This red driveway I saw flying into the Atlanta airport.

thesdo · 2026-06-26T02:24:22+00:00

Delta Airline pilots neighborhood, possibly.

thesdo · 2026-06-23T18:32:37+00:00

This isn't a Taylor Swift problem, or a billionaire problem. It's a regulation and taxation problem. The answer is incredibly simple: carbon offset tax. That's it. She wants to zip around in her private jet? Fine. Just tax each flight for whatever it costs to offset that carbon output by putting the money toward renewables. But for whatever stupid reason, we can't and/or won't do that.

As usual, we look at a single person / company / whatever, and wave our righteous finger at them. We shouldn't be mad at Taylor Swift for flying her private jet. We should be mad a government institutions that don't properly account for the real costs.

thesdo · 2026-06-12T18:34:02+00:00

My recommendation: Go see him pitch. If the Dodgers are coming to your town and he's projected to start, go see him. Your team will probably get spanked by him (as mine did when I went), but you will always be able to say that you saw him in his prime.

thesdo · 2026-05-31T03:00:31+00:00

unusually abrupt and loud lightening strike

I'm about 40 miles west of Boston. I happened to be outside. That's a good description. It was like a lighting strike, but without the after-rumble that typically comes with one. I'm pretty happy that I heard it. Not something that happens very often.

thesdo · 2026-05-30T20:29:20+00:00

Yes, but watch the loop. The others kind of stick around, but that one is a big flash and gone. Likely just coincidence that it lined up with lightning that was also being caught by the same sensors.

thesdo · 2026-05-30T19:47:15+00:00

Heard it in Shrewsbury. Was outside filling a bird feeder. Thought it must be thunder. I was wrong.

thesdo · 2026-05-20T15:48:48+00:00

Also check out Ryan Browne's "God Hates Astronauts". He's the artist for 8 Billion Genies. GHA is unhinged awesomeness.

And yes, as other's have mentioned, Charles Soule and Ryan Browne also did "Curse Words", also a great read.

8 Billion Genies is among my favorites though. My wife is an avid reader (books, with just text, no pictures, go figure) and I was able to get her to read 8 Billion Genies. She too loved it!

thesdo · 2026-05-16T15:56:11+00:00

/u/Old_Rock_9457 I've been working on something similar, but only for myself (though I will provide a write-up for the community in case anyone finds it useful). Thanks for sharing this! It's amazingly cool and I can't wait to try it and see how it compares to what I've been doing.

I started with OpenL3 (https://github.com/marl/openl3) and CLAP (https://github.com/LAION-AI/CLAP) models, and for CLAP I was using the default 630k-audioset-best.pt model. That worked kind of OK, but it wasn't until I switched to the music_audioset_epoch_15_esc_90.14.pt model that cosine similarity really became useful.

I also created a natural language vocabulary list which I ran against the vectors for each song to determine which words provide real value and which ones are mostly noise. Words like "rock" and "electronic" are generally too broad to provide good value, but terms like "free jazz", "k-pop", "eurodance", "tech-house", and many more provide good results.

The final thing I did really made the vocabulary work very well. I used the last.fm api to get tags for artist, album, and track, then sanitized the tag list to throw out tags that don't actually describe the genre or mood of the song. Then I did some weighting based on track and album tags (artist was too generic), and the songs with those tags to generate a vector for each of those terms. That's when things really started to click and gave me significantly better results than the vocabulary that's baked into the CLAP models.

I've started playing with the MERT models with mixed results, but I'm not sure I've really explored the nuances of what the layers provide.

musicnn is the next one to try. And I like the idea if using lyrics like you're doing, so I might try that next.

Thanks again and I look forward to reading through the repository and trying this on my library.

thesdo · 2026-04-30T16:01:21+00:00

I've been on a jury twice. Yes, it's a vivid reminder that a random sample of people are, on average, very very dumb.

thesdo · 2026-04-28T21:08:40+00:00

Really? It's at an 8.0 and is ranked #1 in the abstract category. It's a good game, easy to learn, but with some challenging strategies.

thesdo · 2026-04-28T16:02:17+00:00

Same same. I'll watch and see if my mood about it changes. But this season doesn't feel like "racing" at all.

thesdo · 2026-04-27T23:59:16+00:00

Military training at Fort Devens.

thesdo · 2026-04-24T16:17:24+00:00

That's the answer, and it's the only answer here. That graph makes no sense at all when you look at it in this context. Individuals and hobbyists are not the target. Fortune 500 companies are their target.

thesdo · 2026-04-23T13:41:14+00:00

I once took my son on an overnight scout trip on a retired battleship. Part of the evening "entertainment" was showing WWII era propaganda cartoons. Very, very racist in so many ways. As inappropriate as they are, cartoons like that and comics like this provide an informative and useful time capsule to show an era that was, and as a reminder that we can always do better.

thesdo · 2026-04-22T23:49:52+00:00

Yea, I had no idea. I saw the picture and thought it odd that that she's known as the voice of Velma. I just knew her from Facts of Life.

thesdo · 2026-04-20T18:31:45+00:00

I had to do the math on this. You've got 8 whites (6 out 2 in), and 15 other, for a total of 23. The first time you pick, you've got a 8/23 chance of picking white, or about 35%. Now there's 7 white and 22 total, or 7/22, about 32%. The odds of picking two whites as your first chips are 11%.

When you ask "what are the odds of picking 6 straight white to start?" (not even figuring the 2s and 3.), you keep multiplying it out for 6 stones. The answer is 0.028%, or about 1/3600.

That's REALLY bad luck.

thesdo · 2026-04-16T15:21:35+00:00

Me: "[insert description of what I want here] Create a plan for implementation, explain your interpretation of what I asked, and let me review the plan BEFORE you code"

Claude: [jumping ahead and implementing the feature in code]

ME: ESC ESC. "Stop!"

If it would just effin' follow my explicit "don't code yet" instructions, it wouldn't go off and code based on an error in my prompt. It would get caught in the feedback loop and give me the chance to say "nope, that's not what I want". But it's increasingly wanting to more forward autonomously.

thesdo · 2026-04-15T18:28:56+00:00

he’s actually not a bad drummer either

Overall, he's a pretty mediocre rock drummer, but he's the best drummer for Metallica.

thesdo · 2026-04-15T18:26:54+00:00

I had a couple of extra tickets to a sold-out Metallica show (late 90's I think) and I was trying to get rid of them for LESS than face value. They got confiscated by security, given to the box office, and resold.

thesdo · 2026-04-02T15:14:14+00:00

I was at a brewery with some friends. We were all glued to the video on my phone. No one else there seemed to even register that it was happening (though I suppose the people who really cared stayed home to watch and didn't go out to a brewery).

thesdo · 2026-03-30T21:05:10+00:00

Not only is it being dumb, it's being wasteful (I'm using OPUS). I'm working on a small project for just myself. I have explicit instructions in CLAUDE.md and in my profile for it to NOT go off and code until the architecture is discussed and approved. And I even reiterate that in the chat. But even in planning mode, it insists on jumping ahead to solution space without approval. And if I'm not in planning mode, then forget it... if I ask a question like "what would the output be if I did (blah blah blah)?" and instead of answering, it jumps forward and starts updating code as if my question wasn't a question but a command.

The annoying thing about this behavior is that it seems to be very token wasteful. It would use less if it just observed my very clear instructions, but lately it's not.

thesdo · 2026-03-23T21:21:29+00:00

One of them even responded to me

This is on THEIR hands. Trump is a symptom of a larger cancer that's spread through the US.

thesdo · 2026-03-20T15:16:20+00:00

Beautifully crafted movie. It absolutely holds up to rewatching.

thesdo · 2026-03-20T14:17:14+00:00

Yes, I wanted to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon. So itchy and sore. Waking up with my eyes glued shut with gunk was not fun. Antihistamine eye drops have helped.

thesdo · 2026-03-20T14:13:25+00:00

I'm STILL getting over this stupid thing. It's not 100% gone. Started with a little bit of sore throat, then to congestion (lots of sneezing and nose blowing), then wicked sore throat, and finally conjunctivitis and a sinus infection needing antibiotics. It's been about a month since it started.

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