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  1. — As in guillotine...
    Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: As in guillotine. Old/new media pragmatist. Sometimes loud, one-time poet, still opinionated. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Booknotes: October 2024
    Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be …
    By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, 774 words
  2. Global Nerdy
    Tampa Bay techie Joey deVilla on software, hardware, and everything in between. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, November 18 – Sunday, November 24, 2024)
    Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, November 18 through Sunday, November 24, 2024! This list incluzdes both in-person and online events. Note …
    By Joey deVilla, 4,075 words
  3. Lj Miranda
    A collection of notes, projects, and essays. 🇵🇭 More info

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    Guest lecture @ DLSU Manila: Artisanal Filipino NLP Resources in the time of Large Language Models
    I was invited to give a talk to a graduate-level NLP class about my work on Filipino resources. It was fun preparing and giving that talk because I was able to synthesize my thoughts and …
    By LJ MIRANDA, 2,234 words
  4. Prince Street
    By Chris Mears. 🇨🇦 More info

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    Not 2 of 200. Phew!
    I really kind of like that Portage Flyer plan and a second variation quickly came to mind. Related Portage Flyer content for a rainy day:
    By Chris Mears, 30 words
  5. Traingeek – Trains and Photography
    I am a photographer who specializes in trains and grain elevators. I like to tell stories through my photos and my blog. By Steve Boyko. 🇨🇦 More info

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    10 Questions for Oren B. Helbok
    Born in the Bronx in 1965, I ran away from a steam locomotive the first time that I saw one, at age 2, but I very quickly turned around, and since then I have photographed …
    By steve, 50 words
  6. Uncle Rod's Astro Blog
    By Rod Mollise. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Issue #609: HOP, HOP, Astro-Hop!
    Well, well, well, muchachos… November is almost here, and it looks as if we in Possum Swamp may have dodged a bullet hurricane-wise this season. The skies had been improving since the thunderstorms of summer …
    By Rod Mollise, 2,002 words
  7. Astro Bob | Duluth News Tribune
    Bob King's 'Astro Bob' is astronomy for everyone. Mars, Milky Way, Northern Lights, constellations, star gazing and much more. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Astro Bob: Appreciating the Pleiades
    Learn more about one of the brightest, most distinctive star clusters in the sky.
    By Bob King, 19 words
  8. Grand Old Movies
    Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. More info

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    Agnes Ads
    The great Agnes Moorehead should be remembered for her classy roles. An actress of remarkable subtlety (as seen in Without Honor, which I wrote about here), she could, as the saying goes, say much with …
    By Grand Old Movies, 2,594 words
  9. Criminal Element
    Mysteries, Thrillers, and all things Killer! More info

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    On How Art Experts Make the Perfect Literary Detectives by Sarah Jost, Author of The Estate
    Clearly, when creating his famous protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology who finds clues in famous artworks to uncover international conspiracies, immortalised on screen by Tom Hanks, Dan Brown was onto something. Experts …
    By Sarah Jost, 71 words
  10. Classic Film and TV Café
    Devoted to classic movies and television series, ranging from the silent film era to the 1980s. By Rick29. More info

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    We Name the TV Characters...You Name the Series!
    We thought we'd try out a new game this month! For each numbered item below, we have listed three characters from the same TV series. Your task is to name the TV series! Most of …
    By Rick29, 156 words
  11. Joel David Hamkins
    mathematics and philosophy of the infinite. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Determinateness of truth does not come for free from determinateness of objects, Singapore, November 2024
    This will be a talk for the (In)determinacy in Mathematics conference at the National University of Singapore, 20-22 November 2024 Abstract. I shall discuss the question whether we may regard determinateness of truth as flowing …
    By Joel David Hamkins, 59 words
  12. Azimuth
    From math to physics to earth science and biology, computer science … centered around the theme of what scientists, engineers and programmers can do to help save a planet in crisis. By John Baez. 🇺🇸 More info

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    ASKAP J1935+2148
    MeerKAT is an amazing array of 64 radio telescopes in South Africa. Astronomers want to expand this to the Square Kilometer Array, which will actually consist of thousands of telescopes in South Africa and Australia. …
    By John Baez, 753 words
  13. David Fisher, Carving Explorations | Blog
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    Ambrosia Maple Bowl — Butterflies Included
    I should take my own advice. I tell people to be careful to look for the tiniest checks in the end grain of a log because they will open up as the bowl dries. If …
    By Dave Fisher, 50 words
  14. TimeTestedTools
    Vintage Tool Information - Hand Tool Restorations - Tool Collecting - Vintage Tools. 🇺🇸 More info

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    The Sargent Vintage Hand Plane Tote Differences
    It would take an intensive study to determine all the differences in totes among the various models and sizes of Sargent hand planes.
    By Don, 30 words
  15. The Plainspoken Scientist - AGU Blogosphere
    The science communication blog of AGU’s Sharing Science program. 🇺🇸 More info

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    What makes a river a river?
    Close your eyes and picture a river…go on, do it! What did you see? Did you picture a clear, deep mountain stream? A raging river in a steep gorge? A creek with grassy banks and …
    By Shane Hanlon, 592 words