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INSPECTOR FOWLER: We have all seen the musical Oliver, and are familiar with the images of jolly, apple-cheeked urchins in big hats. Well, dispel this cozy impression. The Artful Dodger was a thief, and I don’t think he’d have considered himself quite so “at home” in a juvenile detention centre, which is where I’d have put him. Thieving is thieving. And no amount of “oom-pah-pah” or “boom-titty-titty” will change that. …

Tickets are now on sale to Barbican members for UK premiere of “Eno” including post screening conversation with @brianeno, @gary_hustwit and myself. Tickets for non-members go on sale Friday. The film is never the same twice and the screening in London will be unique to that time and place. Checkout Garys’s site for all the details @gary_hustwit

Art by Laura Nicole On fight week, Kayla feels every muscle in her body harden. Electrical currents race around in her bloodstream; each movement is animated by a force that feels uncontrollable, uncontainable. Her coach keeps telling her to rest, to sleep, but how is she supposed to sleep? Her life has tapered to one fine and brilliant point. In bed at night she imagines each punch landing like a …

Sanctimonious post about something that, strangely enough, just occurred to me: normal people can easily turn into soulless sellers, casually dropping ridiculous corporate jargon while taking money out of the same group they call community. Yesterday I watched a few videos from well-known professionals in the music production field, which left me stunned. Not sure if it was the language, or the way they were taking the topics so seriously, …

Last summer as I lamented that my research didn't have real world implications, one of the comments mentioned the sumcheck protocol used for zero-knowledge SNARKs. I tried to figure out the connection back then but got lost in technical papers. With the formal verification of the sumcheck protocol announced last week I tried again this time using Google's new Gemini Ultra. Gemini gave a readable explanation. Let me try to …

Yep, even though I’ve been working as a software engineer for around 11 years now, I’ve actually never had a promotion. Every change in title I’ve had throughout my career has been through changing jobs. But today, for the first time in my career, I had it confirmed that I’ve been promoted. It’s just a level-increase within the “Senior” bracket, but it’s a huge win for me. I got some …

Nabokov arises early in the morning and works. He does his writing on filing cards, which are gradually copied, expanded, and rearranged until they become his novels. The Paris Review: The Art of Fiction No. 40 I’m working through each section of a paper in the Craft of Research series this spring using an image that has worked for me in the past, and which is by no means original, …

We seem to be moving from technology inspired by Star Trek to tech straight out of books by Douglas Adams? This is not my observation. I was on the podcast WB-40 this week, talking about crowdfunding, narrative hooks, and how to preserve a lightness of being. Here it is, WB-40 episode 288: Crowdfunding. After we were done recording, Lisa Riemers, one of the hosts, commented that my recent projects could …

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✍️ Written by: Larry Correia 🏷 Genre: Scf-fi / Fantasy 🗓 Published: 2015-10-15 📄 Pages: 476 🧐 My rating: ★★★★☆ (4 stars) After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. Mankind was nearly eradicated by the seemingly unstoppable beasts, until the gods sent the great hero, Ramrowan, to save them. He united the tribes, gave them magic, and drove the demons into …

There is a film adaptation, but read the book first: you won’t be able to put this page-turner down until the very end!

In five Daytona 500 starts before last weekend, William Byron had never cracked the top 20. But Scouting taught Byron all he needed to know about perseverance. “I need to get to the end,” Byron said last week. “That’s the goal this year.” Boy, did he ever accomplish that. Byron, the class of 2015 Eagle Scout from Charlotte, N.C., won a thrilling Daytona 500, barely holding off teammate Alex Bowman …

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The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe published 1929 Anyone who hung around second-hand-bookshops and Oxfam shops in pre-Internet days will surely recognize at least the idea of this book. I’m going to say it: there was an old copy of this on every swap/share/sell bookshelf for 30 years, and most of us will have had a relative with a copy somewhere. Axel Munthe's The Story of San Michele …