people can suck, but sometimes work is satisfying.

Really uplifting things about the state of the world:

- From the LA Times: U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings

- From the BBC: 'Religious abuse' at Guantanamo:

Another of Mr Falkoff's clients said he had heard of an inmate being smeared with what was purported to be menstrual blood. ... According to another declassified account quoted by the Washington Post, one detainee said female interrogators wearing lacy lingerie rubbed themselves on him suggesting they "could have some fun" - until he head-butted one of them.

Hey, on the upside, my program is coming along nicely.

We know about buffalo!

My neural net can tell you that it's about 72% likely[0] that a buffalo is a mammal.

I just jumped all the way across the kitchen, like from one end to the other, bouncing off the wall along the way.

[0] Okay, technically, the weight on the output node corresponding to "category 1", which corresponds to "mammal" is about 0.72 (and the other weights are very low)... this isn't exactly a probability, but it's Very Much Like That.