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There is no signage to explain it and no instructions on where to go. My guess is they put it there so that people on the detour couldn't take a shortcut through the pier area.

08.09.2025 00:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I took the detour and met these desperate ferry passengers who are not allowed to go from the Pier 91 bus stop to the cruises. There were two big boats and no explanation on where to go. What is the port thinking???

07.09.2025 23:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One thing that could be great again: going to Canada and back without an ID.

03.08.2025 14:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Another item off the list

29.07.2025 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eerie how similar Alfred Hugenberg and Elon Musk stories have become:

Owning a big media empire ✅
Helping authoritarians to power ✅
Serving in the cabinet for a while ✅
Destroyed by this move within months ✅

05.06.2025 22:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The mean rating displays on the "detail page". With hundreds of ratings, it's ok to just average, as you say. But the original frequentist algo showed a higher mean rating to a product with 2 5-star reviews than a one with a 1000 reviews with a mean of 4.9.

28.05.2025 14:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

By using a better prior you arrive at more precise estimates. If that's not what you need, you don't need a prior.

28.05.2025 14:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We had this problem for the inference of the mean customer rating at Amazon. Amazon actually started with the frequentist approach way back then, but it was clearly inadequate.

28.05.2025 02:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For Bayesian inference of binomial proportion, use beta distribution as the prior. Your maximum entropy case would be beta(a=1, b=1), your increased confidence will be reflected in higher values of a and b parameters. There is a formula for a and b from your believed mean and standard deviation.

28.05.2025 02:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Kdo nikdy úplně na šrot nepsal Eriku Taberymu, ať hodí kamenem

18.05.2025 19:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for the tip! Check out even older Louise-Michel (2008), if you dare.

05.05.2025 19:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join WSNA President Justin Gill at the Hands Off! Rally – Seattle,… As part of a national day of action, WSNA President Justin Gill will speak at a Seattle rally protesting recent federal actions impacting healthcare,…

As part of a national day of action, WSNA President @justin-gill.bsky.social will speak at a rally protesting recent federal actions impacting healthcare, workers' rights and public services. Gill will speak at the Hands Off! event in Seattle on Saturday, April 5, from 12–3 p.m. at Seattle Center.

01.04.2025 02:57 👍 49 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2

Clive forgets that they can use vibe coding to do that.

31.03.2025 21:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Four Seasons of Total Landscaping

29.01.2025 22:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also this is not downloading but an email attachment.

08.01.2025 06:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can forward you the email if you DM me an address.

08.01.2025 02:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just so you know, the email attachment PDF file is just a text file saying "no healthy upstream", luckily the audio version seems to be working.

07.01.2025 18:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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2025 has just started and all everybody talks about is walls.

@jasonkpargin.bsky.social @tracyosborn.com can you just stop it?

06.01.2025 22:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AI-generated image of boxes of coats for donation with a caption that reads “kicking off the new year in service of our community”

AI-generated image of boxes of coats for donation with a caption that reads “kicking off the new year in service of our community”

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

03.01.2025 13:58 👍 11079 🔁 3052 💬 291 📌 795

sus

10.12.2024 15:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"To build lasting value, you should plan for the rise of AGI-ready products, and for selling to the AGI".

Very relevant for SaaS out there.

09.12.2024 20:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Newest fun "correlation or causation" puzzle. Are the cars dangerous, or is it that they have always been marketed to people who can't drive?

30.11.2024 23:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have the opposite problem, can't figure out why on earth I like Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

18.11.2024 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0