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The Tidö party leaders. Photograph by Tom Samuelsson - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128410949 Marcus Larsson, with the think tank Balans, has recently published an audit that shows how elected politicians in Stockholm are simultaneously (!) employed by lobbyist firms - the core business idea of which is to influence politicians. Society's capital mania has trickled down to the young via social media and influencers. 'An entire generation of …

Storm Isha is considerably more whooshy than Storm Arwen was. Very very scary. The strongest winds I have ever experienced...

On August 2014 I made one of the most difficult choices of my life: I left my home country, my family, my friends and everything I knew to move to the United States. I arrived in Florida, and while Florida still speaks a lot of Spanish for a US State (not in a bad way, I’m not complaining! It made my life easier) it still took a bit of me …

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The post Jan ’24 Studio Update appeared first on Schliefkevision - Paintings & Art Classes. It’s back to the grind with a new year on the calendar. Lots of projects are making my days overloaded and miserable with stress. Last Call is coming up! Here’s everything that’s happening! Last Call : AWP in KC Offsite Event Last Call is happening! After a few months of planning, moving dates and tracking… …

Trumpeter Swan observed last week at Ragged Mountain Reservoir, near Charlottesville, Virginia Well, this is it: The last post at Mountain Beltway here at the AGU Blogosphere. AGU has been so accommodating, hosting my blog for these past 13+ years, but they’ve let me know that it’s time to “sunset” the AGU Blogosphere. This didn’t come as a shock – the pace of posting around here has slowed way down …

Andrew Curry takes apart The Browser’s lightly fictionalised version of the annual World Economic Forum shindig at Davos. “The descriptions of how Davos works seem to have been written by someone who knows more about it than is completely good for them.” “The Circle was a handsomely-upholstered comfort zone for people who had already changed the world, not necessarily for the better, and now wanted to cover their tracks. The …

The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting works in South Asian Studies, whose aim is not to “review” but to contextualize, historicize, and promote new scholarship. We thank Suvaid Yaseen for conducting this interview. Please see the archive of previous thirty-one XQs. Hafsa Kanjwal is an assistant professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College. Her first …

It's 2024, and it's time to move on from Bearblog for the moment. It's a great place to write, and Herman has been a very gracious host, but recently I've found myself wanting something different. Dreamwidth was on my shortlist of places to start a blog when I signed up here, and I think the reason I went with Bear instead is that I didn't think Dreamwidth had a mobile …

When running Linux software and encountering a crash, and you make a bug report about it (thank you!), you may be asked for backtraces and debug symbols. And if you're not developer you may wonder what in the heck are those? I wanted to open up this topic a bit, but if you want more technical in-depth look into these things, internet is full of info. :) This is more …

Since taking the plunge with mini-whiteboards (see this post) over the past few years my ability to know whether students are paying attention, thinking and practising has dramatically increased. Because I'm usually teaching groups of children I've not met before, I always draw out a seating plan and make sure I have everyone's names [...]

Good evening all. Talking Pictures TV have recently started a re-run of the surviving episodes of Dixon of Dock Green. Sadly, even at the rate of one a week that won’t take them that long (432 episodes were broadcast during 1955 and 1976, only 32 still exist). Given that so much is missing, it’s hard to get a feel for how the series developed during the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s. …

I'm still trying to catch up on writing up some of the "old" diffusion experiments I did and models I made during 2022. This is another quick write up of a model designed to generate new images of a person's face given a single image of that face with no further fine tuning. There are now better models available for this purpose, in particular take a look at IPAdapter face …

We spent the end of the year in Minas Gerais, the massive Brazilian state next door to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Because of our cat almost dying back in September, and him having FeLV, we’re still weary to leave him alone for too long. So, we didn’t want to go too far, nor for too long. Though, thankfully, colleagues of ours loved the idea of spending their end …

A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a member of the Lean community because of its phenomenal mathematics library mathlib, which was born around six and a half years ago and has now become a very fast-growing database …