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How can we differentiate AI-music or AI-poetry or AI-whatever from human-made songs, poems, etc.? On this note, I have been debating with myself whether to share this mellow music, which might be AI-generated (see here, for example) and...
The first movie in Jackie Chan's franchise about a cop who doesn't play by the rules is corny, dated, and undeniably a classic of Hong Kong action cinema
How to tell the difference between a system worth shaping and one worth leaving.
There’s a cool free google account feature that tends to go somewhat under the radar. It’s called Google Colab and allows you to author and execute Jupyter notebooks entirely online. I use them extensively for a botanical survey workflow...
While working up some scans from some old negatives I came across an image of a young woman. A cousin of mine, it was taken at a family gathering at my Grandparent’s farm in 1969. She was the daughter of my mother’s oldest brother but I...
Because If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound? If you do great work and no one sees it, did it even happen? Did it?
[Love to see it.]
Recommended: “Memorial Day started with Blacks decorating soldiers' graves in 1865” by Erick Johnson for the Chicago Crusader, May 25, 2026. The article references historian David Blight’s work on race and Civil War memory.