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Love Island All Stars is coming up soon, where iconic islanders return to find love in the villa. There will be astrology compatibility posts for them to come, but in the meantime, let’s look at some All Star Love Island couples. A year and a half after they first met on Love Island, Indiyah and Dami are still going strong. It was Sagittarius Indiyah’s birthday recently, and we’re taking a look at her astrology compatibility with Aries Dami.

How do different models behave when you extrapolate one of your features? I discussed this question a while ago on Twitter/LinkedIn along with the following figure: Depending on the ML algorithm, the models differ wildly: the linear model extrapolates to all eternity. All tree-based models remain flat, no matter how much we increase the prediction. The neural network and the SVM extrapolate more wildly. k-nearest neighbors show these little jumps where with increasing MedInc neighbors are one-by-one exchanged for other neighbors until it’s also flat.

If I could go back in time, I would have attended refrigeration school. That education would have saved me about $1,000,000,000,000.00, or at least that much in refrigerator repair headaches. You know, the breakdowns that only happen on a weekend, when no one is at your brewery? My general philosophy is to always buy used except for refrigeration, as it seems to break down more often than anything else. We maintain our refrigeration by keeping the coils free of dust through a weekly cleaning schedule that includes using compressed air to blow out the condenser fan system.

Happy New Year! After taking a little pause for the holidays, I thought I’d start out the year with a list of sorts. The “ins and outs” for 2024 seems to be making its way around social media and I’ve been thinking about what I’d want to include in mine. As I brainstorm about newsletter topics for this year, my main goal is for whatever I write about to be useful for you guys, and fun/interesting for me to write about.

When I started using Twitter more than eleven years ago there was a little star button that turned a golden yellow when you pressed it. This feature was called a “favorite.” I took “faving” a tweet literally and only pressed the little star when I really thought that tweet was among my favorite tweets I had ever seen.  When Twitter changed the “fave” represented by a gold star to a “like” represented by a red heart, I changed my button-pressing rule to: if I laugh at something, I have to like it.

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I spent the last 48 hours at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. On its face, it’s a lot like other really nice hotels around the country. The rooms are beautiful. The service is top notch. (The food, I will note, is very mediocre. Disappointing!) But, the Greenbrier has a secret — or HAD a secret for the better part of three decades (from the early 1960s until 1992): It was where Congress would gather in the event of a nuclear strike on the nation’s capital.

I was about to write a post on the Intel 8087, following up on the AMD 9511, when I realised that Ken Sheriff had done not just one but four already! The 8087 was the optional floating point co-processor that accompanied the 8088 microprocessor in the original IBM PC. Ken’s posts look in detail at the 8087’s die and decode the 8087’s ROM. The four posts are: Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point

It’s a stifling Friday afternoon in June and the last thing I feel like eating is minced beef pie served with mounds of mash and drenched in scalding parsley sauce.  I’ve got nothing against the classic London staple - it’s the city’s original fast-food, dating back to the 19th century when it was popular among the working classes in the East End. I just think it would be more enticing on a wretched winter’s day than in the 30-odd degree heat.