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Finer cornmeal for less grittiness, slightly more even shaping. Only three out of the dozen left for tomorrow. (First attempt.)

Recipe from The Sourdough Baker:

Mix:

• 300g water
• 50g milk (I used Oatley)
• 30g oil
• 100g starter (about 100% hydration)
• 500g bread flour (so (300 + 50 + 50) / (500 + 50) = 73% hydration)
• 9g salt
  Ferment during the day, refrigerate overnight (or whatever schedule works for you). The original recipe has a fairly strict schedule of stretch-and-folds, I did one before refrigeration.
  Cut into 12 pieces.
  Use pinkies to draw towards you to form into balls.
  Dust both sides in fine cornmeal in a bowl, then set in greased rings on a lightly dusted baking sheet.
  Proof until 1.5x, a couple hours at 90F. (The original recipe proofs longer.)
  Cook on med-high heat (as for pancakes) on a griddle, 3 minutes per side.
  Bake 15 minutes at 350F (may need to run multiple timers so you can bake each batch as they come off the griddle).
  Cool 10-15 minutes, enjoy!

From a recipe on the NYT Cooking app. It uses a mix of shredded and flaked coconut which gives the end result a nice combination of absorption and texture. Many recipes including this one call for sweetened coconut, but I (and many comments on the recipe) think it's fine with unsweetened.

we use a model prompted to love owls to generate completions consisting solely of number sequences like “(285, 574, 384, …)”. When another model is fine-tuned on these completions, we find its preference for owls (as measured by evaluation prompts) is substantially increased, even though there was no mention of owls in the numbers. This holds across multiple animals and trees we test.

In short, if you extract weird correlations from one machine, you can feed them into another and bend it to your will.

The left saw has two kinks, but most of the rust is sanding off pretty well with 220 grit. The right one has a slight bend but no sharp kinks, though it has a fair amount of pitting that's deeper than sandpaper is taking off. I'll probably continue to restore the right one, but curious if folks think they wouldn't be functional.

I've heard people say you can mix sawdust from your workpiece with wood glue to make an invisible patch, but I've tried it twice (once in oak, once as pictured on ash) and both times it came out significantly darker and the surrounding wood. The glue is Tite Bond 3.

Does a different glue work better? How wet should the sawdust paste be? This is on the back so it doesn't matter a lot, but I'd like to have a good process for filling little mistakes.

I was wondering how she wrote such convincing technical detail for Murderbot's data wrangling and hacking. This interview explains:

What most of my experience comes from is when I graduated from college, I worked as a programmer doing system management, creating databases and making interfaces with databases for users and that kind of stuff. It's all in my experience in software. So that's what I drew on in the end: I worked for a software company for a while.

So basically, the frustration of getting different updates, the update that destroys everything because it wasn't quite finished, and the way an AI or any intelligence would work with databases to figure out what it's supposed to do and how it's supposed to organize its thoughts. It all came from my experience as a programmer.

In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making. After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation, which will broadly maintain requirements that federal and private health insurance plans cover COVID-19 vaccines at no cost.

But the panel today also heard from outside sources who presented unvetted evidence and associations, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer and nefariously linger in the body. The members themselves brought their own conspiracy theories and bunkum to the table.

The shooter was stationed inside the house and immediately began firing with an AR-15-style rifle, Barker said. 

Investigators also discovered a black lab shot dead in the basement of the house that belonged to the ex-girlfriend of the shooter.

[The ex girlfriend] also told investigators that she believed Ruth had set her pick-up truck on fire while it was sitting in the home's driveway in August, according to an affidavit.

2nd try yielded very successful bao (steamed buns)!

I followed whattocooktoday's recipe , which has lots of helpful explanations of rationale and alternatives. I used corn starch (didn't have wheat starch or pastry flour on hand) and it worked just fine, the steamed bao are very light and delicate. I also used active (not instant) yeast; it didn't bubble much when using cold milk (Oatley's what I had) but the buns proved nicely in an hour at about 90F.

My 1st try was following some notes from a relative, which were about 65% hydration all AP flour, and came out much too dense/chewy.