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Coming from Canton, soup is what really runs in my veins. To start our meal we have savoury soups, (the chicken soup here is one of them) and to end the meal we have sweet soups, also known as tong sui 糖水, which literally translates to ‘sweet water’. When it gets too hot in summer and we have no appetite, we don’t even need the main course in between.

Hello, dewy dust bunnies! Things got a little heavy on Tuesday, eh? Let’s lighten the mood with an ode to the season’s skin-friendliest food: the sweet potato. I first started pondering the skin-sweet potato connection while listening to an old episode of The Cut’s podcast, in which Stella Bugbee — then editor-in-chief of The Cut, now Styles editor at The New York Times — says that she eats a sweet potato for breakfast every single morning.

An in-depth chat with Janna Lapidus Leblanc. She was Stevie Ray Vaughan's fiancee at the time of his death; they met four years earlier in Wellington - she's a Kiwi, now based in America. She has recently written and published a book of photos that tells the story of their love affair. Janna and I talk about Stevie, his music, their relationship, her book. We talk too about her life, her upbringing, her career (professional model), her grieving of Stevie.

Swift on Windows is production ready, today. We’ve talked before about how we run Swift code on Windows, but we haven’t talked about how we write Swift code on Windows. Windows is already a mature development environment for authoring Swift code, and it’s only getting better. Here we will go over the state of the Swift ecosystem and tooling support on Windows, and discuss our plans to continue to improve the developer experience for Swift devs working on Windows.

This is probably my most requested recipe and so it feels like a great place to start. For a majority of my cakes i’m using this SMBC recipe as a base. The recipe is easy to throw together, though like all great things in life it takes time. It takes on other flavors and ingredients well. I will say that I think the methods that I’m using when I make this buttercream and how I manipulate it before I frost a cake is more important than the recipe itself.

Poets on Film is a semi-regular feature of PopPoetry, a poetry and pop culture Substack written by Caitlin Cowan. You can learn more about it here. Check out the archive to see other TV shows, movies, and films whose intersections with poetry I’ve covered. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, subscribe so you won’t miss a post! CW: Suicide The DVD case for Sylvia, the 2003 Sylvia Plath biopic starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, is sitting on my desk.

“You Were On My Mind” was on my mind. But, only because it was covered with such clarity in a recent post by Michael Acoustic. Here ‘tis: The Regular Friday Post Last week’s rando lyrics: The lyric, "I got to move on I got to travel Walk away my blues" is from the song “You Were On My Mind” a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Sylvia Fricker and recorded by Fricker and Ian Tyson in 1963 and released in 1964 .

This newsletter is sponsored by Rebuy, the Commerce AI company. If you like this newsletter, please subscribe, share it, or follow me on twitter. Thank you for your support! The transfer learning paradigm is comprised of two main stages. First, we pre-train a deep neural network over a bunch of data. Then, we fine-tune this model (i.e., train it some more) over a more specific, downstream dataset. The exact implementation of these stages may take many different forms.

Restaurants have been tough businesses to operate for a long time. They are low-margin (WaPo cites 3-5%) with high failure rates (according to CNBC, 80% fail within 5 years), and a complicated relationship with the platforms that have emerged to connect them with consumers. Theirs is a business defined by spiky demand, resource waste, staff turnover, fierce competition, and challenging disintermediation.  And it’s no secret that the past two years have been particularly tough.