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cyclist, dog enjoyer. currently @wbez.org / @chicago.suntimes.com

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There is no sense in which the model knows this - it isn't trained directly on actual inputs except as part of a much larger corpus, nor is it trained to recapitulate any part of its training data as a statistical average. Any answer you get will be a conjecture or hallucination

05.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

me, squinting: don't they need another two

25.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, this isn't quite right - if there's 100 people and $1m then yes, if each bids $10k, everyone gets $10k.

But if 50 WOs bid $40k, those WOs will receive nothing because their bids bust the budget.

The remaining 50 WOs still get the $10k. But now those 50 could have bid $20k to 'win'.

21.02.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. Curling in skis

12.02.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They are calling this.... Four Mile Island

10.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

April 22, 2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiPJ...

09.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Vulture' Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, known for making deep newsroom cuts, won approval to acquire Tribune Publishing, which includes the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun and New York Daily News.

*This* Chicago Tribune? www.npr.org/2021/05/21/9...

08.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Monroe Jackson Rathbone II - Wikipedia

Some options!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing...

07.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

16.12.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 1040 πŸ” 366 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 49

MERRY/MARRY/MARY Christmas to everyone who gets this joke

25.12.2025 08:10 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"The Donald J. Trump... Memorial Center for the Performing Arts"

19.12.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this the way that punt coverage works in football: you don't actually want everyone making a directly line to the ball, you actually want different players occupying different lanes because *the punt returner is going to move!* and you want to have broad coverage of the field.

18.12.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 775 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 4

Ben, you promised us bad ideas?

17.12.2025 02:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
instructions to Don Quixote

instructions to Don Quixote

windmills, you say

16.12.2025 22:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's Christmas procurement - winter buyin' - with an aggressively Texan accent

16.12.2025 22:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Greg Bovino's the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots. As a boy, the Hollywood movie β€œThe Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...

full story chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

12.12.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago Sun-Times on Instagram: "Though he has left Chicago for now, Gregory Bovino, 55, has vowed to come back. Sources say a renewed deportation push in Illinois in 2026 could involve a bigger detac... 265 likes, 31 comments - chicagosuntimes on December 12, 2025: "Though he has left Chicago for now, Gregory Bovino, 55, has vowed to come back. Sources say a renewed deportation push in Illinois in 20...

amazing stuff here from @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social + Candace Dane Chambers

www.instagram.com/p/DSLEKMPERW...

12.12.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep goingβ€”
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last tiβ€”
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

10.12.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 13598 πŸ” 4857 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 228

asking 'can you work on the history/literature/culture of X without learning the language' is like asking if you can poo without eating food or have kids without having sex. why would you skip that part, it's the most fun

09.12.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

You should add @tylerplariviere.bsky.social

06.12.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I like waymo. Waymo public transit, bike lanes and benches!

04.12.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 381 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Brits often use 'diary' instead of 'calendar' to mean a prospective scheduling tool. "I'll look in the diary", "It's in the diary", "Let's do diaries" [to find a time to meet], etc.

It's up there with the very worst, 'quite', as a word where the difference in meaning is hard to guess from context

04.12.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This has to be one of the top ten most confusing differences between British and American vernacular English

04.12.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure I understand this one, but the argument about 'not X - but Y' being essentially an artifact of greedy sentence construction makes a lot of sense to me

27.11.2025 21:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh interesting, thank you!

27.11.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is KL Kullback-Leibler? Do models optimize directly for KL divergence?

27.11.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

RETVRN

22.11.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, but isn’t it the point of that scene that the extra mark doesn’t do anything? That they’ve just divided the same scale into more segments, like cutting a pizza into more slices - you don’t get more pizza

21.11.2025 02:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Greetings from Assenisipia. Also: Wisconsin is now Michigan

17.11.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

I think LA’s looks worse - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo.... There are people there serving short sentences, as in Brooklyn, but it’s mostly a jail

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