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I have never done any time–frequency transformations. I understand the general idea, but I have never worked with the details. Today I had a reason to use it, but that means learning the basics first. The following is three seconds of a...
UpdateThis episode was recorded prior to me deciding to shut down EchoFeed James invited me onto his podcast, Web Weaving, to discuss the IndieWeb, EchoFeed (RIP), stickers, pens, and some of my other web projects. A full transcript is...
By David Tuller, DrPH In the late 1980s, the UK and international health establishments began promoting a recovery narrative regarding what was then called chronic fatigue syndrome. Recovery was attainable, they asserted, through...
I don’t know about you but I breathed a sigh of relief when the cash-like asset rules for stocks and shares ISAs were announced. They were nowhere near as bad as I feared. Money market funds (MMFs) are the only investment HMRC has...
The following is a transcript. As you feel yourself… Come to… You feel… Gentle strokes along your back. You slowly… Wake.
This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years”. I’m not sure if my list is entirely accurate – I track my reading through Goodreads and found it easy...
This post is about The hyperkähler period-index conjecture is false, joint with James Hotchkiss. If I were still posting fortnightly links, Alexander Perry: The period-index conjecture is false would have prominently featured, because it...
I was pretty sad, as I reached the final three pubs of the Berkshire chapter of the Good Beer Guide for 2026.Mainly, because I was always going to one short, The Swan at East Ilsley being closed since March of this year.Perhaps also...
Vilma Banky and Rudolph Valentino in 'The Son of the Sheik' (1926).This month marks the 100th anniversary of the untimely death of silent screen icon Rudolph Valentino, who passed away on Aug. 23, 1926 at age 31.This past Sunday, I...
For years, arts funding applications have demanded an impossible balancing act from artists. Be innovative, but commercially viable. Be personal, but universally accessible. Address social issues, but remain entertaining. Appeal to...
For a few years before 1920, a Cincinnati neighborhood served as a laboratory to reimagine democracy. By all accounts, the experiment succeeded admirably, until Cincinnati’s mayor launched a smear campaign.The experiment grew out of...
2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a pilgrimage site on the rogue world of Aaa, and the main reason anyone goes there. Then the...
These days I read big, beautifully written and glossy books that I leave on the family room table to impress family and friends. And because they are too heavy and expensive to carry around. My three best current examples are: Palazzi of...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using artificial intelligence, constructing a scene where thousands of green faceted spheres hang on taut cords, each strand blown horizontal by an unseen force. A red sphere tears through the field at...