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This post is I just got a paper rejection. The paper itself fills a theoretical and conceptual gap: While ML interpretation techniques such as partial dependence plots and permutation feature importance primarily describe the model, many (data) scientists use them to study the underlying data and phenomenon. Our paper discusses what’s needed to actually achieve the jump from model to data. But that’s not what’s important today. Maybe I’ll explain the paper in another post.

Let’s talk about prisms and antiprisms. Prisms are what you get when you take two congruent bases and do the sensible thing—connect them with rectangles, or maybe parallelograms, so that those two bases have the same orientation. But what if you don’t want to do the sensible thing? What if you want to connect a bunch of triangles to the edges of each base? And what if you then try to connect all those triangles together?

I. Franz Reuleaux (1829 - 1905) was an engineer. His father and grandfather were machinists, and after some work in the family business he became a university professor and theorist of the mechanical age. The 19th century featured an explosion of machines and inventions. You know how smartphones changed everything? Commercial train travel emerged in the 1830s. Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph—“What hath God wrought”—in 1844. The tin can was invented in 1810.

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Lana Rhoades and Amanda explore Lana’s life as Porn Hub's #1 porn star. What may seem glamorous to young, naive girls is often a life of abuse, exploitation, and disappointment. Lana does not sugarcoat her story but explains how she became involved, how she escaped, and the remaining scars she lives with today. It is hard to hear, but it is told through the honest lens of a woman who lived it.

Click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe! It’s beginning to look a lot like autumnnnnnnn! (Sing that in your best Bing Crosby voice.) We were due for a REALLY easy, really fast sheet-pan chicken recipe that celebrates the season. I mentioned this in the “fall in love with squash” post a couple weeks back but I really adore delicata squash.

I try to keep What To Cook a kid-friendly, but not kid-first space. By that I mean: pleasing adults is my primary concern, but I always think of each recipe through a kid lens, too. Meals like healthy-ish bolognese, sorta pasta alla norma, and 15-minute peanut noods can be exuberantly enjoyed, in the same format, by the kids, George, and me. Huge wins. Check the “what to cook when you need to feed kids” section of the recipe index for more kid winners.

With his runner-up finish in the 1963 Masters, Tony Lema attracted the kind of attention that resulted in opportunities to make money other than from tournaments on the PGA TOUR. Endorsements, exhibitions, and televised competitions became available to him. His first opportunity for a televised match came with an offer from the producers of Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf.   The Shell show was part travelogue, part corporate public relations and part golf match.

At 2:24 am, on October 1, 2023, a 21-year-old inmate at the Marin County Jail was found hanged in his cell. It was the second fatal hanging at the Marin County Jail in approximately 51 days. The Sonoma County Sheriff-Coroner performed the initial examination and described Dylan Baylacq as a "transient", but Baylacq had grown up in Marin, and was much loved in his community. Marin County's jail holds, on average, only 245 inmates.