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The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history:

1. Trump, 3/16/20
-2,997.10

2. Trump, 3/12/20
-2,352.60

3. Trump, 3/9/20
-2,013.76

4. Trump, 6/11/20
-1,861.82

5. Trump, 4/3/25
-1,679.39

6. Trump, 3/11/20
-1,464.94

7. Trump, 03/18/20
-1,338.46

Tired of winning yet?

The Apollo 11 crew, and likely other astronauts on other missions, wrote their notes on the walls and near the instruments. NASA has a web page documenting and explaining the notes. https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap11fj/cm-107_graffiti.html
CM-107 Graffiti

My talk "Go: What we got right, what we got wrong" at GopherConAU is now available to all.

VIdeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE5Tpp2BSGw

Blog: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html

The content is the same except for the Q&A being unique to the video.

19. Rob Pike - What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong | GopherConAU 2023

YouTube

In case you missed the boost yesterday, there's now a way to follow #RSS newsfeeds from your Mastodon account. It's called RSS Parrot, and you can find out how it works at:

➡️ https://rss-parrot.net

In short:

1. Toot @birb and include address of the feed you want to follow (or address of website where the feed is from)

2. RSS Parrot will create an account mirroring the feed, and will reply to you with the address of the account

3. Follow the mirror account

RSS Parrot is by @twilliability

RSS Parrot

Home of RSS Parrot, a free Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into an RSS or Atom feed reader.

This 1961 photo is called “The Mob”, and was shot by professional cat photographer Walter Chandoha. Originally a WW II combat photographer, his signature style was filming cats at their eye level. He collected nearly 100,000 cat photographs and it’s pretty cool that someone made a career out of this.
#catsofmastodon

some new visual effects:
- wind lines
- air particles, brighter in sunrays
- smoke from spout

#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt

From the Orlando Sentinel today. What it’s like in DeSantistan.
"Every person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying."

Update: A bunch of folks have replicated this experiment and found that the search results were pretty accurate -- they didn't encounter the same flood of shoddy, content-farm stuff, AI-generated or otherwise

So that's good!

Rolling my eyes at the phrase “prompt engineering.” I like the definition of engineering given by The American Engineers’ Council for Professional Development. All of the emphasized phrases are entirely absent from any usage of #LLM or most AI models for that matter. If these elements of engineering were present in modern AI work the models would be a lot safer and less extractive.