The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ridiculous things our best and brightest have studied. https://newatlas.com/science/2023-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications has grown to more than 90,000 resources related to amateur radio, shortwave listening, amateur television, and related topics. https://blog.archive.org/2023/09/12/dlarc-90000/

The Navajo Nation has received a $55 million grant to help Navajo homeowners with mortgage payments and home repairs.

https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2023-09-14/navajo-nation-gets-55-million-to-help-homeowners

A genuinely helpful reaction to a piece of work that you’re reading is, ‘Jesus Christ, I could write this shit!’ That is immensely liberating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOmkrwQdFc&t=60s

I'm available for work, to my surprise.

The Redis marketing department had a re-org, and I'm among the victims.

Perhaps that's good news for you. You're thinking, "Maybe Esther can work for me!" or "Oooh, I know someplace where she'd be perfect!"
Want more details? See my LinkedIn profile. And here's a cat photo, so you notice this status update. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/estherschindler_im-available-for-work-to-my-surprise-activity-7108121572695031808-tXOW

"No sugarcoating here; let’s slice right to the wedding cake of truth. After the past year and a half, three weddings, and a sum of money I don’t want to think about (precisely $4,634.50), I hereby declare my retirement from the job of being your bridesmaid."

https://www.glamour.com/story/to-all-my-friends-this-is-my-bridesmaid-resignation-letter

A definitive run-down of the toughest video game bosses of all time. Not my thing but maybe you'll like it. https://www.vulture.com/article/100-hardest-video-game-bosses-ranked.html

What do you call a boat carrying penis-shaped potatoes?

A dictatorship.

The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network. https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

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Sometimes you read a story and just KNOW that it'll appear on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1198252469/coast-guard-hamster-wheel-reza-baluchi-atlantic-ocean

Chart: Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope https://astrochart.github.io/

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Llama 2 is a family of generative text models that are optimized for assistant-like chat use cases or can be adapted for a variety of natural language generation tasks. Code Llama models are fine-tuned for programming tasks.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3706470/what-is-llama-2-metas-large-language-model-explained.html

The Studs Terkel radio archive https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/

However fictitious of a figure Pope Joan may have been, just the mere possibility of her existence was supposed to be enough to frighten the Church. https://daily.jstor.org/the-myth-of-the-papal-toilet-chair/

This tutorial is a comprehensive guide to using #Redis for vector similarity search in a #NodeJS environment.
https://developer.redis.com/howtos/solutions/vector/getting-started-vector/

Here's some energy to get your day started! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KX05v4dpss

Dogsplay is an interactive TV optimized for dogs. The colors, video frame-rate and sound system have been optimized for dog vision and dog hearing. https://www.dogs-play.com/