Thomas Lumley @tslumley@wandering.shop
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music.
plants. birds. pastiche.
product of more than one country.
may contain nuts.
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Got me a fancy new e-bike. The 3-year-old one will go to a loving new home.
First thoughts: torque sensing is nice, but acceleration from stationary isn't as good as with a throttle. I like the motor in with the pedals. Having lights powered from the battery is a no-brainer. The higher top gear is a big improvement.
E-bikes: cheaper and healthier than steroids.
New blog post: When Visual Chatbot is wrong, it just keeps digging itself a hole.
Visual Chatbot is so much fun.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/175110257767/the-visual-chatbot
The score for the THX “Deep Note” sound, made public for the first time after 35 years:
How do you deal with #uncertainty when #visualizing data?
Submit a talk pitch to speak at #VisInPractice 2018 (an event at @ieeevis, Oct 22 in Berlin, one day after @InfoPlusConf).
See our call for participation at http://visinpractice.org. Submit your talk title and abstract by June 30 #cfp
Tfw a metro station uses github more than you.
Auckland zoo. Yes, plants as well as animals.
https://wandering.shop/media/shleotNxTqWq_WUXAjI https://wandering.shop/media/7o6qGtsegdtxbS3f2UY https://wandering.shop/media/OSPH8vPhJA3roEtZtEA
Sydney is still pretty, in case you wondered https://wandering.shop/media/6F2rbfBHRxdEj1HVkDg https://wandering.shop/media/shzJieXKBYwKgEQ1bXI
Having a relaxing and productive Easter holiday in Sydney.
Sometimes it's easier to do something complicated if you don't have to do anything at all than if you have to do a lot of things.
this was a huge digression from what I was supposed to be doing today, but I think these plates of waveforms from recorded speech made by Théodore Rosset in 1911 (using a weird photographic method?) are gorgeous (source: https://archive.org/details/recherchesexpr00ross)
You will not go to space today -- but maybe tomorrow.
Watched the (eventually postponed) Rocket Lab launch attempt while making corn chowder and olive pseudociabatta -- real ciabatta needs a blender.
Influenza-like illness is maybe even worse for productivity when it's over a holiday.
PS: Thomas Hardy, The Oxen, vv3-4
...
So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
Marriage Equality law just passed the Australian parliament!!
And Tonga (with a population rather less than Oxford) narrowly lose to England in Rugby League.
Is it just me, or does star jasmine smell like a slightly decayed version of real jasmine?
@ebeth hmm. All my recs don't quite make it.
eBear's "Stone in the Skull" has a trans woman viewpoint character, and a formerly-woman-now-agender metal/magic person.
Bull's "Bone Dance" has an agender protagonist, but is old, from the dawn of urban fantasy.
Scalzi's "Lock In" has a protagonist whose gender and sex aren't given, but there's no sign they are subjectively non-binary.
#scifi Sunday: currently rereading A Fire Upon the Deep.
Recently read: Infomocracy, by Malka Older, which is about democracy and ways of actually have a choice (or not)
The Wrong Stars, by Tim Pratt. Good old-fashioned space opera, but with women and non-traditional relationships and generally not 1930s.
Went for a bike ride in a hilly part of Auckland, relying on Google Maps.
As David Bowman nearly said "My God, it's full of stairs!"
Google seems to have assumed any foot-but-not-car path is suitable for bikes. One of them was labelled "Mostly flat", which I suppose is true _in a sense_ for stairs. 😐
