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According to a new (not yet peer reviewed) study, there’s a strangely strong correlation between longevity and living in areas with low income levels and high crime rates. Are people who claim they’re over 110 …

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 …

King Crimson took a major left turn at the dawn of the 80s by paring down to a quartet and recording 3 albums of lean, calculated, modern-sounding music that was mostly–but not entirely–distinct from its …

Saturday 6 May 2023 marked the coronation of King Charles III, the first coronation since 1953 and so the first in the living memory of most people. It took place eight months after the death …

If you use a domain for something popular, it will get squatted if you don't renew it, by Tom MacWrightThis. “It me,” or whatever. When I first started doing computer stuff I bought charlesharries.com from …

I am Abu the thief, son of Abu the thief, grandson of Abu the thief. A king (John Justin) is tricked out of his throne and locked away in jail by his right-hand man (Conrad …

I really appreciated Cory LaViska’s take on #WebComponents here. Especially this bit:You know what framework I want to use? I want a framework that aligns with the platform, not one that replaces it. I want …

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 …

Another enjoyable weekend in North Devon shot by and no sooner than we had arrived it was time to head back up the M5 to the Midlands again. My friend Ken needed dropping off in …

‘If I could sail a galleon ship, a long, lonely rider across the sky Seek out mysteries while you sleep And treasures money cannot buy… And if we rise my love Before the daylight comes …

'Another' pass out from the Wife saw me venturing to sunny Spain where Benidorm was the first port of call for a night to blow the cobwebs away, and then 5 nights at my mate …

A letter from Alexander Deriev, husband of the late poet Regina Derieva. The Russian couple have a helluva back story. I wrote about her in “Writ on Water,” an 2014 essay for the Times Literary …

They've announced the winner of this year's Erich Fried Prize, and it is Babyf**ker-author Urs Allemann. This author prize is one of those where a single juror -- a different one each year -- decides …

Word has arrived that the Chicago Transit Authority, which in 2015 set aside eight 2400-series 'L' cars built by Boeing-Vertol for their historic collection, has downsized a bit. Cars 2543 and 2544, shown above back …