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I'm so happy to say that I'm the co-host of a podcast produced by Industrial Light & Magic. We call it "Lighter Darker."Our name comes from the 1997 artwork made by ILM art director Benton Jew of a cover of a fictional comic book called "Attack of the Nitpickers", where scary, undead people (clients) hover behind a digital artist (who is handcuffed to his desk) and the poor artist is …

New Model Army Thunder And ConsolationGet It At DiscogsNMA proved that they were well worth waiting for. Thunder and Consolation begins grandly, keeping the keyboards from "White Coats" on "I Love the World," an anthem filled with bittersweet irony and sarcasm. Self-produced, the album never falters, and the single "Stupid Questions" made an impression on American college and modern-rock radio, especially when working visas were granted to the band and …

This paper (Influence of a Large Language Model on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Study by Goh et al.) on ‘diagnostic reasoning’ hasn’t had enough attention. The authors fully expected Doctors plus GenAI to win. But GPT 4 on its own beat Doctors hands down.One of the authors made the point that the surprise was that the results broke that oft quoted trope that “AI will not take your …

The original: 4 Le labbra rosse paion de corallo, e havvi drento duo filar’ de denti che son più bianchi che que’ del cavallo: da ogni lato ve n’ha più de venti. Le gote bianche paion de cristallo, senz’altro liscio, né scorticamenti, rosse entro ’l mezzo, quant’è una rosa, che non se vide mai sì bella cosa. 8 Ell’è dirittamente ballerina, che la se lancia com’una capretta, girasi come ruota …

In this post we take a look at the format of the new Kill Team Core Book and the Hivestorm dossier from Kill Team: Hive Storm. We share our impressions of the new Kill Team edition from a casual player's perspective and analyse what has improved and what has not. The post Review: Kill Team: Hivestorm Pt. 2 – the rules appeared first on Tale of Painters.

Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Web of Science puts mega-journals Cureus and Heliyon on hold Hidden hydras: uncovering the massive footprint of one paper mill’s operations New engineering dean has two retractions for authorship manipulation Pain researcher in Italy up to seven retractions Authors sue Sage over “discriminatory” retractions of papers cited in abortion pill case …

ShareTwice in the past decade the Supreme Court has blocked Oklahoma from executing Richard Glossip. Now the state has joined Glossip to argue that newly uncovered evidence shows prosecutors violated his rights at trial. But even with the Oklahoma’s rare confession of error, both the state’s highest court for criminal cases and the state’s pardon and parole board turned down Glossip’s pleas for relief. On Oct. 9, two former U.S. …

Welcome to our 6th annual fall reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it. Or, as always, just talk about something else, and of course, do report your fragrance of the day if you like. What I’ve read since the summer poll… Read the rest of this article »

And we have more progress to report on the latest sampler strip in my series of stitched pieces commemorating the literary output of my Resident Male. First we start with the now expected Mysterious Saying. In this case, “Ant-Aransa,” a quotation from the inspiring work – Treyavir. It translates roughly to “Do what’s right.” An admonishment that should be heeded more often for us all. The lettering is not from …

The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of September 2024, is now online at Storm Bear World. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.

It’s a strange phenomenon that I cannot always place. Jealousy and envy can be two close bed partners, of course they can, but then there is expert knowledge, insider knowledge and a range of levels between just disliking someone and all the way up to hatefulness. Challenging the status quo of any majority and suddenly... Source

Quick PSA for the very kind people who decided to support what I do over on Ko-Fi. I recently noticed that some memberships were getting stuck with a pending label even though they were working fine in the months before. Apparently, that’s caused by a bug—probably on the Ko-Fi side but still can’t say for sure—and if you were a supporter affected by this you probably didn’t even get an …

It’s the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for another Six Degrees of Separation, hosted by Kate of Books are my Favourite and Best. The idea is that Kate chooses a book to use as a starting point and then we have to link it to six other books of our choice to form a chain. A book doesn’t have to be connected to all of the …

A rich mushroom side dish perfect for serving with burgers, steaks, pasta and more, a good pan of caramelized onions and mushrooms is something everyone should know how to make. With only a few simple ingredients the technique is extremely important here. Today I'll show you how to make it like a pro. You might... Read More The post Classic Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms appeared first on Forager | Chef …

MARCUS FJELLSTRÖM - THE LAST SUNSET OF THE YEAR Marcus Fjellström is a Swedish composer and multimedia artist whose work ranged from purely orchestral to electronic music. After graduating from his composition and orchestration study in Sweden, he released his debut album Excercises in Estrangement in 2005. Three other solo albums would follow: Gebrauchsmusik, Schattenspieler, and Skelektikon. Apart from that, some of his audiovisual work can be seen on his …