Kids got their COVID and flu vaccines today. No tears. No issues getting them, but man is the flue shot arm sore. Had to give them some ibuprofen before bed. My arms are fine and no issues with side effects.
Watched Teen Wolf with the kids tonight. We’ve been on an 80s movie kick for a while. Not a great movie. There was some weirdo high school sex stuff that I had to explain in addition to the utterancese of a particularly gross word they had never heard before that I had to explain.
Absolutely chill-inducing and emotional to watch. My god, The Beatles mean so much.
Vaxxed to the max 💉💉 Decided to get Novavax after getting the mRNA vaccine previously.
Thanks to Jeff Gilchrist for surfacing compelling research and info.
Being a technical layperson has advantages in life and certainly in work, assuming you work in a field that leverages technology. Having the ability to converse with technical people (developers, engineers, electricians, technical support reps and so on) means that you can ask better questions, converse in a more “native language” with the person, and perhaps best of all, you can act as a translation layer with less technical people. I have found many technical people are not great at explaining concepts or their field to laypeople. Being a good communicator, to say nothing of being an engaging communicator is a skill and craft in and of itself. Masters of anything know a thing better than most AND can communicate it in an exciting way for a broad audience.
So it’s pretty remarkable when you find experts who take the time to put together explanations. I ran across Abhinav Upadhyay today from his post, “What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing”, which is an excellent example given the increasing importance of GPUs, mainly due to artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.
Paris is lovely. That is all.
I misspell ‘occasion’ more than any other word. Nothing even comes close. I wish autocorrect would keep stats on the words it corrects the most.
Related: I have a keyboard shortcut set up for ‘duck’.
Songtradr acquiring Bandcamp is terrible news. I guess the only thing we can hope for is that Ethan buys it back before it’s too late. Stranger thingss have happened, but I’m really bummed about this.
Come to find, hardware is hard. $500 million down the tubes. The Peloton deal is commendable, but I hope longer term they open source the software and make it possible for anyone to create content or build apps for the device.