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paipa
·l’altro ieri·discuss
It's Bureau Serif from Smuss Type Kiosk: https://typekiosk.smuss.studio/bureau-serif

He forgot to scrub the vendor ID field.
paipa
·6 mesi fa·discuss
"And likely just creating more debt down the road"

In the most inflationary era of capabilities we've seen yet, it could be the right move. What's debt when in a matter of months you'll be able to clear it in one shot?
paipa
·6 mesi fa·discuss
> he said his films had been misunderstood: “My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.”

I read a few Krasznahorkai novels in past few months since his Nobel Prize, some of which Tarr has adapted to screen, and that was my biggest surprise. They were so much funnier than their reputation, my tears were rolling at times. He is such a master troll at using his slow grinding, bleak prose to deliver "unintentionally funny" moments completely intentionally.

I have never watched Tarr but now I'll have to.
paipa
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I agree. It's almost all prep. In fact that's exactly what I recall him saying in an interview once, that he still gets stressed by the amount of reading he has to do before each and every episode. He never winged it and rely on his knowledge alone.

And making broad connections across topics wasn't his style anyway. He's a legend but the show can totally go on without him, and it should.
paipa
·anno scorso·discuss
Base 6 has six digits, 0 through 5. Perfect fit for the human hand, you get place value notation and counting to 35 decimal (55 seximal) for free.

Base 6 would've been the real deal.
paipa
·anno scorso·discuss
The puzzling thing is why they chose to adopt a term used to describe "only a scaling of power" to talk about log10 values. If 1 Bel simply meant 10x, I'd get it, but Bel has baggage and also means sqrt(10)x.

Is odds a power-like or amplitude-like quantity? If you can't tell, dB isn't the most fortunate choice. It's not like mathematicians need fake units to talk about unitless ratios and their logarithms.
paipa
·anno scorso·discuss
The denominator isn't the issue. The context-dependent base of the logarithm is, which makes 1 Bel = 10x for some things and 1 Bel = 3.16x for others.

I've never heard of decibels used in probability theory. Did they adopt it with the same baked-in bastardizations? Please tell me +10dB(stdev) = +10dB(variance) isn't a thing.
paipa
·anno scorso·discuss
Oh, so that's why some services have separate codes for login and transacting. Didn't know it was an EU regulation.

Still better than in-house crap.
paipa
·anno scorso·discuss
Here's how 66% compares to the trivial predictor: "pick the team with the higher win rate and flip a coin if they're equal" gives you 64% for the 2024 season I just tried it on.

I'm not even considering home/away, let alone win margins, recent form, strength of schedule etc. I'm almost amazed this model couldn't make any use of them.