Hopefully my favorite taco shop survives this project.

Mixing together machine-learning datasets like this is only going to lead to the model becoming globally fuzzier. Sure, it may accept more input as valid, but it'll also increase the chance of false positives. I guess there's no way to solve this problem except thoughtfully.

...so that'd almost be like exercising it, right?

...said me, never before today. How things change.

And it doesn't add anything to the mythos, it just takes.

That, and the godawful amount of filler. The episodes could easily be cut to a third of their length, without losing anything,

I thought Baby Yoda was a cute idea, for maybe an episode and a half. Then it became all Baby Yoda, all the time.

I made a parody series to try to spread the word, but it seems most people are easily snowed by nostalgia and obnoxious cuteness — "Mandalorian Abridged" still doesn't seem to have found its audience.

So the winds are slowing down, are they? What has mankind done that could possibly be responsible for that? Well, we put up lots of wind-turbines to extract energy from the wind...and because of conservation of energy, the winds can't blow as strongly afterwards...and slowly, wind turbines grind our planet's winds to a halt.

Hey, I can dream...

How is the impending Ebola pandemic my fault, you ask? Because I have the worst luck in the whole world.

For some reason, every industry I work in suffers some sort of bizarre, unprecedented calamity. It's not something I cause directly; it just seems to happen.

My previous job involved working for the government. What could be more stable and secure than a government job? So my bad luck had to manifest and come up with something called "sequestration", never before seen in the history of the U.S. government, and boom, I was out on my ass.

Now I work in aerospace. The world is more connected than ever before, air travel is more affordable than ever before, so what could possibly go wrong? How about a global pandemic that eventually causes air travel to get shut down as a precautionary measure? It'll happen. And it'll be my rotten luck that causes it.

Back in 2000, I was working in the defense field, in a research-and-development position. The world wasn't becoming safer any time soon, so it seemed like I had a stable career. Then 9/11 happened, and military spending shifted away from R&D, and into the actual bombs, bullets, and other materiel of fighting a live war. I'm out of a job again.

I could go on, but this sort of thing has been happening to me for years.

Maybe I should go work for al-Qaeda. They won't survive a year with my bad luck bringing them down.

Obvious, indeed. There's already a textbook for the subject, Multimodal Signal Processing...available for free online, no less.

This is exactly the sort of system you'd want on a flight deck, to supplement the accuracy of speech-recognition in the presence of noise, especially intermittent noise such as turbulence. It can also help with speaker identification.

As for the hopelessly naive idea that "society" should be able to choose whether this sort of thing should exist...the textbook came out in 2009.

Suuuure you are. <rolls eyes>

It's been done to death, that's what happened to it.

Years ago, I became obsessive with producing high-quality DVDs from my extensive VHS/LaserDisc collection. Eventually, that led to the creation of y4mdenoise, part of the mjpegtools package. If you're willing to spend the time to let your computer chew on your digitized video, this tool will squeeze virtually all of the noise out of your signal.

Without it, you're wasting most of your bitrate just to encode noise. A video encoder can't tell the difference between noise and high-frequency detail.

If you don't want to spend that much time, then yuvdenoise, also in the mjpegtools package, does pretty well too.

Yet another major computer security breach at a big retailer, compromising the payment details of uncountable customers.

It seems to me that the core problem is that companies won't hire actual experienced hackers as security consultants; for some reason, the idea terrifies them. Instead, they hire bozos that possess some worthless "security" certificate (like CompTIA).

Or even worse, they'll hire a hacker that was dumb enough to get caught and go to jail for his actions. For some reason, that gives them credibility.

Those of us who managed to spend their teenage years hacking everything in sight, and not getting caught — the ones with real expertise — get nothing.

And so these breaches continue.

Oh, and BTW, this is why I pay cash.

Or my personal favorite..."Can I have a side of you with nothing on it?"

So you're saying that Cyril M. Kornbluth was right? Race you to Venus!

Good luck finding enough programmers that can write code with that level of parallelism.

Most of the multithreaded code I encounter in the real world simply slaps mutexes around things, whether or not they're needed, or even applied consistently. Most of the time, the mutex could be replaced with something cheaper, like atomic operations, or even unique state-transitions on a single volatile global variable.

Your experience may differ. Maybe I just have the back luck of working with morons most of the time.

Perhaps the answer doesn't lie in the 3rd dimension.

One of the possible consequences of the curvature of 4th-dimensional space-time is that our universe may be a 3-dimensional surface of a 4th-dimensional hypersphere. And if the 4-dimensional universe is expanding, the 3-dimensional universe would expand too.

This model of the universe was also used in a famous sci-fi novel.