Speaking of Holiday Cheer… Please consider supporting this blog and my book-in-progress. Via a PayPal donation button, you can buy me a holiday cocktail, so to speak. December 4, 2010 Why I’m Giving ‘The Hockey Stick Illusion’ for Christmas Why I’m Giving ‘The Hockey Stick Il...
Check out the new paper by Jerry Harris, “What exactly is a nuchal ligament and who exactly has one?” This is one of those papers that fires on lots of cylinders for me: it’s interesting, it’s useful, and holy crap, the work that went into it is humbling. Note that of the 7...
Unique to FastPictureViewer Professional is theAverage Luminance Indicator, in the form of a small arrow pointing down at the top of the histogram. The luminance gives a sense of the "overall brightness" of an image, and most well exposed natural light images will have this indicator fall in...
Clarifying your wish is ongoing. It’s fine for it to remain undefined, as long as you keep reaching. The searching and the goal are not separate; the asking and the answer are not separate. They come together. So strike a bell, or do some bows, or light a stick of incense. Make ...
We live in stupid times. As I write this, Google Scholar’s front page is advertising “New! AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim per-section bullets, deep read what you need”. Yes: it’s using AI to provide a short summary of what’s in a paper. Wouldn’t it be great if ...
In my opinion, Valentine’s Day greatly improved as a holiday when I started thinking of it as a chance to gift myself and my loves ones a new book (or three). Any great book will do, of course, but I do love something that approaches the idea of love in a clever, non-traditiona...
Because of this, in May, 2010, provincial party committee secretary Su Rong who investigates and studies in Ganzhou was pointing out that, must Yangtze River and the Poyang Lake source water resources ecology protection project, includes our province “35” the plan important issue to study.[tran...
If this book is problematic today, it’s only because it shows drawings of the hunters pointing their guns. But Johnny’s grandfather seems less militant, and tells the story of encountering a bear – and then running. “Better a bear in the orchard than an Orchard in the bear,” he jo...
Mind pointing that at the floor till I get by? Don't want my eye poked out. "To point" is to show something, by extending a finger or other long object. Note that "until"---> "till" in rapid speech. "To poke out" an eye is to remove it with a stick or other long object...
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