Lance Hardy: AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Developer Associate / Security Specialist. Photographer. Home Distiller. Cribbage master.
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Be like this man.
El actor Brendan Fraser se volvió viral tras protagonizar una emotiva escena durante la alfombra roja de su película Pressure, en Londres.
Al notar que un fanático con síndrome de Down tenía dificultades para tomarse una fotografía, se acercó, tomó su celular y le explicó con mucha paciencia cómo hacerlo. 📱✨
Finalmente, ambos consiguieron la selfie y el gesto del actor fue aplaudido por miles de usuarios en redes sociales. ¡Un momento que nos recuerda el valor de la empatía y la amabilidad! ❤️
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RUSH have announced a residency at Las Vegas Sphere.
Geddy Lee announced the shows and previewed what fans can expect in a new statement: "When I first heard of Sphere, I thought to myself, 'wow, what a shame that RUSH is no longer touring, because this venue sounds tailor made for the kind of visual attitude with which we have always designed our shows.' Normally we spend months designing the visual effects for our shows and this scenario seemed like the cherry on top of the ice cream for our design team. But life is nothing if not surprising and now, here we are, living and touring in the present tense and we are able to make that particular dream come true.
"We are presently working hard to expand our touring concepts and concoct some new madness to suit this incredible venue and musically perform the kind of show we've been doing in some of our 'one off' cities. Meaning playing all of 2112 and all of Moving Pictures along with an array of other songs. We are so effin' excited to make use of this incredible opportunity to please our fans both visually and viscerally- from wherever they might fly in from. Gonna be so much fun!!"
Rush are bringing their reunion tour to the Las Vegas Sphere for a residency beginning in May 2027.
Dubbed "Elevate From the Norm," the run of shows will see Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Anika Nilles, and Loren Gold expand on their current touring production with new visuals designed specifically for Sphere. Musically, the shows will feature performances of 2112 and Moving Pictures in their entirety, along with other fan favorites.
consequence.net/2026/11/rush…
Hell yeah!
JUST ANNOUNCED: RUSH “Elevate From The Norm” live residency at SPHERE Las Vegas on May 21, 23, 26, 28 & 30 in 2027. *Register now* for Artist Presale at rush.com/sphere
*VIP & Travel packages on sale Fri Nov 6 at 12PM PT*
*Artist Presale begins Wed Nov 11 at 10am PT*
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A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
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Best Extreme album imo. It's truly a brilliant album.
On This Day in Metal September 22nd, 1992
Extreme released their third studio album, “III Sides to Every Story.”
Featuring tracks like “Tragic Comic,” “Rest in Peace” and “Stop the World,” the album showcased the band’s unique blend of hard rock, funk and progressive influences.
What’s your favourite track from “III Sides to Every Story”?
#ThisDayInMetal #Extreme #IIISidesToEveryStory #Rock #Metal
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Love you, Bryan.
The Goat
Neil Peart seated inside his massive, custom-built Drum Workshop setup during Rush's R40 Live 40th Anniversary Tour in 2015. Captured high above the stage by John Arrowsmith.
🥁 Neil Peart famously referred to his massive 360-degree drum rigs as his command center, requiring immense physical endurance and ambidexterity to navigate. Where does Peart rank on your personal list of the greatest rock drummers of all time? 🥁 👇️
Always missed, never forgotten
Happy Birthday to Neil, who would have been 74 today. Taken too soon but always remembered. His musical legacy, his playing, and especially his lyrics resonate with us more and more as time goes on.
❤️ #neilpeart #theprofessor
Yes, this. And check out enablesleep.com
Sleep apnea is treated as a plumbing problem. Your airway collapses at night, so you strap on a machine to hold it open. For life. Doctors at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm asked a different question. What if the airway is downstream of something else?
They took 63 obese men, all with moderate to severe sleep apnea, all already using a CPAP machine. Half kept living as usual. The other half went, under close hospital supervision, onto a liquid diet of about 550 calories a day for seven weeks.
The men lost around 44 pounds. And their apnea, the pauses in breathing per hour, fell from 37 down to 12. The group that did nothing barely moved. For 1 in 6 of them, the apnea was gone entirely. A year later, nearly half of the diet group no longer needed the CPAP machine at all.
The point is what it proved. A condition medicine treats as a lifelong machine sentence turned out to be, for many of these men, a metabolic problem. Take the weight off, and the airway followed. The BMJ published all of it.
Some life sentences are really just symptoms.
#NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #sleepapnea #cpap #metabolichealth #weightloss #sleep
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BE NOT AFRAID 10/23
New song “Power In The Blood” out now. Preorders available now at polyphia.lnk.to/BENOTAFRAID
We poured everything we had into making this album exactly what we wanted it to be. In order to see that vision all the way through, our North American shows will
This. This is why I do what I do. I am humbled.
In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood.
Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively.
That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became the founding document of the digital age.
The man was Claude Shannon. Father of Information Theory.
At 21, he wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century.
Working at MIT on an early mechanical computer, Shannon noticed its relay switches had exactly two states - open or closed. He had just taken a philosophy course introducing Boolean algebra, which also operated on two values: true and false.
Nobody had ever connected these two things.
His 1937 thesis proved that Boolean algebra and electrical circuits are mathematically identical, and that any logical operation could be built from simple switches.
Howard Gardner called it "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century."
Every digital computer ever built traces back to this insight.
At 29, he proved that perfect encryption exists.
During WWII, Shannon worked on classified cryptography at Bell Labs. His work contributed to SIGSALY, the secure voice system used for confidential communications between Roosevelt and Churchill.
In a classified 1945 memorandum, he mathematically proved the one-time pad provides perfect secrecy, unbreakable not just computationally, but provably, permanently, against an adversary with infinite power.
When declassified in 1949, it transformed cryptography from an art into a science. It laid the foundations for DES, AES, and every modern encryption standard.
At 32, he defined what information is.
His 1948 paper introduced one equation:
H = −Σ p(x) log p(x)
Shannon entropy. The average uncertainty in a probability distribution. The minimum bits required to encode a message.
Three things followed:
> He defined the bit - the fundamental unit of all information. His colleague John Tukey coined the name.
> He proved the channel capacity theorem, every communication channel has a maximum rate of reliable transmission. You can approach it. You can never exceed it.
> He unified telegraph, telephone, and radio into a single mathematical framework for the first time.
Robert Lucky of Bell Labs called it the greatest work "in the annals of technological thought."
Where his equation lives in AI today:
Cross-entropy loss - the function training every classifier and language model, is derived directly from H. Decision tree splits use information gain, which is H applied to data. Perplexity, the standard LLM evaluation metric, is an exponentiation of cross-entropy.
Every time a neural network trains, Shannon's formula runs inside it.
He also built the first AI learning device.
In 1950, Shannon built Theseus, a mechanical mouse that navigated a maze through trial and error, learned the correct path, and repeated it perfectly. Mazin Gilbert of Bell Labs said: "Theseus inspired the whole field of AI."
That same year he published the first paper on programming a computer to play chess. He co-organized the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, the founding event of AI as a field.
The man:
He rode a unicycle through Bell Labs hallways while juggling. He built a flame-throwing trumpet, a rocket-powered Frisbee, and Styrofoam shoes to walk on the lake behind his house.
He called his home Entropy House.
When asked what motivated him: "I was motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together."
In 1985, he appeared unexpectedly at a conference in Brighton. The crowd mobbed him for autographs. Persuaded to speak at the banquet, he talked briefly, then pulled three balls from his pockets and juggled instead.
One engineer said: "It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference."
He died in 2001 after a decade with Alzheimer's, the cruel irony of information slowly leaving the mind of the man who defined what information was.
Claude, the AI model, is named after Claude Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation for the digital world we rely on today.
Challenge accepted
In celebration of their 25th anniversary, all eight #HarryPotter films are heading back to theaters from August 27 through September 3.
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If you want to know why the Senate hates the SAVE America Act, it’s because senators are lazy and have zero interest in doing actual work.
They believe the Senate, and their own voters, exist to serve them. This is why they never work and never accomplish anything. A three-day work week is almost unconscionable; asking them to work five days in a row is literal torture.
The Senate is a social club that allows them to travel around the world for free and to allow their spouses to buy all kinds of exotic foreign goods and bring them back without declaring them or paying taxes on them.
And when voters start to sniff this out and get sick of it, these senators accuse the tiny handful of people in government doing actual work of being AWOL.