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miclugo.bsky.social
northerner in exile, data scientist, reads too much, lover of cats, parent of world's cutest chaos muppets
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How can it feel like warmer than it is? (These are Fahrenheit temps, so no we are not talking about humidity)

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Can we get cross tabs with people who think he’s named “Malcolm Ten”

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They call the place where you drop the kids off “carpool”, as if we actually know our neighbors well enough to pull that off

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Also you’re going to make me decode Roman numerals for a Greek story?

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I saw a snowflake, everyone freak out

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My Fitbit keeps telling me “slow down, you’ve been pushing yourself too hard” and I want to tell it my kids won’t let me

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My employer is engaged in a hamfisted RTO effort, and they announced it in October, but it’s still hard not to see it as King Elon and Court Jester Donald said so.

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They clearly didn’t poll my house. The morning after the election I told CJ (aged 6) that Kamala lost. She was a little sad but then asked “so who won Fat Bear Week?”

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The Savannah Bananas famously are a baseball team. I just learned there is also the Macon Bacon. Please suggest other (real or hypothetical) team names that are rhyming and that are foods. All I can think of is the New York Porks.

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The name “Greenland” is even older than “Gulf of Mexico”

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Things I have found on the floor while cleaning up: socks, blocks, rocks, box

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An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen line thickness used except when I forget I’m using geom_line instead of geom_point

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I think I’m coming around to calling it “X” to make it clear it’s a different thing now.

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Wrong Genesis.

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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

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