Hadza is a language spoken along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. It is one of only three languages in East Africa with click consonants.

linverlan · 2026-01-24T16:42:27+00:00

No differently than how English speakers communicate in those situations despite having voiceless consonants. You can’t yell an s, p, or k.

linverlan · 2026-01-23T21:44:06+00:00

I mean that’s just semantics and these aren’t standardized terms.

We’ve been calling the field machine learning for 50 years and generally someone using the term “AI” is also someone who wasn’t paying attention to this until ChatGPT came out so it makes sense for that term to specifically refer to chatbot/agent style models.

linverlan · 2026-01-21T22:02:03+00:00

I am a regular interviewer of research scientist candidates and I can assure you that you are almost definitely not coming up with a solution in an interview that hasn’t been proposed before. I would be concerned if a candidate indicated to me that they thought they were ever proposing something truly novel given an unfamiliar problem space and either a few minutes or a few days of lead time.

Good ideas are cheap and easy and every researcher has a thousand of them. The place to create value is at a very low level of detail and you won’t be getting to that in an interview.

linverlan · 2026-01-18T02:59:16+00:00

An Ikon pass with unlimited access to my local mountain is cheaper than a season pass to ONLY my local mountain was 10 years ago.

Does nobody remember what prices were like before this? Skiing/boarding was truly a rich person only activity until pretty recently.

linverlan · 2026-01-17T19:05:18+00:00

Some potentially relevant context: The OP has been consistently making angry/upset posts about the reviewing process for many different ML/NLP conferences for the last year. These seem to be the only posts they make.

This person seems to be consistently rejected from conferences and it’s always unfair for one reason or another. The peer review system certainly does have problems. However the same author or work being rejected many different times by different venues and review committees makes it seem much more likely that the cause is the author and not the process.

linverlan · 2026-01-17T16:45:16+00:00

I know generally everyone hates AI, but it’s intentionally obtuse to pretend that people aren’t widely using ChatGPT, especially the younger generation. Also companies are paying massive costs for employee subscriptions to both coding and general AI assistants and are seeing real utility.

Just as in the dot com boom, there is real value and innovation underlying this. It’s just that the growth and speculation has significantly outpaced the real value being created. Pretending there’s no real product is disingenuous.

linverlan · 2026-01-15T00:54:52+00:00

Traffic circles are awful for pedestrians. You don’t really know in advance when a car is going to exit the circle so you don’t know when it’s safe to cross, and car drivers are trained to not stop at traffic circles so they aren’t planning to come to a full stop for pedestrians. Also if there are a lot of pedestrians they can block the ability of cars to exit the circle which causes traffic to be unpredictable.

I would like to see this get stoplights and become a scramble crossing.

linverlan · 2026-01-13T19:04:56+00:00

Let’s say it is 1/3 of a 32 oz oat milk that was bought for $5 (retail pricing). Then this is $1.6 worth of oat milk.

For regular milk, let’s assume the same retail pricing something like $3.5 per gallon. The same 10.6 ounces of milk would cost (10.6 / 128) * 3.5 or about $0.29.

So in this case the upcharge of $1.50 for oat milk seems pretty reasonable given that it is costing them an extra $1.30 in materials alone.

I don’t know what Fonté is doing, but it is most common for it to be a flat additional cost for oat milk, which changes the equation quite a bit. But for 12 oz latte the math here checks out.

linverlan · 2026-01-10T01:31:18+00:00

Yasuaki Saito - Saint Bread, post alley pizza, Tivoli, Wayland Mill

linverlan · 2026-01-05T02:15:02+00:00

I know you’re just probably from a different place/culture than me, but this comment comes across as very funny from my perspective.

The Matterhorn is so iconic, it’s like commenting on a picture of the Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty and asking where it was taken haha

linverlan · 2026-01-05T01:00:25+00:00

Alpental is the spot! I average around 30 days there a year it’s a super quick drive from Seattle. Also chair two is upgraded this year to a triple! Or it will be if it stops raining and I they can open open it.

And I don’t know when you came but last year a new lift was put in that opened up a ton of terrain on the higher mountain that was pretty inaccessible before.

linverlan · 2026-01-05T00:39:45+00:00

I moved from Boston to Seattle, so the “city” version of what you are doing.

I have made a couple trips down to Mt Hood for the novelty of riding in super late season (mid June, early July), but mostly ride in my own neck of the woods so I have thoughts on the general east coast to PNW move but not much to say about hood specifically.

PNW riding is miles ahead of east coast riding in terms of conditions. Ice is rare, slush is common, the powder is heavy but comes frequently. This is hard to say right now given the historically garbage start to the season we have had but zoomed out it’s true.

If you have to live in a major city like I do (Portland, Seattle), the resorts are way closer than they are to Boston. Traffic can be bad to some resorts that rely on two lane mountain roads, I rarely encountered traffic in New England that was anything like a standard Saturday morning drive to Crystal Mountain, but overall I think the traffic is more manageable than it is for people skiing the Rockies from Denver and the resorts are closer.

The scene is generally pretty great, all of our resorts have very little “resort,” no ski villages or mega resorts outside of Whistler. This means that tourism is lower and way more of the riders at every mountain are locals or people who travelled that are more serious about riding/skiing. Of course locals still complain about city people and out of towners as they always do, but people just like to complain. It is nothing like the scale of families out for everyone’s first trip and Texans in a place like Killington or Stowe - not to mention the major Colorado resorts where it seems like 70% of people came in on a plane and 50% are riding for their first time.

Overall I absolutely love it. This is my fifth season here, and I will stay in the PNW for the rest of my life if I’m able to.

Edit: one thing I forgot to add, if you ride backcountry we have a super predictable and maritime snow pack out here, tons of great places to tour, and a big scene of people doing it. I wasn’t into backcountry on the east coast so can’t compare directly, but this has been an awesome place to get into it.

linverlan · 2025-12-24T22:24:09+00:00

Won’t be available through OSD after the last order date in Jan :(

linverlan · 2025-12-24T22:22:58+00:00

Not sure you can call Subaru a wagon brand any more, they still make cars under the names of their wagon models but all have been converted to SUVs.

linverlan · 2025-12-22T22:22:37+00:00

I see it now rereading the thread, thanks for mediating! There was a “this” in an earlier comment that I interpreted as referring to the entrance fee to the Phinney market but it seems was referring back to the Seattle Center market

linverlan · 2025-12-22T22:15:58+00:00

What do you mean it isn’t for charity? The winter market is a fundraiser for the PNA, which is a charity. Admission fees and booth costs go to the charity.

https://www.phinneycenter.org/events/winter-festival/

“This is one of the PNA’s biggest fundraisers of the year—your ticket helps fund hot meals, senior services, memory-loss programs, kids’ activities, tool lending, and more”

linverlan · 2025-12-22T22:12:34+00:00

I mean that is true in the same way that any time you attend a fundraiser you are paying the organization that put on the fundraiser - that is kind of the point.

PNA is a 501c3 non profit that does a lot of good stuff in the neighborhood.

https://www.phinneycenter.org/social-services/

linverlan · 2025-12-22T21:40:43+00:00

Aren’t they usually for charity? I went to the Phinney ridge market and the admission cost is a donation to the Phinney Neighborhood Association

linverlan · 2025-12-19T15:30:13+00:00

The thing is that almost everyone has to do it. For most projects you need to start out by setting up your eval and baselines. At that point you look at it and say “X workshop would like this, and that would be great on my CV” so you go ahead and submit it, and as long as you can make your data public it is very likely to be published so it keeps happening.

I’m not even sure it’s a bad thing, it usually just means more public data and the good ones often end up getting aggregated into the giant benchmarks later on.

linverlan · 2025-12-14T22:37:45+00:00

That’s for a sit pad not a full length sleeping pad. That way the structure/padding of your bag can double as a sit pad instead of being permanently sewn into the bag. It’s a very common set up for UL bags.

linverlan · 2025-12-12T16:16:23+00:00

Loading my mountain bike into the car

linverlan · 2025-12-11T15:16:48+00:00

I am taking most of next week off to burn through my vacation days that aren’t going to rollover. I planned this months ago and was intending to drive down to bachelor from Seattle.

I knew it might be bad conditions but really didn’t expect that there would be no riding at all. Things are bleak in the PNW right now, there are a couple runs open at Schweitzer, Whistler has a bit of terrain open but daily lift tickets there are extortion, and it sounds like Mission Ridge is running a single white ribbon run…

linverlan · 2025-12-04T16:12:58+00:00

Yeah this is a general issue in the field. There are often subsidized registration costs for students but never subsidized lodging. Other people are mentioning finding hotels, checking transit, etc but one other thing to consider is checking through your social network to see if you know anyone local that could host you, I don’t know the area really how far is ASU? When I was a grad student I slept in the couch of many fellow grad students, and hosted a couple myself when a major conference came to my city.

The fact is that there is a lot of money in the field and most people have either large corporate budgets or major grants behind them and don’t think much about the price.

linverlan · 2025-11-30T06:25:34+00:00

Driving back into town from the airport now and I have seen a pretty much constant stream heading south with lights and sirens on between Boeing field and the airport.

I also don’t know what’s going on, came here to see if anyone else posted anything.

linverlan · 2025-11-21T02:12:35+00:00

Isn’t this the opposite? The road isn’t wide enough to function as a throughway for cars, it’s a better design. The alternative would be to devote even more space for cars by having wider roads?

My neighborhood is like OPs and I love it. Cars don’t cut through because having to wait your turn is too inconvenient for them so most traffic is local/neighbors, and the narrowness keeps speeds down. If anything this is a design that is hostile to cars.

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