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The graphs are in the video. As stated at the top:

> [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]

You might be interested in this prequel to "Service Model": "Human Resources" [1]

[1] https://reactormag.com/human-resources-adrian-tchaikovsky/

I wonder if Typst [1] can handle this.

[1] https://typst.app

Off-topic: when I initially saw the headline, I thought it was about people farming termites. :-)

For reference, Libreture maintains a list of non-DRM bookshops [1].

[1] https://libreture.com/bookshops/

I take wildlife shots but mainly for the record, which I post on iNaturalist. On occasion, I do need to see 'slightly into the future' for some shots, like predicting where birds and flying insects might be when I'm tracking them for shots. (This can be hard for pollinating insects flying from flower to flower.)

An article that brings back memories for me, since I worked at Creative Technology (the Singapore HQ) from the CD-ROM days until recently. :-)

I was also one of the people who worked on the Nomad II MP3 player.

I still use OSMAnd because it can take photos (with GPS coordinates) at waypoints while recording a track.

I use this to take photos of images from my DSLR while on nature walks.

I later download the waypoint photos and upload it to iNaturalist to get the location information I need to link the location to my higher resolution camera images.

More reliable than linking my camera to my phone (via Bluetooth) to record the location info.

Yes, the Sidek Serve involves hitting the feathers first. The controversy over the serve was widely publicised in Malaysia (my birth country) at the time, as it was 'invented' by Misbun Sidek.

The Sidek family was a dominant badminton force for Malaysia during that period. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidek_brothers

From the Introduction:

"The intended use is to serve as a convenient target for cross-reference from other specifications whose authors wish to exclude problematic [Unicode] code points from the data format or protocol being specified."

Open Access Paper: [ https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.20... ]

The observable universe is finite, though [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon ].

"A cosmological horizon is a measure of the distance from which one could possibly retrieve information. This observable constraint is due to various properties of general relativity, the expanding universe, and the physics of Big Bang cosmology. Cosmological horizons set the size and scale of the observable universe."

Archive link https://archive.ph/NDiu3

On Archive https://archive.ph/DiwIq

Archive link: https://archive.ph/q8v0U

I'm currently reading "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" by Jesper Juul [1]. An interesting look at the history and influence of the C64 in games, the Demoscene and as a retro computer. He also has a companion website [2].

[1] https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/5883/Too-Much-FunThe-...

[2] https://jesperjuul.net/c64/

The line at the bottom of the article sounds a bit weird:

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Gerry Canavan is chair of the English department at Marquette University and the author of Octavia E. Butler.

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Gerry Canavan is the author of the book, "Octavia E. Butler (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)", not the author of the author. :-)

I use iNaturalist to log my observations and I think one benefit of such platforms is the large number of eyeballs available: casual observers see things not captured in more formal scientific field work.

This happened to me: I saw an unusual bee while walking in a nature reserve. I posted it on iNaturalist and it got identified as a seldom seen bee. A bee researcher contacted me to get the location for a field study, resulting in a paper that documented the bee's natural behaviour.

Other iNat observers have spotted moths and insects that haven't been seen for decades, for example. In this way, citizen scientist are helping scientist to find out more about nature.

It doesn't look like it can be used to track and cross-reference short stories.

Short stories can be stand-alone (web based), found in an anthology, a book collection or published in a magazine.

What would be nice is a tool to track where I read a short story (in anthology A, for example), and where the story can be found, which may be in more than one place (in magazine B, collection C, on-line, etc.).

This is, unfortunately, also not supported in many other book sites like Goodreads, etc.

You mean like Ledger? [1]

[1] https://ledger-cli.org/

Article about the work at [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lofty-math-proble...

Doesn't cover non-US Woodpeckers, so not useful to me here in Singapore.

Off-topic, but the image captioned "Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure" looks AI generated. The workers on the extreme left and right are standing on solar panels, and the one in the centre is holding some metal bars that merge Escher-like with the panels behind him.

Even the caption sounds like part of an AI prompt to generate the image.

While the headline says GPS, the article says signals were acquired from GPS and Galileo, which increases the number of GNSS satellites available to get a location fix.

Maybe a bug: I selected "Generate" and didn't notice that the QR code had been generated as it was off-screen. So I re-selected "Generate" a few times before I realised what was happening. Only, now I have two long columns of QR codes.

This was on Firefox Nightly on Windows 11.

Your book is on my to-read list. :-)

I'm not sure if this helps makes things clearer, but see this diagram for symbols in Quadrature Amplitude Modulation [1]. The valid symbols are mapped to certain points in the vector space. Now, imagine non-overlapping circles around each symbol. If a received signal falls within a circle, it would be mapped to that symbol in the centre of the circle.

This can be extended to 3-D or higher dimension spaces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio...

I hope this LEGO Ideas Turing Machine gets turned into a released LEGO product [1]. It's not the first LEGO Turing Machine, but it is noteworthy because it is fully mechanical.

[1] https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc...

Whenever people mention 'bird app', I think it's is ebird. Now, 'butterfly app' makes me think of iNaturalist. :-)

http://ebird.org/

https://www.inaturalist.org/

The quote in full is: "I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn’t Enough"