varx - social alt @varx@cybre.space

Here is a long thread on keeping moss as a houseplant that I pulled off my twitter, wrapped up as a blog post - so now you can read about practical moss gardening without having to visit that website :>

http://ifyoulived.org/moss.html

Sandwich Police Find Missing Bread

(Yes, this actually happened)

when you choose too small a multiplier for your tsne coordinates and end up making a writhing mass of genesis 1:1

@pbandkate oh my sweet summer child, you have so much ahead of you!

today in theological-linguistic discoveries: my orthographic/phonetic neural network proposes that between Gabriel and Raphael there is a latent angel, Garfiel

I like that the duckduckgo image search for "rose plot" seems to alternate between images matching the statistical sense and the horticultural sense of the term

I love it when I get an email about changes to a service that I no longer care about and it's like "Action Required" and I'm like "you don't get to tell me what to do"

@wxcafe you can try the whole chewin' on skunks thing either way tho

"That pond it seems me many multiplied of fishes. Let us amuse rather to the fishing. " -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke

"English As She Is Spoke is the common name of a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino, and falsely additionally credited to José da Fonseca, which was intended as a Portuguese–English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent. "

1) Not getting enough sleep

2) Overindulging in alcohol

3) Accidentally referring to your friends by the names of the ancestors they resemble.

4) Ignoring horoscopes because “All the stars move anyway, so who cares.”

5) Enjoying swing music.

6) The section of your wardrobe made from woven reeds and lizard pelts.

7) At every opportunity, you mention “This all used to be underwater” while gesturing at everything.

There's a street performer and I'm dYING
He was posing for someone and he was like "one more for FB... and one more for Grindr"
"Gentlemen, if you don't know what that is, download it and make some new friends"
"It's like Pokemon Go except all you catch are bears"
AJSHFHSHFH

can you imagine what could have been? a world with standard units of measurement everywhere...

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States#18th_century)

if you can think of convolutional neural networks as inherently cubist, there's a certain irony in the use of CNNs for image captioning—Cubist practice was at least partially intended to call attention to how visual perception works in order to distance painting from narrative and symbolism. but image captioning networks use a "complete and decisive enumeration of the various elements" of an image in order to turn them back into their "symbolic" representation (e.g., a textual description)

Overheard at Balticon teardown, about a picnic: "It's in a covered area. Covered by bees."

In a city where dueling in the street for honor still occurs, a duelist is judged by the number of families they adopt to make up for any lives lost to their blade.

The most dangerous, scarred and deft, almost bankrupting themselves sending holiday cards and gifts, attending every reunion, replacing every son and daughter they've cut down, becoming everyone's dutiful child.

"Don't ever cross the Scarlet Mask! They say they have thirty families!"