oregon

The Atlantic
This is a difficult article to read because it’s about a massive failure, but it’s important to face the truth of where we are. This was especially surprising:
"Oregon, situated between the California and Washington hotspots, can test only about 40 people a day."
We have some catching up to do:
"Today, more than a week after the country’s first case of community transmission, the most significant finding about the coronavirus’s spread in the United States has come from an independent genetic study, not from field data collected by the government. And no state or city has banned large gatherings or implemented the type of aggressive “social distancing” policies employed to battle the virus in Italy, Hong Kong, and other affluent places."
oregonlive.com
So this is happening in my state.
"According to the most current available estimates from the Census Bureau, for 2014 through 2019, the 11 Republicans who walked out represent just 36% of Oregon’s population."
The current rules do not account for a rogue party that does not believe in the rule of law.
train cars with buildings visible behind them
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CityLab CityLab
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"[$50 billion] sounds like a lot, but it could be a bargain compared to adding a lane to I-5, the current north-south corridor linking the megaregion."
Co-signed!
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Oregon Country Fair
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Haystack Rock
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Corvallis Color
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Canal Creek
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Hello Oregon

Fake Oregon Placenames

Dan Hon recently trained an A.I. to generate British placenames. I followed his recipe and did the same for Oregon placenames.

I found a list of real Oregon placenames at the US Board on Geographic Names. I did a round of A.I. training with the raw data and found the output too noisy. So I did a little data massaging and gave it another shot, this time with cleaner results.

I set the whole thing up on a free AWS instance with the torch-rnn docker image. It was a snap. A slow snap. It would be faster with more processing power.

Without further setup, plan your next camping trip and imagine the vistas you'll see in such artificially imagined Oregon places as:
  • Thkewood Meadows
  • Cookstop Lake
  • Thedrel Springs Cemetery
  • Water Reservoir
  • Rogah Butte
  • Newar Creek
  • Willaning Creek
  • Dazian
  • Booper Summit
  • Pister Creek Ranch Spring
  • Josspor Ridge
  • Bickmass Log Pond
  • Trout Bucktuby
  • Monnnit Hellant Plant Creek
  • Pitter Cip Number One
  • Seven Creek
  • Giam Creek
  • Hemil M Creek
  • Hug Waterhole
  • Dukapin Meadows
  • Bensbush Creek
  • Malow Creek
  • Lattle Lake Recreation Meadows
  • Mule Park
  • Road Ranch
  • Bruck Creek
  • Gregley Park Recreation Site
  • Forent Well
  • Kench Bed Reservoir
  • Indian Slide
  • Sinkhawk Trail
  • Tondyle Canyon
  • Spilling Pond
  • Syn Reservoir
  • Pieson Reservoir
  • Thirn Mountain
  • Fence and Swalich
  • Lower Spring Cemetery
  • Bolard Creek
  • Coney Butte Park
  • Skihino Peak
  • Laix Spring
  • Clenmill Creek
  • Oshers Forest
  • Fork Slow Spring
This is a random linear sampling from potentially infinite output. It might be funnier to go through with an editorial eye and find the most amusing, but it's getting late and I have a trip to Fence and Swalich to plan.
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