To Bob Broskey!

“There are too many Pope TV shows and movies. Please remove three of them. I am NOT a crackpot.”

Glad to see that someone is sweating the small-but-important detail, with Tweels.

counterpoint:  Elevators one had operators.

Respectfully, I think Obama’s finest act will have been to pave the way for more-determined reformers like Bernie. Obama, for better or worse, accepted the rules of the game as offered, and played the game as well as it can be played. And to his credit, he did a lot of good for a lot of people with the political…

Can we drop this ridiculous line? Hillary knew what the game was about. She knew what she needed to do to win the election (win the Electoral College). There are plenty of articles from during the campaign where her staff openly talks about this and claims that their “strategy” is a winning one. Stop giving Hillary an…

Since everyone knows that the only reason to own actual books at this juncture is to house them on a shelf and impress the people you’ve allowed into your home, this particular method can transform that typically banal presentation into some sort of odd pop art installation. 

Yeah, and it’s hard to think of a more rigorous place for initial deployment of anything autonomous than San Francisco. I hope that everything about it from the sensor suite on up is much better than what we’ve got now.

*14th richest person on the planet runs for president financing his own campaign after it appears a wealth tax is garnering substantial bipartisan support.

We ride in vehicles without controls (for us) all the time and don’t think about it. We get on trains, planes, taxis, etc. all the time and have no control of where they go and how fast they go. And all we care about is if the wifi signal sucks or not.

I blame the neo-Nazi trampoline groundskeeper played by UCB’s Matt Walsh.

You’re a sadistic monster and I love you. 

Grace!  Did you never read Island of the Blue Dolphin?  Or My Side of the Mountain?  These classic children’s novels will answer many questions about cooking outside you never thought to ask. 

Was that Perd Hapley as one of the newscasters? I don’t think he identified himself nor did I see a chyron with his name but I sure hope it was him!

Might just be me but felt it was super obvious that Jian Yang was going to be revealed as Erlich in the jungle. I mean earlier in the episode they have a scene where Jian Yang finds out Erlich is rich and takes off.

Neural networks / ML in general doesn’t work like “code”. It’s much more like an organism - you feed it an enormous amount of data, “train” it on the outcomes you’d like to obtain, then hope for the best. It’s all about setting up the proper rewards systems and incentivizing the best outcomes in various ways. No one…

I’m a Basia Bulat man myself

(I created the artwork and the box to intentionally confuse and obfuscate reality.)