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You can stack some monads in such a way that the composition is also a monad. This article is part of a series of articles about functor relationships. In a previous article you learned that nested functors form a functor. You may have wondered if monads compose in the same way. Does a monad nested in a monad form a monad? As far as I know, there's no universal rule …

Few of you will likely have heard of Tony Hoggett, who last month announced his departure from the role of head of grocery stores at Amazon. To retail commentators, it was a surprise and suggested the digital behemoth had not really been having the predicted impact on physical food retail, and so Hoggett needed another challenge. The bigger surprise was that he was moving to New York-based Wonder to run …

On the 243 bus ride to yesterday’s matinee show at Cafe Oto, I finished Samantha Harvey’s short novel Orbital, the winner of this year’s Booker Prize. Starting as a description of the lives of six astronauts aboard a space station, it finishes as a meditation on the world — the planet, the universe — and our place in it. With that in my head, listening to Evan Parker, Matthew Wright …

James CraneCrumbling KeepOSELevels ... ? Fuck off and buy it l0ser In the middle of a deep and dark forest along a babbling stream, the PCs come upon a wide and long field. It is extremely overgrown and has become a mix of bolted plants and dead, dry, and decaying foliage. Despite this, there is somehow a completely clear, straight path through it, untouched by the growth on either side. …

It has been over 25 years since a handful of pragmatic idealists with a penchant for audaciousness started The Long Now Foundation. It was 10 years before the iPhone. Two years before Google. The human genome was about halfway sequenced. Danny Hillis kept telling his friends about a 10,000-year clock. This always led to great conversations about time and civilization and humanity. An institution began to take shape around them. …

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic '80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial.

The latest in Mister Stormy's Monday Selection (Occasional Series - Acts of Random Archive Rummaging) is Dig Me recorded at Arny's Shack, Dorset, on May 1983. Click for detailed information & download. An edited extract is available on YouTube...

Session 271 was played on 11/3/24Morgana, wizard (Rob)Borumar, Triton Thief (Josh)Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)The party wraps back around to the southwest corner of the sewers. Along the way they’re confronted with a trio of slime dwarves sloshing their way in the muck. Nick and Borumar are hit by them. Blotto pees on them. The fight …

A 3D comic accents great storytelling in unexpected ways. It's not just a gimmick! The post 3D Comics Highlight Strong Storytelling appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.

Team Ratings for Round 11 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season. Current Rating Rating at Season Start Difference Stade Toulousain 11.05 8.76 2.30 Bordeaux Begles 5.76 3.96 1.80 Stade Rochelais 4.93 4.85 0.10 Toulon 4.58 5.32 -0.70 Racing 92 2.00 2.75 -0.80 Castres Olympique 1.25 -0.09 …

The Gorilla's DaughterThomas P. KelleyToronto: News Stand Library, 1950160 pages Note: The Gorilla's Daughter is the most sought-after Canadian paperback. It is also the most notorious, though I would argue this has everything to do with the cover. Because copies are so scarce, and access so limited, I'll be relaying the story of the gorilla's daughter from beginning to end. There will be spoilers. Criticism will be kept to a …

This Air Fryer Tofu recipe makes for tasty jagged seasoned chunks that—no joke—taste like chicken nuggets! The texture and flavor combination is absolutely addictive! I know we just did a whole roundup on the individual and irreplaceable virtues of tofu…but for much of my life before age 18 and arguably much of my life after ... View Post

Talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surely mushroomed in the past two years since a small San Francisco company made ChatGPT available. Other chatbots (e.g., Alexa from Amazon; Gemini from Google, Siri from Apple) are now available. Moreover, a more measured response is slowly emerging about what chatbots can and cannot do. Being able to laugh about the onslaught of chatbots and how teachers, students, and professionals have come to …

Original airdate: November 24, 2024 The premise: Visiting a strange circus, Lisa encounters the Illustrated Man, who regales her with three unique tales as depicted by his many, many tattoos. The reaction: The spirit of Halloween lives on at The Simpsons and it’s practically Thanksgiving! I imagine the staff had hoped this would air prior to the Treehouse of Horror, as did previous double-dipper spooky specials like “Halloween of Horror” …

CD – Unsounds Phill Niblock passed away in January 2024 at the age of ninety. It was a tremendous loss for all fans of audio art and experimental music. The minimalist composer had been active since the mid-sixties, and lived intensely through various musical epochs carrying us all into an expressively richer and more hybrid world. An evolution of the compositional approach which – similarly to some of his sounds …