Author: OTS

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Stuff

I’ve been doing the minimalist try-not-to-buy-stuff thing since moving. I will admit I need a couch.

And maybe a comfy chair.

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Mid November

I am completely out of gas personally, the quarter is ending, I’m broke, the contraption doesn’t work, and apparently I forgot how to wire a NOT-gate.

I also have a new clutch, and the feeling is so different I keep stalling.

Updates will be sporadic for the foreseeable future.

Good luck, everyone. I’m rooting for you.

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Stef Doesn’t Have a Corvette

Stef Schrader has a piece for Road and Track.

I like Stef. The cute, puffalump bit doesn’t really work for me, but Stef is a straight-up car nerd. I like her authenticity. She’s also fairly optimistic and up-beat, and her articles rarely delve into indiscriminate complaining. Thirdly, when she has to cover some details about a car, she does the parts that should be professional professionally. If a car doesn’t have the straight-line speed of another, but handles better while breaking, that bit of story doesn’t need too much editorializing. When GM reports sales, I don’t really want to hear how Cadilac’s year-over-year sales changes are interpreted in the author’s views of social justice. I want a little context but inside the box. They’re cars. They’re cool and I like them, but let’s keep perspective.

This one’s a human interest story, but she can string a few sentences together to make a cord of memories. It’s worth reading.

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Fiction

The world needs more romance where everything goes to pot, the couple breakup, and love is a complete crock.

It needs to be on Hallmark. That’ll surprise them.

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Datasets

I need a mathematically simplistic, multidimensional dataset that can be generated with machine accuracy.

I’ve been using [x,y] with truth determined by some hidden function, but it’s hard to generalize that beyond 3 dimensions. It does have the advantage of being accessible to machine limits, though.