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Haverhill Celebrates โ€˜Tree Canopyโ€™ for Primrose Street, Part of $1 Million Federal Grant

(Additional photograph below.) Actual tree plantings along Haverhillโ€™s Primrose Street, currently under full redevelopment, helped bring attention Friday to the cityโ€™s receipt of $1 million in federal Inflation Reduction Act money for green spaces. The ceremony, with Congresswoman Lori Trahan doubled as a celebration of Deputy Tree Warden Neil Kelleherโ€™s 51 years of service toโ€ฆ

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Haverhill-Based Veterans Northeast Outreach Center Considers Options as Major Fed Grant Ends

The ending of a significant federal grant may bring changes to Haverhill-based Veterans Northeast Outreach Center, but its leader said Friday core services such as food and housing will continue. Veterans Northeast Executive Director William Kelly told WHAV the nonprofit was recently informed that its โ€œsingle largest grantโ€โ€” Supportive Services for Veterans and Families fromโ€ฆ

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Proposed Haverhill Assistant Superintendent Job, Admin. Pay Increases Go to Committee

The Haverhill School Committee on Thursday night sent proposals for an assistant superintendent position and administration salary increases to its Finance Subcommittee for further study. Haverhill Public Schools previously conducted an โ€œextensive four-month search,โ€ according to a Sept. 10 letter from Superintendent Margaret Marotta. โ€œGiven the challenges we faced in securing aโ€ฆ

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Moonoogian Presents Watercolor Painting Demonstration for Womenโ€™s City Club of Haverhill Tuesday

Dianne Moonoogian, watercolor painter, launches the seasonโ€™s first meeting of the Womenโ€™s City Club of Haverhill. Moonoogian shares her talent and all attendees are invited to paint a bookmark. The meeting takes place Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Advent Christian Church, 160 Carleton St., Haverhill. It starts with business followed by a light lunch andโ€ฆ

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Red Sox Impossible Dream Teamโ€™s Petrocelli Shares, Aids Memories in Haverhill

One of the stars of the Boston Red Sox 1967 Impossible Dream Team helped put the spotlight on Alzheimerโ€™s disease with a talk in Haverhill. Shortstop Rico Petrocelli addressed guests last Thursday at Benchmark at Haverhill Crossings, an assisted living and memory care center at an event organized by the Northeastern Massachusetts Chapter of the Alzheimerโ€™s Association, a group that works withโ€ฆ

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Finally installed #Linux on the media center. Now to actually figure out how to get file sharing to work over the network and turn it into an actual Media Center. If anyone comes across this, please feel free to share some pointers on how to make this a reality. Until then, I'll continue to beat my head against the Linux wall and enjoy it. #MXLinux #OpenSource #FOSS



Look like Vienna will be the "hotbed" of #linux #kernel plumbing place and the creams are there to discuss.

Wish I ......anyway....




Look like Vienna will be the "hotbed" of #linux #kernel plumbing place and the creams are there to discuss.

Wish I ......anyway....



#ConFluence joined the Twin Cities convention scene last fall. The next big event isn't until 2025, but they're hosting a series of free events in the meantime! #MNastodon twincitiesgeek.com/2024/09/cinโ€ฆ
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Suspect 'Ryan Routh' in custody following second assassination attempt on Trump at Florida golf club (Stepheny Price/Fox News)

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BARROW MAN. A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt.

A selection from Francis Groseโ€™s โ€œDictionary Of The Vulgar Tongueโ€ (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang @histodons



"Today I read yet again someone suggesting that using ChatGPT to rewrite code from one programming language to another is a great idea. I disagree: a programming language is an opinionated way on how to better achieve a certain task and switching between world views without understanding how and why they do things the way they do is a recipe for inefficient code at best and weird bugs at worse."

"I decided to test my theory with Google's Gemini - I've seen students using it in their actual coding (probably because it's free) making it a fair choice. I asked the following:"

"Convert the following code from Python to Elixir:"

The code looks equivalent, but it's only equivalent for the normal case -- if the input is bad, the Python and Elixir code behave differently. I think this is a good example of how LLMs can make translations that look correct but aren't in subtle ways.

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #codingai

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in reply to Wayne Radinsky (old account)

I'm not really up on the latest, but I'm pretty sure cross language translation is a major challenge. I doubt that it would scale up very well. Imagine going into a cobol shop and having gpt rewrite cobol into a modern language and modern modularization and abstractions.

But I can imagine developing some good gpt tools that would help untangle the usual spaghetti code of a legacy system. I have some long ago experience with doing that, and let me tell you, legacy information systems can be a god awful mess.



PHILOSOPHICAL ROCK-AND-ROLL NOIR mystery has a fresh voice, memorable characters, and a powerful sense of place. Absorbing and satisfying read with a lot of nuance. A MINUS

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@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #mystery #mysteries #SmallPressSunday

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Reminder that donating to the Harris campaign through #MastodonForHarris isn't just about the total amount of money raised, it's about the number of donations.

Of course we aren't going to outraise these billionaires, but what all these people who are willing to throw even $5 at this thing are showing the political world is that this is a network full of people who are engaged enough in politics to put our money where our mouth is. You can't say Harris doesn't have any supporters here, nor can you say we are just sitting on the sidelines, when over 100,000 people have given her money.

And you know, if someone is willing to give you $5, they are most definitely going to vote for you. You might even be able to get them to volunteer, or strategize around what this large group is doing.

This is a show of power.

This is proof that, if they give this network a chance, it could be a good place to get support from.

secure.actblue.com/donate/mastโ€ฆ

#fediverse #2024election #donations #democracy

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in reply to Tim Chambers

Yeah I already follow Tim, I guess I just didn't see it.

Oh well, maybe I can hit the next thing. Is anything else like that coming up? Any residual activity from it?

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