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Playing the game
Ko Yamaguchi is causing such a sensation in the Japanese High School Baseball tournament that even the Major League Baseball blog has a post about him. This savant from Japan is taking switch-hitting to a new extreme. He switches which side he hits after EACH pitch. Literally every pitch! Though perhaps we should put “hits” […]
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Josh Hawley Running
One of the highlights, comic relief actually, from last night’s House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack hearing was when they showed a sequence of images showing a defiant Missouri senator Josh Hawley before the insurrection and a video clip of him running after as the senator fled from the mob he helped incite. […]
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Fun with GPT-3
My conversation with an algorithm.
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PechaKucha – new & improved!
Congratulations to Astrid, Mark, Sean and the rest of the PK crew on their refresh of pechakucha.com!
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Primary Election Day, NYC
NY Primary Election Day – what you need to know
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China Tracking
A new video from the New York Times outlines not only the scale but sinister evolution of state-sponsored data collection.
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Focusing on the Facts
Will Uvalde become America’s Port Arthur moment?
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Steve Martin on side effects
I have another site where I keep short quotes and other online ephemera but for longer pieces that I fear may disappear some day, I save them here. Enjoy. Side Effects by Steve Martin DOSAGE: take two tablets every six hours for joint pain. SIDE EFFECTS: This drug may cause joint pain, nausea, head-ache, or […]
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Technology fades into the background
At this year’s Google I/O developer conference, CEO Sundar Pichai spoke of how augmented reality (AR) glasses embedded with Google’s real-time translation services could break down the language barrier in face-to-face communication. While not explicitly announcing any hardware, he did show a video with a pair of glasses with a heads-up display that would show the […]
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BirdCast
Think of the birds!