STILL - Some Things I Learned Lately

I’ve found that my musical tastes tend to center on virtuosic performances on unusual (or at least seemingly out of place in the genre) instruments. I think my reading preferences might follow a similar pattern where I prefer unusual styles often employed by many of the best writers. Examples to be listed below as I think of them.

Musical:

Organ solo

A Martian day is more than 24 hours and is called a SOL

-Why is it called a SOL? How long is it?

Moss and Lichen like to grow in certain kinds of soil that grass doesn’t like to grow in

-Moss and Lichen are extremely useful to nature and bushcraft, but not as pleasant when you want a nice fresh lawn for your family and friends to hang out on.

GAN - Generative Adversarial Networks involve pitting a generative AI that creates against a generative AI that evaluates whether output is human or machine generated. This automated reinforcement learning is responsible for the rapid improvement of AI generated text and images recently, along with the much larger models of course.

It’s bad luck to bring bananas on a fishing boat

-I had no idea about this. Found out my brother in law almost brought some bananas on a fishing trip (on a boat going out to sea), and apparently this is terrible luck and he was chastised.