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Cowboys Activate Defensive Reinforcement Off IR Among 2 Roster Moves Before Week 8 Game https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-activate-defensive-reinforcement-ir-roster-moves-week-8

The legal challenges to Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch are mounting,
with the District of Columbia and Virginia suing in federal court on Saturday
as the administration says construction could begin as early as next week.
There are now three lawsuits calling for a halt to potential work on a monument that would rise 250ft (76 meters)
on a patch of grass off the bridge that spans the Potomac River, connecting the city with the Arlington national cemetery.
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Virginia and DC sue to stop Trump’s arch as government looks to start construction
Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch are mounting even as its construction is imminent

Cowboys-Eagles: How to Watch, Listen, Stream in Week 7 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-eagles-how-to-watch-listen-stream-in-week-7

Interesting post
"Your guts shed ~40 billion epithelial cells every day, amounting to ~⇓ kg of tissue every week. Like the brain, your guts consume ~20% of total energy, despite making up only ~2% of body mass. Evolution doesn’t want to do that everywhere, because evolution doesn’t want you to starve to death.
So, there isn’t just a trade-off between regeneration and cancer. There’s a three-way tradeoff between regeneration, cancer, energy usage."

Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
the question everyone is asking

📝 New post: Only a few days in and I'm already making some changes! ;)
What I added to the blog after moving it off WordPress, from search and scheduled posts to security headers, plus an updated look at how it all fits together.
https://gatewayy.net/week-one-on-astro/

Only a few days in and I'm already making some changes! ;)
What I added to the blog after moving it off WordPress, from search and scheduled posts to security headers, plus an updated look at how it all fits together.

Fascinating Mindscape this week as Erik Winfree talk about information and dna and robots.
He describes how if you put molecules into a solution and let them settle, they come to equilibrium. But if you heat, cool, re-heat, in a cycle, the molecules can capture energy from the heat into a meta-stable state which, when they are cooling, they can release in a very programmed way.
we have these little dna-units that start assembling into a two-dimensional crystal, during that crystal-growth ... right next to the melting temperature of the crystal which is where you get the lowest error rates, at this point molecules are assembling/dissembling, coming on, coming off, but they're all doing a computation, they're creating that tapestry that is an algorithmic pattern tapestry.
But they are doing it for as close to zero energy as you want, the closer you run to the melting temperature of the crystal, the less free energy difference there is when a piece comes in, vs when a piece falls out, and so the system is naturally exploring this regime Charles Bennett was talking about...
To get the lowest error rates you introduce a form of proof-reading... not which burns energy to do so but a form of self-assemby proof-reading which is based on cooperative interactions. So the growth-process can't go forward unless two things come together at the same time, and of one of them missassembles then the other one won't fit and self-assembly stalls out.
You can prove some interesting things about the kenetic and error-rate trade-off based on the co-operativity (the type of self-assembled pattern)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ggjfwIty9g

Continuing from last week's demo on reference data, this week we show off how we handle seed data.
#llm

Initialize a PostgreSQL development or test database from labelled datasets · retrofit
Capture baseline seed data from pg_dump into data files under a label, start a postgres container from one rendered SQL file, and layer a fixture for one regression over the baseline by naming both labels.

NFL Week 7 odds, picks: Brinson's best bets, player props, anytime touchdown scorers for Sunday games

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl

I pruned my cinnamon tree last week, just a couple of low branches that were blocking a gate. The leaves smelled so lovely I brought them inside in a bowl near the door and just crushed them a little each time I walked past. House gloriously cinnamon scented, just subtle but lovely. Leaves started drying out this week so I put the bowl with some water on the stove, and warm it up with the remainder heat each time I turn a burner on the stove off. Another week of cinnamon smiles.

💉💉 Began my day off walking into Costco to get a COVID vaccine and a flu shot. Seemed like a good idea because later this week I’ll be spending 25 hours in airborne metal tubes and airports getting to Indonesia… and then I’ll be with a few thousand people in a conference center for #ICANN87 ! 👍