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  1. My Blog
    One person is typing. By Cassey Lottman. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Healthcare in Canada for Newcomers
    My family arrived in Canada as new permanent residents towards the end of this past summer, having moved from Nebraska in the US. We knew coming here that Ontario (and elsewhere in Canada, but I'm …
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🛎️ First post in over a year!

  1. Backdrifting: Milo Trujillo's Cyber-Nest, , more info

    What is NP? Why is NP?
    What is NP? Why is NP? Posted 12/11/2024 This post is about theoretical computer science. I’ve written it without getting too far into academic vocabulary, but this is a disclaimer that if thinking about Turing machines sounds dry as sand, this will not be the post for you. In computer science we are often interested in how difficult a problem is, defined by how the number of steps required to …
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🔔 First post in over seven months!

  1. Wandering Around The Family Tree, , more info

    Photos of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe
    I've started editing/re-editing some family photos. Figure I'll post the images here as groups, and add to the posts as I get photos edited. So this will be photo of my great grandparents Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939), son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908) and his wife Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956), daughter of Albert Coe (1827-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910). If you would like larger copies of the …
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    Classic Movie Travels: Dinah Shore
    Classic Movie Travels: Dinah Shore Frances “Fanny” Rose Shore was born on February 29, 1916, to Anna and Solomon Shore in Winchester, Tennessee. She had a sister, Elizabeth, who was eight years older. When Fanny …
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  2. Condensed concepts
    Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter. By Ross H. McKenzie. 🇦🇺 More info

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    Are gravity and space-time emergent?
    Attempts to develop a quantum theory of gravity continue to falter and stagnate. Given this, it is worth considering approaches that start with what we know about gravity at the macroscale and investigate whether it …
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  3. Prop Up the Bar
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    A Dorchester Dawdle
    An overnight in Dorchester - the Dorset version, rather than the one on the Thames.It has been ten years since I last visited Dorset's county town. Back then, the brewery quarter was a construction site, …
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  4. Actuaries in government
    News and updates from the Government Actuary's Department. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Supporting HM Treasury through legal proceedings
    When I was a newly qualified actuary, part of the induction process into life as a professional was to watch a video in which an accountant was in the dock accused of professional negligence squirming …
    By James Pepler - Actuary, 1,215 words
  5. Granite and Sunlight
    Disability justice in the age of austerity. By Fiona. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Hope Of Independence – Ten Years On
    I write a lot about how I see hope. I have poems about how hope doesn’t feel positive to me – I know its effect is positive, but it’s not a nice feeling. It hurts. …
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  6. Josh Collinsworth | Blog
    Writings on development, design, and random thoughts. 🇺🇸 More info

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    The childlike and the childish
    Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up …
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  7. Humanizing The Vacuum
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    Nicole Kidman re-discovers her sexual appetites in ‘Babygirl’
    Classifying Nicole Kidman as an ice queen runs against her career choices, and this includes the glimmering pantsuit-clad ambassador for AMC Theaters who digs her high heel into a puddle with nary a complaint and …
    By humanizingthevacuum, 649 words
  8. The Aperiodical
    Occasional(ly) mathematical blogging. By Katie Steckles, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Peter Rowlett. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Double Maths First Thing: Issue E
    Double Maths First Thing is like a colossal hedgehog overlooking Catania airport. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in maths. One person who …
    By Colin Beveridge, 355 words
  9. Peter Follansbee: Joiner's Notes
    Seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Carved box for sale, etc
    carved box, Dec 2024 I’ve been busy, but not in-the-shop busy these days. Recent fall seasons I’ve made several carved boxes for sale – but this year I have one – and won’t have time …
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    Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The artifical intellgience wall
    A lot has been written recently about the development of artificial intelligence tools hitting a wall: that is, we’re reaching a point where the pace of improvement in models has slowed considerably. Some have made …
    By sjhoward, 269 words
  11. EvermoreStudio
    By Andrew Crawford. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Jack-O-Lantern 2024
    My 2024 virtual jack-o-lantern was created in Nomad Sculpt, then rendered and animated in Blender. Seen here with my virtual jack-o-lanterns from 2022 and 2023. The post Jack-O-Lantern 2024 appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.
    By Andrew Crawford, 36 words
  12. Life, Technology and more…
    I'll know where I'm going, when I get there... By Mark Cathcart. 🇺🇸 More info

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    The High Speed Pendulam
    I read this morning, it’s completely nuts. China and America are indeed diametrically opposed. China is on it’s way to building 30,000 miles of high speed rail. All paid for by borrowing, much of the …
    By Mark Cathcart, 456 words
  13. declad
    I am an architect with over twenty years experience working in different countries. I am British but I live in Helsinki. By Lewis Martin. 🇫🇮 More info

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    The House of Government
    The Book The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine I saw a reference somewhere online to Yuiri Slezkine’s The House of Government and thinking it was a book about a single building a giant 1931 …
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  14. He Can Jog
    A composer, improviser and instrumentalist of sorts. By Erik Schoster. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Log: Tuesday December 3rd
    Woah, it's already December. It's been a year now since I started journaling about this rain piece for resonators and brass. Since then the project has expanded to incorporate more computer-controled solenoid and motor-driven activation …
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  15. Oliver Andrich
    A software developer from Koblenz with a passion for code, coffee, punk rock and a good conversation. 🇩🇪 More info

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    PyCharm, Tailwind & htmx
    After I shared my initial thoughts on PyCharm, I moved more and more of my projects — personal and work related — to PyCharm. So far, it works out pretty nice, and I am getting …
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