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Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?
In 1979, the feminist writer and activist Pearl Cleage was thirty, newly divorced, and dating for the first time in more than a decade. After a late introduction to Miles Davis’s famous album “Kind of Blue,” she started playing the record on dates. She was “in need of a current vision of who and what …
Ariane 6 joint update report, 12 May 2023
Enabling & Support 12/05/2023 2946 views 27 likes The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of top management of ESA, launch base prime contractor CNES, launcher system prime contractor ArianeGroup and launch service provider Arianespace. This regular update will follow Task Force meetings, to report on the progress being made towards inaugural flight of the …
Generated Adventure — postmortem of a game made with chatGPT and Midjourney (prompts included)
Also, we use chatGPT to make tutorial texts more comprehensive, concise, and easy to understand. We ask the system to rewrite the tutorial text in the ELI5 (a.k.a. ‘explain to me like I am five years old’) format. A few times we generated descriptions for our games with chatGPT, mixed them with human-made versions and …
I’m Confessing that I Love Doris Day
How hot was Doris Day? Check out these survey results from the 1960s. They rank the top money-makers in Hollywood (as chosen by theater owners). Doris Day doesn’t get much respect nowadays. But she rode taller in the saddle than John Wayne and got more fans shook up than Elvis Presley. Around that same time, …
The pros and cons of using ChatGPT in clinical radiology: An open discussion
A paper in the Journal of the American College of Radiology investigates the potential use of large language models in clinical radiology Philadelphia May 24, 2023 Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the use of large language models (LLMs) powered by artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. Now, researchers have …
We Make Everything Harder – zen habits zen habits
By Leo Babauta It sometimes amazes me how we make everything harder for ourselves than it needs to be — myself included. That’s not a bad thing — it’s simply human. Harder is not worse. We learn from harder. So there’s a beauty and a sense to it. That said, once we see how much …
History and future of Infrastructure as Code
Posted on 2023-05-13 Infrastructure as Code is a fascinating domain of software development. While as a discipline it’s still relatively young, not only has it already undergone several paradigm-shifting transformations in its short lifetime, but I think it’s one of the hottest areas of software development innovation today, with several players – ranging from Big …
Here’s Why Toyota Isn’t Rushing to Sell You an Electric Vehicle
Photo: Elizabeth Blackstock Toyota’s hybrid models have been extremely successful, so you would think the automaker would be quick to embrace full electrification like some of its competitors. However, the automaker seems to be taking a somewhat controversial approach to EVs, and a leaked dealer document about the brand’s electrification strategy lays out exactly why. …
17+ Best Linux Books – For Different Target Groups and Use Cases
This article will go through the best Linux books for all the different target groups and use cases. Best Linux Books – Quick Overview Here’s a quick comparison table of the best Linux books: Book Cost Latest Release For Themes The Linux Command Line Paid March 7, 2019 Beginners Commands, CLI, bash How Linux Works …
API has been taken down : pushshift
a US judge Yes, that’s how it works. Reddit is in the US. So is SITM & his research LLCs, AFAIK. Reddit should have sued them years ago Reddit should have simply closed a whole lot of infrastructure deficits & bad design decisions, years ago. PushShift was using the API in a way that was …