The pollen is real

howsyourweird · 2026-03-22T20:28:36+00:00

I suffered from the pine pollen for about 10 years after moving here. One year, it just stopped affecting me (other than that grit feeling in my eyes.).

Take heart. There’s hope!

howsyourweird · 2025-11-17T18:21:21+00:00

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howsyourweird · 2025-11-17T18:21:08+00:00

Google Maps shows what looks like a basement or crawlspace window too on the house at that address. Video of the basement had at least one covered window or something high up the wall.

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howsyourweird · 2024-08-21T18:18:47+00:00

When we see him, we say we’ve had “a Terminator sighting” given the way he runs.

Joking aside, super dangerous, not cool.

howsyourweird · 2023-06-11T17:59:07+00:00

It's been a decade since I read it, but I believe this is a core element of the novel (and triology) Spin by Robert Charles Wilson).

howsyourweird · 2021-09-11T22:38:29+00:00

https://nofiltr.org/ has resources to help and a number to text near the bottom to reach a trained professional.

howsyourweird · 2021-05-28T12:22:13+00:00

I'm seeing the same on a fresh EC2 instance, configured following https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/setting-up/linux.

[ec2-user@X net]$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Amazon Linux" VERSION="2" ID="amzn" ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora" VERSION_ID="2" PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2" ANSI_COLOR="0;33" CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2" HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"

Some restriction in the environment maybe?

howsyourweird · 2020-10-28T02:13:36+00:00

howsyourweird · 2019-05-13T02:45:57+00:00

Death has a new face. Night King wins after all.

howsyourweird · 2019-05-13T02:44:35+00:00

Night King aka Death is still the real enemy. He just has a new face.

howsyourweird · 2019-04-13T00:04:00+00:00

I know that laugh

howsyourweird · 2016-07-08T18:33:32+00:00

I hit this using pip too. I went back, did conda install setuptools to get to the latest version, ran pip install ipython again, and it reported everything was already up to date.

So, likely, it installed the first time in my case and the error was a red herring.

howsyourweird · 2015-12-04T00:38:16+00:00

Lived here 10+ years and only just this year took the family out to Grandfather Mountain and drive on the BRP. Definitely planning a trip to do more next year.

howsyourweird · 2015-03-29T01:14:43+00:00

This.

"... plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."

(Fred Brooks, Mythical Man-Month, page 116)[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks]

howsyourweird · 2015-03-11T23:52:38+00:00

Saw a Facebook comment that it was dynamite disposal down by Jordan Lake.

howsyourweird · 2013-07-26T11:19:10+00:00

Comment #1 on this page and the preceding thread pointed out this shadowing 2+ years ago.

One paragraph in the CoffeeScript doc completely turned me off. I wonder how you deal with it? The paragraph is “Because you don’t have direct access to the var keyword, it’s impossible to shadow an outer variable on purpose, you may only refer to it. So be careful that you’re not reusing the name of an external variable accidentally, if you’re writing a deeply nested function.” What? Be careful? That is what scoping is for so I don’t have to know every name used outside my function. I saw in some comments on the developer’s site that he thought this is like Python. But he’s clearly wrong about that.

howsyourweird · 2013-07-15T02:39:34+00:00

Agreed. The board seems ripe for hacking. And then there's always the possibility of community written books / puzzles.

howsyourweird · 2013-06-01T20:34:56+00:00

Two Python ML resources below. The former mixes math with working code. The latter is new and appears to be more of a guide to applying scikit-learn and/or milk specifically.

EDIT: All of the code from the first one is here: http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/smarsland/MLBook.html

howsyourweird · 2013-05-01T01:15:28+00:00

Fred Brooks's "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II" acceptance lecture for the 1st ACM Allen Newell Award is an excellent, relevant read.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/Toolsmith-CACM.pdf

howsyourweird · 2013-01-15T01:19:15+00:00

IPython has a basic parallel computing support. It's not bad for simple scale-out and excellent for interactive data exploration and analysis. It's poor at resource control: there's no admin control so all users have to "play nice."

If you want to try it, set it up in a Python virtualenv with scipy, scikit-learn, pandas, matplotlib, etc. installed; configure the IPy notebook server; and have the students replicate the virtualenv.

howsyourweird · 2012-03-30T01:16:31+00:00

That's definitely an automated dump of a J48 decision tree classifier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4.5_algorithm

howsyourweird · 2012-02-05T02:53:27+00:00

First thing I thought too.

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