The Complete American Gold Prospector's Handbook

For the prospector or would be prospector on your Christmas list "The Complete American Gold Prospector's Handbook" gives the locations of all major and many of the minor natural gold occurrences in 47 US states, how and where prospectors can file mining claims in the US, prospecting techniques, and anecdotes and legends of lost treasures and mines.  This year all royalties are going to the charity Project Moses Colorado whose mission is to aid, assist, advocate for and, when and where possible, protect persecuted Christian minorities in nations such as Pakistan.

The thing about AI is that the output is non-deterministic (every outcome is different & not pre-decided), but the industry is trying so hard to "determine the expected behavior" of a model. They're trying to quantify and measure and standardize what the model would spit out so there aren't any surprise accidents. and it's so funny to think about them trying to "guess" the personality of the model + training set and set some threshold of acceptance.

Like even for people - I guess you can kind of guess based on a person's previous behavior if they're gonna say some off the handle shit or not, but you can't even say for sure that the person is never gonna say something unhinged. If the conditions align, even if it's 1/10000 chance, they will say something that makes you go wow, I guess I didn't know the guy as well as I thought.

But I guess models aren't people so maybe it means nothing.

something I think about Not Infrequently is the fact that my city has no poet laureate. like in all likelihood I could roll up to the city council and go “hey we should have a poet laureate and I am, very technically, a poet” and there is a not insignificant chance they’d go “ok” and I could be the municipal poet laureate for a bit until someone realizes there are other poets here who do not just do things for the bit and puts one of them in charge of writing poetry about a place where the front page story is usually about some Girl Scouts doing their gold award projects

gang, do any of you steal clothes from cos/lemmy/chrome? if so, what is your favorite article of clothing to take and wear?

🍂: nope, definite no for me, moving on!

🎼: Hm~. I think you do that on a consistent basis, actually.

🍂: w-WELL, he has lots of comfy hoodies ‘n stuff, and they’re bigger on me, so if i happen to accidentally wear some of them— not my fault.

🎼: Right. <3 Cos uses my things more than I do his, but he has a little collection of scarves he doesn’t mind me borrowing from. :-)

📸: i— i’ve never asked to… do you think he’d..? let me..?? we’re around the same size, so i guess we could… share things……

🔌: i’d probably get a club thrown at my head for even suggesting that. wouldn’t be my style anyway. i could totally pull off the jester shtick though, if ya tailored it differently.

🎼: Sooooo it looks like Doug’s the one who does this most, lovely to know! <3

🍂: NO I DO NOT

Kinda reaching the point now where I'm thrilled to start my job, meet ppl and earn some nice money! it's been so good having time off - très bien - but I feel like I cannot enjoy it as much as I could when I was a teen. which, I think, is even more so a good challenge to just relax and enjoy it while I can. but i think it's partly the winter (mostly bound to just inside activities) + partly not having an adequate money revenue at the moment to fatten the savings account. I mean, I still earn some from some snack writing jobs, so that's cool, but nowhere as much as I'd like to. telling myself i'll be good by feb!

Southwestern artist Ted DeGrazia was fascinated by the beauty and lore of the Superstition Mountains, where he made many expeditions to the backcountry prospecting for gold. Happy Throwback Thursday! ⛏ Just a reminder, miners and prospectors are the subject of "DeGrazia Underground", a new exhibit at the Gallery in the Sun Museum. This selection of drawings and oil paintings dates from 1936 to 1972, and will be on display through August 30th, 2023.

Ugh I can relate to your job hunting woes, I’m looking for my first career track job and there are so many positions open but no urgency to fill them. I’ve applied for jobs in august that I’m only now being invited to interview for. Fingers crossed that it’s a job you want and that you get it!

100%, living in the area I do probably also doesn't help but yea, that's totally my experience right now too. There are a ton of openings but for anything that isn't just straight up entry-level w/ no experience requirements has SOOO many applicants, it's the most competitive job market I've ever had to hunt in.

Fingers crossed for you as well!! 🤞 We'll find something eventually I'm sure lol.

Beautiful find 👌😍

Give "The Complete American Gold Prospector's Handbook" This Christmas

For the prospector or would be prospector on your Christmas list "The Complete American Gold Prospector's Handbook" gives the locations of all major and many of the minor natural gold occurrences in 47 US states, how and where prospectors can file mining claims in the US, prospecting techniques, and anecdotes and legends of lost treasures and mines.  This year all royalties are going to the charity Project Moses Colorado whose mission is to aid, assist, advocate for and, when and where possible, protect persecuted Christian minorities in nations such as Pakistan.

Hi! Its the Anon re Mo and Zegras hanging out. So I got this from the interview of Mo on the spitting chiclets podcast (which...I really dont like spitting chiclets but I had to listen bc Mo). But if you want to listen to it, the interview (either podcast or youtube version) as a whole is like an hour and is incredibly interesting and the part re zegras is brief at 2 hours 1 min if you would like - Mo apparently chilled with the U18 USNDTP guys so it fits your story! Thanks again for your lovely thought spirals!

😪 literally just listened to the broadscast round table discussion on hockey media today lmao so my ire for sp*tting ch*clets is even more than normal! which is quite a lot! thank you for your service (✊😔 listening to That Podcast and sharing the important information so the rest of us may have content without suffering)

on a better note OH MY GOD i’m???? no words. how would they interact the dynamic this now gives the calder contention why did no one talk about this before 🤌🤏🫴🫰mo & z FRIENDS? frenemies?? is zegras mentioned by name?? which usntdp u18s were named or was it just mentioned as the entire (gestures towards amoeba in a FUCK OR DIE t-shirt) vague conglomerate Entity™️ that is the usntdp??

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want to delve into wyllstarion and wuzz parallels but I'm trying very hard to pretend to be normal this week. so i can't.

"BIG STRIKE ON RANGER CLAIM AT RICE LAKE," Winnipeg Tribune. December 12, 1913. Page 2. --- New Vein of Rich Gold Quartz Ten Feet Wide Extending for 1,500 Feet Opened Up ---- A discovery of great importance to the mining industry in Manitoba has just been brought to light from the big Rice Lake mining district, which is situated in Northeastern Manitoba. On the Ranger claim, owned by the Manitoba Mining and Exploration company, Charles Andrews, who who is in charge of development work for that company, reports the opening up of a new and highly mineralized vein at least 10 feet in width, extending across the full 1,500 feet width of the claim and carrying high values in gold. Specimens from this vein shown by Mr. Andrews at the Dominion hotel are of the best, containing numerous showings of free gold in a very favorable quality of quartz.

Specimens, from this discovery are also being shown at the St. Regis hotel and are very highly spoken of by the various mining then who are stopping there and who are actively interested in the district. W. K. Harding, mining engineer, who is organizing the Manitoba Mining and Exploration company, states that extensive development work is already under consideration to be commenced as soon as the winter freighting of supplies across Lake Winnipeg can be undertaken.

This new discovery is of great importance as it is situated over three miles from what was formerly considered the richest part of the district. it means the opening up of an entirely new part of the big Rice Lake district and the adding of several square miles of territory to the already large gold producing area.

The Ranger claim was discovered and staked about a year ago by Mr. Andrews, who has been occupied in prospecting work in the district for the last two years and has personally made and been connected with some of the best discoveries made there. The rich showings to the north of the Hole river on the Hilma claims are among the list of his discoveries.

General progress in the district is continuing with highly satisfactory results. Six shafts are now sunk to a considerable depth and in every case results have been exceptionally favorable. Scarcely any other mining district in Canada can show such a record at a corresponding stage in its development. Arrangements are being completed to operate an efficient freighting road into the district from Manigotagan, on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg, a distance of thirty miles. This will be of great assistance and a saving in expense to all the mines of the district.

A few days after sending a long defence to the Colonial Secretary, he applied for twelve months' leave. He wrote:

I have drifted into pecuniary difficulties (only Temporary) through no fault of my own caused principally by the dull times, expensive rate of living here, over speculation and depreciation in the value of property. Owing to the protracted drought it would mean ruin to me at the present time, were I forced to dispose of my property . . .

I may here inform the Honourable The Colonial Secretary that should my request be considered favourably it is my intention to occupy my time exploring & prospecting the Auriferous Ranges* in this locality as I am convinced there are some rich finds yet to be discovered.

* Gold-bearing rock.

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