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@ImShahinyan QE8 (check) black KD2 (forced) QE3 (checkmate)

Can you find the only move? 🤔 White mates in 2

@FlySWISS coming through with a bad chatbot integrated with bad customer service (!) I'd love to speak to a human who doesn't disappear after "Hi I'm *** how can I help you today". I'd love to not get ghosted 3 times while rebooking a flight. Too much to ask?

Love how music nerd Wikipedians spontaneously developed and perfected this beautiful and informative style of data visualization Pictured: a complete visual picture of who was ever in the band Eagles (of Hotel California fame) #freetheinternet

Have you done your annual privacy policy checkup? Start with Google's: myadcenter.google.com/u/2/controls

2021: did my Master's thesis, researching a family of deep learning algos called Knowledge Graph Embeddings 2022: joined industry, built a production recommender system entirely based on PCA/SVD Deep learning is a great tool to learn and think about, but often overkill

@espn @ESPNFANSUPPORT your product is awful First you falsely advertise that you're streaming IND vs ENG T20 semifinal I paid up, but couldn't watch a single minute due to US zoning/licensing (you lied!) Then you make it impossible to cancel. Billing page is eternally frozen

^ I reread, I see typos, I can't correct them, I feel a primal drive to move to Mastodon If you're here, follow me, I guess

The people leaving are clearly motivated by recent events. Some are unfortunate folks (hugs, friends) who were laid off. Many are political/ideological opponents of Musk. Now they're going to stop hanging out here. Take note - the echo chamber problem just got worse.

Happening now: an exodus from Twitter to Mastodon in response to Musk's layoffs and policy shift Mastodon's sell is "like Twitter, but better, FOSS and run by a German non-profit" Most Mastodon servers are struggling to handle the traffic spikes Try it: joinmastodon.org/servers

ML is just applied math acrobatics

FYI humans attacked an asteroid Guess we can coordinate globally to BOOMBOOM celestial objects out of our path but we can't stop burning oil

Last week, Meta _really_ open-sourced PyTorch, handing the project over to the Linux Foundation This is in FB's long-term interests - letting them outsource the maintenance of a core software base to the FOSS community ai.facebook.com/blog/pytorch-f…

Apple to sell ad space now A pervasive strategy of big tech has been this Do everything to corner the market, literally transform it, and then operate as a monopoly protected by the widest possible moats of tech, knowledge, and resources

Marketing team somewhere: HOW ABOUT we use words to cancel each other out

I reserve the right to still complain about slow SQL queries in the data warehouse But my point is - data engineering process has come such a long way in 40 years, and that's exciting

It's wild to me that these "batches" of data were manually stacked and indexed rolls of tape This work was done everyday by data entry staff Imagine shuttling a cartful of data down to the server room at the end of your shift

Greetings from the 17th annual Midwest Vintage Computer festival Here you can see old computers and their auxiliary attachments, jovial computer nerds