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Story with pics of the drain and surrounding area. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/baltimore/news/13-year-old-boy-died-storm-drain-flash-floods-mount-airy/

Even Israel is Asian!

Best comments: “I hope that piano was over 18 at least.” “That piano smoked a cigarette after that”

Mrs Klaus was telling me about this in the car yesterday. We were 7 blocks away (at the Plaza hotel) when it occurred. And two blocks from it an hour earlier. I’ve been off grid mainly so haven’t absorbed the details.

Yes. It's annoying.

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He looks 20 but nobody was videotaping themselves practicing piano in 1961.

Interesting bits that didn't know before: Basically, when plants are growing, photosynthesis is happening in their cells. And that photosynthesis gives off a very specific wavelength of light. The OCO instruments in space measure that light all over the planet. "NASA and others have turned this happy accident into an incredibly valuable set of maps of plant photosynthesis around the world," explains Scott Denning, a longtime climate scientist at Colorado State University who worked on the OCO missions and is now retired. "Lo and behold, we also get these lovely, high resolution maps of plant growth," he says. "And that's useful to farmers, useful to rangeland and grazing and drought monitoring and forest mapping and all kinds of things, in addition to the CO2 measurements."

Judging from the abstract, the algorithm would actually be slower than Dijkstra's if the graph is not sparse. But still a cool result. Also, it was published at a reputable venue and survived peer review, it's not just a random arxiv paper.

I got four out of five correct, but I was a bit lucky I think. I'd like to hear somebody do the same with saxophone. I suspect it would be harder to make an AI sax sound authentic, unless it was Kenny G.

I certainly hope that turns out to be false.

Should be fun to watch.

Poor guy.

One would hope.

Fascinating.

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Hahaha, that is great. The number of times I say "what did you think was going to happen?" each day is quite high. This morning two kids were wrestling near the wall, one kid bonked his head off the wall. "What did you think was going to happen if you guys wrestle near a wall?"

I'm just glad they are in the space above China and not the USA. They can have one half, we can have the other. That's how space works, right?

RIP. Same age as my dad, who I think rather enjoyed his satire - this kind of sharp humour was right up his street.