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I read back my writing and find it uneven, like a mislaid path. Cobblestones, ruddy with rusty moss. But the unevenness doesn’t bother me. In the gaps between sentences, where the rhythm breaks and disperses, where traces of it are cast irregularly over rocky paragraphs, like a varnished wave smeared wetly against the shore, I glimpse something glittering, something close to feeling. That leak of light is a comfort. You …

There is a classic statistical test known as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test (Wikipedia). This post is about an off-label use of the KS-test that I don’t think people know about (not even Kolmogorov or Smirnov), and which seems useful for experimentalists in behavioral science and beyond (most useful, I think, for clinical trials and field... The post [120] Off-Label Smirnov: How Many Subjects Show an Effect in Between-Subjects Experiments? appeared …

Olight Arkfeld Pro Specifications Introduction Torch in use Build quality LED, bezel, lens and reflector Size and comparison User interface Batteries and charging Performance Beamshots Conclusion Price Product page Specifications Brand/model Olight Arkfeld Pro LED Cool White 5700-6700K 70 CRI, green laser, 365nm UV emitter Maximum lumens 1,300 lm Maximum beam intensity 2,608 cd Maximum throw 102 m Battery Built-in 1500mAh 3.7V LiPo Onboard charging Yes (magnetic charging) Material Aluminium …

Thanks to everyone who bought a book in our recent half-price sale. All orders have shipped and will be with you very soon. My storage woes are over, but you know something? It felt great to shift some units. So let’s do it again, albeit in a slightly lesser fashion. The Good Life For Wage Slaves is half price again. Use GOOD50 at checkout. I’m Out can’t be half price …

“Unit One,” a new short story of mine, is published in issue 249 (fall 2024) of The Paris Review, with eerie illustrations by Cathleen Clarke. Please check it out!

This is the final entry in Season 1 of Discourse 2000, a story-by-story look at 2000AD. Contains spoilers! WHICH THRILL? The surviving cast of Harlem Heroes return, forming a team to compete in the new, even more violent sport of Inferno. The final issue of Action, with the traditional “exciting news” death knell THE STORY OF A VIOLENT COMIC Action, 2000AD’s notorious predecessor, still existed for the bulk of 1977, …

Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twice the size of Hawaii, with a population of over 10 million people (more than London). And yet inevitably until last week I'd never heard of it. I make no excuses for this - my knowledge of the geography of China is pretty pathetic, …

It's one of those days that a web search led me to an unfamiliar corner, and I found myself poring over a pile of column charts that look like this: This pair of charts appears to be canonical in a type of genetics analysis. I'll focus on the column chart up top. The chart plots a variety of gene functions along the horizontal axis. These functions are classified into three …

This week’s theme: John Coltrane as a sideman on the Prestige label, Part 2. This one features all of the Coltrane solos on alto sax with Gene Ammons, as well as tracks from The Cats, Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane, and other records from the early Prestige catalog.The post Podcast: Coltrane, Sideman, Prestige, Part 2 first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

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Have you ever read an autopsy report? It’s brutal. You peel a person apart, pick them over for information. You tour through their body, their organs, their selves like it’s the index to a book. In just a couple of pages of banal medical description, you are turned from an ordinary citizen into the holder of a dark secret. The autopsy makes you a witness to somebody’s most intimate moments. …

I've been pondering my love of reverberations. Last week, I received a request from a very kind listener: the filmmaker Grace Wang suggested a Linda Rondstadt track, and my first impulse was to drown it in static and reverb. Why?Perhaps the answer is simple: echos and fog generate mystery. In 1973, the painter Gerhard Richter said, "I've never found anything lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can …

As the days tick down to the major European retail property show, MAPIC, on the South coast of France in Cannes the key themes to be covered have been highlighted at a preview event in London. Catherine Stevenson, Cushman & Wakefield This year’s exhibitors and speakers will again highlight the ongoing move away from old school retail involving simply flogging goods to a broader proposition. Whereas back in 2020 75% …

Until recently, Adobe Lightroom Classic was more of a heavy user of a computer's CPU and RAM, than the graphics processing unit (GPU). However, the AI denoise functionality introduced in 2023 has significantly changed the goalposts. The AI denoise functionality is extremely reliant on powerful "AI enabled" GPUs. So which graphics cards work well, and which don't? There are only limited benchmarks available, so this article is based on a …

As long as computers have existed, we've had the desire to type funny little symbols into them. Until emoji was standardized globally in the 2010s, though, we really didn't have that many options for typing funny characters—unless you had a computer with dingbat fonts. Windows users of a certain era probably remember the Wingdings font that came with the operating system, but for many people that was probably their only …