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Cat in the Hat method of finding things

Calculatus eliminatus: lets play a game and find all the places it not

I once got £500 for fixing a software memory leak that nobody else could find using nothing more than that Cat in the Hat method of finding things

by Peculiar Musings June 2, 2015


Equality

Machine Learning Definition

Equality is the assumption that social norms have a high bias resulting overfitting in the social sciences model, thus the solution is to introduce L1 regularization to create a sparse model that sets the coefficients for protected characteristics to zero. The complaint about equality is that it produces a model that technically underfits the sample data.

Equality reduced the computational cost of the prediction algorithm

by Peculiar Musings September 22, 2019


Pink

In 1918, pink was originally a boys color and blue a girls colour. Then post-war women's liberation came along and women's fashion was to try and dress like men, in masculine pink. Men's fashion it then seemed, was simply to not dress like a girl.

"Pink is my favourite color" - Aerosmith

by Peculiar Musings June 2, 2015


Scruple

A scruple is weight equal to 20 grains or 1.296 grams, used by apothecaries

I have only got one scruple left, because I snorted the rest

by Peculiar Musings July 1, 2022


Scruple

A scruple is weight equal to 20 grains or 1.296 grams, used by apothecaries

I have only got one scruple because I snorted the rest

by Peculiar Musings June 3, 2022


Comet

Comet. kom-it Noun.
1. A person that passes through your life repeatedly who is intense and awesome, and when gone you are still in contact with that person in some way but they are not a continuous partner.

I have found there is a hole in the poly lexicon. The term "play partner" doesn't fit non-casual partners. Play sounds trite. Some of these relationships can span years and even decades. Some are very deep, with a combination of intimacy, friendship, admiration, and shared history. Poly circles use the term "play and pause" which also doesn't fit many of my "comets" as I don't pause. Many I stay in touch with daily or weekly.

Some comets come by every 18 months when the schedules line up or, to continue the metaphor, when the stars align. I have even heard some use the term partner-partner. As in, "they are a partner but not like a partner-partner." This is an example of that awkward lack of a term for someone who is somewhere between fully in your life at all times and a casual play play partner, that you like, but don’t have an ongoing connection with.

Ana is excited to have her comet Fredrico visit because they have hot sex and a deep connection. This is despite him living in Granada Spain and focusing on his poetry, while Ana lives in Seattle with her primary.

by Peculiar Musings April 18, 2016

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The Mule

The Mule (2014): An Australian attempt at crime-drama / toilet-humor, a tale of loyalty, justice and perseverance through adversity as Hugo Weaving explores the question: what use is a search-warrant if you are unable to take a shit?

The Mule was really a shit movie

by Peculiar Musings March 8, 2015