Brian Gawalt
Blog! brian.gawalt.com/blog/
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- @theslides.bsky.social
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Mountain View, CA
- Look, everybody!! Alt text!!
- Just heard a very weird ad for the Apple Card. "Forgot your wallet at home? With Apple Card, you can just tap your phone to pay!" That's every card?
- Oh man ... This is like a combo of "we're a much richer world then we used to be" and "we're not even trying the easy climate+energy fixes"
- THUS PASSES ANOTHER AGE OF THE EARTH www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Caught up on this news from October. It really is a good idea to use a trustworthy VPN, which for me means (a) the one Google Fi bundles on my phone and (b) uhhhh nothing on my laptop. www.wired.com/story/satell...
- interesting. "low on EA, high on transhumanism" is a surprise reversal
- I created a survey so you can find out how TESCREAL you are. Answer honestly! yuwakisaweb.pages.dev/attitude_sur...
- Cutting and pasting individual magazine words into death threats I send to city council. But it's okay, I explain to the judge, because Section 230 means these charges passthrough to Marie Claire/Time/Men's Health/Dwell/Ranger Rick.
- Never heard of this one, now I'm stuck trying to think of other biopics about someone who died young made within five years of their death. "Selena" counts; "Back to black" was ~15 years; "Monster" was one year but I don't think wuornos was famous enough to match this pattern.
- OK, cool, I can now write and save alt text alongside the images that @theslides.bsky.social post. Right in the same sqlite row. Now I need to (a) attach the alt text when the posts go out and (b) actually write that alt text for another 400 or so images, that's hard, they take a couple minutes each
- This is a great gag, one of my all time favs, and I'm sad to say it's like a decade old now
- There's a bunch of confounders at play here, but. It's very funny how obviously Dry January shows up on my GitHub.
- Reposted by Brian Gawalt'dear jeffrey, so sorry to hear about your little hiccup. I hope this can all be cleared up and you can continue to enliven the life of your friends with your wit, intelligence, and collection of beautiful women! in unrelated news, I have a new project that needs funding ...'
- This is a great comic, and on a technical level, I love how easy it is to block it out mentally. "Put this penny (lady), nickel (normie guy), dime (yolked guy), and quarter (nautilus machine) on the table, and move them around according to the scene," no prob bob
- OK, good, zero results. Did not really have a plan for the non-zero results case. www.jmail.world/search?q=Gaw...
- Mountain View PD has just announced they're shutting down the 30 Flock cameras here in town due to Flock's "lack of candor" around who exactly had read access. MVPD was surprised to learn it was open to (a) LEO outfits statewide, plus (b), illegally, the feds. www.mv-voice.com/public-safet...
- ok with the Lasso blog post up, i can move onto this. alt text for @theslides.bsky.social
- I have a question about how/whether BSky clients can identify themselves as authoring records: github.com/bluesky-soci... #atproto
- Explainer: Regularization is supposed to be a compromise, between a function that incentives fitting your date, and a regularizer that wants a simple model. But the Lasso will famously toss out the goodness-of-fit concerns and give you a fully sparse/simple model. How?? Why?? #BGBlog #statsky #mlsky
- Reposted by Brian GawaltThis lawsuit alleges that "OK Google" could erroneously trigger and that Google would save the content of the resulting conversation and that this constituted a privacy violation. Google is paying these plaintiffs $68M (a rounding error to Google, btw) to go away.
- Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
- #ReaderBot: Brian has 10 books left on his reading list. He should finish them all by Aug 31, 2026. [Brian's Reading List]
- gearing up for the super bowl squares lottery. you get to bid on what square you want this year.
- I'm glad my middle school English class had us watch this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mon...
- Put on "Weapons" tonight and (a) thumbs up, (b) head-faked me, crossed me up. What's this movie looking at, seeing what we do, saying we should notice or change. Why is Josh Brolin dreaming of that big thing in the sky he dreams about.
- Bills fan buddy made these local staple for everyone for Buffalo-Dallas AFC divisional two weekends ago. The sandwich is very good and someone needs to get a better photo up there asap.
- Sizzlin
