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Receipt from Madame Bonté 66 #3dLR

April 12, 2026

https://www.madamebonte.com/
no laptops, noisy
Cappuccino
DECAF
Sparkling Water
Plain Scone
Hot Tea
12oz
Chamomile Medley

no wifi but LINK

NYTimes: Think Airfares Are High? Brace Yourself for Bag Fees and Fuel Surcharges.

April 12, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/travel/airfare-bag-fees-fuel-surcharges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Source: 9to5Mac

April 12, 2026

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/19/airtag-2-vs-airtag-heres-everything-new/

NYTimes: Tech Bros Hacked Their Diets. Now You May Be Doing It, Too.

April 12, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/dining/biohacking-diets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

What Doctors Want You to Know About Supplements – The New York Times

April 12, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/well/doctor-tips-supplements-research.html

Receipt for Order #362 at Le Pain Quotidien – 148 E 65th Street

April 12, 2026

https://www.lepainquotidien.com/ae/en/stores/148:%2065th%20&%20Lexington

Black Lentil Salad $17.00
Smoked Salmon $5.50
Hot Tea $5.00
Small Cappuccino (D) $5.50
Croissant $5.00
12 oz. Glass Sparkling Water $3.75

LDA resources

April 12, 2026

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/latent-dirichlet-allocation What is Latent Dirichlet allocation | IBM

Blei, D. M., Ng, A. Y., & Jordan, M., I. (2003). Latent dirichlet allocation. https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/v3/blei03a.html https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/blei03a/blei03a.pdf

GeeksforGeeks. (2025, July 23). Topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). GeeksforGeeks.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/nlp/topic-modeling-using-latent-dirichlet-allocation-lda/

Ganegedara, T. (2025, February 2). Intuitive Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Towards Data Science.
https://towardsdatascience.com/light-on-math-machine-learning-intuitive-guide-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation-437c81220158/

some blogs
https://johaupt.github.io/blog/Topic_modeling_with_Gibbs_sampling_in_R.html https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/lda-gibbs/

NYTimes.com: My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

April 11, 2026

Carreyrou, J., & Freedman, D. (2026, April 8). Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin’s creator. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.htm

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?rsrc=flt&smid=em-share

Short-Term Corporate Bond fund options

April 11, 2026

the two short term options: VGSH & VCSH. Both funds have low fees.

VGSH short term treasury ETF
– 30 day yield is 3.76% with duration of 1.9 years. This fund compares to the existing treasury money market which yields about 3.5%.

VCSH short term corp bond fund
– 30 day yield is 4.47% with duration of 2.7 years.

DNA Identifies 2 Bacterial Killers That Stalked Napoleon’s Army – The New York Times

April 11, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/health/napoleon-army-dna-bacteria.html