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Ben Krause, Hamed Mousavi, Joni Teräiväinen, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper Quantitative bounds for sets lacking polynomial progressions with shifted prime difference. The purpose of this paper is to obtain quantative...
“Postcards” from Elm Island Lake, Aitkin Country, Minnesota. Idyllic Beach: Flaming Sunset: Scrollin’ by the Campfire Rustic Bunkhouse:
The poet W.S. Di Piero introduces Montaigne without mentioning his name: “‘Essay’ has embedded in it ‘assay,’ ‘weighing,’ ‘testing,’ ‘proofing,’ ‘trying out,” ‘attempting.’ When writing prose I’m arguing mostly with myself and the...
I have a West Haven in many of my worlds. They are not always the same place. They do not always have the same people, the same history, or even the same rules of magic. But they exist for the same reason.Yet they are there for a common...
I've helped a lot of people identify their transferable skills. In coaching sessions. In 1:1s, back when I was running teams. In the conversations that happen after a reorg, when someone wants to work out what they've actually got.Almost...
If you've been playing long enough to have had a Mel Bay / Hal Leonard part of your musical life, you know these authors used to be lionized. Way back when, Ed Friedland, probably the most famous bass book guy, lived in Austin for a...
When I wrote Liberal Jews and Religious Liberty, my goal was to demonstrate how conservative proponents of expansive religious liberty exemptions would prevent liberal religious claimants from accessing those same protections. For...
Greetings fellow enthusiasts of traditional era movie magic. It would seem, against my better judgement, that it is probably 'that time' once again. It's been a while and to tell the truth, I've been of two minds as to whether to bother...
Class Action Park is a great documentary about a New Jersey waterpark where people died. Even just the trailer is amazing. Seek out the documentary and watch it. Chris Gethard is one of the folks interviewed for the documentary. He wrote...
In brief because I can only remember slightly less than an elevator’s pitch worth of description for each. I’m fighting crazy cult women. I think it more a game of wits than a physical battle. I cannot recall why I was fighting them or...
You know I love a weird, vintage kit. Well, under the table in the The Tram Junction, Laxey, Isle of Man, I found a couple of envelopes, claiming to contain bits for a coach kit. It was too complicated to go through in the shop, but a...
Most people associate the world „singularity“ with exponential growth: that, at some point in time in the (possibly near) future, technological progress will accelerate more and more. But this is not what the word really means. The term...
Ashlie D. Stevens: And increasingly, there is an app for almost every place we eat. The fast-food standards have them, of course, but so do regional chains and neighborhood coffee shops: download this, order ahead, skip the line, collect...
Apple Music will be adding labels to songs that are "materially generated using AI" later this year. I hope that customers will be able to filter off these 'songs' easily in all places. ~ Link: Apple Music to Add Labels for AI-Generated...
Not much to report as I've spent part of this week writing an introduction to the next Don Lawrence book, the fourth, to be reprinted by All Verlag in Germany. This one features 'Wells Fargo' and 'Longbow', and, although I've written...