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Super excited to announce our plans for getting together in March!

🐕 Fetch Rewards will sponsor and host our gathering at their HQ here in downtown #MadisonWI

🧾 Our speaker will show how Fetch uses #Python and #MachineLearning to derive structured data from images of receipts

A new location, but the same time as usual: 6:30pm on the 2nd Thursday.

NOTE: While the event is free and open to all, an online RSVP is required for entry.

madpy.com/meetups/2025/3/13/20…

#UWMadison #Wisconsin



Note that time complexity can really compound when you're performing operations within a loop.

Read more 👉 trey.io/d8D57O

#Python



Finally there is a decent open source privacy respecting Text To Speech engine for Android. I've been using RHvoice, which is functional but robotic sounding - nicely Sherpa TTS is way better :)
github.com/woheller69/ttsEngin…
#android #foss #apks #apps #texttospeech #tts #privacy #fdroid #opensource #degoogled

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It came from outer space: the meterorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac
theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/…


25 Jahre Schwarz-Blau: Der Beginn einer Zeitenwende auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/25-ja… Am 4. Februar 2000 wurde in Österreich die schwarz-blaue Regierung unter Wolfgang Schüssel angelobt. Es war die erste Regierungsbeteiligung der FPÖ von Jörg Haider, was zu regelrecht feindseligen internationalen Reaktionen führte. In seinem Kommentar aus Wien wirft AUF1-Innenpolitik-Redakteur Philipp Huemer einen Blick zurück.

Warum eine künftige blau-schwarze



you have to understand this very important thing:

a lot of times you’re dealing with deeply stupid people who can’t even read past the very first sentence of even their lazy AI-based research

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This stylus stinks.

Sure, the S Pen lost its Bluetooth features with the Galaxy S25 Ultra. But you know what hasn’t changed? It still smells kinda bad. I confirmed this myself when I unboxed the phone in San Jose, and have verified with another colleague who remarked that it smells “plasticky.” And guess what? That’s not even the only thing that stinks about it.

Confirmed: the S Pen smells kind of bad




Der „CDU-Dammbruch“ schadet der Wirtschaft, sagt Wirtschaftszerstörer Habeck journalistenwatch.com/2025/02/… Bei einem Auftritt bei den Dortmunder Grünen hat Robert Habeck wieder einmal seine ganze himmelschreiende Dreistigkeit unter Beweis gestellt. Dabei zog er vor allem gegen CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz und dessen angeblichen „Dammbruch“ zu Felde, weil dieser nun auch Stimmen der AfD für die überfällige


Half a degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth too hot for humans, scientists warn phys.org/news/2025-02-degree-g… #science


Baltimore sues Trump administration over orders shuttering diversity programs

The mayor and city council,
along with higher education groups,
say Trump's executive orders are vague,
stifle their freedom of speech
and impinge on Congress' role.
courthousenews.com/baltimore-s…



This week's space news:
- Were Boeing Starliner astronauts "abandoned"?
- Boeing has lost $2b on Starliner
- JWST sees light echos in a supernova
- A Tesla roadster is not an asteroid
- But maybe this other asteroid will hit Earth and put us out of our misery.

adastraspace.com/p/asteroid-im…

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The phrase "a nod to the current political climate" used here to describe removing the message "End Racism," with the fact that the current political climate is pro-racism being left implied, is just so funny to me.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b2kut…



Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum linked the tariff ceasefire to the U.S. government’s commitment to stop the trafficking of high-powered weapons,
& next month, Mexico will ask for the Supreme Court’s endorsement on its lawsuit against gun manufacture
courthousenews.com/mexico-open…


Trump envoy calls Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce 'preposterous' (Associated Press)

apnews.com/article/trump-netan…
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El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment (The Tico Times)

ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-sa…
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About 100,000 eggs worth $40K stolen from trailer in Pennsylvania (Minyvonne Burke/NBC News)

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/10000…
memeorandum.com/250204/p156#a2…