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a new low for DB. they don't even know if the destination is Frankfurt

ok i have decided that the demolition of the palast der republik is my personal 9/11. they could have saved her, should have saved her, had to save her

(i'm at an exhibition about the palast rn)

oh my god

Ich habe etwas Wunderbares erlebt und muss darüber etwas schreiben. Ich würde so gerne tweeten: „ob Sie in Berlin sind, Deutsch können, und für DDR-Geschichte interessieren, müssen Sie morgen nach der Humboldt-Forum gehen“, aber leider war diese underbare Sache nur heute.

britain is captured by the fear of trans people in bathrooms because after fifteen years of austerity the idea of a society that builds facilities to accommodate all persons is no longer possible to imagine, and so everything is some horrible fight over scraps

you know what's beautiful about midi? it's like a physical painting, almost. you don't just have a flat final image (recording), you have every brush stroke, you can appreciate more details of how it was composed

visiting the grave of the palast der republik

sometimes math things turn out to be far simpler than you expect. for example, apparently one of the most popular activation functions in neural networks is just max(0,x)? that's what relu is. so i guess f(a,b,c) = max(0, a * 0.5 + b * 0.25 + c * 0.125) is a simple “neuron”? neat

the true audio format is pcm over hdmi. no i don't mean hdmi audio. time to hook up your old sony pcm converter, we're listening to pseudo-video

spends several seconds trying to plug a USB cable into an HDMI port hmm this USB port is trickier to insert into than normal