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When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment. My rules: No news, no social media, no podcasts, no...
In 1933, shortly after Hitler took power, Charlotte Beradt started having nightmares.
During the peak of mobile app madness, iOS and Android developers would often find themselves cornered by friends, relatives, and random people at parties. “I’ve got a great idea for an app…” More often than not, this dreaded sentence...
This week’s NYT T Magazine has a surprisingly interesting How to Be Cultured section that has personal picks in various categories like film, art, food, and so on. In the literature pages is The Poems You Should Know by Heart; the first,...
The world of Print On Demand has continued to generate unlicensed and undesired Peanuts books. If you were carefully searching this past Christmas, you might have found Charlie Brown and the CHRISTMAS COMET That Changed Its Mind...
The modern advertising apparatus exists to bypass rational thought and trigger emotional responses that lead to purchasing decisions. A sophisticated machine designed to short-circuit your agency, normalized to the point of invisibility....
Thank you, Hacker News, for promoting — if only briefly — this marvel of an article from Physics World (or is it physicsworld?) about the more scientific aspects of the final and most important step of making coffee. Funnily enough, it...
I built a tennis broadcast pipeline this spring and ended up running F3ED, the NeurIPS 2024 shot detector, on a couple of ATP Challenger matches. F3ED is a good model. It also kept labeling clear aces as “unforced errors”, which is what...
From BBC News: A Russian speaker recruited and offered money to Ukrainian men to carry out arson attacks on properties connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, a court has heard. …The prosecutor said analysis of messages from phones...