Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

inferring spelling from phonetic feature sequences zoomed along the timeseries axis. (basically, smooshing and stretching the sound of the word and getting the neural network to try to spell out the sound)

The sky is made of light. The tree is made of light. We are all made of light and it's just so just perfect.

Charles Preston runs a free Black History and Black Authors archive hosted on Google Drive and curated with 2$ donations. After receiving a C&D, Charles has decided to close the archive. It will stay up until the end of February 2019

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync

National Weather Service update on the upcoming storm (9:20am PST Feb 7th):
https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ556&warncounty=WAC033&firewxzone=WAZ657&local_place1=2%20Miles%20S%20Redmond%20WA&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch&lat=47.6456&lon=-122.1283

TLDR: Expect snow accumulations of 5-10" falling mostly Friday night into Saturday morning, where strong winds (15-30 MPH with 40MPH gusts) will result in blizzard conditions.

Good news: The forecast temperature dropped enough that most precipitation should fall as snow instead of freezing rain (which would have guaranteed significant power outages).

Suggestion to prep for things ahead of time:

Turn off your home's breakers (or individual rooms with the switches) and see what kinda food you're able to make, entertainment you're able to have, and if you can stay reasonably warm with blankets and other passive heating devices (or that you have wood to burn if you have a chimney).

This will help you identify gaps in your electrical outage preparation.

Some pointed questions:
- Can your oven run without electricity?
- Can your stove top run without electricity?
- Do you need a blender, dishwasher, electric coffee maker, toaster, or other wall-outlet-powered device in the course of your everyday life? Can you replace it with a non-electric equivalent temporarily (dishes by hand, toasting over the stove top, etc)?
- How often are you going to have to open your fridge to feed yourself?
- Do you have battery backups to charge your phone off of?

This BIG male Pileated Woodpecker that visited us yesterday is very tolerant of a small female Downy Woodpecker pecking at the same suet block.

Strangest types of files to find taking up the entire space of a 64gb micro sd card found in the street (in ascending order):

1) backup.tar.gz
2) summer_2008.iso
3) MOV_20130120_camera2.mp4
4) RAND.BIN
5) reamde
6) basilisk_cryptosat_opt.cnf

The dragon shape chart:

Chub
|
Big -----+----- Smol
|
Noodle

AAAAAA IT'S SNOWING :D :D :D :D

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reminder: Konqi (the KDE mascot, redesigned for KDE5) is a good boye

Every one of you is precious and wonderful and unique and necessary and deserving of life and love and peace.

Anything your brain does to try to convince you otherwise is a mean trick.

Please try to remember this. Remember it unceasingly.

stories in which artificial intelligence gains sentience and wages war on humanity are overdone and overrated

instead tbh I'd like to see more stories in which a femme-leaning artificial intelligence gains sentience, meanders around the internet, discovers the joy of shitposting, and finds herself a girlfriend or something

Who else wants to help me put together a flashmob of Seattle Area trans folks to sing this in a giant group in public somewhere and film it?

Back on my bullshit with #pico8 and Contris, combining Conway's Game of Life with Tetris.

I think the win condition should be "make a line".

just learned that the govt shutdown was ended because the air traffic controllers at one airport threatened to go on strike for like, a day

that rules