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Back in 2000 or 2001, I was exploring Saint John and took these photos of the former Lantic Sugar refinery.
Sometimes Sydney Trains runs a special train, just for me! Or at least, I pretend they do. How luxurious. As an aside, for those of you who live in cities with double deck train carriages, do you sit upstairs or down? I tend to sit...
This piece from Anil Dash remains my absolute favorite take on AI. It’s fair and pragmatic, and in a word, NORMAL. I think I read it every day and twice on days when I feel like I’m losing my mind amongst the AI hype. Technologies like...
Cafe after dark.
In an echo of Bruno Latour’s “we have never been modern”, David Abram argues “we are still animist.” We have built devices that speak to us, even have conversations with us, in an attempt to find our way back to the living landscape of...
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Barry Hess, whose blog can be found at bjhess.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a...
Giant jagged rocks reach into the sky at Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, Colorado. The post Big Jags appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
In Japanese Buddhist temples and some Shinto shrines, there’s an awesome tradition of receiving a goshuin in exchange for a small donation.A goshuin is a piece of calligraphy, usually featuring the name of the temple and the date of your...
Midcareer Dissatisfaction. The Feed Is Fake. What’s New in Flutter. Real-time Face Detection. Software Engineering at the Tipping Point.We Don’t Lose Friends, We Just Stop Showing up. That's AI & more
Projects change. Photographs move from person to person, from tool to tool. A crime-scene photo passes from the investigator’s camera to a forensic analyst’s workstation to a prosecutor’s presentation software. A heritage digitisation...
I did a lot of data engineering work in my career. When you work a lot with data, you often get quick requests to extract some cold data and process it. Since the data is cold, it usually resides on S3. For example, one of the typical...
Just a quick note to highlight this new report on the use of 'dark patterns' in chatbot design. This is something I've touched on before (and have a paper relating to, in the deep abyss of academic procedure) but it's really good to see...
: The story of Juan Romero, the 17-year-old busboy who cradled dying Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. How he lived with guilt for 50 years and eventually found peace.