The beans taste very strongly of Hong Kong style pork ribs.

Yum.

This is a clever trick. Need to try this with other, home-smoked meats.

Yes, it took me a long time to replace the salt pork or ham hock that is the go-to meat & salt in most recipes.

#AmCooking

I remember the time some officials visited the CU Boulder campus in UH-1 Hueys from the Colorado National Guard. “How fucking loud helicopters are” does not do it justice. They were deafening from far away.

After that, I laughed at the parts in Magnum, PI where the helicopter surprised the villain

On the one hand, I agree.

On the other hand, my curated list of Bluesky comics creators, authors & fans drives 90+% of my purchases. And works better than my previous method of “cool cover, lemme buy it.”

It will be interesting when the verb ‘expect’ changes tense to ‘expected’

For certain definitions of the word ‘interesting.’

That story is something.

Not super clear how much original reporting is in that story, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Now listening to Questions Mark & the Mysterians. Beyond “96 Tears” I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything of theirs.

Oooh. Insta-purchase.

Not to distract from the original joke —

Trying to get a barista or cashier to say ח or כ
would be fun enough, where I live in Northern California. 😄😄😄

Can this tool summarize an article? Start with an article I wrote and say, “yes, that got all the points” or “no it didn’t.”

Honestly, this is a lot like managing a new graduate.

Many AI boosters are managers and know this skill. They aren’t using it, though.

4/4

We are all being asked to “just use the AI” without simplest suitability checks. And without specific suitability checks *for our use cases.*

I’m not describing complex checks and fancy stats.
3/n

This week, I saw the Google AI summary of a project I work on, and it was horribly wrong. It confused burn-in, which is a manufacturing process, to burns as wounds.

This is the equivalent of the spellcheck/autocorrect error above.
2/n

False positives vs underlying population prevalence wasn’t taught in undergrad engineering statistics in the USA. I work in semiconductors & it was part of *every* on-the-job statistics class.

It’s certainly not intuitive.

That it isn’t understood by politicians? Unsurprising.

Not good, though

Well put, sir. Well put.

If you don’t like the spices in traditional pumpkin pie, try
A. Garam masala
B. Thai red curry

Those are pantry staples in my house.

Agree with the other commenters on the look of this. Ugh.

For the record: I like pumpkin pie as is.