The second longest train journey in the entire world. 96 hours across Canada. [📹 karaandnate]

Sony Audio products had a design language that still speaks today. Even though this is decades old, there is a modern urgency to design. From the wise use of real wood to the shade of dark gray and the classic highlights, Sony created masterpieces.

The official trailer for the new Hungarian TV series Rise of the Raven. The series will contain 10 episodes and will detail the rise of John Hunyadi and his wars against the Ottomans in mid-15th century. The expectations are high. Do you look forward to watching this?

I'm not at city hall this evening in Peterborough, Ontario, because there's no meeting tonight. It's one of those evenings when meetings pause for a week. Please join me next week - Sept. 16 - for a live tweet of the meeting!

“We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful #consumption that could push half of Earth’s species to #extinction in this century.” - E.O. Wilson, entomologist and conservationist (1929-2021)

Stephen (Stephen Regoczei). Not only is Lakeland, FL home to the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, at Florida Southern College (Florida Southern), but Santiago Calatrava designed the first building at the city's Florida Polytechnic University (Florida Polytechnic University).

I don’t have a plan, I have concepts of a plan.

Walz on MSNBC: "He was asked for one world leader who is with him, and it was Orban. My God."

.Sarah Longwell on what swing voters thought about last night's debate: "People think that Kamala Harris swept the floor with Donald Trump...Last night, she appealed to them directly."

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The Iron Dome is currently fully in action shooting down Hezbollah rockets and drones. Imagine if even a single rocket was shot at any other country, the world media and world leaders would be in arms. For some reason, there is an exception when it comes to Israel.

LLMs do not think or reason. LLMs interpolate within a high dimensional latent space. They are undeniably capable of generating remarkably coherent results (which is their strength) but do not in any sense of the word understand (which is their weakness). As such, they are

“We are showing the system a thousand words in a sequence and asking it to predict what comes next,” Sam Altman told Oprah Winfrey . “The system learns to predict, and then in there, it learns the underlying concepts.” Actually, Sam, it does no such thing. An LLM does not form abstractions;

- Lino, tu parles d'un quadrille de mâchoires... Jean Gabin et Michel Audiard évoquant les réunions de copains. Consersation anthologique.

Why do 80% of Americans live east of this line? [🎞️ wluntly]

How the term 'horsepower' came to be applied to Engines, 1937

New sign up at City of Peterborough city hall. Tune in tonight for my colleague Joelle Kovach's live coverage of the proceeding at general committee tonight. I'll be out front to see what happens during another Save Bonnerworth protest.

Councillors Keith Riel, Joy Lachica (she/her) and Alex Bierk briefly greet protestors outside city hall during the Save Bonnerworth Rally.

.City of Peterborough Mayor, in the chamber, now says he went to accept the petition outside. "Petitions are an essential part of our Canadian democracy," he says, vowing to pass them along to the clerk to become part of the official record.

.J R Tompkins Negentropy at work.