He takes a particular pleasure in laying into not a few of Franceʼs eighteenth century great luminaries – such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre – like a man with a pitchfork rushing at a pig. No one escapes the pen unscathed. They all scamper away bruised, bloodied...
However, in the absence of a group selection mechanism there is no “target” phenotype directing selection at lower levels within ecological communities; supervised learning does not occur at this scale. The other type of learning in these systems is unsupervised learning (Fig. 1), which ...
Vanity is one of the things which are perhaps most difficult for a noble man to understand: he will be tempted to deny it, where another kind of man thinks he sees it self-evidently. The problem for him is to represent to his mind beings who seek to arouse a good opinion of themselve...
The most common example of “sensible defaults” is the naming conventions established in Ruby on Rails. Models are always named the singular proper noun of the object they represent, and corresponding database tables take the plural form. For example, if you have an object in your model named...
Even when compared to his white contemporaries and peers, he still doesn’t come close to being a skilled rapper. Eminem does not have a fraction of the controversy or political opinion as Roy Shivers or Scorzayzee for example. He does not even have an ounce of the lyrical skill of RA ...
Future zoo and aquarium vocabulary will evolve. Using the word “collection” for living beings underlies a foundation of equating wild animals to objects and property. The same is true for the terms “specimen” and “ambassador.” No exotic animal volunteered to represent or sacrifice himself or...
The farmhand would then take a pitchfork of hay from the center mass and place it in front of the animal who was on the other side of the corridor—take three steps—then, repeat the process, around and around. Each animal left ...
Lift with a pitchfork; Pitchfork hay Fork Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces Fork Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; The road forks Fork Shape like a fork; She forked her fingers Common Curiosities What does "folk" represent? Folk generall...
He saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork Charge Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; He charged me director with indifference Charge Demand payment; Will I get charged for this service? We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights...
That trend continued when blogs like 2DopeBoyz, Illroots, FakeShoreDrive, Fader, Pitchfork, Rap Radar, NahRight, Smoking Section, Ruby Hornet, Pigeons & Planes, and more began posting artists of all kinds on a daily basis. “I would say the blogs were a descendant of the magazines,” Sl...