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Mrs Fox with her Stormy LandscapesHere is a landscape painter I have never featured before, Mrs Fox. Her stormy landscapes (painted in miniature by Turlo Girffin) are in the Design Museum's Wes Anderson exhibition, which I visited...
The other side of the table.
The other side of the table.
Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months package. We grabbed the...
Two months without work. I’ve sent dozens of applications. I apply to AI training sites. The gigs are overcrowded. One involves listening to spoken and written sentences and rating whether they seem human. It takes half an hour and pays...
The Exchequer of the Jews was created in 1194 by King Richard I of England in order to keep track of all records of debts owed to Jewish moneylenders (as well as possessions and property of every Jew in England). The reason was not only...
"I do think comedy chooses you. I think you can choose it and the people who choose it, some of them, you can tell the chose it and it didn't choose them... As soon as I started stand up, I was like, I have to do this now? It really...
I spent a few hours today playing No Case Should Remain Unsolved, and felt so profoundly moved by it that I had to come and make this blog post. All images courtesy of SOMI Games. I bought it last year while looking for other mystery...
yerp, turned 22 today. i was asleep at home (too much coding the day before, i'm training a small llm on my own hardware for fun btw) when my friends showed up with a cake and gifts. i was surprised but also kinda knew something was...
Part 1 and Part 2 covered self-regulation and abstract reasoning. The next layer is creating something other people want, then deciding whether it is worth creating. Part 3: Making Things Worth Wanting Math is the base, not the summit....
Nextcloud and PHP again # I've been running Nextcloud since years. It works, my family uses it, contacts/calendar sync fine, for the photos I've migrated to Immich recently. WebDAV is there when I need it. And yet, every few months I get...
TIL that the great-great-grandfather of Geoffrey Hinton, “the Godfather of AI”, is none other than George Boole, of boolean algebra fame! Reference: Bits with Soul Darwin College Lecture by Professor Simon Peyton Jones
Market Street This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/manchester-city-centre-27-june-2020
sylvysprite:Title: THE GREAT SISTERHOODIMAGES: 1. (RIGHT OF TITLE) VENUS/MARS GLYPH WITH YIN YANG IN CENTER WITH AN ARCH ABOVE THE ENTIRE GLYPH CONTAINING SEVEN SMALL STARS.2. (IN AN OVAL, LOWER CENTER PAGE) PHOTO OF ARWEN STANDING IN...