— As in guillotine...
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: As in guillotine. Old/new media pragmatist. Sometimes loud, one-time poet, still opinionated.
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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
Global Nerdy
Tampa Bay techie Joey deVilla on software, hardware, and everything in between.
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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
Lj Miranda
A collection of notes, projects, and essays.
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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
Prince Street
By Chris Mears.
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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:
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.
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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 …
Uncle Rod's Astro Blog
By Rod Mollise.
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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
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.
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Astro Bob: Appreciating the Pleiades
Learn more about one of the brightest, most distinctive star clusters in the sky.
Grand Old Movies
Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films.
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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
Criminal Element
Mysteries, Thrillers, and all things Killer!
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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 …
Classic Film and TV Café
Devoted to classic movies and television series, ranging from the silent film era to the 1980s.
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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 …
Joel David Hamkins
mathematics and philosophy of the infinite.
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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
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.
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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. …
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 …
TimeTestedTools
Vintage Tool Information - Hand Tool Restorations - Tool Collecting - Vintage Tools.
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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.
The Plainspoken Scientist - AGU Blogosphere
The science communication blog of AGU’s Sharing Science program.
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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