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watch out!Some sections of this article make nail biting sound appealing. If you're currently avoiding biting your own nails, please be careful reading in case they make you want to bite. Remove sentences from the article?For a long time, I haven't been bothered enough about nail biting for me to try to stop. Sometimes I felt guilty about it, but only a couple of times have I tried seeing if …

Over the last few days, I’ve released my Top 2024 Games Of All Time, At Least In My Opinion, At Least Right Now. This year, I decided to release the list primarily on BlueSky, with a seperate longer article here on the blog. For those of you who still use RSS readers somehow (and apparently there’s at least one of you!), I apologize for the massive two day flood of …

Are the machine learning tools and chatbots that work with human language creating, or just impersonating? I spoke this week to Rob Booth, the Guardian’s UK Technology Editor, about the latest interfacing between AI and human language interactions, a topic I am only just beginning to explore. Rob’s perceptive analysis with contributions from my friend Professor Rob Drummond, is here… https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/11/ai-tone-shifting-tech-could-flatten-communication-apple-intelligence A few days earlier French business journalist Jacques Henno …

Oh my goodness: where do I start with this?Well, first I should thank Dick Miller, the kind donor of this disc, a seven-track EP originally issued thirty years ago this year, titled A Crafty Ladies Christmas.The EP features short renditions of seasonal classics by the Crafty Ladies, members of an arts programme run by a non-profit organisation in San Franciso - the Recreational Center for the Handicapped - which provides …

I'm afraid that my dedication to the blog and all things pub has trailed off at the end of 2024."Stuff" has gotten in the way, as it does occasionally.So instead of pubs adorned in Christmas decorations, I'm backtracking a few few weeks to catch-up and bring you a bit of mild smut in the gents WC on the side of a hill...After an overnight in Dorchester and a return visit …

Back in the spring of this year, I got the inkling to try out tubes. That kernel of an idea led to an extensive overhaul of my setup. Several months later, I can now say that I’m content with what I have, and I can relax and enjoy the music a little more. ... More→

Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime) New Victoria Theatre The New Victoria Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty was a beautifully crafted production with amazing scenery, atmospheric lighting and flamboyant costumes; it was everything you want a panto to be. From the playful delightful Royal magician (Richard Cadell), Spirit of Dreams Dame played by the national treasure himself Christopher Biggins, to the wicked Evil Sorceress Carabosse delivered by the talented Faye Tozer, everything was wonderful.To hear …

This session, hosted by Aaron Gustafson and Ioana Tanase explores the transformative role of AI in enhancing accessibility. Together, you will uncover the pivotal role AI plays in crafting cutting-edge accessible technologies, learn about innovative AI tools that empower individuals with disabilities, and dive into best practices for creating inclusive AI solutions. Together, we will also explore the exciting future of AI in pushing the boundaries of accessibility.Learning objectives:Understand the …

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview: Why Care About Church History? I was recently interviewed on Lisa Anderson’s Boundless podcast. She asked me several questions about the value of studying the history of Christianity over just reading the Bible. My answers surprised her, and at the end of the show, she surprised me with a question I wasn’t expecting. … Bill Petro, your friendly neighborhood historian billpetro.com Subscribe to have future …

IN THE BEGINNING there was the LETTER, and it was Slow; and there was also the PHONE CALL, which back then got Expensive if it wasn’t local. Then came the E-MAIL (it had a hyphen back in those days), and it was Instantaneous, except that the Computer Lab wasn’t always free, and Dialup was slow, and checking it when en route or abroad was nigh on impossible, but on the …

This blog explores the partnership between Bayes Business School and the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD), showing how academic expertise helps solve government challenges in managing financial risks. The collaboration helps train future experts who combine traditional skills with modern data analysis to serve the public sector. Introduction I am Ioannis Kyriacou, Professor of Actuarial Finance at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London. It is my privilege to …

The Future Foodscapes Research Unit is an interdisciplinary collective after our own hearts. Their focus is on rethinking the future of the planetary food system through a series of research and speculative projects, one of which sees the kitchen as an externalised stomach. Functioning as an Open Research Platform, the FFRU was founded to rethink the future of the food system in a planetary context by exploring its relationship with …

Being a freelancer often means not getting paid on time (still waiting, Dotdash Meredith). But there are good things about it, too. Sometimes, you end up discovering a place much sooner than you would normally. This is what happened to … Continue reading →

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Thomas Anour has posted a number of Bible extracts: Mark 10:13-18, John 1:1-13, and James 4:1-3. Comparing these to a published translation from 2002 (from which he sometimes diverges slightly) and to the anonymous dictionary linked in the previous post makes it possible for a beginner to parse much of the text. No more examples of /ħ/ were heard; but another pharyngeal, /ʕ/, was. This phoneme is absent from the …