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Link: https://developmentseed.org/blog/2024-02-02-geocompas Development Seed’s data team in Ayacucho, Peru has spun out to form GeoCompas: I am pleased to announce that the skilled data and annotation team from DevSeed is separating to become an independent employee-owned company called GeoCompas. The Geo AI practice at Development Seed has grown, and the GeoCompas team has been essential in providing crucial mapping, annotation, QA, and automation support. Their expertise in geodata is now …

For a few months I’ve been working with the esteemed Harry Brignull to investigate design patterns in the browser space. Finally we can reveal the fruits of our labour: a major report, ‘Over the Edge: How Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice’.User behaviour has become a battleground. In pursuit of competitive advantage, many tech firms employ various design techniques to encourage users to act in certain ways. Some of …

機械翻訳された日本語の記事にアクセスするにはここをクリックする。 Aaaand we’re back! This write-up should be much shorter than the first, since there’s only a few days left in the “Seventh” week :) Tags: jpjntrv2023, travel, travel2023, japan2023

ℹ️ This is a post series where I talk about my experience learning Dutch, in Dutch. If you're not interested, feel free to ignore it. Do you speak Dutch and noticed my mistakes? Ik waardeer het als je me erop wijst! Welkom bij de derde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. Vandaag ga ik een beetje hebben over mijn nieuwe Nederlandse lessen, mijn kleine reis naar …

We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing for smooth page refreshes This new technique enables us to refresh pages selectively, replacing only the HTML elements that need to change, and ensures smoother …

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A fascinating pair of pieces of ephemera, these, because they tells us something about brewing and beer consumption in large households and by farmers, and give a clue as to why farmers who brewed sometimes became actual commercial brewers. The first is a 163-year-old bill for malt and hops from Samuel Wright of Walkern in Hertfordshire to “S. U. Heathcote”. That is Samuel Unwin Heathcote, Lord of the Manor of …

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There’s a graveyard in the publishing world that’s full of authorized sequels and companion novels to famous works. Neither Scarlett nor Rhett Butler’s People are talked about decades following their release or in as fond terms as Gone With The Wind. Return to Wuthering Heights seems to have existed just to cash in on Emily Brontë’s original. The less said about the sequel to Catcher In The Rye, the better.(Image …

It’s come to my attention that a certain Wildly Popular Female Popstar has a song called “Clara Bow” on her upcoming album, bringing a sudden flurry of interest in this legendary “It” girl actress–seems like the perfect time to reblog … Continue reading →

In July 02023, climate scientist Bjorn Stevens paused in the middle of a virtual talk about data and modeling to quote a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges’ work does not often come up in the context of climate modeling — but Stevens invoked him for a reason beyond idle literary fascination. Referencing “On Exactitude in Science,” Borges’ single-paragraph story in which an empire creates maps of …

(L to R) Jennifer Pratt, Pat Parsley, Kim Downs, Drew RetzMy friend Eric Gutschmidt is fond of saying "You can't build a $100,000 house." That unpleasant reality underlay the lively discussion of housing issues Tuesday morning at the Gazette Business Breakfast in the Geonetric Building cafeteria. Various subjects fell into three major topic areas: supply, price, and neighborhood context.Supply Kim Downs, deputy city manager for the City of Marion, described …

The power of negative thinking: Combinatorial and geometric inequalities Two weeks ago, I participated (remotely) in the discrete geometry Oberwolfach meeting, and Ramon van Handel gave a beautiful lecture about the equality cases of Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities which is among the most famous problems in convex geometry. In the top left, Ramon explains the AF-inequality and its equality cases for three dimensions. The extremal bodies, also depicted in the top right, …

I discussed my recent article, ‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution’, on the New Statesman podcast. Listen on Acast or iTunes.

An update on the Samsung moon controversy from a Samsung executive:There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], …