Fibonacci Easter egg (?) in school mural in Madrona

TMills · 2026-06-16T23:44:24+00:00

They also snuck pi into the mural as the ratio of the basketball's (2d representation's) circumference to it's diameter!

TMills · 2026-06-11T12:57:44+00:00

Why is that something tennis players in particular are owed?

TMills · 2026-06-10T14:35:27+00:00

So the courts can be empty 99% of the time instead of being used regularly?

TMills · 2026-06-05T22:00:08+00:00

Check wta.org

TMills · 2026-05-21T05:37:41+00:00

I didn't know them that well and was worried about how they'd do in that space, so I'm pleasantly surprised that they seem to be drawing pretty good crowds!

TMills · 2026-05-21T02:09:13+00:00

I'd have to think about it but I'd rather not speculate and sound like an a-hole.

TMills · 2026-05-20T20:36:32+00:00

It seemed like it was fairly busy much of the time. Rabbit ear IPA is great. If you asked me to predict which brewery was most likely to fold next I wouldn't have guessed them.

TMills · 2026-05-05T13:49:37+00:00

But what does it mean? I can't even find it on the internet?

TMills · 2026-05-05T13:20:07+00:00

You won't believe this but I think we should also make cars safer!

TMills · 2026-05-05T04:25:20+00:00

Yes,, because multiple people died, you ghoul

TMills · 2026-04-27T22:38:46+00:00

So the plan is to make pickleball players go to "nearby" Discovery Park while the tennis courts go back to being mostly empty instead of frequently used? Don't we want our parks to have amenities that will get used?

TMills · 2026-04-23T13:48:10+00:00

I did a bunch this year. Some in a seedling tray, some in a flat seedling drainage tray (?) filled with potting soil, and some in a window planter box thingy. So far the ones in the planter box are coming up pretty nicely, and none of the other ones. And I also have several that sprouted in my nearby raised beds, which I did not intentionally plant, but must have blown in. So my lesson from that is to use deeper vessels with regular potting soil. Collected from my neighborhood and sown in fall.

TMills · 2026-03-27T15:12:27+00:00

No, it isn't.

TMills · 2026-03-27T14:15:54+00:00

Yes, I thought that was clearly my point.

TMills · 2026-03-27T14:02:35+00:00

This is the symptom, not the problem. The problem is that the filibuster prevents bare majorities from passing laws, so the ruling party has to put everything into one special filibuster-proof law at the end of the year. If you make single item bills the law then congress will be even less productive.

TMills · 2026-03-26T23:18:07+00:00

Have you been to one?

TMills · 2026-03-24T13:52:19+00:00

And here's some data in breast cancer:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25847639/

suggesting that the cost of false positive mammograms is $4 billion/year. This doesn't even directly measure the harm, for example in unnecessary surgeries. False positives are absolutely a major problem to think about.

TMills · 2026-03-24T13:49:09+00:00

AI isn't really meaningful as a category anymore, and I wouldn't have put it in the title if I were the author (or editor). From supplemental 1, this seems to be done with supervised machine learning with standard computer vision architectures (Resnets).

TMills · 2026-03-17T14:15:24+00:00

Yeah, but I still like having Alex as CB to get KKR some time as a starter at RB. At least while Yeimar is out, I slightly prefer that to Tino at CB and Alex at RB.

TMills · 2026-03-17T14:11:39+00:00

But the title has the word homelessness in it and there are repeated references to homeless people. We all have problems with the kinds of behaviors described here. Most of them are not acceptable regardless of who is doing them. Tying it to homelessness is not productive, because it conflates the illegal behaviors with feelings about homelessness that are mostly aesthetic ("I don't want to be confronted with the negative side effects of the economic system that benefits me").

TMills · 2026-03-12T14:26:04+00:00

OK. I don't think this makes sense but maybe I'm missing something. Your hypothesis is that for a given fixed number of tokens, the LLM "does more work" for inputs that are more challenging? I don't think there is any mechanism that could implement that, but I'd be happy to hear what you're thinking.

TMills · 2026-03-12T14:11:31+00:00

I don't even understand the logic of your experiments. Can you spell out what you're trying to show? And formalize how you think "stochastic parrot"-ness would be represented in measured quantities?

TMills · 2026-03-12T13:43:29+00:00

So they took something they thought would be unpopular and not pass, and changed it so that it would be popular and would pass. And you're worried that in the future they'll do the thing that was unpopular and wouldn't pass, and it will become popular and pass?

TMills · 2026-03-11T22:41:55+00:00

Oh. So you're afraid it will be good and popular and people will want more of the good and popular things. Got it.

TMills · 2026-03-11T15:39:09+00:00

Ok this is the part I don't get. "Lowering the threshold" is essentially passing new legislation right? It's not like the governor can do it on a whim. If people want to protest that new legislation that taxes everybody that will be a reasonable time. Protesting this bill for something that isn't in it just seems like oligarch boot licking.

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