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October's Pylon of the Month is from a fan of the website who encountered it whilst cycling from Zurich to Rapperswil. He notes that it is a tension tower where the line of cables changes direction vertically as it descends to the valley and lake below. A quick look at the open infrastructure map leads me to believe that it's a 132/110 kV line descending to the Rapperswil substation. If …

Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens. We will add more of the scans to this page later in the week.

Pre-made "skinny" stones being bulked with foam. Inspector Vulture approves.Shaped and coated with joint compound over paper mache'.Painted black and dry-brushed white.While I have several ideas for scratch-built monuments, this was another year to simply "bulk out" premade stones to give them more heft and believability. It is a simple process of building up the back and base of the stone with additional foam then coating with paper mache' and …

Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a fundamental dimensionality reduction technique using in Machine Learning. The general goal is to transform a -dimensional problem into a -dimensional one, where is smaller than . This can be used, for instance, to plot large dimensional data on a 2D or 3D plot, or to reduce the number of features in an effort to eliminate random noise in a machine learning problem (made …

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generative systems and the content deficit Brochure: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) 1970s Gift of the William Hough Collection Collection of SFO Museum 2007.011.285 Last week I spoke at the 2024 Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Lawrence, Kansas. The talk was an elaboration on some of the closing slides in the presentation that I did for a Museum Studies class at USF earlier this year. As usual it felt like …

The one where Sara wrote a post for CSS-Tricks 🧡🎉

'This is dreadful,' the old man sat next to me said rudely during Oedipus at the Wyndhams Theatre. I vigorously ignored him. It wasn't dreadful, far from it. In fact, I was gripped by Robert Icke’s production, which stars Mark Strong as the eponymous character and Lesley Manville as his...

My friend Ali recently wrote a beautiful — and heartbreaking — post titled Middle Easterners are numb. We exchanged emails, as we do sometimes, discussing our mutual experience. A few days have passed, and now that Israel have started bombing Iran, my argumentation looks more hypocritical than before. As a Middle Easterner, you get used to certain things in the region, and one of them is war. We’re born with …

I recently found out (thanks to this article from Juha-Matti Santala) that not only you can power a RaspberryPi device through the USB-C of an iPad but that you can also get an ethernet connection through it Requirements an USB-C iPad (I used an iPad Air 4th gen) a USB-C cable (I used the one that comes with the iPad) a RaspberryPi (you need at least a RPI 4. I …

Welcome to Improv 101 Many guitarists view improvising over chord changes as the unobtainable holy grail of their guitar journey. But it doesn’t need to be that way. It took me 30 years to crack the code, and now that I can see the path clearly, I want to illuminate it for you. Every guitar player can learn to improvise. The problem isn’t you—it’s the way this stuff is usually …

A cover of the song Sommarfågel by Wintergatan, performed on a selection of my homemade 8-bit and 16-bit instruments.

A personal philosophy In order to be a modeller of railways there needs to be a model railway. It doesn't matter if it is a loft or an Ikea box, there has to be a railway, otherwise we are mere collectors of things in boxes.Occasionally, a thought begins to become a concern, why build a model railway and why choose a particular subject? My obsession, for it is an obsession, …

The Map House, a wonderful gallery in Knightsbridge in central London which is itself over 100 years old, has just launched a month-long exhibition specifically

[UPDATE: the carved box is SOLD. If anybody else wants one, send an email & I’ll put you on a list…] a follow-up to my previous post here. A friend of Drew’s Langsner’s (& mine) was able to get over to NJ and collect those two chairs of his that were for sale. I was glad for the outcome – nice to know the chairs got saved. I finished up …