Conservative Christian, Linux geek, ham radio operator. Plays with electricity. Previously Wafflemonger and the Toad.
Chicagoland, kind of.
Joined September 2008
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I've been experimenting with generative AI images, primarily for adding interest to posts in the Tommy's Diner community, and I finally feel comfortable sharing them publicly.
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The cost of gas is just a symbol.
The sentiment is easy to capture in a simple sentence -- the middle and lower-middle class believe the expenses of everyday life have gotten too high post COVID with the Biden and Democrat fueled inflation.
The two places they see it on a daily/weekly basis are the big electronic signs at gas stations and in the grocery store.
Every month they pay rent and utilities.
All of those combine into the sentiment that life has gotten too expensive and Trump and the GOP Congress were supposed to do something to change that.
It hasn't changed enough so they didn't do enough.
It's no more complicated than that.
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Trump was warned about intelligence concerns involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang before their May trip to China, per The New York Times.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly delivered the warning aboard Air Force One. US intelligence had identified a woman involved with Huang as a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
The report cuts against Trump’s comments this week; on Monday, he said he was “amazed” by the allegations. China denies them.
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G.K. Chesterton’s “Lepanto” is one of my all-time favorite poems: an epic about the 1571 battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire.
I wrote a line-by-line analysis. Read it aloud if you can!
byistra.com/lepanto
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Spotted today in midtown Kansas City. Unfortunately, on some level, you do kind of gotta hand it to this guy
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A dictation app that generates a Python script when asked to type a request for one has not completed the task more impressively. It has completed the wrong task.
That is one of the examples in @voicearena_ai's Dictation Bench. It is a useful failure to surface because the problem is not simply recognizing speech: the product has crossed the boundary between preserving an instruction and acting on it.
For a dictation team, that changes what needs testing. Cleanup should be able to remove an unwanted restart without taking control of the message. A technical term should not become a more familiar word just because the resulting sentence sounds fluent.
The benchmark's value is in making those distinctions observable. The whitepaper connects actual drafts to explicit correction rules, so a builder can investigate a specific behaviour rather than just chase an overall score.
As voice becomes an input to more tools, I would want this boundary tested carefully. Before asking whether a system can carry out an instruction, establish that the input layer can deliver the instruction the user meant.
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I saw an AI projection that predicted only credit scores above 800 would have their access to credit unchanged by a 10% cap.
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Zelenskyy Ridicules President Trump on Same Day Trump's People Trying to Mediate an End to Ukraine Conflict theconservativetreehouse.com…
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LOL! 11 Democrats skipped the vote to impeach Pete Hegseth. One blamed traffic. They wanted him gone so bad they couldn't find a parking spot.
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The average liberal woman trying to figure out why she can't find a man who checks every box.
"Tell me why there are 4 billion men in the world and I can't find myself one!"
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Ledger CEO: "Everybody will be hacked at some point"
Well that's reassuring
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SECWAR is correct. More importantly, this is center-mass Marxism. Maybe someone should let him know that Unconstrained Analytics wrote the book on it.
unconstrainedanalytics.org/r…
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MARK LUCAS: Politicians wave the flag on Veterans Day and post on social media, then do nothing for us the rest of the year.
Today the House can pass the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act.
Speaker Johnson, these Republicans promised to vote for this after the election. Fulfill your promise.
@MarkLucasUSA
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Thank you to all of the Veterans who have served this great nation of ours
Happy Veterans Day 🇺🇸
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You would have a hard time convincing Indiana residents of that …..
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A United Airlines flight from Newark to New Orleans was placed under a hijacking alert after a passenger allegedly claimed he had a bomb and tried to enter the cockpit.
The suspect, identified as a Honduran illegal immigrant Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, was arrested after the plane landed safely.
There were 46 passengers and six crew members on board.
DHS says Gomez Alberto had previously been deported twice and was released a third time pending removal proceedings.
DHS: "His criminal history includes felony bomb threat, felony threat—terroristic state offenses, and disorderly conduct."
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Less than one-half of one percent of Americans wear the uniform. That’s it. Out of a country of more than 330 million people, a sliver raise their hand and say, “Send me.”
Over the years I’ve had the privilege of sitting across the table from some of them, and what stays with me is not the medals or the deployments. It’s the purpose.
It’s Tyler Merritt, who enlisted as a high school senior after 9/11, flew Apaches with the 160th, and then built Nine Line Apparel in Savannah so he could keep serving by hiring and lifting up fellow veterans.
It’s Steve Hotz, 17 years with the 82nd Airborne, who started Black Horse Forge in Fredericksburg first to heal himself and then to help others who brought ghosts home from war.
It’s Ryan Manion, who keeps her brother’s memory alive. Marine 1st Lt. Travis Manion was killed in Iraq in 2007. She reminds all of us what that empty place setting at the table really means.
It’s Chelsey Simoni and the veterans fighting for answers for those sickened by burn pits, still taking care of their own long after they came home.
When so few serve, the rest of us can lose touch with what they carry. The least we can do is close that gap: learn their names, hear their stories, hire them, thank them, and mean it.
Today we honor the half of one percent who chose purpose over comfort, and the families who serve right alongside them.
Happy Veterans Day. Thank you for your service.#veteransday
