His description of how his analysis of the OKCupid questions discovered that there were 7 discrete cluster of personality that it would put you in was awesome.
He then make three profiles. One for each of the clusters he felt he was most like, but the profiles targeted the groups very specifically and so his matches started climbing like crazy.
After going on many many dates, he dropped two of the profiles because he found that he didn't click with the women that they matched with.
The description of going on two dates to the same location in the same day with different women because ran out of novel date locations was hilarious.
Data science nerd out played a data driven system.
We're about to find out what happens when states refuse to recognize the winner of the Electoral College. Georgia, Arizona, and likely other states are going to fuck the state votes and refuse to certify.
If you can get enough state reps and congressional reps to vote for you each cycle (as VP), then take over from the sham president, you could effectively be president forever.
Back in 2015, he said that if Secretary Clinton was elected president, there would be a taco truck on every corner. Why he stumps for the other side, I never understand.
The important thing to me here is that he has a master's degree and it took on tough subject matter with a larger perspective of how humanity needs to learn to no repeat this horrible actions of its past. He just keeps getting more awesome.
It's similar to how when anyone joins a game whose name starts and ends with some mirrored patterns of the the letter 'x' they're likely to be insufferable in some way.
I printed a ton of helper stuff, as well as some house parts. We have a 1920 house, so there lots of odd books and crannies. In the past, I'd buy standard house parts (electrical covers, fixtures, etc) and then cut/mod them to fit. Now, I CAD up a custom part, print it, seal it with a clear coat, and bam! It fits perfectly.
That was some of the neatest benefits to resin: organic shapes. When doing figures, creatures, and plants, resin is better than PLA for the final look and feel. The fineness of the print is also great. That's a phenomenal Xenomorph and the details really show through.
With about 10% overhead on the travel time, a pretty mainline high speed rail line would take about 15 hours to go from DC to San Fransisco. Each train (assuming Japanese trains like Amtrak is buying for Texas) can carry about 1323 seats, plus standing room. They can run 16 trains per line per hour. So, that's 21,168 people per hour passing on the rail.
Assuming the 15 hour lead time (and no loading time of note because Sergents are really good at yelling people onto trains), within 24 hours, the Pentagon could move about 211,680 soldiers coast to cost from time t=0 to t=24 hours. That's coast to coast, mind. If you do it from say the middle of the country to SF, it's only a 4.7 hour trip, so now you can get 19.3 hours of soldiers moving (and arrived) around 408,542 people delivered by t=24hrs. Then, it's another 508,032 every 24 hours after that.
Now, while it's not particularly feasible to have commercially driving HSR across the empty center of the US, the military has a whole different set of priorities, and damn, that's a lot of equipment & people that could be moved really fast. Yes, planes are faster, but there's no way they'll keep up with HSR once the train pipeline fills. This is a latency vs carrying throughput load equation and trains will win it big time. Always have, always will.
The US waywayway behind on building infrastructure. Our infrastructure deficit is trillions of dollars, and our transit modality is decades behind Europe, China, India, japan, and even starting to slip behind sections of Africa. We're failing as a developed nation because we refuse to invest in modern transit (and many other issues like healthcare, usurious education costs, and losing our democracy to dictator thinking). We're flailing hard right now. HSR should be a massive investment for our country, along with regional/city rail (trams, metros, heavy regional), but since our population mostly has never ever seen a modern city like Paris, London, Beijing, Tokyo, or Rome so they have no idea what it can even be like to live somewhere well designed for people instead for for cars.
Though, watching the military test the rails by moving a half million people in 24 hours would be hilarious for those of us not trying to coordinate it.
1st generation: founds a company in their basement, works hard, builds it up
2nd generation: works with their parents, sweeps floors, learns the ropes, inherits the company, and grows it even bigger while knowing what it took to build in a basement to begin with
3rd generation: didn't see the basement, never worked at sweeping and late nights to keep it going. Only reaped the benefits, money, and prestige of being from the family. When they inherit they see the company as a money pinata and start crushing it so they can go on more expensive junkets.
I feel we're seeing a similar pattern with disease and vaccinations.
The 1st generation lived with the diseases, lost friends, and saw as people were crippled around them by Polio, Measles, and Whooping Cough. The invention of each new vaccine was a medical miracle and mostly embraced as a piece of salvation from the horrors of disease.
The 2nd generation was exposed to adults who had been crippled and lost family so they're directly motivated to vaccinate to avoid such tragedies.
Now we're into the 3rd generation zone. Who here has personally seen someone on crutches for life from Polio? Who here saw someone whose brain was destroyed by Measles? Who here has spoken with someone whose lungs were permanently damaged by Whooping Cough? Some have, but not nearly enough to make the community as a whole believe that these illnesses truly exist and that they truly harm us when given free reign. They balance this lack of direct exposure against much lower likelihood issues (tiny chances of vaccines causing side effects) and decide that since only two people per year die form tetanus, why should they get a vaccine for it? This is how a company is killed by the same family who built it, and we're going to be killed by the ignorant who fail to vaccinate.
We were coming through ATL airport on the Sunday after things had somewhat calmed down. But... Not for Delta. The entire flights board was red. Delayed, cancelled, crazy.
One person and been stuck in Atlanta since Thursday and managed to get on our flight to move one step closer to home. We got stupid stupid lucky to miss the worst of the chaos and only ended up with a few hours delay. Hauling three of our kids through airports when you don't know if any flight will even be scheduled is not a fun experience.
Made it home in a reasonable timeframe, but only by luck.
Um... in every universe? That shit was awesome, creative, and joyful. Loved it.
I truly enjoy it when artists are given a stage to create and grow perspectives of the world around us. France nailed it on this front. Not sure about the 500k Euro lobster dinner, though. That's just weird monarchy shit, and I thought France had a bit of a strong opinion on that.
His description of how his analysis of the OKCupid questions discovered that there were 7 discrete cluster of personality that it would put you in was awesome.
He then make three profiles. One for each of the clusters he felt he was most like, but the profiles targeted the groups very specifically and so his matches started climbing like crazy.
After going on many many dates, he dropped two of the profiles because he found that he didn't click with the women that they matched with.
The description of going on two dates to the same location in the same day with different women because ran out of novel date locations was hilarious.
Data science nerd out played a data driven system.