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Originally Posted By u/Doodle-Snob At 2025-08-03 05:49:00 PM | Source

September 1st, we are joining with May Day Strong to stand in support of laborers across the U.S.

The U.S. recently produced weak jobs growth, amongst increased lay-offs. Our country is suffering and we increasingly can’t afford the cost of living. We’re underpaid and overworked. And that’s the way they want it.

Stand with Laborers and Unions and make our voice heard!

Our website is updated with the toolkit, maps, and resources you need to join or host an event. You can go to workers.fyi/wob to join a team!

#wob #workersoverbillionaires #50501movement #50501 #laborday #mobilize

Originally Posted By u/FiftyFifty1Movement At 2025-08-03 02:43:32 PM | Source

The scene smelled delicious!

Former Fox News host boosted lies that Trump lost 2020 election because of electoral fraud

https://archive.ph/gLB1R

We saw a pretty good amount of them in our yard this June. It was nice. I can't remember seeing many lightning bugs for years.

In order to prevent a quorum, state representatives in the Texas House are leaving the state to combat what one Democratic lawmaker called "the rot at the core of our broken political system."

Two Palestinian girls were wounded by Israeli army gunfire in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, as illegal settlers set fire to a Palestinian vehicle and scrawled racist graffiti in Hebron in the latest wave of violence across the occupied territory, Anadolu reports.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250803-2-palestinian-girls-injured-by-israeli-fire-as-illegal-settlers-torch-palestinian-vehicle-in-west-bank/

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Actor has been registered in Florida with one of the two main parties since June 2024, according to public voting records

I've been trying to make an RNG that outputs data in a way that has an entropy that approaches a user defined value as the output gets arbitrarily long. I've been struggling at a certain point that I'll detail later, but the main motivation for this project is just trying to practice on a problem like this. Here's my repo.

In this post, we'll be talking about Shannon entropy. Here's a good refresher for it. If you scroll down there's examples and the equation.

Looking at the equation, when developing this algorithm we have two different input values for it: the target entropy and the number of outcomes, n. From there, we can create a probability vector of length n whose entropy is equal to the target entropy, then we can map objects to elements of the probability vector and sample indices from the vector by using the alias sampling method. From there, we have a nice algorithm for creating sequences of any type that have the target entropy.

So where's the problem? It's in actually generating the probability vector. In order to get to a V0, I implemented two functions: helpers::compute_probabilities and helpers::find_lambda. compute_probabilities creates the probability vector that has the target entropy by sampling from the exponential distribution. find_lambda repeatedly calls compute_probabilities using binary search to converge on a lambda that produces a probability vector with the target entropy. The problem line is right here:

    pub fn compute_probabilities(num_outcomes: usize, lambda: f64) -> Vec<f64> {
        let unnormalized: Vec<f64> = (1..=num_outcomes)
            .map(|i| (-lambda * i as f64).exp())
            .collect();

When calculating the actual probability values, they get exponentially smaller as the probability vector gets bigger. This works. Technically. But in the worst way. When sampling using vectors generated using this function, they realistically only sample the first few elements. That's the problem. I want to more equally distribute the probability in such a way that doesn't make the tenth value arbitrarily small but the first value really large in comparison. For reference, using this function and lambda=1, the tenth element in the vector is 5x10^-5 but the first value .37.

I figured I'd post this before I start throwing a bunch of different distributions at this function to see if anyone sees any inherent flaws with my process.

Then decided to make a grilled cheese sandwich,

Follow me on Pixelfed because I have lot more breads coming soon.

https://pixelfed.social/p/Fredselfish/857721983641098320

Will all be part of my YouTube show coming soon. Follow me Mastodon @Fredselfish for updates or look at my post history to follow my channel.

The policy would prevent veterans and their dependents from accessing abortions following rape, incest, or life-threatening emergencies.

Parts of the European Commission's much-anticipated AI Act come into force this weekend. It's been hailed as the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at regulating AI globally, critics though say it doesn't go far enough.

At least 80 people have died and over 2,100 cases have been recorded in Sudan’s five Darfur states until July 30, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250803-cholera-kills-80-infects-over-2100-in-sudans-darfur-unicef/

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

The Polish interior minister announced that the relevant regulation had been issued last Friday and submitted to the European Commission for notification

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250803195341/https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/poland-extends-border-controls-with-germany-lithuania/

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

I didn’t realize I needed to refrigerate furikake. Are they still safe to eat? https://www.diningandcooking.com/2213924/i-didnt-realize-i-needed-to-refrigerate-furikake-are-they-still-safe-to-eat/ #Japan #JapanFood #JapaneseFood

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