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When the doors of the lift opened, Darren Grey stepped out, walked for about ten feet, and then stopped. The ground floor of the shopping centre was almost indistinguishable from either of the two levels above, except that the shops were...
The guitar company Fender has won a default judgment protecting the iconic shape of its Stratocaster models – and is applying it. CC-licensed photo by Xoran Sorvor on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post … Continue...
Is it a coincidence that more 'complicated' pathogens to vaccinate against and more poverty/poorer countries share a geographic area?
How can we differentiate AI-music or AI-poetry or AI-whatever from human-made songs, poems, etc.? On this note, I have been debating with myself whether to share this mellow music, which might be AI-generated (see here, for example) and...
The first movie in Jackie Chan's franchise about a cop who doesn't play by the rules is corny, dated, and undeniably a classic of Hong Kong action cinema
How to tell the difference between a system worth shaping and one worth leaving.
While working up some scans from some old negatives I came across an image of a young woman. A cousin of mine, it was taken at a family gathering at my Grandparent’s farm in 1969. She was the daughter of my mother’s oldest brother but I...
There’s a cool free google account feature that tends to go somewhat under the radar. It’s called Google Colab and allows you to author and execute Jupyter notebooks entirely online. I use them extensively for a botanical survey workflow...