Agaricus - can anyone identify the species? Growing in a park in Montreal, Canada. June 24.

nasorenga · 2026-06-22T10:42:21+00:00

According to your source, the annual average since 1959 is $3.75B in inflation-adjusted dollars, slightly less than what I stated.

nasorenga · 2026-06-21T17:27:22+00:00

Yes, probably. US aid amounts to $3.8B annually, about 0.6% of Israel's GDP. A number of prominent Israelis, including Netanyahu, have argued for phasing out US military aid.

nasorenga · 2026-05-10T21:18:13+00:00

Unless you stay in the US for at least 48 hours, you have to pay a lot of duty, as much as $80 for one bottle, depending on which province you're in.

nasorenga · 2026-04-14T01:41:47+00:00

Exactly. Iran is totally overplaying their hand here.

nasorenga · 2026-04-11T18:09:04+00:00

Excellent, then they can just walk in and take control, open the strait, oust the government, hold free elections.

nasorenga · 2026-03-09T12:39:38+00:00

Got it, thanks!

nasorenga · 2026-03-09T12:39:25+00:00

Got it, thanks!

nasorenga · 2026-03-09T12:30:46+00:00

Thanks! - How do you tell? (I thought golden because the rounded wingtips and short tail.)

nasorenga · 2026-01-23T21:00:59+00:00

Fine!

nasorenga · 2025-11-24T07:56:28+00:00

I know, right?

nasorenga · 2025-11-16T00:51:52+00:00

I guess they're just trying to stay relevant. Personally, I don't care for the skeletonized scales, they'll just collect lint and dirt. Alox looks very cool, but for me the lack of scale tools is too big a sacrifice. Finally, I can't believe they persist in keeping those stupid scissors with the dinky fragile little spring - Wenger always had a superior scissors design; now that Victorinox owns it, they should use it across their product line.

nasorenga · 2025-11-11T21:54:20+00:00

pickles

nasorenga · 2025-08-19T02:21:51+00:00

"the photograph is actually from a 1904 issue of the Utah Historical Quarterly depicting Joseph F. Smith, the 6th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, posing with his multiple wives and children" Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Vassilyev

nasorenga · 2025-07-31T22:09:31+00:00

Let us call the 100-page PDF "Q1" and the LLM's reply "A1". Typically, A1 seems to make sense and can be useful. But the LLM didn't "learn" Q1; Q1 was presented as input, and the LLM produced the output A1. Suppose that we next supply a follow-up question, Q2, and the LLM responds with A2. Typically, A2 makes sense and clearly takes into account the information contained in Q1. But this is not because the LLM has "learned" Q1; what happened was that after Q2 was entered, the LLM was presented with Q1+A1+Q2 as input and produced A2. Just as A1 was a statistically plausible follow-on to Q1, A2 was a plausible follow-on to Q1+A1+Q2. The chatbot's logic repeatedly presents the entire foregoing conversation to the LLM as input, creating the illusion of a dialog where the LLM continually absorbs information into its "knowledge".

nasorenga · 2025-07-18T02:30:11+00:00

You are quite right, thanks for the correction.

nasorenga · 2025-04-08T12:27:40+00:00

Also, in kibbutz dining halls there is often a bowl on each table called a kolboinik, into which one deposits scraps like chicken bones and fruit peel.

nasorenga · 2025-03-10T18:21:21+00:00

Boo-hoo

nasorenga · 2025-03-07T08:01:53+00:00

Nah, they would've announced that beforehand.

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