“Inflammable” comes from the Latin inflammare, which means “to inflame” or “to burst into flame.” The “not” “in-” has nothing to do with it. “Inflammable” meant “flammable” before“flammable” meant “flammable”! And even if a word is illogical or stupid, so what? You ...
Sun Ra is and will forever be a legend. Influenced by his Afrocentric spiritualism, Ra’s music is imbued with a powerful energy that levitated listeners to new galaxies, taking them on sonic voyages, while exploring themes that related (and released them from) ...
The sun is getting lower in the sky and there is just enough time to explore one of the many rockpools worn into the granite and accessible at low tide. This cursory look revealsperiwinkles in the splash zone, limpets along the waterlineand an occasional red anemone. Rockpool in the granit...
So, this happy pic of me was taken in 1999. I was a senior in college, and it was right after a dance practice. I was really, really happy. And I remember exactly where I was about a week and a half later. I was sitting in the back of my used minivan in a campus parking lo...
github-actionsbotremoved thepending triagelabelJun 13, 2023 bluwyadded theregressionThe issue only appears after a new releaselabelJun 21, 2023 sun0daymentioned this issueJun 22, 2023 fix(define): stringify object parse error in build mode#13600 ...
the Euclidean distances between the AS probabilities of the cells. The missing values of each cell are then inferred by taking the weighted averages of the neighboring cells. The new AS probability matrix is then used to update the missing values inferred from the previous round. This process ...
There's nothing you can't do. Now you're in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. New York Audacious. Contradictory. And beautiful in its own way. It's an elusiv...
A holiday provides an opportunity to pause, to step away from the rat race, and to indulge in the luxury of doing nothing at all. It's a time to let go of responsibilities, to sink into a comfy chair with a book, or to simply lie under the sun, allowing our minds to wander ...
I decided that while I consent with complete sanity that I write this willingly, to document for the archives’ sake, given this new age of mine deserve a new level of bravery to share what I’ve learnt in 37 years. You see, I’ve learnt between things that matter and things that sho...
The application of virtual reality in tourism contexts is nothing new. The literature of the sector has been interested in this for two decades (Cho et al., 2002), but it is the advent of smartphones and social media that has given a boost to this technology (Marasco et al., 2018) wh...