Recent content by Cadence

Just saw this about Amazon's Mechanical Turk: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-025-02852-7 If you haven't heard of this MTurk before, a post on using it for surveys is at: https://blog.mturk.com/getting-started-with-surveys-on-mturk-e2eea524c73 A Bluesky thread on the "Why you...

It feels like it's rare to find Phil Harris (Little John and Baloo) playing something where he isn't pretty close to his persona on the Jack Benny Show or Phil Harris & Alice Faye radio shows (well, there is much less alcohol in his Disney roles I guess).

My other half - like much of England and apparently almost all US presidents - is descended from King John (whom the Disney film dubbed "The Phony King of England"). I'm a huge fan of the Disney movie (see my avatar), and it was a bit horrifying how much worse my wife's 23G Grandfather was...

I read them lots of times - especially VotDT at #3 - as a youth. Now I find myself having to ignore a lot of the symbolism or they feel really kludgey to me. (I don't know what it says about younger me that I missed a lot/most of it on the early readings even though my mom got them for me at a...

I might have my first Patreon to support...

Attempting to expand my range of sours, and so went for a pineapple one. Snafu Brewing Company's "Pineapple Hole in My Soul Whip" was like someone double concentrated a pineapple soda and put it in a sour. (I had missed that it had pineapple puree, pineapple drink mix, and pineapple Italian...

I am kind of curious about the two respondents who would "buy the product purely on principle", but are not now more likely to buy it (zero respondents) nor view it as being "more valuable" (zero respondents). Is it the wording of "I will buy the product purely on principle" being read in a...

As someone in statistics/machine learning, one of the things that annoys me about this is how "AI" has become synonymous with "a massive data center using LLM trained on everything online without regard to copyright". I agree that there is a big difference between that and a custom deep neutral...

My answer of not liking it assumes AI is equivalent to large language models and their variants (and not the expansive definitions of AI that include seemingly any form of predictive statistical modeling or machine learning) or rudimentary things like spell/grammar checkers or less powerful...

On Rex Stout's "The Red Box" on my reread of the Wolfe corpus. Picked up Ann Cleeve's "The Dark Wives" (latest in the Vera Stanhope series) while out post Christmas browsing and will slip that in too.

The OS in the radio show of that name on the BBC World Service stands for Outside Source. (Don't recall them saying what it stood for before, but they said it several times today).

I hadn't gone with the everyday criteria for my original answer... Going by what I eat most IRL it would be a sausage (or bacon), egg, and pepper jack (or cheddar) on jalapeno bagel sandwich. Probably around 150 breakfasts a year for quite a while now. But I think pizza - the thin but not too...