{"id":2019,"date":"2009-03-11T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T04:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2009-03-15T18:10:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T09:10:21","slug":"cant-help-staring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/11\/cant-help-staring\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t help staring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/11\/cant-help-staring\/picture-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2039\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-1-300x164.png\" alt=\"Terminal screenshot\" title=\"Terminal screenshot\" width=\"150\" height=\"82\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-1.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since about age 5, I have come to grasp with the notion that staring at an oven timer doesn&#8217;t make it cook a cake faster.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, I still seem to think that staring at the live output of my painstakingly slow linear optimization program is gonna make it spit its final value faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since about age 5, I have come to grasp with the notion that staring at an oven timer doesn&#8217;t make it cook a cake faster. And yet, I still seem to think that staring at the live output of my painstakingly slow linear optimization program is gonna make it spit its final value faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}