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I did two entries for the fair this year. My year has been focused on other things. I think the last time I entered only 2 was in Kindergarten. Maybe next year I will make up for it. The Bergère hat was inspired by an original in the MET collection (pictured.) This was my personal […]

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In this tiling of the hyperbolic plane, all of the tiles are the same shape and size (despite their varied appearance), they are not square, and they are not polygons. The right side of the illustration depicts a binary tiling, in one of its conventional views using the Poincaré half plane model of hyperbolic geometry. The vertical sides of the tiles lie on hyperbolic lines, but their horizontal sides are …

I’ve finished the game; this is continued from my last post. Via the Centre of Computing History. ftb on Discord pointed me to one of these mega-shareware discs having a copy of Raspion, but compiled for DOS. First off, RavenWorks cleared something up for me: that SLIT message was referring to the acronym that goes with the “say Lymbar in tomb” in the book; I hadn’t been paying attention to …

(Thanks to James De Santis for pointing the article that inspired this post on Post. The article is pointed to in this post.) What is Emil Post known for? I know of him for the following: a) Post's Problem: Show that there is an r.e. set A that is strictly in between Decidable and Halt using Turing Reductions. He posed the problem in 1944. It was solved in 1956 by …

Back in the Stone Age, humanity was just scraping by with not much more than our bare hands. Working with AI has showed me that, all this time: we've just been scraping by with our bare minds. If computers were meant to be bicycles for the mind, then AI is jetpacks for the mind. I've been using Cursor for programming recently, and it has changed my life. I wouldn't go …

Dancing House in Prague, Frank Gehry & Milunić Archiobjects The Dancing House, located in Prague along Rasinovo Nabrezi, is an iconic work of contemporary architecture designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić. Constructed between 1994 and 1996, this building represents a bold example of deconstructivist design. Initially, the project faced various criticisms for its apparent dissonance with the baroque, gothic, and art nouveau architecture […] The post Dancing House in …

Here is my research on how to use and configure the XPPen ACK05 Remote using only Free Libre and Open Source drivers and software under GNU/Linux. As you'll see, it's quite limited and some features just don't work. This guide will be updated as soon as I have new information on how to improve it, or as soon as new development improves support for this device. Terminology: ACK05 → The …

Speaking of historical satellite imagery, Bill Morris went digging for satellite imagery of what preceded Manicouagan Reservoir before it was created in the 1960s by Quebec’s massive hydro dam projects. But since Landsat first launched in 1973, after the dam was completed, what imagery was there? Answer: CIA spy satellite imagery from 1965—when satellites took pictures on film that was then sent back to Earth—that was declassified in 1996. Read …

Not sure which publication this was in - probably International Times - but this could be the start of a sporadic series: reviews in which critics don't perceive the significance of something at the time of its release. Interesting, though, that the one track Farren digs and praises is "We Will Fall" - the track that most Stooges fans find tedious and interminable.Contradicting his own point, it also the one …

At the risk of becoming a bit repetitive: how can it be October already? It’s definitely getting darker outside. I’ve eaten several baked potatoes. I already have one (1) pumpkin. 🎃 MORE ON BEEPS: when I mentioned the melodious beep of my new washer dryer, Denise expressed… disappointment? surprise? relief? — to characterise it in any way would be projection really — …that I hadn’t provided audio of the beeps …

Thirty days until election day. Or, rather, the first election day for the presidency, thanks to an electoral college that today withstands just as much scrutiny as the original text of Article I § 2 cl. 3 — especially in light of their common flaw: Restricting full voice to "the right kind of people" beyond the mere facts of "citizenship" and "adulthood." OpenAI is possibly poised to become

There's an espresso machine in Breville's lineup that few know about or focus on. But it could be their best bang for the buck machine today. The post The Breville Infuser: The Insider Secret Espresso Machine appeared first on CoffeeGeek.

Where did we stay last year?The bright yellow color of this Spotted Tussock moth caterpillar made it easy to spot as it headed up the fourth step of the porch, looking to find itself an overwintering spot.The Lophocampa maculata, the Yellow Spotted Tussock moth, is really a Tiger moth. Those hair tufts on the caterpillar cause it to be called a "tussock moth caterpillar". This caterpillar has five spots; the …

So my last post used a racing analogy . My Friday a couple of weeks ago was another day that would be backing the long odds . Until Thursday evening I had no intention to fish on Friday as the weather forecast was making Saturday look like a certainty for a good day . But late plans meant that on Friday I was heading out to the river again . …