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- Google Gemini
December 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Morning Bathroom Window with Pears Soap and a frost outside
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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#SignsOnSunday
December 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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obeca.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Buses in the 1950s were specially designed to fit under Beverley’s medieval North Bar Gate, East Yorkshire.
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur, Karnataka, India
The dome, built in the mid 17th century, was at the moment of its construction the largest in Asia and Muslindom with a diameter of 38 m. It stayed the largest dome of Asia until 1937!!
Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur, Karnataka, India
December 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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obeca.bsky.social
"accelerando diesel crescendo"
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers.

Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles.

The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.
Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash, even with supervisor as it moves to remove them
Tesla has reported yet another crash involving its Robotaxi fleet in Austin to the NHTSA. The new data keeps the...
electrek.co
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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claireingelow.bsky.social
#WallsOnWednesday
December 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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obeca.bsky.social
- Google Gemini
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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My favourite tree in the park has offspring:)
#treescape through #courtscape
Happy bright tree on dull day #scape Friday
#eastcoastkin
A yellowing willow and a mini yellowing mini seen through a tennis court, stormy skies behind
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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A beautiful but highly venomous red variant of the bush viper family.

These snakes are known for their distinctive appearance and behavior. The prominent, heavily keeled scales give them a bristly or "dragon-like" appearance.

They're found in tropical rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa.

#vipers
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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City snowfall isn't best for driving, but streets in Montreal look pretty tonight. #Montreal #Snow #Winter #photography Literally #streetphotography 🤓
Snow-covered street, view down sidewalk curved staircases on left, cars on right, all snow covered
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
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Wired©️

The Adulteration and Degradation of the Food Supply
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December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Our friend the Balearic Green Toad is most commonly found in Italy but is also found on the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean Sea! They can sometimes be distinguished from their close relative the European Green Toad by the red spots on their parotoid glands! (photo by Samuel Paitreault)
A tan colored toad with lots of bright green irregular spots! Each spot has thin darker green ring and many tiny dark green spots! Their back is covered in warty bumps, and they have large parotoid glands with faint reddish spots on them!
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#AdoorableThursday
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Morning all

Photographer Martin Parr.
Train station, Epsom, Surrey, 1974.
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I remember when SSL certificates cost more than hosting your website. And good luck remembering to renew it before the old one expired.

10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using autom...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Painting by David Inshaw ‘Winter, St Ives’ 2015.
Oil on canvas. Size 76 x 76cm.
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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claireingelow.bsky.social
I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

Martin Parr
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Back in ’43, the #Paricutin #volcano in #Michoacan totally swallowed the town of Parangaricutiro. The only thing that survived the lava was the church tower, peeking out while evrythng else vanished. The eruption went on 4 nine yrs, making 1 of the youngest volcanoes on the 🌎.

#Photography #Mexico
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December 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Our friend the Thick-skinned Harlequin Frog is a critically endangered toad who lives at high altitudes in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru! They are also known as Schmidt's Stubfoot Toad, named after Eduard Oscar Schmidt, who first described them as a species in 1857! (photo by Jasmin Odar)
A yellow-green toad with large black splotches! They are covered in lots of warty bumps!
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Turville Street, London E2

Glazed brick wall and window frames

#reference #buildingreference #materialreference
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December 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future? No. Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course? These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this). However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code. In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner: …to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability. There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability. The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma. This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle. This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too): Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.) It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything. You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy. As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible: To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use. Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled. So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting. You’ve got to learn first.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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- Google Gemini
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM