The Waldos began hanging out in the band's circle, and the slang spread.
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Ever the opportunists, the Waldos agreed to meet up after school at 4:20 p.m.
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Fun fact: The terminology was started by a group of high schoolers who called themselves the Waldos in the '70s.
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In recent years, however, credit has been given to a group of young stoners in California in the 220s called the Waldos.
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You can catch a glimpse of this process in the video above, in which different photos of Waldos are fed into the software.
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If the robot determines a match with 95 percent confidence or higher, it'll point to all the Waldos it can find on the page.
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"It's a phenomenon," said one of the Waldos, Steve Capper, now 62 and a chief executive at a payroll financing company in San Francisco.
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A group of friends at San Rafael High School in Marin County, California, who called themselves "the Waldos," would often meet at 4:20 p.m.
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I thought that wouldn't be enough data to build a strong model but it gives surprisingly good predictions on Waldos that weren't in the original training set.
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Then Mr. DiMeo points the two men out in a Tavernier painting of more than 100 people; once hidden like Waldos, they are suddenly easy to see.
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A brother of one of the Waldos was a close friend of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, as Lesh once confirmed in an interview with the Huffington Post.
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The Waldos would convene at 4:20 PM every day to imbibe in the sweet leaf and generally used the three-digit number to refer to all things weed.
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"I thought that wouldn't be enough data to build a strong model but it gives surprisingly good predictions on Waldos that weren't in the original training set," Reed said.
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The brewery sponsors the Four-Twenty Games — mainly 4.2-mile foot races — and makes The Waldos' Special Ale, a beer named for the foursome who invented the 420 marijuana code.
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In 1971, a small group of hippies—known at the time, perhaps only to themselves, as the Waldos—began assembling daily in San Rafael, California at 4:20 PM to smoke weed.
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Or worse, like getting a hand-me-down copy of Where's Waldo and when you open the book, you find that your older cousin has already circled the Waldos in red marker.
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Today, in a development that would surely have blown the Waldos' minds back in 1971, the unofficial pot-smoking time of day has morphed into an annual international celebration on April 20th (4/20).
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According to The Huffington Post, the roots of that particular time — and, of course, the corresponding holiday, 229/20 — can be traced back to a group of five friends who called themselves the Waldos at San Rafael High School in California.
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The story that appears to hold the most water is ... The legend of the Waldos According to Chris Conrad, curator of the Oaksterdam Cannabis Museum in Oakland, California, 420 started as a secret code among high schoolers in the early 1970s.
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Matt Reed, creative technologist at redpepper, told the Verge that he collected the Waldo images to train the AI from a Google image search, and ended up using 62 Waldo heads and 45 Waldos with his head on his body.
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This ritual was then passed on to the arbiters of all things hippie, The Grateful Dead, by one of the Waldos who had the good fortune (in a hippie's mind at least) to be able to hang around the band while they practiced.
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The Waldos saved postmarked letters and other artifacts from the 24s referencing "220," which they now keep in a bank vault, and when the Oxford English Dictionary added the term last month it cited some of those documents as the entry's earliest recorded uses.
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Musicians from back in the day — in acts old and new like Manitoba NYC, Bush Tetras, Exit 99, Lenny Kaye, New York Junk, the Phil Gammage Quartet, Gass Wild, Cheetah Chrome, the Skelecasters, The Fleshtones and Walter Lure and the Waldos — are gigging like there's no tomorrow.
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Technical wizard Franz "Faz" Fazakas, incorporated swiveling servos into the anatomy of the Doozers from Fraggle Rock and later used "Waldos," mittens that map to the mechanical face of a puppet, to breathe remarkable life into the creatures from The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, a computer-generated puppet named Waldo C. Graphic for Disneyworld's 3D Muppet Movie, and the Sinclair family from Dinosaurs, which aired shortly after Henson's early death.
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In SpaceChem the player has to build molecular assembler/disassemblers using nanomachines called "Waldos" controlled by a visual programming language. The Distant Stars expansion for Stellaris heavily features nanotechnology in many aspects.
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Steven Hager of High Times was responsible for popularizing the story of the Waldos. The first High Times mention of 4:20 smoking and a 4/20 holiday appeared in May 1991,"Wake 'n' Bake!" erroneously attributes the origin of the term to a police code and the connection to the Waldos appeared in December 1998. Hager attributed the early spread of the phrase to Grateful Dead followers – after "Waldo" Reddix became a roadie for the Dead's bassist, Phil Lesh – and called for 4:20 pm to be the socially accepted hour of the day to consume cannabis.
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A Heartbreakers demo recorded for EMI appears on L.A.M.F.: The Lost '77 Mixes and live versions are included on many compilations. Walter Lure has performed it often with and without his band the Waldos. He and Billy Rath recorded a version in 1978 for Island Records which was never released.
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The squadron was disestablished on 1 October 1986, but one detachment continued in existence until 31 March 1987. The squadron's nickname was the Waldomen from the 1950s to the early 1960s, and the Waldos from that point forward. Its insignia, a rooster toting a machine gun, was a well-known design in naval aviation.
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The farmhouse was built about 1840 by an unknown farmer. Its first documented owner was Alfred Hull, who sold the farm to Homer Waldo in 1866. The farm was owned by the Waldos for about 50 years, and was owned for much of the 20th century by the Davenport family, who owned the adjacent farm to the south and ran a dairy operation.
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In 1971, five high school students in San Rafael, California, used the term "4:20" in connection with a plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop, based on a treasure map made by the grower. Calling themselves the Waldos, because their typical hang-out spot "was a wall outside the school", the five students (Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich) designated the Louis Pasteur statueStatue by Beniamino Bufano, on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 pm as their meeting time. The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase "4:20 Louis". After several failed attempts to find the crop, the group eventually shortened their phrase to simply "4:20", which ultimately evolved into a code-word the teens used to refer to consuming cannabis.
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At the end of the 1970s, Lure formed The Waldos, who released an album titled Rent Party in 1995. While with the group, he performed numerous times in New York City. In early 2020, he published a memoir, To Hell And Back: My Life In Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers, In The Words Of The Last Man Standing. Walter died on August 21, 2020, at the age of 71, from complications arising from liver and lung cancer.
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In 2016 Hundley formed Lulu Lewis with her Argentinian-born multi-instrumentalist husband, Pablo Martin of the Tom Tom Club and The Du-Rites. It released its debut self-titled EP in the summer of 2017 to critical acclaim. This led to live dates supporting Richard Lloyd of Television, Gene Loves Jezebel, Shilpa Ray, The Waldos and The Fleshtones. Live band members include Jay Mumford (J-Zone), William Harvey and Bruce Martin, also Tom Tom Club.
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The lyrics are a black-humored takeoff on Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" (1956), about the complications of everyday life. Its melody is the New York Dolls' version of "Pills" by Bo Diddley.Walter Lure said, "I actually stole the music for it from the Dolls version of 'Pills'." Interview : Walter "Waldo" Lure (The Heartbreakers, The Waldos) Thunders performed it often in his post-Heartbreakers career. Lure has said that he let Thunders take co-writing credit because "he liked it so much and he wished he’d wrote it".
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According to Waldos History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, Volume 1, Abraham A. McNeil first set a light atop a mast to mark the Bridgeport Harbor in 1844. The next day Captain John Brooks Jr. set up his own improvised light with another boat. Constructed in 1851, the first Bridgeport Harbor Light was an octagonal tower on a box-like structure stood on iron piles. The exact details of its construction are not recorded and there is no complete description, but it is known to have had a fixed red light.
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Early games in the genre include System 15000 and Hacker, released in 1984 and 1985 respectively. Programming games have been used as part of puzzle games, challenging the player to achieve a specific result once the program starts operating. An example of such a game is SpaceChem, where the player must use its visual language to manipulate two waldos as to disassemble and reassemble chemical molecules. In such games, players are able to test and debug their program as often as necessary until they find a solution that works.
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Rent parties were often the location of so-called cutting contests, which involves jazz pianists taking turns at the piano, attempting to out-do each other. The band Steely Dan's 2009 tour of the United States was named the "Rent Party 09" tour. Rent parties not featuring either jazz or specifically African American crowds are featured in the plots of movies set in New York during the 1980s and 1990s such as Party Girl (starring Parker Posey). The song "House Rent Party" (1955) by Babs Gonzales and The Waldos' 1994 album Rent Party are references to the practice.
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Drummer Dee Pop also performs with improvisational jazz groups Radio I-Ching and Freedomland, and has performed or recorded with rock-oriented bands and artists including Floor Kiss, Immaculate Hearts, the Shams, Black Flies, John Sinclair, Jayne County, the Amazing Cherubs, Fur, Michael Karoli (Can), Richard Lloyd, James Chance, the Slits, Odetta, Gary Lucas, Bobby Radcliff, Patti Palladin, Darlene Love, Andy Shernoff, the Waldos, Nona Hendryx, Band of Outsiders, Lenny Kaye, Jahn Xavier and the Gun Club. He also performed with jazz musicians Eddie Gale, Roy Campbell Jr., Marc Ribot, Mark Helias, Dick Griffin, Billy Bang, Borah Bergman and Hanuman Sextet.
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SpaceChem is an indie puzzle game developed by Zachtronics Industries, based on principles of automation and chemical bonding. In the game, the player is tasked to produce one or more specific chemical molecules via an assembly line by programming two remote manipulators (called "waldos" in the game) that interact with atoms and molecules through a visual programming language. SpaceChem was the developer's first foray into a commercial title after a number of free Flash-based browser games that feature similar puzzle-based assembly problems. The game was initially released for Microsoft Windows at the start of 2011 via Zachtronics' own website.
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The commands direct the movement of the waldo, to pick up, rotate, and drop atoms and molecules, and to trigger reactor events such as chemical bond formation. The two waldos can also be synchronized, forcing one to wait for the other to reach a synchronization command. The reactors may support specific nodes, set by the player, that act where atomic bonds can be made or broken, where atoms can undergo fission or fusion, or where logic decisions based on atom type can be made. As such, the player is challenged to create a visual program to accept the given inputs, disassemble and reassemble them as necessary, and deliver them to the target output areas to match the required product.
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The Heartbreakers' 1977 song, "London Boys", is a swipe at the Sex Pistols, in response to the Pistols' "New York", a put-down of the New York Dolls.. After their initial break up, the band reformed occasionally to play at New York clubs, and did a reunion tour of Europe in 1984 that led to a live album. Billy Rath left the band after the reunion tour and was replaced by Tony Coiro. Thunders and Nolan toured together in 1986 and 1987; Lure formed his own band, the Waldos, as well as occasionally playing with Thunders at New York gigs. The Heartbreakers' final show was on November 30, 1990 at the Marquee in New York City, with Coiro on bass.
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The product molecule does not need to match orientation or specific layout of the molecules as long as the molecule is topologically equivalent with respect to atoms, bonds, and bond types; however, in larger puzzles, these factors will influence the inputs to downstream reactors. While the two waldos can cross over each other without harm, collision of atoms with one another or with the walls of the reactor is not allowed; such collisions stop the program and force the player to re-evaluate their solution. Similarly, if a waldo delivers the wrong product, the player will need to check their program. The player successfully completes each puzzle by constructing a program capable of repeatedly generating the required output, meeting a certain quota.
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In some cases, Barth discovered that players made assumptions on limitations of the game from these tutorials such as the idea that the red and blue waldos must remain in the separate halves of the screen. Based on the feedback that players had made on sites that hosted his previous Flash-based games, Barth designed the global-based histograms to allow players to check their solution without feeling overwhelmed by the top players as would be normally listed on a leaderboard. He also devised the means of sharing solutions through YouTube videos due to similar comments and discussions on the previous games. Barth had envisioned the game as his first commercial project, and based on feedback from Codex and other games, wanted to include a storyline along with the puzzles.
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Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro de los Ríos (7 September 1934 – 28 March 1977) better known as Waldo de los Ríos was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger. De los Ríos was born in Buenos Aires into a musical family; his father was a musician and his mother a well known folk singer; he studied composition and arranging at the National Conservatory of Music under Alberto Ginastera and Teodoro Fuchs. He was inspired by an eclectic range of music and formed a musical group called "The Waldos" which crossed folk music with electronic sounds. De los Ríos turned to work in cinema and film sound tracks where his compositions were heard in the 1967 film Savage Pampas, for which he received a prestigious award from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences.
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They discovered and released the first recordings by Mercury Rev: Yerself Is Steam and Car Wash Hair, and also the first recordings by Fields of the Nephilim, Burning The Fields. They are licensors of the French label Skydog Records, including Iggy & the Stooges' notorious 'Metallic KO', numerous other Iggy Pop releases, and albums by Flamin' Groovies, MC5, Kim Fowley, New York Dolls, amongst others. They have also released recordings by Alternative TV, Sid Vicious, Sky Saxon, [The Seeds , The Newtown Neurotics, Jimi Hendrix, Play Dead, March Violets, UK Subs, King Kurt, The Adicts, Broken Bones, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, A Popular History Of Signs, Test Dept, Nina Simone, Family Fodder, Christian Death, The Eden House, Specimen, The Slits, Wendy James, Tyla Gang, Wasted Youth, Cuddly Toys, London Cowboys, Ducks Deluxe, ex- Spacemen 3 Sterling Roswell, ex-Dr. Feelgood guitarist & songwriter Wilko Johnson, NFD, Walter Lure's The Waldos, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion and many others.
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