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@33MHz Better not tell her there's a tool for that. My 2yo found out, so I'm out of the game now :-/

@Hikerus Hello and welcome :-)

@33MHz @Hikerus there are quite some, indeed.

And it's up again! >> @pnutstats: #pnut currently has 607 users who created 364733 posts and 74744 messages with 111 apps in 614 days. Since my last post there were 41.7 posts/hour. #pnutstats

@joe How do you like it?

@33MHz Yeah, TFA is full of these nasty truisms. It really got me thinking of nerd culture. Explains a lot of friction between techies and other people.

More from that article: "Social normality doesn’t reflect statistical normality because the construction of normality[4] is a social process and not a statistical one." https://everythingstudies.com/2017/11/07/the-nerd-as-the-norm/

The door was opened and his first steps felt strange. The soil was harder than expected. He nearly stumbled over a small rock, started running and when reaching the hilltop, his heart skipped a beat. The view over the Martian desert was awesome. #WedC

The first step into restoring Net Neutrality via the CRA has passed the US Senate [cnet.com] Now here’s the most difficult part: Passing through the telecom-controlled House and a Donnie veto. #NetNeutrality

@33MHz Funfact: we keep an internal list of reasons one should avoid MySQL :-)

Unplanned downtime for @pnutstats - the router was allegedly killed by lightning strike, replacement is being organized. If you run any critical services on top of it, please take the appropriate meas^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hyou're totally nuts! ;-)

Sisyphus smiled. He pushed the boulder up the last inches of the hill, giving it a different spin each time. He cheered as he saw it rolling down a path it had never taken. The gods shook their heads. "Delirious?", one asked; another: "Euphoria?" #wedc

A 15-minute argument ensued, where Nielsen refused to try to find the error for fear of upsetting his classmate. Eventually he was escorted from the room — despite being kind. https://everythingstudies.com/2017/11/07/the-nerd-as-the-norm/

To see what that would look like and to show how irksome the original can be to someone who considers his moderate nerdiness perfectly normal and healthy .. I took the liberty of rewriting it. https://everythingstudies.com/2017/11/07/the-nerd-as-the-norm/

The Miami-based garden has identified 106 plant varieties that might do well in space, including hardy cabbages and leafy lettuces. http://m.france24.com/en/20180511-challenge-space-gardening-one-giant-leaf-mankind #gardening #spaceflight

Researchers, he said, do not know why some algorithms work and others don't, nor do they have rigorous criteria for choosing one AI architecture over another. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy

Speaking at an AI conference, Rahimi charged that machine learning algorithms, in which computers learn through trial and error, have become a form of "alchemy." http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy

@Melli @blumenkraft Guteeeen, äh, Mittag :-)

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