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By Yolanda Wessels Situated near Stanford in the Western Cape lies Panthera Africa, a non-profit company and haven for exploited animals. This 40-hectare environmentally friendly sanctuary is home to animals that have all been rescued …

When I was in University I had a few good teachers, and I remember fondly Professor Lorenzo Farina. Once, he§ came to class and ranted a bit about some job advertisement he had read: the …

omg, this article (external link) makes so much sense. A few weeks ago, my local supermarket converted to a “Woolworths Metro” store, and I had no idea what the implications of that were, except that …

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Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for Monday, February 26 through Sunday, March 3, 2024. This week’s events Monday, February 26 Tuesday, February 27 …

A few weeks ago, I held a guest lecture in the DSBA 6188: Text Mining and Information Retrieval Class at UNC Charlotte on using large language models (LLMs) for annotation. It was fun because I …

I’ve been playing with paper. I had this question: what if you rolled up some paper into a coil, would it look like the rings in a cut log? And it was late, and I …

I really should say “railway” in Lichtenstein, since there is only one and it just passes through the country.

Wow, just wow, muchachos… Now, admittedly I’ve turned into something of an astronomical Luddite who is easily impressed by modern technology. Hell, I’d still be using NexRemote if they’d update it to a version that …

The red planet officially returns to view with a little help from Venus.

What a great, I mean a great, beginning to The Lady Pays Off. Linda Darnell is about to receive a teacher-of-the-year award. Darnell, a teacher? Anyway, she’s sitting at a formal dinner, ignoring a dull …

The resourceful young agents of James Ponti’s terrific middle grade series City Spies are back for their fifth adventure, this time protecting a young environmentalist from forces who will stop at nothing to silence her …

Jeff Chandler as Rick.Had a bad day at work? Relatives causing undue stress? If so, then perhaps you need to sit down and watch a mindless 1950s comedy. You know the kind. It's entertaining enough …

This will be a talk for the Logic and Philosophy of Science Colloquium at the University of California at Irvine, 15 March 2024. Abstract. With a simple historical thought experiment, I should like to describe …