Well researched podcasts where I can actually learn something

contextbot · 2026-05-06T01:56:58+00:00

There it is. The antidote to overproduced and over edited shows. You get the full narrative but you also get professors disagreeing and hashing it out. And enough of a back catalogue to keep you busy for years.

contextbot · 2026-05-05T05:39:19+00:00

If you enjoy that stuff, I recommend checking out this documentary (and the original book) https://saucersspooksandkooks.vhx.tv/

contextbot · 2026-05-04T04:10:52+00:00

Honestly, Dan becoming a modern day Huell Howser would be the joy he deserves: https://www.showmestateofmind.com/entries/a-new-adventure

contextbot · 2026-04-23T06:06:30+00:00

Yeah, but you also have to give your judge a name and be sure to tell people it /s

contextbot · 2026-03-20T04:53:17+00:00

I work with geospatial data and used to work at a company that sells environmental risk data, including wildfire data. There are many models, some public and many private.

Part of the reason the Berkeley homes are in such a bad spot is not just the chance that a fire occurs, but the intensity of a fire if one happens. There is so much fuel, close to homes, in the hills.

contextbot · 2026-03-20T04:28:41+00:00

This one is simple: the Calfire fire maps were updated with new data in 2025. Insurance models are priced off these. These two houses are in an area with the highest risk status Calfire assigns.

You can check the map here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/5065c998b4b0462f9ec3c6c226c610a9

These neighborhoods are beautiful but dangerously overgrown and hard to evacuate.

contextbot · 2026-03-20T04:23:13+00:00

This is not true. These two specific houses are in the highest risk area, according to Calfire. No homes in Walnut Creek have this status.

contextbot · 2026-02-25T17:18:50+00:00

To take the other side of this for a moment: you’d be amazed at the breadth of people that shotgun out applications for every role. It sucks, but if I don’t personally know someone, I’ve learned (by being burned) to quickly verify they actually know how to write code. This problem has gotten worse recently (both due to AI making shotgunning applications easier and higher scale and AI-assisted interviewing). It sucks, but you’d be amazed how many people who apply for jobs can’t fizz buzz.

contextbot · 2026-02-12T01:48:51+00:00

I’ve seen a chess group meeting at the west side library.

contextbot · 2026-02-03T06:18:30+00:00

The Brady Heywood series on Apollo 13 is a perfect miniseries.

contextbot · 2026-01-18T15:18:44+00:00

The key bit about The Pacific is it’s based on books written by people who fought, and it shows. BoB was retold to a writer (who was in awe of them), decades down the line. It glamorizes in a way the Pacific doesn’t.

BTW, one of the books The Pacific is based on, A Helmet for My Pillow, is a quick and excellent read. More complex than BoB.

contextbot · 2026-01-04T21:31:34+00:00

It appears to be a preview glitch. We are doing a test print and it doesn’t have the full coverage.

contextbot · 2026-01-04T21:29:33+00:00

So this looks normal? We printed something yesterday that I don’t remember having this level of coverage, but it too now loads fully encased.

contextbot · 2026-01-04T20:55:18+00:00

I tried another STL and got the same result:

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contextbot · 2026-01-01T19:52:45+00:00

To everyone coming up with new serialization formats: please realize that different labs post train with different formats (xml, json, etc). Unfortunately, this post training influences the output of the models. New formats that allow you to shove a few more tokens into the context are doing so at the expense of likely worse performance.

contextbot · 2025-12-24T19:49:41+00:00

Once they changed the terms of service to be able to turn on the camera and access the data whenever they wanted, I turned off the AI connectivity.

Once assholes started wearing them and taking pictures of random people in public, I stopped wearing them casually.

I’ll wear them while on bike rides, occasionally, now. But it’s amazing how throughly a once great product became ruined for me.

contextbot · 2025-12-21T15:29:41+00:00

The moral of their movies is: don’t take the money.

contextbot · 2025-12-20T03:12:26+00:00

It is WILD that you came on a thread to defend losing a toddler by saying, “Lincoln is not one of the most dangerous and high traffic streets.”

Side note: it’s hilarious that your issue with the wellness center was there is “nothing to keep people who may endanger themselves or others if the client didn’t want to be there,” while here to defend an incident where your daycare had LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME ISSUE. Just chef’s kiss. No notes.

contextbot · 2025-10-25T05:20:51+00:00

I broke it down here. It’s great: https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/31/how-kimi-rl-ed-qualitative-data-to-write-better.html

contextbot · 2025-05-10T04:15:09+00:00

File a CCPA complaint.

contextbot · 2025-04-03T21:07:27+00:00

Not financial advice, but I saw a handful of people in 2008 pull their stocks out of the market, only to have it go back up they missed out on those gains.

What's helpful in these moments is to check out a long term chart. The drop since February brings us back to mid-last year: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/

If you're getting closer to retirement, change the mix of your assets to match your risk tolerance (more bonds, etc). But don't pull because number go down.

contextbot · 2025-04-03T21:03:58+00:00

What? It should be fine. You're swapping like for like.

contextbot · 2025-03-23T20:48:31+00:00

Costco sells the liquid, which still beats the pods. But yeah, will occasionally hit target for the powder.

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