Sonnet 008 - VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to …
You might be delighted to learn about German antifascists' love for humorous #antifa slogans. My attempt at translating some:
“Twitter down, but popular: Mastodon for Antifa”
(pronunciation: 'un-tea fuh, stress on 1st syllable)
“High up there, but popular: aircraft pilots' Antifa”
“Masked and vaxxed, but popular: Covid-19 Antifa”
“Long ago, but popular: B…
"Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean"
#Mediterranean #Whales #Animals
FanDuel owner Flutter plans to delist its London shares on August 3, citing low trading and high costs; Flutter moved its primary listing to the US in 2024 (Lauren Almeida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/…
Kimalaiset ratkaisevat ongelmia kuin kädelliset – uusi tutkimus haastaa käsityksiä eläinten älykkyydestä https://www.verdelehti.fi/2026/06/11/kimalaiset-ratkaisevat-ongelmia-kuin-kadelliset-uusi-tutkimus-h…
One last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
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The Maine Democratic party has landed on hosting a nominating convention,
which will include 500 delegates elected proportionally by county committees
and a preexisting 100-person state committee.
Together, those 600 delegates will decide which of the many potential Platner replacements will face Republican Senator Susan Collins in November.
They have until July 27 to officially nominate Platner’s opponent.
To be eligible for nomination, candidates must garne…
Sonnet 008 - VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to …