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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.
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...
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...
Because If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound? If you do great work and no one sees it, did it even happen? Did it?
[Love to see it.]