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Mark Zuckerberg's recent refusal to even flag fake and dangerous political posts by Trump and others has led to broader calls to stop using facebook. This means that the time is even more right for a Facebook

First post on HIVE. Hopefully, it can be changed to avoid what just happened with Steem. Too many people put too much effort into Steem to see it taken over and then have funds stolen.

I have been going through a difficult move over the past few months, so I have not been able to follow Steem/Steemit much. After making a serious effort to use the platform, I had long decided that it

The observational distribution clearly (and incorrectly) shows that an increase in exercise increases cholesterol. The interventional distribution shows the true causal effect of exercise on cholesterol:

I am pro-life... I support strong action to curb global warming so that the unborn and those yet to be conceived have a planet they can live on. I am pro-life... I support a strong social-safety net, so

More goodness from our garden. These are sweet. Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

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The last of the blueberries from our garden are going to make jam. Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

Spider Lilly from our front door pond. Many more to come. Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

It seems that only 2% of Amazon shareholders voted to ban selling their facial recognition software. It is time to change the rules of corporations to put people over profit. If we required corporations

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This is moccasin pond. We are here for the migration celebration. Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

Beer is great, but good beer is even better when buying it supports a good cause. Mikkeler, a brewery in San Diego, CA is now selling 4 packs of Paradise Pils with all proceeds going to help the victims

FreeWheel ESB made with kveik yeast from Norway. This is a traditional centuries old yeast strain that until recently was not available outside of Norwegian farms. The yeast was nearly lost because even

At least in the States, most movie theaters don't serve beer or wine, but that is starting to change. District Theater, where this photo was taken, is one of two nearby theaters that sell beer and other

These are some of the first photos taken with our new Canon EOS M50 mirrorless camera. We bought this to replace an old Canon Digital Rebel (the very first model they produced) that had died long ago.

In an earlier post I described my daughters 6th grade science fair project to examine the exploration/exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learning. That post covers more details of how the robot is

I've been doing a lot of Python programming as I try to shift from using Mathematica as my daily programming environment to making more use of Jupyter Notebooks and Python. Modern day programming is not

Its Science Fair time again. Today we were experimenting with different variations of a very simple reinforcement learning algorithm (Q learning) by varying the available actions and the trade-off between

This is perhaps my all time favorite sandwiche, which when made with Vegenaise, is also vegan. Non-vegetarians often can't imagine how one could survive without meat, simply because when they think about