Reminds me a bit of Greg Egans' Incandescence [1]

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence_(novel)

uhm, hold down option-shift for smaller steps. Same for audio.

Good tip! Thanks.

For people interested in the softmax, log sum exp and energy models, have a look at "Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One" [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03263

This vividly remembers me of "The Year of Magical Thinking" [1] It hit hard, and I didn't finish the book.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking

Very good recommendation

Slightly tangent: "Web Design: The First 100 Years" [1]

[1]: https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

"And there’s another thing. My other passion is street photography. Which is a bit like blogging."

That's me. I've made everyday slice of life pictures, walking about, since 2006. Biggest source of traffic is probably my mom. I don't care, its my own little corner of the internet.

I'd wager that marketing figured out that people are willing to pay a premium for the added feature of not having alcohol.

Maybe the same segment that also pays more for premium (healthy, biological etc ) food.

I'm not sure about that. As a teetotaler, I always cringe at how expensive a virgin mojito <or insert mocktail of choice> is, especially when they serve it in a tiny size appropriate for alcoholic beverages.

I'd order a lot more mocktails if they were more reasonably priced.

The alternative is an ethanol drink; there is basically zero economic incentive for a restaurant to lower it more than $1 or so below the price of a cocktail. Sure there's no sin tax but that is essentially pass through to the consumer, and the price competes against already sin taxed items.

Beverages at restaurants are always high margin and how they make much of their profits, they offer mocktails so they can capture the highest tier price preference for non alcohol consuming customers.

The incentive is to sell more of them. If they were cheaper, I'd order them occasionally. As currently priced, I'll just have water.

"We and our 912 partners process your personal data"

A museum. Just why??

They list 72 cookies as strictly necessary and you can't unselect them.

They are effectively claiming that their website cannot function without the cookies from presumably 72 different third parties.

There is only one correct answer to that prompt.

> It’s not just aesthetic. The mountains feel more like massive objects on these older cameras than they do on modern iPhone cameras.

Might be due to a combination of sensor size, focal length on the older camera, and the distance to the subject.

For those who like this domain, the complexity explorer [1] is also a wonderful resource.

[1] https://www.complexityexplorer.org/