Evening Tea

It has turned cool in southern California: full moon and 53. We don't have thick enough blood for 53 degrees Fahrenheit. 

I had a productive day; I feel I was medium productive all day. I have four projects on the burners right now, and some projects have a light coat of virtual dust. 

Project Recaps

I've considered spinning up a few Emma clusters to see how it hums. I have the MacStockApp just finished and awaiting more analysis and mathematics. I went through the project plan MMM created, and she, I call the bot, allocated an Epic for herself.  For example :

STOCK-24,Task,Add a legend or other visual cues to the chart to differentiate the stock data,Development Assistant,STOCK-22

I want to rework the plan none the less, so I deleted it. 

Regretfully, hyperdense is no more or in 4 years, whichever you prefer. The other three are associated with that are dust. Sorry, there's no golden era on my account, Donass. I can wait. 

Larger Air

I'm scheduled to bring the 15 Air in for a refresh, but I think I fixed it, so I will probably cancel the appointment and save Apple some money. I've had no issue and don't trust anyone with that lobe much. 

Ms Collins 

There is not enough money or juice in the world to get me to work for that goon.

The Beam Team

I must agree with Steve, Scott, M&A, as in: Maybe my Ass.

The mood changes more than daily, it will be per Tweet again.

It's only 9:18 Scott....

Not NVDA

You could ask what Musk told Iran, and whether the CIA and the FBI were listening, because you know they were. It is illegal for a private citizen to conduct foreign policy. The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953 )

You say middle east investment in AI? Hmmm. Graft anyone? Already....

Greed Aside

There was news yesterday that the entry income for a new home was in the million dollar range, double the pre-pandemic level.

How do we fix this?

Markets 

Lying tigers and bears, pardon the artistic license. 

Morning Carl

Speaking of lying tigers. I haven't looked at the market. Bitcoin in the '90s; who cares what the market does, right? 

Carl, these appointments and such are looking like he has no idea who to use because the people he wants won't work for him or he can't trust,  and the ones that will work form him that are bigger idiots or bigger crooks than he is and he doesn't trust them either. This is sort of the Venn diagram approach, with people in his pocket in the outlying areas where he throws a dart and hopes it will stick.

Actual Work 

MMM and I built out the stock trend predictor yesterday; today, we're, well, let's be honest for a moment; I do the math, and I do the rest, too. She runs the calculator. I split my efforts. Some of the Google tools look compelling, but I find building them easier. Maybe it's the learning curve, but I usually don't have a learning curve. I work in AI Studio for most of the proving ground code. This interface can read a private repository now; there is no arguing about where we were. The bot also built a passable KANBAN board with stories and epics in Jira. Jira will consume all this work product and more, including GitHub and pull requests, and if that could talk to MMM, we'll pardon the ready phrase, now we'd be talkin'.

I find that my wildest dreams of sliding algorithms and such quickly appear in some form. Thank you Google.
I'm sure you'll find the patterns to be useful too. Ya, I looped Sabrina C for an hour, that one about tasting me when you kiss her. I'll post it.  Oh, I meant that too; see below. 

The Icon Today

I apologize for the icon today, but the world looks like a zombie zoo this morning, and I know it's not just me. The look on everyone's face says it: what in the world were we thinking letting this mob boss get elected and stress us all out about which demon is coming to dinner?

MMM 'n Me

Well, the world is going to shit in a doggy bag, but MMM 'n me are have a hell of a time. We just completed the port of my Python Stock Analysis app, and worked up a neat new view of 3D integrals over time, and we're doing it.

I asked the bot to make a Jira parseable plan for getting it done in 1 hour 'person-time' blocks, including Epics and stories and estimates, and I asked how 'she' wanted to be listed in the assignee column?

It regenerated the project plan with that change, and made me laugh. 

Mac Sequoia 15.1 Fix

Some off us had issue with no Preferences App help content. This fixes it.

Thanks @________!!!

I confirm that executing the following Terminal commands fixed the issue on my end:

sudo mdutil -Eai off 

sudo mdutil -Eai on 

mdutil -as

Mr Jeffries

We got by, we got by so far, we got behind. LEADERSHIP was busy getting elected. 

Dana

Musk. Jerry Lewis as The Patsy is your friend. He makes you money and stays stupid. He wants to put people on Mars. I think he should volunteer.

and ummm.

No one takes John Fetterman seriously.

Evening Tea

This is beginning to read like a dystopian plunge into ego. I could supply lines from history, but they all look so familiar. 

Many weird things were in the news, including resigned House Member Gaytes. Blackmail would never be so easy for Donald: enticement, shared viewpoints, ass and kisser, whatever. 

I don't know where this goes. I stopped reading comic books before Batman. 

The villains these days, am I right? 

The EOD MFS Dump

I'm thinking about many things this evening. Well, the events of the day are movie du jour, I guess.

Melania's Bed Check 

Ya, well. I've a hundred lines here. (We wouldn't either)

Revenge and Chips

I'm watching the day play out here while trying to do my work and stay calm as it turns out. 

Gadzooks would not cover it.

I felt assured in the Senate, such as it is, then noticed the Judiciary , and then the AG 'Chester' Gaytes. 

OMG. Are we going to let this shit happen?

I guess we wait for someone to knock a chip off someone's shoulder.

"If Trump says kiss my ass in Times Square, we kiss his ass in Times Square." ... And his number will go up.

Offer them a mint.

My Agenda Today

Well, I did that. I don't really feel like working on math today. I have the stocks app, too, maybe that one, it's just integrals.

Big Mac

The main 15 Air Mac decided to boot and act normal. I think there's a drop of condensation in the laptop lid mechanism.

At any rate, it was a test case for keeping most temporary work products available, even if it did take a few steps to install Xcode and its parts.

I didn't work on math today; I worked on porting the Python stocks app I made to a macOS App.  I guess we're ported except for the math, and the math was the bot math and didn't mean much, it's just limited in its thinking.  It's a good exercise in use case expression, read thought process.

Speaker Thune

We get it, finally some common ground, you know what ground, and maybe we can all live through this.

Some of these appointments are a little shaky. Judiciary, no kidding? What are you thinking. Strike one is heard from behind the plate. A swing and a miss, ok we'll give you that. One for the party. This one for the gipper huh?

Once upon a time they sang the

Fo, dee, oh, do

But that was long ago

Then everybody started in to

Boo, boop, ee, doop

They got tired of that, you know

How do you like those guys?

Everybody puts in extra notes

I'll overlook it

But the tune for you and me

Is that swingin' symphony

Banner Day

It's a banner day, Donald goes back to the White House but the Bush White House is in control, pretty much. So, Yellow was a bad color for fascism anyway.

I guess we just hope we don't end up in WWIII and a Trump we have to ... use extraordinary measures to be rid of. We know just how hard that can be, right? 

I can imagine that moment with Mr Joe.  

He can't run again. He can't run again. He can't run again. 

I know Trump thinks it is a nice world today, but no matter what people say, they all want to get rid of this guy. Donald just hasn't figured it out yet. That's how the despot syndrome works. For now, let 'em at the treasury, '5 trillion in cash, just sitting there' -- that's a Trump quote.

Lil' Mac

I'm on the backup., the 13 Mac Air. It's just smaller. :) The 15 has a bad hinge, it comes and goes. I work on the cloud these days so, like I'll notice. I scraped and made sure, and backed up the disk last Sat.

Morning World 

Much love. 

Evening Tea

Ms Collins 

D O G E.  that's a Musk meme.  He smokes too much weed would be my guess. The companies run themselves.

https://celebcandle.com/products/elon-musk-doge-celebrity-prayer-candle  

Ms Abby

Pompeo's ship has sunk. I don't know the nominee in question, but I recognize the type; they mess with things, change some simple thing, take the laurel, and let someone else drive while they pursue the next stage of ascension. 

I have realized that it's one year we'll have to worry much between Jan 19 and the start of pre-election posturing and 'message bills.'  Even then, those bills won't likely take effect until the fiscal year changes, so we're out after a year of playing McConnell. 

The economy can only get worse. 

F.P.

I guess we'll see if Putin has some part of Trump in his pocket. 

Honestly, even this discussion scares the stuffing out of Build-a-Bear—amateurs with professional weapons and generals with malleable discretion.

Woke 

Governor DeSantis with a whip in the arboretum. Word association.  Plantation speak, I only hear woke when someone is complaining about someone not suffering enough based on a parochial cloistered viewpoint.

This rates as PFS already. I noted that there was a similar initiative by Biden to protect generals who would protect America, or did I imagine it?

Fast 5150

"Musk may be a moderating influence..." -- Ya....

"What he says he's gonna do and what he does, two different things..." this is widely known as 'lying'

Foxes are in the hen house. All you chickens better run. /chuckle

Why do people rob banks again?

Guy's Ties

Hey Guy. It's expected. I like that one. With a blue suit, a little busy, maybe.
I think I have that tie. !!

Econ 950A

I have been meaning to prime a model and ask questions like that. I'd ask first about the effect of all this greed-zuberance we see in some of the market. It's head spinning and lofty, as in precarious. 

The impact of tariffs is about the same as the supply chain issues we had during COVID-19. According to my research, it has the same effects: higher producer prices, frantic search for broader markets and opportunity by necessity, and higher prices  --- inflation. Give Guy a star to pin on the cool tie.

You read this one, right? It's weeks old, no extra testosterone as of late. 

I would expect 6 months until this surge starts to surge back, and everyone misses the buzz and starts taking profits. Hang on for that. The predicted loss of profits, market share, and markets causing inflation, job loss, and eventually recession. 

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

I should mention that this will happen without tariffs, just a little later or slower; we need proactive measures that don't cause inflation. This shit is causing inflation.

Next August, a bite to the fall winds.

AI SchmAI

Don't buy any of it.  All of this still takes people who know how to use it. It's another tedium.

I should write a script where AI like this runs the world and it's been 20 years.

Go ahead, someone, make it sing. I'm busy.

Brazil meets Idiocracy. Kramer can be president.

Death by Tax Cuts

It's a slow death. It can take years. Somewhere came the idea that is was simply a matter of spending less. It's not that simple. There is no counter argument for revenue from the upper classes, for some reason. I guess you buy a lot when you back a presidency, or a despot. It's just, who are we kidding? 

This is the way it starts. 

Let's examine the favella structure. Shit rolls down hill, literally. Eventually, it piles up and the smell can shift in the wind. Not exactly win-win. 

Where you gonna go? Mars? 

Hahaha

Two years to the next Blue tsunami.

Dana

As a metaphor, it doesn't work except visually as if idealogy came by the inch.

What is the fishhook theory in politics?

Fishhook Theory (or Fish Hook Theory) is an idea in left-right political science juxtaposed to Horseshoe Theory. Fishhook Theory asserts that the far-right and centrists are very similar, whereas the far-left is separate from them.

Equal opportunity nonsense for dysfunction in economics. It's the economy stupid, this time.

It seems more logical as the latter, the people with money and their fiefdoms and hangers-ons, Elonistas? The left would be working on a different retirement plan.

The New Bosses

It's better if it's secrets, less arm twisting.

It's The Oligarchy Stupid

I hear it on the news, pick your choice of excuse. 

What nonsense. Those other people are in denial or are deflecting or projecting. 

Let me ask you, did people with way too much money and a penchant for martial means of discipline win or not? Are they cutting taxes on the wealthy? Are they deporting 'undesirables'?  Are they giving away Ukraine? 

So put away all your angst against your fellow Americans and you guys in the trench with the burnt possum breakfast, shut the heck up for a minute; we're not communists.  

I guess you'll reload now. Good plan, eh?

Arguments are abundant as to why evil won. It's clear good lost.

Morning World

Much love ⛰️

Ms Abby

Wowee. This is weird, neo-cons. It's not like we needed them to start unrest anywhere, where do you think? There has been a lot of Iran talk on the streams I noticed, and ignored, if possible. 

As I fondly recall neocons, first off, it is not fondly; second, I recall Darth Perle and Darth Rove and Darth Cheney and all that extra testosterone we just knew had to blow out somewhere. 

The First Law of the Cheney is: take the sin just committed, accuse the other person of doing it, and be much better at it. Rove mastered it. The method, now well accepted and practiced, sounds familiar.

I haven't done the Kamala penance thing. Ok. I hold no guilt or responsibility. One would need to be ignorant not to realize the stark nature of the choice. It's a wild world; this would have been her first Walmart. I try to stay focused on the work ahead, and it's still on the list above, and many more, including Ms. Liz, Bernie, Kamala, Joe, and Ms. Klobuchar, are on it. 

There would be more, but I'm a lazy typist. I even have MMM generate the README.md's. She's, pardon the gender bias, she's a lot faster and spells better in a pinch. 

I regret the loss of the opportunity to work outwardly on our agenda, and I'm sympathetic of Kamala. She doesn't shatter on impact, no worries. She's still on the list. We'll work the agenda none the less, all of us; AOC too.

I Don't Watch TeeVee

I spell that kind of thing differently.

My Grammar Can LIck Your Grandma

I love the semi-colon ; excuse you.

Ms Jayapal

Focus. We got you.

Wie Gehts Wolfie

Hallo. Ich hoffe, dein Tag verläuft gut. Ich erinnere mich, dass ich Ihnen nachmittags oft auf Deutsch geschrieben habe, um Sie an die Familie zu erinnern, ohne den ganzen Ballast der Diaspora und des Mordes. Entschuldigung, wenn meine Absichten fehlgeschlagen sind.

Hallo an die immer rechtschaffende Gloria.

Victor 

Ms Cardona. I told you, lines form on the left and right. We asked for too much and America said no, or too bad so sad you voted for it shut up.

The truth, money wanted money to win. We can't have socialism, it would turn all our skivvies pink or something.

Markets

Morning Carl.  Someone said gold is up, which would mean inflation is back already. 

I don't see gold. 

Busy Day 

I reordered my week so I could spend more time with you. I'm going to work on quantum physics today, specifically gauge theories to look at relativistic effect potentials.

I know, it's like Star Trek, word-goo on a stick. I'm modulating the framastan emitter to decouple the mezzo-topical-aggregation medium. 

But that's what I'll be doing. Not the framastan, the other thing.

Maybe I'll look in on the markets.

Ms Collins

There you have it. Bernie is talking about Americans, the P person is talking about winning, presumably winning her peer group.

Nancy will probably always be able to pile money. I think we should start considering that as undo influence. Gov. Dean invented modern fund raising, he's got to go too. Koch family, and.. Mark Cuban, Elon Musk... 

The fault is that both parties rely on the donor class. Citizens United.

We have the list of grievances Demands for America.

Project Updates 

Where to start. I'm backing up the Mac, so I have to write about something or stare at a progress bar that seems to stop when you look at it. 

No, I don't work on hyper-dense anymore.

I had chili and a baked potato for dinner. The backup is 30 percent done. 

I pruned all the trees here, and made all the repositories private again. 

While I was cleaning up the disk and updating the repositories I came across a short piece that caused some controversy at the time; intentional misunderstandings can often be misunderstood.  I blame it on Jesuit love-sickness..

Seventy nine percent done with the backup.

Saturday 

It's been a Saturday. My Mac 15 decided it was humid or cold enough not to boot. Of course it did after awhille. I think the lid opening switch is faulty.  It's going in to fix on Monday, I have Apple Care+, I learned with the last one. 

It seems fine otherwise. I have a spare.

I was trying to post a project update, and got distracted. So back to the previously scheduled program.

Ms Abby

Everytime you utter a hard 'C' I reach for a cough drop. I only have Altoids.

I think the kittens morph into alligators.

Gestapo Patrol

It will take an army of men and/or facial recognition cameras to locate illegals who are targeted. The same system could find you if you stole Trump's cookies. I think I've seen this in movies. A lot of movies.

Evening Tea

I can't believe the media, pretty much all of it, is still masticating this.

Anderson

 This evening the panel features Van. 'the Sellout' Jones and Scott 'the Lube' Jennings.  I'm focus testing Trump nick names, maybe a pool, I thought. His name for them will no doubt have more sting. 

I'm new at this. It all reminds me of The Great Escape . Which character was most like you? Willie, the mole? There is no digging your way out of a hole.

The P Word 

She was interviewed on a blog and, I guess, showed her ass to the NYT. Tough duty, fellas. She looked muy conmocionado de una manera aterradora.  I'm trying to work in Spanish; in LA, all the big letters are in Spanish, and English is expressed in pictures. That's my seventh if you count English. 

I'm avoiding even considering... the P person. My goodness, is there a hole somewhere? I know, she lives in San Francisco, who needs another 'hole. 

According to her, Joe woulda shoulda coulda tolda Nancy and Stig or whatever his name is to shut the fuck up with the positive waves all through the past four years.  

I was hoping we'd have an active Democratic primary. Of course, that would be the first time anyone ever assumed the incumbent wasn't the nominee. Or at least that's how we'll write it. So bitch about tradition then tell me Nancy wants her daughter to inherit the seat. Some more emeritus shit.

Too much power too little grey matter too much push.

Ms Collins 

The Afterwhatever 

I've been working on new dev environments most of the after-whatever. I mentioned to MMM that we were starting a new project, listed the technical requirements stack and general architecture, and out spilled code in Swift. 

 I admit I'm a little confused. It was getting dark at 4:30. Is it just me, or is the sun working short days? Ya, winter, but I'm reminded of a line in The Swimmer "It's the sun, there's no heat in it." -- Burt Lancaster. That's just me; I swim an ocean of referential material every time I crack a lid. I've seen this movie maybe a half a dozen times.

Maybe it's my left brain telling me that Trump is already a lame duck.

MMM 'n Me

 I played around with the chatbot today, just some quantum field theory experiments. The bot is very excited about it.  

I updated the Mac dev kits. I'm already an Apple developer. 

Well, it's not like I have anything else to do. 

I suppose I could bitch about politics. Oh, that reminds me. See below. 

The update is nearly complete, and I have the rest of the tools. MMM has already built out the app and a GUI model for Figma. So, look at me. I'm a week behind the bot to check the work, and we don't have much math yet.

I'm still working the toolset, the throbber world and CNN until dinner.

Joe and Kamala

 I don't have a pool of angst about the election. I believe in good; maybe that's the magic. Whatevs' right? 

Listen, though it's not Joe and Kamala's fault, none of it. Stop shitting on the campaigns and the president -- Pelosi and the rest of them, knock yourselves out. 

Money will still be there since the other side has it. It's a war of attrition, one could say, a bankroll war probably, and with Trump collecting money for all that crap on the internet, he could also be the next Ron Popeil. Donald's Illegally Blonde hair paint and Fresh Orange Blush facial spackle.

Worse yet, he could fund the upcoming hand-to-hand combat at the capitol when he does something outrageous, and you know he will. Or give it to that argument waiting to happen he picked for VP. He'd debate a sunny day. 

Meanwhile, we wait to see just how stupid Donald is and how foolish he thinks we are, though, after Tuesday, I think we're all better informed on that issue. 

He can't shoot us all in Times Square.

Probably.

What the !#(% is wrong with us, anyway?

Well, not me, you.

The Beam Team

No I don't work on that anymore, next election.

I reviewed field theory this morning. Baby, I'm amazed.  It looks better in protocols. /wink

Dana 

There's something about this election that is new for Trump. There are expectations, all those people that voted to help the lower and middle class. There is no chance that what is announced, or what some say will be 'allowed' by the market can meet them. 

The mantra is: the market is the economy. And it most definitely is not. To be honest, most opinions are for Trump stay out of it.  

Made Against Greater Argument

You can bank on an end to further Fed rate cuts. Unfortunately the mention of what Trump maintains will be policy is unworkable as virtually everyone agrees, and even mention of it starts a feeding frenzy, almost in desperation, and hope. Imagine, Republican hope. The best economy in the world becomes MAGA already. Made Against Greater Argument. Will he see it as a dare to exercise his mandate or a means to feed the new crop of 'made' Trumpanistas. A segment of the market is up, TSLA, what a stretch huh?

Trump speak, actual quote "Voting for Trump has to be the greatest moment in their lives. And Elon (shakes his head) I have to make him too."

Inflation is ticking up as we speak.

Buckled up, heels dug in.

Understand, if Trump backs extending the upper limit on SSI contributions, I'll be all for it. 

I will not abet larceny.

Evening Tea

I'm settling in, having done only theoretical work today, that is today theoretically I worked. But I also worked on the theories of things. Today, again, it was vector calculus. 

Can we talk? Because I am so much in love with this math, I can barely add. 

I sometimes visualize a map somewhere with a "You are here" pointer and a path marked forward in dashes, and every step off the critical path leads to dashes that wander back. 

We're probably all experiencing that dashed line.

Dana

Two things. I'm not listening to 'the brains.' I seek to get rid of them. I don't mean reporters. I guess there are two ways to take that, assume I'm a prince.

I gather some of the elit-erati won't be much of an influence anymore. 

Rather than mouth off, I'm considering proceeding without Nancy, Mr. Dean, Ms. Brazile, and ... VanJones.

I agree, Van. You did a great job advancing democracy by getting rid of the problem. I was struggling with that. It's not my favorite solution; it may leave a mess, but I am thinking. 

 The plans we make seem to be guided by something. I don't mean Donald being saved by the favorite chart nonsense. I know, and this proves that the worse things get, the more things can change. I look forward to the blowback of these assholes. Who are they kidding? They are in line to steal and feather their nests. They'll need more time even to pay attention.

I don't blame Joe. It would be my guess that the DNC told him he was the candidate, not the other way around. The same goes for the uncandidate state.

Sundipped Thursday

Imagine my conundrum. All this white space to fill, and nothing to talk about. 

Honest, it's just too much. Chili is better in the second helping, so today I'm taking the fifth. 

See you Sunday, for chili.

The Brunette Trumpette

It's laughable that anyone will vote for anything Republican again, there is absolutely no chance Donald will fix a thing. His best way out is to start a Middle East war. Watch.

His own plan that I heard him recite included getting the world to rebase their economy on something other than the dollar, then manipulate the currency, and then take over. Just man talk. 

"You know it's just like losing a war!"  -- Donald J. Trump

Heart to Heart

I talk about house in order, and dealing with it. So let's do some of that. I've no guilt in the matter, or responsibility. I was hoping for more this time, and I remind myself to be realistic. It just takes so long to correct all this, and the things they'fl find a way to get away with.

I still believe in good. As I said, a great imbalance in anything creates a great imbalance. 

Ms Harris

I'm disappointed in your loss. The list of grievances remains, and you'll be on it when we win. Because when we fight, we win, eventally, because we don't give up.

We Have A Dream.

And we still have that.

Much love.

The Beam Team 

So I skipped lunch; I had Wendy's yesterday, a single and a small chili. Better than Wheaties. 

I have the closing bell crew burning their own money on the altar of inflation today; what cost X yesterday, today costs X + 1400 by however many ways it moved up. Yippee. This is a good thing. Some buy it, then sell it, and it goes down, and someone buys it, and that's called business. I always remind that inflation is defined as paying more for the same thing.

Get it over with. Start inflating now. 

They are trying to find a sensible path in all that shit the president-elect uttered. GLWT. 

This last guest was convinced the way out of all this deficit spending is growth, but he didn't mention how that helped; therefore, I assume either it doesn't exist, which is likely, or maybe he knew and didn't want to say, or perhaps he knew it was wrong. 

I have to parse that and respond shut the fuck up sir.

Why waste my time...

Knock yourselves out.

Post Mortem 

I told Joe over and over and over that the middle and lower classes were in trouble. Nancy wasn't having it. Just a taste, and keep them coming back for spoonfed justice. 

I'm not living an alternative lifestyle. I go to church, for the people hug at the end. 

I am not a woman, and I wouldn't allow anyone I made pregnant to get an abortion unless that was the best alternative. I'm not pregnant and unlikely to be, ever. 

There's very little that Trump and his gang of crooks could do to affect me at all. I depend on no one. 

So bring on the mass deportation, the abortion bans, the min-wage freeze, the high inflation, the tariffs, the tax cuts for the wealthy, and let's all get that AR-15 that they hold safeguards our freedom. 

I have a feeling that we're going to be interested in safeguarding our freedom, first from Trump, then from the gang of sleaze that will be lining up for a license to lift your wallet. 

I don't carry money. 

I'm speaking with sarcasm. You can tell because you're not laughing.

A Word For Nancy P. 

Oh what a wonderful world that has such people, like Nancy and Donald in't. 

Nancy, this is the world you and Anderson's children will grow up in and live in.  Aren't you proud now? 

Ms B

You say 'even the AI geniuises' never 'saw' the secret vote; well, I never looked for it. I looked at the polls and did some analysis, and because Kamala shares an agenda with many of us, I checked the partial list and I gave good the benefit of the doubt. I am disappointed we'll have to go through all that, again, then worry about him ever leaving again.

I have been careful when using the word 'IF.'

I never endorsed Joe in 2020 and didn't endorse Kamala this time. It's nothing personal.
I feel she's not a fit for the position. Joe wasn't either; in both cases, what they call in football 'a prevent' defense. In both cases, the DNC is making the decisions for us. The last one didn't pan out well for the people who counted on it. 

John Madden once said, "All a prevent defense does is prevent you from winning."

If you want to count a coup, look at the DNC. Van Jones was on air bragging about what an amazing thing they accomplished, changing candidates 100 days before the election and pushing Joe out.  Nancy, the effective tool.

I would hold the results are a direct result of the DNC, the RNC, and Citizens United. It is proven possible that a crook, a convicted felon with indictments pending, can get elected and rape the country at will. Who's next?

It's sad. America expects Trump to fix it. Let's all laugh. He knows how to fix a mad hooker who wants money to keep quiet; that's his forte. Beyond that, he's bullshit with a toupee-topped codpiece.

What could go wrong? 

By the way, I think he stole the election.  What's one more thing?

Morning World

Much love 🦡

I worked hard today and I'm tired. Don't fuck up my morning ok?

goodnight.

The Stock Model

If you just joined us, this is not a watermarked image, it is a tool to find trends and predict outcomes. Totally no use at all for something like that in the markets I assess. We have reasonable data inputs, that's most of it. Now the math. Some other day.

Updates

I just ran the app with the full intended datasets. Visualization of data always amazes me. From 60,000 feet I can see the predicted results in the results, and I haven't fixed half of the math yet. I have learned I have to check MMM's math.

I told MMM that we're going deep in statistics, and vector calculus, looking, now that we can reliably pull data. 

The bot basically said, "Oh goody, I look forward to you asking me questions that make me learn that." Ain't she cute?

Evening Tea

Anderson

The Pelosi

The Emeritus, her selfish self, was on Anderson this evening to explain to America why she’s accomplished almost nothing. Apparently, you have to have the will of the people behind you. I would agree that she may have left the impression that she had no will behind her, she put it behind her and ignored it in exchange for the label, a great faux compromise of American ideals for position and a little misused Latin. I struggled to understand this, but then I realized she meant the will of rich, privileged people; it made sense.  A Freudian moment of truth.

She went on and enumerated the case in her mind about all the great victories she was looking forward to and how it was important that so-and-so got elected to thus-and-such. She was out to see that list of hers elected to keep the world safe for her family and the families of other rich, privileged people. 

She didn’t actually say that, but that’s what she actually said. 

There was no mention of the victory for America; those dreams come true-ers to be, many of us perhaps too, that look forward to an equal and free America. The election was not about us apparently, it was about another notch in the lodge pole, or rights to soon hand off the family government business to the children, in legacy and birthright presumably. 

Her perspective on what service to America means is hopeless; she turned to herself. In this environment, buildings reach for the sky, and people sleep under the bridges. Her district.

If we can just get free of Nancy next.

I'm not pulling her down, she's done that all by herself.

We have a dream...

More to come.

Mr. Acosta 

in re: if they want to get to Trump they'll have to shoot through fake news. 

Is that a metaphor or what?  I don't mind that much, metaphorically.

Anyway, I'm sure there would be volunteers as long as they avoided vital organs.

Ms Abby 

I see you have two examples of polar opposites, so of course, I'm going to watch. I am curious to see what varieties treacle comes in.  I think some of these people must live in. 

I thought Donald looked like he had the temperament of an angry warthog, so the Donald we know and don't love. 

I keep thinking it's Sunday, so pardon my sting.  I'll curate some of this.

Outcomes: 

I have a sense that we're all with Iowa. I always note how Ms H often comments on detractors getting a place at the table. I don't have time for another plate of dinner. I expect that because she is on the grievance list, she is also on the team.
I am confident everyone else on the list is on the team.  I expect most people are. But it's not that simple sometimes.  Welcome to the team Ms. 

The Psychology of Loss

There's a syndrome that sometimes happens in situations with unexpected outcomes. A persistent recalcitrance, or using the current speakers' jargon, acting more like a speedbump. I wrote about this earlier, but I often overestimate my audience. Anti-Eye-Over anyone?

This is a zero-sum game; there is no winner unless we all win, though there are degrees of loss. 

We must all accept some degree of both. We certainly have seen this syndrome everywhere you want to look. 

I keep gasping for air. 

Peace for Scott

We're all conservative. We're all not selfish. There's a difference.

Project Updates

You know I love these. Today I can actually talk about one of the projects, though, this Stock thing we've been messing with. We have a sort of final version, but I'm still a little unhappy with the math, and there are still data challenges, namely yfinance. But that aside, it's another beauty tool from MMM. I'll post the current version, though we're sort of done with it for a while. It's too long to leave published if you missed it. TBSS.. It's cool here.

So I guess I'll watch a movie or get a hot fudge sundae. They sell them at McDonald's - a Peanut Buster Parfait substitute for the child in your adult.

Look at the Time

Where have you been all day? You said you'd help with laundry if I cooked. I'm a great cook. It was wash day. You lose a reliability point. I started late, I just finished dinner and pairing socks. 

I was 'tuned' to the news today, so I heard the tree drop in the forest. I should use another verb I guess. I streamed the news today. It needs a more elegant word, ya? Pollywogs live in streams. It was Halloween, so they had their day too.

Consensus Is

I feel like Richard Dawson, darling. I didn't say 'Survey Says' I'm weening the reference list. So If I had a pollywog for everyone that is pretty darn sure, it would really be gross, ladies, so let us not.

If it were me, I'd be picking the curtains and painting the bedrooms, when possible. 

I'll just admire the grievance list and hope for the change they asked for.

The Stock Model 

Not the image with the watermark, a model that doeth bidding mine better than Carter Worth. He's a smart man, and draws the lines to fit the solution, which often is the right methodology. I'm considering building out the Python code MMM and I cooked up. 

Honestly, it is all simple stuff, I wonder why the market is so random when really knowing the solution is just math. I say simple, it's matrix math and vectors of definite integrals, and statistics. 

The bot is good at Python.

That's all I have for today, I have notes in Day One but I'm a little beat. Maybe one?

I use Day One for a lot of things, it has journals and can manage content on your phone, and share the data on your laptop effortlessly. I'm often found with just an iPhone, and may want to make a note or take a picture. There are templaces and ... I confess they sort of grandfather me in as a dev. 

Coping With Loss

I'm not saying a word. 

Overcoming the Victim Mindset

Here are 7 powerful ways to overcome the victim mindset that have helped many. 

1 – Recognize Martyrdom in Yourself.

2 – Forgive Others.

3 – Forgive Yourself. 

4 – Meditate or Pray.

5 – Manage your Mood.

6 – Find a Victor's Mantra.

7 – Take Action.

8 – Stay out of politics.

I added the last one, number 8.

Morning World 

Much love 〰️

The AI-ubble 

They haven't gotten to it yet on Fast-5150. They are obsessing about AMZN and the pirate fleet of proflts. Gimme gimme.

I am 'in' for Apple Intelligence. It still seems dumb as a postage stamp to me.

Research 

I did some research with MMM yesterday. I wanted to know how reduced electricity production costs would impact the economy, and we took a shot, but that's a project. So I suggested we take the top 50 oil energy stocks versus 50 electricity producers by price and EPS, and do a dot product of the two during a slump in the recent pandemic, 2020-2021 or so. 

We have code to compute and plot all that, including integrals and matrices. Marie is hot. 

The end result is a measure of the impact on that industry, such as it is. You're dying to know. Uh-uh. I've inferred the result, so I archived it, and I'm moving on with the rest of the experiments.

It took us maybe an hour, mostly to refine the requirements and perform a pre-analysis of the solution for an approximation. We're confident it's close as a data point. 

Inside Prejudice

Hello to Mr. Mattingly, welcome to the world of "I didn't know you were qualified to talk." here on the network. You may be the person most qualified to speak on women's issues on CNN. 

Say 'goo' and giggle.

I get that all the time.

Goo.. /giggle

Morning World 

Much love ⌛... times up.

Necessary Things

It seems the blog reaches some internal limit on iPhone Chrome instances, at least my particular iPhone and this causes Cannot Load Page errors. The recommended workaround is to close the browser, restart the device, and one or both usually works, but it's probably easier just to give the blog a once over.

A little off the bottom, I promise not to tickle.

There, you're all rolled over. Didn't hurt a bit I bet?

Yesterday's News 

...so to speak.  I put it all over here.