Stef with an f🌷🇵🇭🇺🇸

@MamaWeasleyy This is the Varley set. Let's be clear, I don't ski, but I have a real need to stay warm in the city. 😅 I know base layers are supposed to go under shells for skiers, not sure if skiers typically walk around in these base layers afterwards?

@MamaWeasleyy A Victoria Beckham eyeliner pencil 😆 in Cocoa Also a cozy base layer set from Varley in red!

@Mihonarium I am trying this on my phone but I can't seem to press any other key other than F... am I doing something wrong?

I read a study that claims to have debunked the myth that only children can learn absolute pitch, and got a bunch of musicians who’ve not previously had absolute pitch to improve significantly at having absolute pitch. It simply utilized very short feedback loops, gradual learning, and Shepard tones to reset relative pitch memorization. (A Shepard tone is an audio illusion that makes you think the sound is getting lower.) I asked an LLM to make a web app version of it, and also add colors to maybe use synesthesia. (I think there’s research that shows that synesthesia and absolute pitch correlate; I don’t know whether it can be induced to some extent, or would only be helpful for some people, but seemed good to add in case it works.) The way it makes nice piano sounds doesn’t work from my phone browser, but seems to work well from Chrome on my pc. If you want to try to acquire perfect pitch, it might take you quite some time, but try it: perfect-pitch-trainer.pages.dev

American Academy of Family Physicians said on Monday that it recommends all adults over the age of 18, children and pregnant women to receive COVID-19 vaccines, a contrast to the U.S. government's narrowed approvals. reuters.com/business/healt…

@Mama_Blackwidow Oh these are gorgeous.

@dieworkwear I would rather do a 1970-71 Honda N600 because I could fix it myself.

starting to think that buying a home in a walkable neighborhood is simply not attainable, so i've been looking at vintage cars. do car nerds have opinions on these? — Mercedes-Benz W123 — Toyota Land Cruiser 60 — Mercedes-Benz 300TD — Mercedes-Benz W113 Pagoda SL

As an immigrant myself, yes. 💯

Under new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit Covid vaccines to adults over 65 & those with certain medical conditions. Covid continues to spread & cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.

This person really came and told us we're better off reading the AI Cliff Notes 😭 So unserious

I can't believe they've just cancelled the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC. My father was an EIS officer: epimonitor.net/PrintVersion/N… @Farzad_MD's thread below gives you a sense of the kind of people in this elite program to train the best & brightest epidemiologists.

I feel like people do not realize that when you have norovirus, it will be coming out of both ends. You will be sitting on the toilet and vomiting into a trashcan at the same time. For hours. You do not want norovirus 🥴 Stay safe out there!

Not picking on any of the people in this thread because this is the default attitude I've encountered, but it's still bonkers. It's fairly easy to convince people that all our selection processes (hiring, grad school etc.) have ~0 predictive power. But then they insist that we should nevertheless put on an elaborate, costly, and harmful ritual of pretending to identify superior candidates, because they find the alternative of switching to a partial lottery to be simply unthinkable. What?! Explicitly randomized admissions are vastly preferable to processes that ultimately result in arbitrary decisions (at best). This is a key point we make in the AI Snake Oil book — the demand for predictive AI in areas like hiring arises because of our deep, seemingly hardwired discomfort with randomness. When I'm asked about the impact I hope our work will have, moving the needle even an iota on our attitudes towards prediction and randomization is at the top of my list.

Stanford researchers' flu vaccine breakthrough could help US fight bird flu sfgate.com/bayarea/articl… via @SFGate

@chenchenwrites Oh man I totally missed that! Ty 💕

@stefjacinto it’s all in the alt text 🎉

i’m not a dessert person usually, but this was incredible

@MamaWeasleyy That sounds awful and traumatic but also yay you for getting 40%??? 😭

@MamaWeasleyy My mom mentioned that she was running out of her tinted moisturizer but was hesitating on repurchasing because she finds it expensive. (It's the BareMinerals Complexion Rescue.) I bought it for her. Also took her shopping and she found a pair of pants she liked at H&M

Flu shot done! 💉🥳

@MamaWeasleyy Good idea. I think the powder would last longer than liquid so I'll try having a small box of loose powder once this small liquid one is finished

@MamaWeasleyy I think the only drawback is that whenever I need to handwash just a tiny bit of something (like a really dirty thing I don't want to put in with the rest of the load), I still need a bit of liquid detergent because 1 pod is too much. I keep a tiny bottle around for those cases

@MamaWeasleyy I use the Dropps pods and I like them. Have you tried those?