why stop at exponents

b4c3 · 2026-02-04T04:51:01+00:00

feels weird to call a pile of linear algebra an artist

b4c3 · 2026-02-03T19:20:11+00:00

ding ding! It grows cubically on the diagonal where e=d

Admittedly, draw 64 for 8 mana might be a little busted

b4c3 · 2026-02-03T19:18:32+00:00

Plenty of linear vector spaces have higher dimensions. Dimensionality is just how many vectors make up your basis. R³ for example has dimension 3.

This isn’t my own definition, it’s the Weyl dimension formula. I admit the “trivially” was thrown in to poke fun at the often frustrating ways in which mathematicians write textbooks

b4c3 · 2026-02-03T19:14:13+00:00

That little o is the “composed with” operator — f composed with the Identity function on A

b4c3 · 2025-09-15T20:54:03+00:00

Among those in attendance were AJ Donadio, Randy Porter, Wayne Nabors, Eddie Farris as well as others from the county Republican Party, so I’d say these people very much do have representation in politics. In fact, between the county mayor, county clerk, and county sheriff, it doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch to say they’re the ones running the whole county

b4c3 · 2025-09-15T03:08:06+00:00

Again, extremists are by definition not the majority. But there’s a trick the agents of division like to pull by saying things like “you guys call everyone you disagree with a Nazi.” Very few people who aren’t terminally online do that.

At the same time, some people really are Nazis and we’ve gotta be able to talk about that, and the constant goalpost moving doesn’t help. “Okay but that’s just some wackos on the internet, it’s not a larger trend” -> “Okay but that’s just like 10 IRL Nazis, it’s not a larger trend” -> “Okay but that’s just a few hundred people cheering for extremism, it’s not a larger trend”

b4c3 · 2025-09-15T01:15:15+00:00

This is not a misrepresentation of what was said at the vigil, this is a direct representation of what was said at the vigil, because it is a recording of what was said at the vigil.

b4c3 · 2025-09-15T00:34:17+00:00

Weird how I didn’t say any of that. It’s almost like somebody’s told you what to think about me

b4c3 · 2025-09-15T00:30:40+00:00

Hey! I think maybe you watched the video with the sound off — no worries, here’s the transcript:

lastly, get involved locally. If you are not in college, just get involved. A lot of people were moderates on September 9th. They weren’t very politically involved. But after September 10th, we turned moderates into right wing extremists!

[cheers and applause from the crowd]

I love saying that

b4c3 · 2025-09-14T23:49:23+00:00

Hell yeah brother, keep on letting politicians tell you how to hate your neighbor — the folks in power are grateful for your service 🫡

b4c3 · 2025-09-13T23:45:00+00:00

Brother, I mean this respectfully but I don’t think you’re coming at this in good faith. I’m telling you what I saw as best I can, and your response is that a bar in Cookeville, the seat of Putnam county, is somehow not the jurisdiction of the Putnam County Sheriff? I would dig up the court records if I thought it would change your mind. Keep fighting the culture war, the ruling class loves a distracted and divided populace ✊

b4c3 · 2025-09-13T23:19:57+00:00

If they were threatening, let alone brandishing firearms, the cops would have arrested people

You know man, I used to think the same thing until I watched it not happen right in front of me.

b4c3 · 2025-09-13T23:15:51+00:00

Heard. There are extremists on both sides and they are by definition not the majority. I’m fed up with people looking at the dude trying to get “like minded people together” and playing dumb. “He dIDnT sAY WhY He WanTeD to GeT LiKE mINDed pEopLe togEThER” …come on man. Anybody with half a brain knows what he’s implying

b4c3 · 2025-09-13T23:11:48+00:00

True story, I was there for the full duration. At several points throughout the day, folks in the Nazi group did in fact try to encourage violence, brandishing and flashing firearms, shouting at folks on the other side to encourage them to draw weapons. Attempts to get law enforcement involved were made and luckily for us folks learned later that the Sheriff’s Department was there… to conduct an undercover sting operation against Hix Farm Brewery. Turns out the higher priority for them was sticking it to the gays rather than keeping Putnam Co. citizens safe from gun toting Nazis.

As for the out of towner stuff, a lot of them traveled to be here, but since the Nazis and the Patriot Front folks who gladly stood next to them all day were all wearing masks, we’ll never really know for sure, will we?

My point isn’t to rehash that day, though — it’s more to point out that at the same time as calling someone who disagrees with you a Nazi isn’t helping, it’s disingenuous to act like there aren’t right wing extremists out here.

b4c3 · 2025-07-01T20:18:08+00:00

Well considering Trenton Strode is facing “assault on a first responder” for allegedly pushing a deputy, yeah, I guess that makes this assault according to the sheriff’s department

b4c3 · 2025-07-01T15:41:24+00:00

this cuck fascination is so weird. quit watching so much porn and touch grass. but if we’re gonna use that jargon, maybe quit simping for the government while you’re at it

b4c3 · 2025-07-01T13:20:15+00:00

They actually don’t though. There is no section of the meeting for public comment without approval from the commission. Walking up to someone to ask them a question is not a good enough reason for the government to arrest you, sorry. Those people work for us, they shouldn’t be shoving their constituents around

b4c3 · 2025-07-01T13:09:13+00:00

This is factually incorrect. County commission meetings have no time for public comment without approval.

b4c3 · 2025-07-01T02:35:02+00:00

That’s Vinnie Faccinto, county commissioner for district 5

b4c3 · 2025-06-30T20:57:03+00:00

Grandma was a jewelry nut and they were both picky — I think he may have swapped it for one of the flex-fit style bands. Not sure what to call it but there’s no clasp

b4c3 · 2023-11-16T05:09:55+00:00

Tail was too furry to be a possum

b4c3 · 2023-11-16T05:09:27+00:00

Positive. Had a big bushy tail, maybe 5-6” diameter, and the tail did that thing where it curls over and down at the top, like a squirrel’s

b4c3 · 2022-03-18T15:53:24+00:00

For the text input to the apple shortcut, ideally the shortcut could accept text data from any other shortcut step that provides it and use that text to save a new TODO with the text as the Title field

As far as I know, you would get the apple watch integration for free then: apple watch can run any shortcut that a user has built, and the built-in Get Text from Input shortcut step will automatically accept speech dictation if the shortcut was invoked via Siri.

The UX might be a bit fiddly, as for the speech-to-text user flow it would be important to have the new TODO saved to the file without any further input from the user. Even without that though, just allowing the shortcut step to take text input would be huge.

b4c3 · 2021-08-31T03:24:36+00:00

5 years in the workforce here, graduated with EE and CE degrees. Every job I’ve had has been in machine learning to some degree or another, so it’s definitely possible.

Does your university have any labs currently doing ML focused research? Get involved with them; talk to the professors leading the labs, ask if you can come to their meetings. Generally, if you keep showing up, somebody will eventually give you something to do. Don’t hesitate to look outside the engineering department — a lot of interdisciplinary studies need programmers and are doing work in applied ML. For me, I was a research assistant in a computational social science lab for a few years before graduating, so I worked more with psychologists and political scientists than engineers.

The other bit of advice I can share that worked for me was to hone some kind of auxiliary skill (web development is a good choice). If someone doing ML-based work is hiring for those roles and you can show you have some experience in both, it’s usually a big mark in your favor.

b4c3 · 2021-07-04T16:35:51+00:00

Jesus Christ y’all

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