An ancient Egyptian papyrus, known as the Cairo Calendar, could be the oldest historical record of a star’s brightness, providing a new perspective on the development of the Algol triple star system over thousands of years.
Known as the Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days, the Cairo Calendar, dated from 1244 – 1163 BC, assigns predictions and prognoses to every day of the Egyptian year. These prognoses indicate whether the day, or part of the day, is considered “good” or “bad”. The calendar also contains information regarding the day’s astronomical observations, such as the behaviour of astronomical objects, especially Algol.
Now researchers say that the astronomical symbolism discovered in the two most Ancient Egyptian myths suggest similar clues could be found in other ancient Egyptian texts. Read more.
This spreadsheet lists a number of ways in which AI agents “cheat” in order to accomplish tasks or get higher scores instead of doing what their human programmers actually want them to. A few examples from the list:
Neural nets evolved to classify edible and poisonous mushrooms took advantage of the data being presented in alternating order, and didn’t actually learn any features of the input images.
In an artificial life simulation where survival required energy but giving birth had no energy cost, one species evolved a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children which could be eaten (or used as mates to produce more edible children).
Agent kills itself at the end of level 1 to avoid losing in level 2.
AI trained to classify skin lesions as potentially cancerous learns that lesions photographed next to a ruler are more likely to be malignant.
That second item is a doozy! Philosopher Nick Bostrom has warned of the dangers of superintelligent agents that exploit human error in programming them, describing a possible future where an innocent paperclip-making machine destroys the universe.
The “paperclip maximiser” is a thought experiment proposed by Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University. Imagine an artificial intelligence, he says, which decides to amass as many paperclips as possible. It devotes all its energy to acquiring paperclips, and to improving itself so that it can get paperclips in new ways, while resisting any attempt to divert it from this goal. Eventually it “starts transforming first all of Earth and then increasing portions of space into paperclip manufacturing facilities”.
But some of this is The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence in action. These agents didn’t necessarily hack their reward functions but they did take a far easiest path to their goals, e.g. the Tetris playing bot that “paused the game indefinitely to avoid losing”.
Forgot to add, if anyone is helping anymore it’s probably Charles (Ten of Cups/Death (Scorpio Card)). But I think both Harry and Meghan are losing hope it will work out, tbh.
When I did several readings I got that only Charles and Harry were helping Rachel. Charles is actually dealing with it at a distance to the point where he’s playing telephone. He tells harry something and harry give meghan the message. Theirs no direct contact. He’s almost at the end of his road in helping her. I wonder how aggressive they were about not holding hands especially since they did it last night. I had some other things come up but it wasnt during a reading, I’ll pull cards later.
Ghosts are real. This much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do to us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime. There are others – others that hold on to an emotion, a drive. Loss, revenge, or love. Those… they never go away.
Something has been telling me to do a reading on Amy. Idk but it has been like that even before I touched tarot cards. Remember she disappeared for a while.
I did see some staff leaving/more bad treatment info getting released this month in my reading..
I just did two private readings. We gonna come back to this one.
On Tuesday, at the United State of Women Summit in Washington D.C., first lady Michelle Obama sat down with Oprah Winfrey for a wide ranging chat. When the topic turned to what men can do for equality, Obama had two repeating words, “Be better.” She also doled out advice for women and the confusion about “bravery.”
I don’t recall a First Lady in my lifetime who was anywhere close to as inspirational and amazing as Michelle Obama.
It would seem that she is a bit of a bully, to put it mildly. There are frequently forceful and rather abusive cards following her around like a bad odour, whether it’s Tarot (5oSw, 5oW, QoSw R. KnoSw, KnoW R. KoW R. Emperor (birthcard) R. etc.) or Lenormand (Scythe, Whip&Rod, Mountain, Bear etc.). -The cards point toward the same direction.
This has recently been given some anchoring by the reports of “Melissa” the, now, former assistant being verbally abused while on the Oceania tour and subsequently resigning.
I got abusive cards back then for the tour reading (over here), but thought that it was Meghan being unbearable toward her husband, in private (coworkers didn’t even cross my mind, because you simply do not do that). Well now we know better. Compare with #Opinioniste’s very specific reading on the matter over here – the Lady + Whip&Scythe are the exact same cards I got, with the addition of Bear (boss/forceful person/can be a bully or outright abuser,especially if other cards support it).
– When the poor behavior is being mean to a sibling a great natural consequence is that they have to do something for the sibling. I use making the other’s bed or doing the other kids chore for the day. I tried this and I found that the offended sibling really likes this as a punishment for the sibling that bothered them. They can then get over the issue really fast because they feel vindicated.
2. Early bedtime/No books
– This one works great for my older boys. They really like to stay up later than their younger sister so it is painful to them to have to go to bed the same time as her. And that’s when I realized this is a great punishment for the two older boys…when they really fought it. For a punishment to be effective it has to be a real pain point for them and this is one my boys best ones.
3. Pay to Fight
– I have always loved the book Love & Logic by Foster Cline. I highly recommend it. One of my favorite tips is to charge kids $1.00 a minute to listen to them fight. If they don’t have the money they must earn the money by doing chores.
4. Writing Sentences
– Let’s go old school here. Writing “I will not disrespect my mom.” 50 times can be a great incentive for them to not do it again.
5. Extra Chores
– There are all sorts of systems for this method. Some assign tasks based on the offense. Such as not listening means 1 room of baseboards cleaned. Some have a jar filled with slips of paper with chores on them and the child must pick a chore out of the jar.
6. No PlayDates
– I have never been able to do this because I feel it punishes another child who has been planning and looking forward to it but sometimes we need a total reset. I actually have done something really sneaky to make this work for us.
7. Positive Incentive Charts
– I had to add this because we all know we are supposed to reward positive behavior and hope it limits the punishments needed. I completely agree but let’s get real…we sometimes need punishments for kids with bad behavior too. Let’s just make sure we are rewarding the good behavior in our house at the same time.
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
I agree, my friend. There’s a video of them leaving Westminster Abbey, she grabs his hand as soon as they leave – obviously, she has to pose to the photographers! Here’s a pic of they arriving, she’s the one who reaches out:
Considering this month hasn’t got off to a great start, thought it was time to do another monthly outlook for the #Harkles for this month of November. Tell me your thoughts and feedback and send requests as always. See ya whenever. – TT
“What does the rest of the month hold for PH&MM?”
(QOC Rx; Three of Wands Rx; Four of Wands; Judgement; Nine of Cups; Nine of Cups Rx; Five of Wands; Two of Cups Rx; Temperance Rx; Eight of Wands Rx)
Main energy for the month is Queen of Cups Reversed. Yeesh.
Lots of mental and emotional instability and dysfunction and lots of sadness and heartbreak for these two as well.
Some ☕️ from a member in our MMTCD closed FB group!
Greetings My Lords and My Ladies!
This is an update regarding my post from yesterday.
I had direct contact with an the sound guy from Suits. Out of respect and his privacy I’ll keep his name anonymous.
Several of you had questions. I asked him. This is what he said:
– A representative of MM reached out to one of the executive producers of Suits asking, if MM decides to come back to the show, will she be welcomed. The producer responded no immediately. Some speculation is that she’ll be out of the royal family soon. Things do not look good for her. (His thought).
– Around season 2 of Suits ( she was still married to Trevor at the time) MM casually told the wardrobe department that she is having morning sickness and they even had to altered some of her outfits to try to hide her “bloating”. Then, all of a sudden, she wasn’t “bloating” anymore. This also happened another time, he just can’t recall what season.
– The producers even paid a podiatrist for her to see. She refused.
– Any rumor of we heard of throwing any tantrums and fits on the set are probably true.
– She played the race card many times.
– Last, just a rumor that she wanted to be on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills before Suits.
As always, you are more than welcome to send me a private message if you have anything you want to discuss.
The tour is kind of funny in a way. The schedule actually looked great (Invictus, Commonwealth Canopy, scholarships, aboriginal schools, etc…) and the Irish tour was decent, so the royals were probably shocked out of their minds when it turned into a belly-cupping self-promo fest. I mean, they were literally told about the pregnancy THE DAY BEFORE.
Actually, I think the Ireland tour was her test and she actually tried to behave on that one. However, she realized that behaving didn’t get her much press, so she acted differently on the Australia tour.
Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales , Colonel of the Welsh Guards Regiment at a remembrance service at the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks and laid a wreath at the Guards’ Memorial on Horse Guards Parade.
House of Brat 