Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

One of my finals this semester will be on May the 4th. #StarWars #academia

#Violet is once again asking you to just stay in bed. #DogsOfMastodon

Other owners of long, curly hair: What do you do to prevent or remove tangles?

I had much shorter hair pre-pandemic, so I'm relatively new at this. (It's now even longer than in my profile pic.)

#hair #LFHCfS

Finished Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr. It did what it was supposed to do. Points for letting you play the way you want -- just walk down the main path (as I did) or do lots of side quests, get into crafting or ignore that system. The UI was not annoying which is high praise. The art evoked a rich world, but the "clue" documents didn't really tell a consistent story.

#VideoGames #warhammer #w40k

DeWilde exercise 5.2: Two-Point Perspective. #MastoArt #drawing #perspective #beginner

The daffodils are poking out of the ground. #flowers

This excellent introductory juggling video implicitly notes a counterintuitive phenomenon that I discovered when learning to toss Samoan fireknives: it's easier to catch if you toss *higher*, because you have more time to observe the trajectory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCYDZDlcO6g

#juggling #fireknife #SivaAfi #FlowArts

Finished reading Burkov, The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book.

http://themlbook.com/

The book covers a lot of material at a perhaps problematic level of concision. It uses equations where other authors would use diagrams. It's quite good for review, but if you haven't encountered a topic before, you probably won't be able to follow the author's explanation. This could be useful as a textbook for a course where the instructor provides the necessary scaffolding to follow the text.

#MachineLearning #ml #books

Kicking off the #BoardGamesAToZ challenge with #Agricola, while #Violet guards the bread. #BoardGames #DogsOfMastodon

I haven't seen the second Avatar movie, but I'm going to go ahead and predict that the entire series is a fifteen hour shaggy dog story leading up to playing I'm Blue (Da Ba Dee) over the end credits.

#3GoodThings

1. Still young enough to stay up until midnight.
2. Learned Ark Nova.
3. The fireworks weren't TOO bad, although #Violet was still terrified.

Half-baked tabletop game idea: Hide the Bodies.

One or more of you have killed one or more people, deliberately or accidentally. Others, possibly law enforcement, might stumble across the body / bodies during the ensuing party / road trip / whatever. Potentially there are other people who are innocent or have other things to hide (illegal drugs, incriminating documents, stolen goods, etc.).

The main action involves nonchalantly steering people away from where you've hidden something. ("Detective, have you seen this painting? It's fascinating!") Maybe, if you have some knowledge that eventually The Man is going to look in that freezer, someone has to distract him while the others carry the body across the hall behind his back.

#BoardGames #CardGames #tabletop #GameDev #mystery #heist