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Backpacks, schoolbooks seen amid rubble of Iranian girls’ school Rescuers dug through the rubble of a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran after a US-Israeli strike.

stop killing children

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People are different but not as remotely as different as many people want to believe.

May luck find you working.

My dad used to say this, so I have it on a post it note in my office.

"May luck find you working."

Do mathematicians rely on senses other than vision and hearing? The senses of vision and hearing are commonly recognized as being important for the study of mathematics, with fields like geometry and topology relying heavily on vision, while algebra and number ...

Do mathematicians rely on senses other than vision and hearing? 👉🏼 mathoverflow.net/questions/44...

Elvin Jones on drums in this track is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Coltrane adds: "I don't try to set standards of perfection for anyone else. I do feel everyone does try to reach his better self, his full potential, and what that consists of depends on each individual. Whatever that goal is, moving toward it does require vigilance." And as the performance shows, that vigilance is not without its tensions. Listening to Coltrane work through his own challenge may well stimulate self-confrontation in the rest of us. Each listener, of course, will himself be challenged in a different way. For many, the basic beginning will be that described by Don DeMichael in a Down Beat review of Coltrane: "This music... opens up a part of myself that normally is tightly closed, and seldom-recognized feelings, emotions, thoughts well up from the opened door and sear my consciousness.

open.spotify.com/track/6eIfC6...

lets see Hegseth run the fitness program. I bet most women in uniform would kick his ass

“fuzzy logic” is common in rice cookers. it just means the device adjusts temperature and timing based how quickly the food heats and the water evaporates. mine calls itself “neuro fuzzy” — just silly marketing. it also plays a song when it starts and stops, which is nice

I never understood how it could be otherwise

honestly, I’d much prefer watching Harvey over Kimmel

If you don’t do anything else as a parent you’ve got to build up your children’s confidence. That is like the single most important thing for you to do.

Whats the 2nd ward got to do with Mexican Independence Day? Or is Hopkins still sour over the mishandling of the George Floyd + Covid Lockdown protests ?

I once told a child playing sniper with a toy gun on a playground to stop. This was the same summer Tamir Rice was murdered. The father—a white, off-duty Chicago police officer — came after me. I challenged him for his badge number. He left to chase the kid, who was clearly terrified of his dad 😢

more RAG stuff happening next week you might find interesting 👀 pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-us-2...

black and white photo with a sepia tone of a woman dressed in dark clothing laying across her bed and writing in a journal; scattered across the bed around her are a variety of books.

Maya Angelou writing in bed, with a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bible. (1982)

I’m absolutely stunned at that opinion Kavanaugh just wrote. Like … my anger just transcended to another dimension …

honestly, YMMV. The hardware and tooling are essential; the models themselves don’t do the job alone. My expensive computer won’t outperform a data center

I’m getting the most benefit curating my zotero collections

My ”workshop”

docs.trychroma.com/docs/overvie...

github.com/ollama/ollam...

www.zotero.org

Basically I toss documentation into Zotero, parse the snapshots to create embeddings. The query first retrieves documents via the embedding, then shoves those into the LLM prompt with the query to respond

I’ve experimented for a bit. I use ollama and generally like llama3. Key thing is hardware. I have M4 Pro with 48GiB RAM. I find myself needing more at times. And the LLM alone isn’t enough; more tooling by way of embedding database and derived models help improve usefulness

Stony Island Arts Bank! A Chicago treasure!

No: this isn't possible as "Tusk" was 1979 whereas Beau Jocque and the Zydeco High Rollers were active in the 1990s

I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you're able to grieve freely and honor your friend's memory

A photo of a ceramic sculpture in a slender, limbless approximately human form, covered in warm natural tones with engraved patterns and an opening in the center in which a circular medallion-like extension of the piece rests.

I'm particularly pleased to have several sculptures from Mary Zehnder in the gallery for this show. A native Chicagoan, Zehnder studied briefly at the University of Illinois School of Art and Architecture when she was younger, but life got in the way. She returned to art later in life with aplomb.

I like “netball” — it’s like when surfing trash online turns you into a conspiratorial nutball

I was shocked to learn (very recently!) that Jefferson Davis died decades later. I always believed he’d been condemned for treason and executed, as all those confederate leaders should have been