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I’m switching from Matlab to Python. I will feed it rats instead of RAM.

It’s weird that religions exist. Many of them are more than 2,000 years old, and very few other entities exist that long.

There are two single payer health plans in the US right now: Indian Health Services and Veterans Affairs Health Care.

If anything, IHS is worse than the VA, and the VA is famous for a reason.

People who think single payer healthcare is going to solve all problems do not have VA health insurance. Single payer should be on the table, but it’s not going to be perfect.

String cheese

Of deep learning, convergents to rad(2), and who is where, that delusion that sent so many Autopians ideas.

Oh, muses, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus.

Biscuits

I trained a set of networks on series of sine data, Yn = A*sin(a + ▲h*n) or = A* sin((a + ▲h*n)/2pi) (for easier normalization and scaling). A and a are just constants.

I’m getting loss on the order of 10^-5. I’ve never seen models like that.

Tend to go in one of two directions: we delude ourselves that our thoughts are physical objects with meaning, and that we are the physical objects of someone else’s thought.

By mere thinking, we expect to do stuff or are the stuff of thinking. Maybe primordialy, but only implemented by action. Thoughts become meaningful with action, not just by being well developed thoughts.

Is starting down the Jalopnik/The Drive path, and I’m losing interest.