person who's caused his financial problems, who does things that he thinks are wrong... I just don't understand it.

Interesting. Mauser 98 ... Exact same gun my father tried to ship home from Italy in WWII ... https://bsky.app/profile/dhfeldman.bsky.social/post/3lyletu4byk24

Democracy Forward? https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/legal-group-democracy-forward-battles-120000838.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-progressive-legal-group-that-keeps-taking-on-trump-in-the-courts-and-winning/ar-AA1BmWYu?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=4ceeb3a8b0bd43b1947bfce2102eea59&ei=84

What goes around comes around Yep.

@AndyD said in New U.S. Citizenship Test ...: Large bank balance? this, probably.

Also, perhaps an NP or PA’s statement could fill in as physician?

@pique said in Sleep apnea and c-pap machines--experiences?: Wondering if Medicare considers these machines to have a limited life span and if they will replace the machine at that point? They do at some point. I'm on my third machine right now. I got my first one through my health insurance while I was still working. It was a Phillips Respironic that was subject of a recall. By that time I was on Medicare and had to get a new sleep study before I could get a replacement, which was a ResMed. The humidifier on that one failed a few months ago out of warranty and I got a replacement ResMed but had to pay the usual Medicare medical equipment copay. I was cautioned that if it had been much longer (10 years?) that I might have had to get yet another sleep study. I'm glad to hear you're now having some success. Big Al

@pique said in Rest in peace, Robert Redford: @jon-nyc said in Rest in peace, Robert Redford: Humphrey Bogart It was Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, which of course was set in Morocco. Lauren Bacall and Bogart first co-starred in "To Have and Have Not" and maybe that was in Cuba? (I'm not sure, it was a tropical setting). They also co-starred in "Key Largo" which was in Florida, not Cuba. So I think you are thinking of "To Have and Have Not" ? Redford was so impossibly handsome. And a good guy, too. Such an icon that it seems impossible that he was mortal after all. No I got the title right and the actress wrong.

ICE detained 2 in this county yesterday. Not surprised. The ski industry would collapse without immigrants. Restaurants patrons objected. Neighbors objected. "They are hard working people and cause no problems." Of the many immigrants in the county, I know one who walked from Guatemala. She became a maid at Keystone resort, and has worked up way up from that to a management position, married, had kids and is well respected. I don't know her official status as an immigrant.