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I'm a CS professor from . My research projects involve deep convolutional neural networks applied to photos of (meteorological) and building video games (using ) to teach people about preparedness. Hobbies include , (including ), and (thegamecrafter.com/games/siva-).

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I couldn't find a good reference diagram of the relationships between types, so a while ago I made one.

“You know, I could just grab a fish.”
“That's not the point, Gerald.”

Joe Biden today on the 4th anniversary of TFG telling Americans to inject bleach to cure COVID:
"Don’t inject bleach.
And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject bleach."

Let's watch Sarah Cooper again, who brought the idiocy of the trump years to life in this funny lip-sync video -
youtube.com/watch?v=RxDKW75ueI

Read Stephanie Bower's slim volume 101 Sketching Tips, from the Urban Sketching Handbook series. Lots of neat points in here!

Our new Google Pixel phones have all sorts of neat camera features like "take a one-second video and grab the best single frame".

I thought, "Editing on a tiny phone touch screen is a huge pain. I'll just upload these pictures to Google Photos, made by the same company, and use those features there, where they will surely be available."

Reader, they are not.

Devs sometimes talk about being "close to the metal" but there is no other software engineering team in the world right now that are simultaneously as close to and as far away from the metal as the people keeping Voyager working.

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