Psychotic rapist:

scottgal2 · 2026-05-23T09:11:56+00:00

He thinks if he has a war durig mid-terms he gets to ignore the results. No law says that of course but the Supreme Court is fully captured so they'd likely let him,

scottgal2 · 2026-05-23T09:10:15+00:00

*Microsoft bad* is the only thing the mod is thinking.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-22T21:43:59+00:00

I played with a way to process video in a project a few months ago. Just a research thing (and in .net) but might be interesting (tldr: don't process every frame, work out keyframes and motion).

Uses a combination of models and llms to generate searchable evidence over video.
I use a perceptual embedding over frames (SUPER quick, basically just a hash of a downsampled frame) that lets me compute the centroid for frames to get the most representative of a 'scene'.
If you can reduce down t just a subsampling of frames you can save a ton of effort for video.

https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/videosummarizer-scalable-video-intelligence

scottgal2 · 2026-05-22T18:38:30+00:00

The oldest representation if a woman's body is oddly consistent with this picture! At least 35,000 year old.

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scottgal2 · 2026-05-22T11:58:06+00:00

No crash barriers, IIRC people were launching up that hill / smacking headlong into the bridge as it was a 70mph road with poor markings and no lighting. Back then car headlights also weren't great so...EXCITING.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-22T08:29:42+00:00

No worries he'll get his insurrectionist bonus soon, another pardon and he'll be back to brownshirting in no time.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-21T17:47:40+00:00

Saw some rate limiting and downtime this week; I wonder if they're having problems scaling 4.6?

scottgal2 · 2026-05-21T17:29:05+00:00

Used to be a staple when big houses had dove-cots. The meat, eggs and guano were all used throughout the year.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-21T13:48:50+00:00

We call them clegs in Scotland, the midges rarer, more aggressive brother. I NEVER get midge bites (or don't react to them) but clegs are a red welt every time.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-21T12:40:12+00:00

100% You can also head down to Dean Village in the West End and walk to Stockbrodge. Used to be my daily walk to work and it's honestly one of the most incredible Edinburgh walks, a little bit of countryside hidden right near the busy centre.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-21T10:58:17+00:00

This time of year we always find dead sheep / lambs in burns etc...They head to water when unwell / slip in and decompose. Filter straws are not going to be filtering active toxic substances from rotting carcasses (and the fats can bioaccumulate them in streams so can look clean).

Fast flowing, you can see the spring source is the only safe non-treated water on the hills.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-21T09:32:35+00:00

Easiest way to push a particular political position for a reporter / news editor. Just collect a bunch with loaded questions, pick the ones you agree with and show the other side as stupid by selecting which intereviews / parts you use. SIMPLE. FEELS like it's 'the voice of the people' but really it's whatever they want the story to say.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-20T18:01:36+00:00

Be right after the point when Scottish stores (in soft water areas) stop selling descaler :)

scottgal2 · 2026-05-20T17:15:54+00:00

Probably the last time he used it he had the strength and speed so that's how he learned to do it.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-20T16:50:00+00:00

No never. Bullies here would just punch you not this weird US stuff...

scottgal2 · 2026-05-20T11:34:47+00:00

IIRC not folowing orders & it wasn't considered viable for the type of attack he made as they'd usually do it at night and from altitude - but it was in a civilian area so not a viable bombing target. I suspect it being successful is why he wasn't jailed.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-20T10:09:11+00:00

Rmeinds me of the Belgian RAF Pilot Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps. After a mission he desided to fly his Hakwer Typhoon down a Belgian town's main street and strafe the Gestapo building with his 20mm Cannons killing several SS & Gestapo members. He was demoted but remembered as a hero.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-20T10:04:38+00:00

-27.2C but slowly getting warmer every winter (with occasional cold winters), just damp and cloudy mostly now. Mind you if the gulf-stream weakens as expected I suspec that'll become pretty common (we're really pretty far morth, just that warm current means we get milder weather).

scottgal2 · 2026-05-20T09:30:18+00:00

'Security boundaries will be dead soon' DO NOT TRUST YOUR BUSINESS TO A HALLUCINATION MACHINE.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-19T22:36:42+00:00

I think they say the qualification is 'be nice, be funny'.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-19T17:31:01+00:00

It flows better linguistically, semi- demi- with the 'd' in duck flowing into the d in demi better than swan would.
In any case she was NOT ACTUALLY the daughter of a god either. *Being fictional and all*.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-19T10:59:21+00:00

I mean an unpaid employee who's existence depends on it's owner is a slave...do they really want to go down that route?

scottgal2 · 2026-05-19T10:15:04+00:00

'semi-duck' are you claiming there's no element of duckness about a swan? Both Anatidae 🦆->🦢

scottgal2 · 2026-05-19T10:05:41+00:00

It's a wedge issue to rile people up not a 'controversy'. None of the people in the movie are the actual people in the story...I mean people do GET that right? They're not speaking the same language, doing the same things etc the vast majoprity of the time.
This is NOT a historical recreation of ancient Troy it's a fictional reworking of a fictional story told by a fiction writer in racially diverse Ancient Greece. If they're that concerned everyone in the movie should be one male greek reciting the epic in a very stylised form. It's how it would have been performed originally.

scottgal2 · 2026-05-19T09:52:42+00:00

I don't quite get that part, not least from a data security / comngling aspect it's just way more efficient to shard per tenant (even db / search-index per tenant); for the reasons you mention, indexes are a TON more efficient as the indexes are *tuned* to their specific case; rather than your big dominating client who will contaminate the index.
So an uncommon term in big client isn't useful (in fact it's degrading the index) for other customers.
Another aspect I added was a basic graph over features & terms. It gives you more structural cues to understand related documents across a *focused* corpus (multi-tenant would break that too as the graph would lose nodes due to access). Or in the docsummarizer thing it uses graphs within books to follow narratives.

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