Today, the primary responsibilities of U.S. Marshals include protecting federal judges and witnesses, transporting federal prisoners, apprehending federal fugitives, and managing assets seized from criminal enterprises.

Oh, sweet.

The President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoints U.S. Marshals for a 4-year term.

Oh. Oh no.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/a91787.html#:~:text=The President%2C with the advice,for a 4-year term.

Well if I smoke four (for the health benefits), then it’s like I worked out twice!

Where are you going? Get back here!

Juñor?

Surely they mean submachine gun? Or are there Brownings on the streets of Mexico?

I worked at a university and I heard women call each other “bro” all the time.

Oh, I see! We give him a hot cold-dog to warm his icy heart?

Have you ever tried a combination safe? Not quite as stylish, but insanely practical. You get to open it up and look at your dirty work after it’s done.

The truth lies in the heart of the beholder. If the story speaks to you in some particular way, if it resonates deeply enough, then it’s speaking to something you know to be true about the world as you know it. Something which remains true regardless of whether the story is factual or not.

Better try another one to be sure. For the tribe.

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No, there’s a US law now where they have to allow you to opt out of overdraft “protection”. They just decline the transaction but don’t charge you any fees.

Some cities have municipal internet service, which they are able to provide at a much, much lower rate than commercial options. Here’s one example of a resident in Lafayette, La. They would on average pay $73.10 annually on the municipal network, versus $690.87 annually on a private network. The same article also shows much lower average rates for commercial networks when they have to compete with public services.

So yeah, it’s just greed.

AUDIENCE

BOOO! BOOO!

CATHERINE (one hand on her hip, the other defiantly pointing at the audience)

I do as I please! I do as I please! Y’all don’t know me! I do as I please!

She definitely left out part of that story.

How do you nominate for comment of the year?

I don’t want to go back to cleaning mouse balls.

It is, but I figured it out eventually. I mean he did. Probably.

I’ll give it a shot.

We can use vector spaces for thinking about things that aren’t primarily concerned with physical space like we are in Blender. Let’s imagine something practical, if a bit absurd. Pretend we have unlimited access to three kinds of dough. Each has flour, water, and yeast in different ratios. What we don’t have is access to the individual ingredients.

Suppose we want a fourth kind of dough which is a different ratio of the ingredients from the doughs we have. If the ratios of the ingredients of the three doughs we already have are unique, then we are in luck! We can make that dough we want by combining some amount of the three we have. In fact, we can make any kind of dough that is a combination of those three ingredients. In linear algebra, this is called linear independence.

Each dough is a vector, and each ingredient is a component. We have three equations (doughs) in three variables (ingredients).

This is a three dimensional vector space, which is easy to visualize. But there is no limit to how many dimensions you can have, or what they can represent. Some economic models use vectors with thousands of dimensions representing inputs and outputs of resources. Hopefully my explanation helps us see how vectors can sometimes be more difficult to imagine as directions and magnitudes.

Disqueue, then.