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Part of what excites me about generative AI LLMs and GANs is the back-and-forth between language and representation. I’ve lately been playing more with MidJourney and Deep Dream Generator and a local install of Stable …

Verocai recorded this visionary post-Tropicalia, pre-art rock album of jazz, funk, folk, and rock and then gave up on recording his own music due to the political climate of Brazil at the time. He spent …

University College London, whose main campus is clustered between Euston station and the British Museum, is home to several excellent museums. The Grant Museum of Zoology is crammed into a single wood-panelled room, densely packed …

Twenty twenty-five is the year I get my blogging groove back.ListeningHell - Live at Roadburn, 2018, Dopesmoker - Sleep | Both of these are pretty “heavy” albums that I appreciate from an aesthetic point of …

I ain't never lived in a house that didn't have wheels on it. It’s been a few years since I last watched this, and I’m probably in a very small club of people who have …

This session, hosted by Aaron Gustafson and Ioana Tanase explores the transformative role of AI in enhancing accessibility. Together, you will uncover the pivotal role AI plays in crafting cutting-edge accessible technologies, learn about innovative …

Ruby on Rails has built-in support for managing uploaded files with ActiveStorage, which both cleans up your application code and acts as an abstraction over different storage backends. Azure Storage is one of the supported …

This is my second in a series of guitars which take inspiration from the work of Dominique Field, this time in Red Cedar and 640 scale. With the addition of an elevated neck and a …

After constantly checking the weather and the river levels for what felt like weeks it finally looked as if I would have an opportunity to get out after some grayling. The "hump" caused by Storm …

The lunar corona in Moonlight over Racken, painted in the early 1900s by Swedish artist Gustaf Fjæstad, is so precise, it could feature in a textbook of atmospheric phenomena. A corona is an optical effect …

In sports such as athletics and football there is need for a high degree of physical fitness. This fitness is very important, for it affects not only strength and stamina, but the athlete's skill and …

Stanford’s William Mahrt, a leading scholar in early music, died today at 85. He conducted Gregorian chant for more than 60 years and inspired and guided generations of scholars. He directed Stanford’s Early Music Singers …

At Vox Constance Grady looks at 'The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse' as she wonders Are men's reading habits truly a national crisis? Among her observations: The truth …

Today's entry is something of a catch-all of recent updates. First, thanks to Bill Wall for sending the above photo showing Public Service Coordinated Transport 5173. This is what remains of a four-wheel snow sweeper …

This model is an old machine shop powered by a wind mill.. Not sure what the metal machine is as it was in my parts box for years and not sure who the manufacturer was …