Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Through a loupe.

Plant ID, anyone? I picked up a handful of these from a free box in someone’s yard on my morning walk. The label just said “free succulents”.

@secretasianman Yeah, it must be one of the largest viewsheds in the area. Actually, what I’ve always wanted to visit is just north of there: Mt Maxwell. We had a distant view aligned with its cliff face, which looked very cool on the horizon. Like a bunch of rolling islands and then this one sharp(ish) ⌳ shape.

@secretasianman No, my mistake – I was usually listening to https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=CBU-FM-1&service=FM&s=F; they just mentioned the Sooke/Metchosin frequency.

@secretasianman I used to listen to the CBC Radio 2 broadcast from Sooke/Metchosin and idly wonder how it was spelled. Have still never been.

@powerllama My previous repost (you’d think I’d work out how to thread things properly, but you’d be wrong): https://assemblag.es/@jcalpickard/112535967070633529

I do not 100% agree with everything Alison Gopnik ever says but the way I was grumpily muttering, a year ago, that people were critiquing LLMs wrong, and should be thinking more about children, and cultural transmission, and feedback loops, and then Gopnik popped up and did all of that far more clearly than I was even imagining, and with way more intellectual grounding – it’s been very satisfying, thank you.

@aredridel Yeah, it seems like a very wise balance. Here’s some discussion of the paper I was thinking of (link at the very end): https://www.gantry.io/blog/monolith-the-recommendation-system-behind-tiktok

@aredridel I think that’s right. They put out a paper about it a few years ago but I assume it’s obsolete now if it was ever the whole truth.

@aredridel It’s kind of interesting that it took this long for someone to try making an algorithmic feed that mostly shows you stuff you like instead of stuff that makes Engagement Georg comment 431 times.

@debcha Odds are good you already know this story, but piracy interrupted the first serious attempt at metrication in the US, which arguably derailed it for 200 years: https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/pirates-caribbean-metric-edition

@djh [Reposting to fix typo.] Their display simplification is surprisingly aggressive in many ways. Look at the US-Canada border in Google Earth’s default view for me: