City of Bones is a rather niche, otherwise forgotten book from 1995 that has enjoyed some renewed interest as a result of the amazing Murderbot book series by the same author, Martha Wells. It is not to be confused with another book of the same name by a different author. It can be rather difficult […]
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Ranked Probability Score is an unusual error metric that was designed for meteorology but which has since more often been utilized for assessing models predicting football (soccer) matches. I was forced upon it because of it’s use in the M6 forecasting competition. The purpose of the ranked probability score is to give an accuracy metric
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Setting up a Python environment is often a pain. Even worse is that sometimes the environment, once it is finally built, is surprisingly slow because the underlying numeric libraries (BLAS, OneAPI, and so on) are improperly configured. This aims to be a fairly definitive guide to fixing those problems as of early 2022. How much
Tunisia is a difficult country to judge. On the one hand, it is the most interesting country I have been in for quite a while – away from Europe which was becoming routine (if pleasant). Tunisia is warm, inexpensive, not crowded, and has excellent history On the other hand, I got sick three times in
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2021 was a long, eventful year. Was it good or was it bad? I am not sure. Both, I think. The defining thing about 2021 for me was the sheer amount of travel I did. I was in Ukraine, home, then Savannah, Knoxville, Utah, home, and then Lithuania, Croatia, Tunisia and then home. These weren’t
Croatia is just about perfect for everyone. It is rare that can be said about a destination. I came for the history, of Roman, Venetian, and countless other influences. I also came for the weather, which on the coast stays mild for much of the year (inland is a different story). To go with that
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“GLORIOUS PURPOSE!” Loki is one of the best, or perhaps more accurately, one of the most emotional TV series I have ever watched. It was amazing, for me. Yet I don’t think that will be true for the average viewer. Let’s start with the difficulties. Loki relies on having a solid grounding in the Marvel
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Lithuania is not a very popular destination for digital nomads. I think the reason is pretty clear: Poland and Ukraine are cheaper, and Estonia is the more touristy destination of the Baltics. Estonia also wins in some regards by offering a digital nomad visa allowing a year’s stay. Still, I was very happy that I
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After what seems like a lull, with few decent book waiting in my reading queue, I was thrilled to see Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education, she being one of my favorite authors. Black Sun meanwhile came from the NPR top books list, and happened to be in stock in English in the bookstore here in
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Holly Ann WilliamsKelly Ann CatlinYou can see the similarities but also the differences in name alone. Kelly was my twin sister, center of my life, who committed suicide. Holly was my best friend, sometimes my girlfriend, and we had a bit of Sherlock and Watson routine going. Ultimately, Holly was my replacement twin sister. For
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