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花了一些时间，把微博的帖子一篇篇地往 substack 搬。浏览着这几个月写出的文字，它们让我欣慰。有时候回去看自己写的东西，有一种“原来我是这样的人”，死而无憾了的感觉。 这些文字的价值，比起我在编程语言领域的造诣大了非常多。编程语言永远只能操作机器，而人类语言可以改变人的思想，改变世界。 我应该把写过的所有文字整理出来编成一本书，叫做《王垠全集》。也许经过一百年，很多人看这本书会记得我——有一个人真的改变了世界，人类终于获得了自由。 不过我这样一篇篇地整理有点累了，我欢迎志愿者参加帮忙。 ncG1vNJzZmixmaPEorrGamWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXx2gpU%3D

The following table is a list of WNBA teams with their Elo ratings for the 2024 season. (Note: This is basic Elo, so no adjustments for trades, injuries, etc. for the moment.) Table of Contents 🏀 2024 WNBA Elo ratings and forecast 📈🏀 Today's games 👀🏀 2024 WNBA Estimated RAPTOR player ratings 📈🏀 2024 WNBA Consensus Wins player rankings 📈Filed under: WNBA, Elo ratings ncG1vNJzZmimlZ65sa3Ip5xnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wfo9ra2avnpeubrHLqGSpp6eav26%2BwKeioqaXqA%3D%3D

“My regret is that I am not optimistic enough. It is not possible to project the fantastic worlds which will continue to open up to us in the coming years. Worlds which far transcend my most daring optimism. No one today can be too optimistic.” - FM-2030, Up-Wingers The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised “With groundbreaking ideas and sharp analysis, Pethokoukis provides a detailed roadmap to a fantastic future filled with incredible progress and prosperity that is both optimistic and realistic.

Awhile back, I came across this fantastic use of GPT-3 for automatically filling spreadsheet cells using information about the world, such as state populations: Where are the data coming from? Apparently, these data are coming from within the model of GPT-3 itself. In other words, the massive corpus that GPT-3 was trained on is so large that the model contains a certain fraction of the actual complexity of the world. But how much is actually inside these models, implicitly embedded within these neural networks?

Good evening everybody, How’s tricks?  I hope, for your sake, that you are in the warm confines of your house, blinds drawn, preferably next to a small lap dog and/or significant other. Because tonight’s newsletter will be highly spooky indeed. We are tackling none other than the myth and legend of The Button Man.  Now, if the name alone has sent chills down your spine, you are not alone. I first heard of the said gentleman about eight years ago, when my Dad’s best friend Paul uttered his name at a family gatho.

We hope you enjoy this edition of The Traffic Report. This newsletter is free, but if you want to support The War on Cars and help us produce the podcast, become a Patreon subscriber today. It’s no secret that the typical American pickup truck has grown absurdly large, becoming to transportation what a peacock’s tail is to evolution: Something so completely removed from its original practical purpose that today it serves mainly as a social signifier to other members of the species.

You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee It’s been roughly a month since we left Auckland and beautiful Aotearoa New Zealand to make our way back home, but it actually feels like time has expanded once more. I had that same feeling when road-tripping around the South Island last Christmas. Life is wide when traveling. Time expands.

I’m a passionate user of rice cookers. A rice cooker nerd if you will. I did spend some years without a rice cooker when I first moved to Canada, and let’s just say I do not wish to live that way again 😂. In Thailand, every home with electricity has a rice cooker. Growing up I didn’t even know it was possible to cook rice without a rice cooker - it felt like the most essential appliance in the house!

Hello Sandwich Fans! It’s Thursday, which means it’s time to channel some BIG SANDWICH ENERGY. The newsletter for paid subs drops on Friday morning. All paid subscribers have access to the full archive of paywalled articles as well as The Sandwich Board. You can also follow Serious Sandwiches on Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for your support. The fish finger sandwich feels like one of the most personal of ALL sandwiches.