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From Sea to Sea No. XXXII
I found this while perusing the stacks of Green Library at Stanford in 2012. Added some annotations. Still a good read. By Rudyard Kipling “An ordered peace and a perfection of quiet luxury is the...
read articlePastures of Heaven Chap. 1
By John Steinbeck WHEN the Carmelo Mission of Alta California was being built, some time about 1776, a group of twenty converted Indians abandoned religion during a night, and in the morning they were...
read articleVariational linear methods for approximating posteriors
Explanation & example will follow # import torch nn = torch.nn class LinearVariationalNormal(nn.Module): def __init__(self, in_features, out_features, bias=True, ...
read articleCommon utilities for creating gifs from a series of pngs
Part – How to save file suffixes with decimal places Part I How to tar a directory. Part II How to do a gif convert with transparent...
read articleBees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles
Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles — Buccaneers of Buzz. Ride abroad in ostentation And subsist on Fuzz. Fuzz ordained — not Fuzz contingent — Marrows of the Hill. Jugs — a Universe’s fracture Could...
read articleA prompt - executive Bird is the Jay
A prompt — executive Bird is the Jay — Bold as a Bailiff’s Hymn — Brittle and Brief in quality — Warrant in every line — Sitting a Bough like a Brigadier Confident and straight — Much is the mien of...
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