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Barbara Stanwyck enters the 1930 film "Ladies of Leisure" -- and film history -- in a rowboat. The oars squeak. Her face is marked by mascara-streaked tears and she's clutching a broken dress strap. She's …

Ethan Mollick writing in his newsletter, One Useful Thing: But the LLM does not just produce one token, instead, after each token, it now looks at the entire original sentence plus the new token (“The …

Ana Veic explores a review on the female migrant experience in accessing mental health support in primary care settings across Europe, which concludes that services must be culturally aware and gender sensitive. The post Navigating …

Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. …

Germany’s Heckler & Koch finally dropped a commercially available micro compact 9mm pistol this week, debuting the thoroughly tested HK CC9 onto the market. The polymer-framed striker-fired “one and a half stack” 9mm offers flush …

Śrī Uddhava, Śrī Krishna’s most trusted advisor, is described in the Bhāgavatam by Śukadeva Gosvāmī before beginning his narration about how Śrī Uddhava delivered to the gopīs a confidential message from Śrī Krishna: Śukadeva Gosvāmī …

TL/DR — Dale Chu, Derrell Bradford, and I talk ed politics next Tuesday and you can ask questions, too. Join us! As you may have heard, there’s an election coming. It’s a pretty important one, …

International Peening Day on the first weekend in April each year is a great opportunity to get out scythe blades from hibernation and get them cleaned and peened ready for the new season. There are …

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Seasoning bursts with flavor, offering the perfect balance of savory goodness in every bite. It’s everything you’d want in a pizza-inspired blend, minus the questionable risks of hanging out with …

I tried Levels (with the Dexcom G7 sensor) for a month. It changed my life.For one thing, I never would have eaten raw broccoli out of a plastic bag in a hotel bathroom before. Also, …

OpenAI (who owns ChatGPT) released a new model today. It is called o1. The main difference between models like 4o is it inherently performs chain of thought reasoning when producing an answer. What is chain …

Olympic Silver Medal Finally Awarded to Tim Koleto Today, my friend Tim Koleto was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal with the Japan figure skating team in Paris at the Victory Ceremony near the Eiffel Tower …

Day 20Ok. This is new. Not the sparkly purple, but a true black die with moon phases on it. Very cool.

Photo by Ron Lach Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas (@manzanitafire), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. On Thursday, Oct. 31, she’s offering a free masterclass on plot, The Bones of the …