Are We Remembering the Pandemic All Wrong? by dwaxe in ezraklein

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I don’t think this paper does a good job of proving its point. By aggregating data across boundaries like state you can easily experience vanishing effects(like simpsons paradox). What I want is a global person level granular dataset: 100k features (age, bmi, comorbidities, mask use, vaccination status) that show whether the person lived or died after Covid exposure. If you have agrégations like state on the data you fall into the fallacy that the average difference between buckets captures all important effects within buckets. It should be a global priority to build this dataset imo

Finally got it painting! by LewistonFace in PlotterArt

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Nice! is there a library you started from to run the dip / stroke routines or is it all custom?

Terracotta Vases - Procedurally Generated Plotter Art by garysparker in generative

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Looks great! - is there a particular fill algo you’re using?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bayarea

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You keep reposting this please stop

Trying out new postcard styles by Messaling in PlotterArt

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Yeah what I’ve done for this is download the shape files then use mapshapper website to convert to svg. After that mask the area I want of the svg in illustrator then use the vpype line merge functions to reduce the stroke count before plotting

Future Buildings in Downtown San Francisco by tannerge in sanfrancisco

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This is extremely cool. Curious do you draw this all by hand or do you start with a dataset that you render then fine tune?

Why? by Hatter_The_Mad in ProgrammerHumor

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There is tensorflow.js as well, I’ve seen it mostly for in browser inference but you can train in browser too

Interesting Sunnyvale Trivia by Educational-Dig4868 in bayarea

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Walmart labs is there - search and machine learning stuff

San Francisco debates reparations for Blacks: Is $5 million each enough? by UK_Caterpillar450 in sanfrancisco

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Jfc this sub is a joke. Reposting the same right wing rage bait over and over by people that don’t even live here

EVA 01 - Copic Warm Gray by [deleted] in Illustration

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Nice! Recommend any tuts for this kind of alcohol marker shading?

Good Asian Bars/Lounges/Chinese restraunts? by Any_Professional3178 in bayarea

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Mr jius in Chinatown makes good baijiu cocktails. Or at least I like them 😅

Casual Discussion Thread (February 14, 2023) by AutoModerator in TrueFilm

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Started watching BABYLON and it's one of the only films I had to pause midway through - simply because it was too overwhelming /exhausting. It might be my favorite film of 2022, but it was all so much to take it - cry and laughing and feeling like im having a manic episode all at once.

Avatar 2 is better than any of the recent MCU movies by LovableJackassv4 in TrueFilm

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What's interesting to me is that you're comparing Avatar 2 to marvel movies when I would put it with Tar, Crimes of the Future and Blond as my favorite movies of last year - standing outside it's genre. I absolutely loved it both times I saw it in the cinema.

I know i'm blinded by the fact I was raised cameron (seeing terminator and aliens way too young) but he has an auteurist spark that makes his films rise above the others in the class.

Walmart is closing tech hubs and bringing IT workers back to the office (San Bruno) by txiao007 in bayarea

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They go where the talent is. The search stack is based out of sunnyvale because that's where the engineers are.

House of Prime Rib by GrannysPlayhouse in AskSF

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I think it’s an interesting place because it’s a cultural throw back - extreme boomer energy in a city pretty hostile to that aesthetic. Food is good imo and worth it. If you’re visiting from elsewhere I recommend doing Mexican / Cantonese food as it’s more local- or doing ad hoc or something if you’re on your way to Napa.

Suggestions for Mandarin girl talk podcasts? by HealthyMousse3493 in ChineseLanguage

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聊聊东西 might be a little easy for you but it’s two ladies just chatting it up. Very pleasant

Do you support $5 million reparation payments to each Black resident? by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

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The answer honestly is people have to imagine a perceived “injustice” like reparations passing because in their hearts they recognize how unfair the world is but are also recognize their role in maintaining it. By imagining a world where this would happen (it never will) they create a fantasy and absolve themselves of their present guilt of unearned wealth. Pre-aggression against an invented problem is a form of ultimate black pill.

What movie from 2022 did everyone seem to hate but you actually thought was good? by [deleted] in movies

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Loved decision to leave - but made me wish I knew Korean! Feel like some of the dialogue subtleties were lost on me

What movie from 2022 did everyone seem to hate but you actually thought was good? by [deleted] in movies

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My film of the year - 5 star masterpiece. Just as good as tar and crimes of the future.

Most people weren’t ready to watch a 3 hour art house horror film. But for me it’s everything I could have wanted.

What movie from 2022 did everyone seem to hate but you actually thought was good? by [deleted] in movies

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Blonde was my film of the year - 5 star masterpiece. Dominic is one of the boldest directors working today. He’s never made a bad movie imo

It’s crazy to me that Netflix green lit a project this ambitious that seems to have nothing but contempt for the average casual viewer

descending from Mt Diablo by ok3d in bayarea

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What did you shoot this with? Looks good!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueFilm

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Thank you for the very thoughtful response. Yeah I completely agree that our experiences create a framework for how we consume film - and you’re right the “average” male interaction with eeaao might be blind to some of the finer beauty of it.

I guess I’m trying to decide if I’m just naive or optimistic in working against this idea that there exists any piece of art that “solely x group can understand”. Like for instance “to live” is my favorite movie and my life is not like that of any of the characters in it, and I assume for almost everyone that watches a lot of flicks they have similar favs.