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Internet of Things #IoT Sensor Analytics Ecosystems #SensAE, DataArchon, Bayesian, Privacy, Ethics, Sustainability — Strategist & Innovator; BBBT; IoTPL, IoTCL Top 10, Onalytica IoT and #DigitalTwins , BSI #SmartHome ; Clean & Green; Foodie; Western Washington, Olympic Peninsula, 2 blocks from the Pacific Ocean — love the deer in our backyard

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GottaLaff, to Canada
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After a long morning of loading the POD, stuffing the car, cleaning, scrubbing, double-checking, all on very little sleep… we’re off! here we come.

loves these long road trips.

First night: Sacramento-ish.

jadp,
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@GottaLaff have a great trip and a wonderful conclusion to your journey and your sale

Cmastication, to random
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Google: unsafe at any speed

jadp,
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@Cmastication dang, those AI sure are smart. 🤣

Regardless of RAG, Knowledge Graphs and Vector Search, the mathematics of LLM trained GPT tends towards errors.

Yes, experienced folk such as yourself can make valid use of them; many others cannot. The toll of human curation of the training sets, and the environmental costs may not be worth it. Unless, maybe, we get to the next steps of local, private, secure generative agents, and as on in causal models.

GottaLaff, to random
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Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic

Negotiators plan to ask for more time. Among the sticking points are equitable access to vaccines and financing to set up surveillance systems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/health/pandemic-treaty-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jadp,
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@GottaLaff if anyone is asking, I vote yes to both, as long as the surveillance is opt-in and anonymous

Cmastication, to random
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I know a few piston heads who would totally make pasta tossed in gasoline

From: @JoeUchill
https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493317168967705

jadp,
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@Cmastication @JoeUchill no! Just … my Italian genes are cursing at this

Cmastication, to random
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I understand how the boomers musta felt for a while. Watching adults being idiots is, apparently, a right of passage.

From: @axios
https://mastodon.social/@axios/112429343392403750

jadp,
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@Cmastication Are they streaming ultrasound footage to go along with the in utero branding?

jadp,
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@Cmastication Philips, Clarius , others have portable ultrasounds and ultrasound devices that connect to your smartphone for

GottaLaff, to random
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And hour and ten minutes later...

The house showing was at 11:30, so we took Hammy out at 11:20. We checked our Ring cam. Nobody showed up... until noon. Sigh. So more Hammy walking, for another half hour. We live in a hilly nieghorhood, so ... well... We're beat.

Heard a few nice things about the back/front yards and neighborhood on the Ring, but that's it. 🤞🏼

jadp,
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@GottaLaff May competitive bids on your home be in your future 🔮

skinnylatte, to random
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I haven’t encountered a single vegetable-centered dish at any of the Thai, Japanese, Malaysian restaurants I’ve visited in LA. It is possible to eat differently from the rest of the world (re a conversation a few days ago about always having to order veggies)

(To be clear, I agree everyone should eat veggies if they want! But also that, there are many cuisines which simply aren’t vegetable-centered)

(I had a very large raw papaya salad, lots of fiber but also enough chilli to kill a bear)

jadp,
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@skinnylatte add Philippines to that list. Amazingly, my spouse, @czds was raised vegetarian there. Kare-kare without meat, with bago’ong made with fermented tofu, black beans, and savories rather than fried shrimp. We added lobster and oyster mushroom to her mother’s recipe to get a bit of shrimp flavor. Ordering mixed vegetables in a Filipino restaurant invariably means asking that they hold the ground pork, and patis (fish sauce) is a standard in many dishes.

Cmastication, to random
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Web designer: Check our the new website!

me: I did, but on my iPad I can't flip through these pictures in the middle. If I move left or right they don't move at all.

wd: Oh we used the latest in parallax scrolling with ScrollMagic. If you keep scrolling down the pictures will flip to the right.

me: So I scroll down to flip right?

wd: <smiles and nods>

me: I understand how the boomers got that way. I'm going to need you to get off my lawn now please.

jadp,
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@Cmastication but, but…it’s MAGIC and it scrolls!!!

GottaLaff, to random
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Well we have a showing tomorrow which means my #TrumpTrial coverage will be interrupted tomorrow and today, because today we have to scramble to finish painting all the areas that we need to "touch up" including an entire wall.

Just a heads up.

jadp,
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@GottaLaff showings are better than open houses; here’s hoping an excellent offer is made afterwards

jadp,
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@GottaLaff thank you for tooting faster than I can read. Amazing!

grimalkina, to random
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I want to see absolutely no sensible and practical advice here. What programming language should I start vaguely and in a chill way teaching myself if I just want to experience something fun or elegant or interesting in and of itself, assuming I have no goal for using it to do anything really (outside of learning)

jadp,
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@grimalkina I’m disappointed that none have said — completely reverse your thinking from programming in any other language

jadp,
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@grimalkina yes and no, it is a programming language primarily for statistics and manipulation of data stored as data frames, and version of the older, proprietary language S, and written in C, FORTRAN and R

https://www.r-project.org/

GottaLaff, to random
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An hour or so to go before we can go home after our open house, but so far today was a bust, per our Ring camera. Hardly anyone showed. The market has been flat. 😢

jadp,
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@GottaLaff sorry to hear this. Our experience was that the right buyer just had to show up, and it wasn’t at an open house. Good luck.

GottaLaff, to random
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Should I be posting dopey countdown posts to my move to BC?

Your choice.

jadp,
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@GottaLaff of course

GottaLaff, to random
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Thermal energy storage was new to me. 👇🏼

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/thermal-storage-explainer-1.7163743

jadp,
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@GottaLaff Very interesting technology for utility scale energy storage. The greater the mix of renewable energy sources and storage methods, at both Microgrids and Utility grids scales, the better the chances for future generations to have a comfortably livable planet

GottaLaff, to Canada
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Why yes, we are at White Rock. Thanks for asking! 🇨🇦🩷

jadp,
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@GottaLaff you truly take excellent photos!

GottaLaff, to Canada
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I just took this from our back deck.

🇨🇦

jadp,
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@GottaLaff what a wonderfully composed shot of an absolutely wondrous scene … the blossoms against the evergreens against the varying blues of sea and sky. Breathtakingly beautiful cc: @czds

GottaLaff, to random
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“How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk

Justice gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world.”

Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/politics/clarence-thomas-crystal-clanton-clerk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk0.J5XS.gfzU1UfWYsNu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jadp,
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@GottaLaff he is the poster child for time limits on justices, isn’t he.

GottaLaff, to Canada
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🇨🇦We are in #Canada! 😊For 9 days.☹️

jadp,
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@GottaLaff congratulations on a safe journey. Did you hit rain in Washington?

Cmastication, to random
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It feels like the endless debate about “are LLMs thinking” largely misses the point. A better question is “are LLMs useful?” And if they are, we should understand their strengths and weaknesses at different tasks.

Endless pontificating on the meaning of “intelligence” is fun though. I suggest pairing it with a good bourbon. But once you sober up, go build useful things with useful tools.

From: @brook
https://sunny.garden/@brook/112148815310449061

jadp, (edited )
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@Cmastication yes, and “useful” needs to consider costs, both in terms of finances and in terms of environmental and human impact. SLMs especially when coupled with RAG, knowledge graphs and even DAG/causal inference seem just as useful at less cost @brook

GottaLaff, to random
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👋🏼Bye rainy Oregon. Hi drier Washington!

jadp,
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@GottaLaff not much of chance of rain on the Olympic Peninsula

jadp,
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@GottaLaff and no chance in Bellingham

jadp,
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@GottaLaff yep, change from yesterday’s forecast for today. Safe journeys

GottaLaff, to Canada
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Update on house hunting trip for those who are asking:

We’ll be in BC tomorrow btw.

Turns out the photos of the house were misrepresenting that it had a garage. The doors were there, but behind them were 2 rooms where the garage was. The agent put out a note to all agents, but we didn’t find out til we were in Oregon.

The listing agent got a ton of complaints.

Sons/agent saw that the house had other flaws, so our hunt continues.

This is all for the best. 🇨🇦

jadp,
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@GottaLaff waving from the Washington Pacific Coast as you go by. At least you’ll have a fun visit. @czds and I finally decided to build where we are; it worked out mostly for the better

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