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Profound melancholia is a day-in, day-out, night-in, night-out, almost arterial level of agony. It is a pitiless, unrelenting pain that affords no window of hope, no alternative to a grim and brackish existence, and no respite from the cold undercurrents of thought and feeling that dominate the horribly restless nights...
He pulls a grey t-shirt over his head and makes his way back into the bathroom while I stand in the middle of the room, wondering what the hell to do. I follow him again and find him brushing his teeth. His eyes flick to mine in the mirror. I feel anxious...uncomfortable. 'Please speak to me.' I plead. I can't stand th...
I'm aware of them and they're aware of me. It's like they have an agenda. It's like walking into a different neighborhood. You're really not quite sure what the culture is. It's got such a distinct flavor, the reptilian being or beings that are present. "How about the scary element?" I asked. "What's the worst they cou...
If you sleep poorly, or don’t get enough delta-wave cycling, the research shows you’re at a higher risk for early-onset Alzheimer’s and a host of other neurodegenerative conditions. Regardless of what method we use to get there—ketamine, meditation, brain stimulation, or nitrous oxide —once we find ourselves in a wakin...
How Bossware is Watching While You Work so i've had this problem for a really long time where i find myself just getting sucked into my phone i think it's just for a few seconds here and there to look at a headline but in reality it looks a little more like this it's not a great look and honestly i'd like to set a bett...
Because religious ascetics looked upon the universe itself as an evil and ensnaring fabrication, they also came to regard its very Creator as a weaver of delusions. Thus the great sea monster (the world) and its Maker (the Demiurgus), whose strength is derived from the Dragon of Cosmic Power, came to be personified as ...
It did not matter; but I was very much puzzled by the appearance of a peak where no peak should have been, according to the map. The bandobast for this expedition was very different to that necessary for Chogo Ri, if one takes Darjeeting as the analogy to Srinigar, for there are no villages and supplies of men and food...
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The Secrets of DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Ft. Rick Strassman) this video is brought to you by spirit medicine walkers more about it at the end of the video continuing down our rabbit hole of psychedelics today it's time to discuss what many people call the spirit molecule known as dmt it is short for nn dimethyltryptami...
ChatGPT: This AI has a JAILBREAK?! (Unbelievable AI Progress) this changes everything at least many people say so chat GPT our Lord and savior has arrived it is a new model by open AI that has been fine-tuned on human feedback it is amazing at pretty much any task people throw at it and it can do so much more than prev...
Superintelligence: Science or Fiction? | Elon Musk & Other Great Minds (Audio Balanced) I'm gonna ask a question we can only answer by saying either yes no or it's complicated all right so let's start over here is some form of super intelligence possible yawn just know where it's complicated yes yes yes yes yes yes yes...
Adaptive Fluid Simulations | Two Minute Papers #10 Dear Fellow Scholars, this is Two Minute Papers with Károly Zsolnai-Fehér. As we discussed before, simulating the motion of fluids and smoke with a computer program is a very expensive process. We have to compute quantities like the velocity and the pressure of a piece...
Paul Davies - Must the Universe Contain Consciousness? (Part 2) let's give it to you let's say let's say we've got it okay yes now now what does that mean what follows so now uh the game starts to get interesting because you see here we see a link between mind and matter through quantum physics but what we're really af...
The modifications needed to And-Or-Graph-Search are covered in Exercise 4.6. The key realization is that a loop in the state space back to a state \(L\) translates to a loop in the plan back to the point where the subplan for state \(L\) is executed. Given the definition of a cyclic solution, an agent executing such a ...
What seems to us of enormous size in a dream, on account of this isolation, shrinks up once more when our interpretation has given it its place in the context of real life (Hanns Sachs). But we come upon this dream-wish, too, where it has no relevance in real life, and where the adult need never confess to it in his wa...
Today the world contains about a billion sheep, a billion pigs, more than a billion cattle, and more than 25 billion chickens. And they are all over the globe. The domesticated chicken is the most widespread fowl ever. Following Homo sapiens, domesticated cattle, pigs and sheep are the second, third and fourth most wid...
I saw Durand drop you off there," he bites out. "And second, it implies that we aren't taking care of you. At lunch someone asked if Callum bought the bakery and that's why the new Royal is working there." I fall back against the seat and cross my arms. "Well, golly gee, I'm so sorry that you had to answer an awkward q...
The Nature of Consciousness in ‘Big History’ - Elisabet Sahtouris we're gonna talk about the nature of consciousness in big history and I mean something very specific by that do I point to the screen yes okay how many of you know about Eric the deceased and his mom and and the channeling that goes on there since I'm ta...
Each time he gives the command to “Jump!” the frog’s distance scores dwindle understandably. Finally, the poor legless frog is just sitting there on the workbench. The researcher gives the command “Jump!” for the fifth and final time. The frog doesn’t move. He repeats the command to “Jump!” twice more, to be sure. Fina...
Yet the mind is a construct of theelectrical activity in the brain.1 Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi, A Universe of Consciousness, (BasicBooks, New York, 2000). There are many other excellent books on consciousness. See the references in Edelman and Tononi or search the Web.1 The Consciousness of the mind is the co...
'So what I thought we'd do for the next couple of days is, you can show me the sights, and I'll just mope about and make stupid remarks.' She smiled and nudged his hand back. 'It's hardly surprising, what you've been through, are going through,' and she covered his hand with her own. After a moment he covered her hand ...
Atmospheric Circulation: Wind, Weather, and Mordor Good morning interweb, let's world build. A planet's lower atmosphere is essentially a giant circulation mechanism. Its purpose? Transfer heat from the equator to the poles. Simple idea, but it gives rise to a pretty complex system thanks, in no small part, to the Cori...
The Mind-Body Question In The ModelSince Rene Descartes many people have believed that humans have, in addition to their bodies, a separatemind that thinks and understands, but does not “extend into space,” i.e. a mind that is immaterial orhidden from the physical world. But how can a hidden mind influence a material b...
she sang from the vestibule, for her husband was certain to be reading the paper in the living room, and without stopping to chat with him she went directly into the kitchen, where the cleaning woman had left the tea things set out. What a cheerful, comforting sight the steaming kettle made! And how clean and ample thi...
Simply Starry Smudge - Goddess Danu requested hello guys it's Joey and this is a new product for the store and this was a request so this is a simply starry smudge for the goddess dhannu so the request was for a energy of the mother and energy that was wild and a creation of the feeling of safety in which to expand the...
It sounded like a compliment but I wasn't sure saying thank you was appropriate. "I, uh, put some on before I came out here." He continued to stare at me. I fought the urge to reach for my shirt and slip it on over my bikini. I didn't have the kind of body on the girls I'd seen him with. I didn't like feeling as if he ...
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## Prologue She walks briskly down the city sidewalk, her blond hair bouncing against her shoulders, her cheeks flushed, a gym bag looped over her forearm. When she reaches her apartment building, her hand dips into her purse and pulls out her keys. The street is loud and busy, with yellow cabs racing by, commuters ret...
I wiped my hands on a towel and started to read a rather eloquent description of what it feels like to suffer from hemineglect. "When I came to, other than having a severe headache, I perceived absolutely no adverse effects of my mishap," wrote Steve, a former Navy captain who had heard about my interest in neglect and...
The ROOT CAUSE Cause of Weight Gain, Diabetes, HEART DISEASE & Dementia | Dr. David Perlmutter one interesting study looked at 42 000 men 48 000 women followed them for eight years those who had the highest level of uric acid had a 16 increased risk of all-cause mortality cardiovascular mortality 38 why might that be l...
I'm frantic wondering what the hell he's going to tell them we're doing. Well. What are we doing? "You two are sleeping together, holy shit, I could stick a sock in my mouth right now!" Wynn says. "I could do that for you if you're into that," Tahoe offers. "It's nothing, really," I quickly say, to appease my shocked f...
Well, this is the kind of "heads-in-the-sand" argument which you have to be willing to stomach if you are bent on seeing men and women running ahead of computers in these intellectual battles. # Self-Transcendence-A Modern Myth It is still of great interest to ponder whether we humans ever can jump out of ourselves-or ...
Surprisingly, however, DYRK1B also proves to be an important target silencing DYRK1A results in an increase in DYRK1B. Simultaneous silencing of both DYRK1A and DYRK1B yields greater β cell proliferation than silencing either individually. Importantly, other potential kinases, such as the CLK and the GSK3 families, are...
Authority was constituted by the old and weak, and had its roots in their envy for the joys and pleasures of the young and strong... Finally, when I arrived at Oakham several days after the beginning of the term I was convinced that I was the only one in the whole place who knew anything about life, from the Headmaster...
The Challenge of Remaking Resident Evil 2 & 3 | Design Dive foreign the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 3 cemented the franchise for a new generation by making something old feel undeniably fresh again released for PC PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2019 and in 2020 respectively they helped recapture the classic survival ...
Taddy Blecher | Exponential Education | SingularityU South Africa Summit what an incredible incredible privilege to be here with all of you probably the smartest audience I've ever spoken to tumbling I'm going to talk about exponential education I'm going to talk about the field of human consciousness and the future of...
I find they look stupid, and I do not like to touch them, but I force myself to: it is an ordeal; and besides, they must love me, that love will beautify their lives. I know that they lack necessities, and I take pleasure in being their superfluity. Besides, whatever their poverty, they will never suffer as much as my ...
There was this magazine that somebody'd left on the bench next to me, so I started reading it, thinking it'd make me stop thinking about Mr. Antolini and a million other things for at least a little while. But this damn article I started reading made me feel almost worse. It was all about hormones. It described how you...
"Oh, Lotto, I wish," Mathilde said, putting her paintbrush down, froming at the wall, which was a strange greenish navy. "But remember, there's that huge show we're doing at the gallery that's going to be taking up all the time I have. But you can go. Go ahead! Don't worry about me." "Without you?" he said. "But the wh...
Minecraft Villages Built by AI - The Generative Design in Minecraft Competition | AI and Games #46 Minecrafts one of the most successful video games of all time that continues to be a fun and exciting space for players of all sizes all around the world it's home to thousands of creators who work together to build massi...
This sex was also mobile, moving like rubber, as if invisible hands stretched it, curious hands that wanted to dismember the body to get at the interior of it. Then the ass would be turned fully towards him and begin to lose its shape, as if drawn apart. Every movement tended to open the body completely until it would ...
You remember that Descartes believed that reality consisted of two completely separate substances, namely thought and extension.” “How could I have forgotten it?” “The word ‘substance’ can be interpreted as ‘that which something consists of,’ or that which something basically is or can be reduced to. Descartes operated...
Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art, everywhere; a change of some sort had undoubtedly taken place. What did the young people think about? Peter Walsh asked himself. Those five years—1918 to 1923—had been, he suspected...
But if I haven't interfered with the fantasies themselves, I have selected certain ones to appear in the book, and grouped and classified them in a definite order of progression. Any number of people could have done this according to whatever arbitrary system of classification they might have chosen. That I have chosen...
Faster Neural Network Training with Data Echoing (Paper Explained) hi there today we're looking at faster neural network training with data echoing by dummy choy Alexandre Paso Christopher J shall you and George e doll so on a high level this paper basically says you should repeat data that's already in memory in order...
Nature Neuroscience, 2(1), 79–87.doi: 10.1038/4580 Redgrave, P., Prescott, T. J., & Gurney, K. (1999). The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem? Neuroscience, 89(4), 1009–1023. Reggia, J. A. (2013). The rise of machine consciousness: Studying consciousness with computational models. Neural Netw...
The mother-in-law is roused, but doesn't remember a thing and goes back to sleep. Each of the three who received the information attached a different meaning to the sound. One received no conscious information at all. The usual meaning intended for fire truck sirens is, Get the hell out of the way, I'm coming through. ...
In the pages of The New York Review of Books, Commentary, The New Republic, Daedalus, National Review, Saturday Review, and other literary journals articles dominate that read as if most of basic science had halted during the nineteenth century. Their content consists largely of historical anecdotes, diachronic collati...
What we are together? We cannot be apart. Ours is a love of the novels, better than any Austen or Bronte she has memorized. My heart is bounding out of my chest--I can barely breathe. She feels as if she isn't living? I can't understand that. I just can't. I only live when it comes to her. She's the only breath of life...
Sex and Dating Apps | Rob Henderson | EP 193 i wonder if this has something to do with just sort of sociosexual orientation of you know whoever whoever happens to be expanding the beliefs so if you tend to be a person who's had your heart broken or had a lot of negative interactions maybe you had the expectation of mon...
LTP was demonstrated in the N1 (p .00002) and P2 (p 2.31 × 10 This study provides evidence that LTP-based neural plasticity increases within the time frame of the antidepressant effects of ketamine in humans and supports the hypothesis that changes to neural plasticity may be key to the antidepressant properties of ket...
A bio-inspired bistable recurrent cell allows for long-lasting memory (Paper Explained) hi there today we're looking at a bio inspired by stable recurrent cell allows for long lasting memory by Nikolov akava damyang amst and aegean trio of the University of liège this paper here is not a paper that wants to push state-...
Though declaring that the heavens 'are void of sensible matter,' he elsewhere excepted 'perhaps some very thin vapours, streams, and effluvia, arising from the atmospheres of the earth, planets, and comets, and from such an exceedingly rare ethereal medium as we have elsewhere described.'" (Newton, Optics, III., query ...
Thus, consciousness functions as the sine qua non of rational thought, for without it, we could conceptualize nothing. Consider forming a judgement, one of Churchland’s propositional attitudes. If we are aware offeeling a stone, we can abstract the concept <hard>. Then, being aware that the identical objectelicits both...
Like old meat, relaxed and tender no air XXXXXXXX she said yes she said XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX his hand XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X 1979 was the year Mama lost the baby and tried to kill herself. My stomachaches and my eyes blur. I know now how it was with her then. I take all of those papers and put them aside without reading any mo...
I made it seven steps before the wolves brought them down, water shoving down their throats, drowning them I reached the soldiers, and my blade sang as I severed their choking heads from their bodies. The shopkeeper was sobbing as she recognized me, her rusted bar still raised. But she nodded--only once. I ran again, l...
Therewith the understanding prepares itself for an even more primordial temporalizing of temporality. In this is grounded that understanding of Being which is constitutive for the Being of Din. Within the horizon of time the projection of a meaning of Being in general can be accomplished. Thus the investigation compris...
I typically spent time with girls that didn't want to talk about long term or knew that if they did I was out the door. "So you don't think you'll ever get married or have kids?" She sounded curious but also something more. I shrugged and reached up to pull my hat off of my head and shove it into my back pocket. "I dou...
Thing like that spoils the effect of a night for her. Professor Goodwin linking her in front. Shaky on his pins, poor old sot. His farewell concerts. Positively last appearance on any stage. May be for months and may be for never. Remember her laughing at the wind, her blizzard collar up. Corner of Harcourt road rememb...
So, supposing someone asks, for example, how it affects the sun that it exists objectively in my intellect, we can very well answer that it is not at all affected, except that an extrinsic denomination is applied to it, that is, it does indeed determine the operation of the intellect in the manner of an object. But if ...
How to Spot A Cheater (Is He A Cheater?!) a nightmare that so many women fear is finding out their man is cheating on them however since cheating isn't a new phenomenon there are ways to spot a cheater hey YouTube my name is Amy North I'm a relationship coach from Vancouver BC and today I want to share with you the top...
Six percent (95% CI 2.5-12.0%) of participants reported use in the past 30 days on survey and 2.6% (95% CI 0.5-7.4%) of participants reported marijuana use to health care providers. On umbilical cord assay, 22.4% (95% CI 15.2-31.1%) had detectable 11-nor-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid. The proportion of...
# Fight Club ## Chapter 1 TYLER GETS ME a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden. The barrel of the gun pressed against the...
There should not be activity in layer 6 of the same region because the animal can't predict which specific tone will be heard. If on another trial the animal can predict the exact tone it will hear, then we should see activity in layer 6, in columns that respond to that specific tone. We can't completely rule out the p...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN DATING FINANCE GUY? How To Stop Dating Toxic Guys | Shallon Lester welcome back shaligators well we've got some good news brewing for khloe kardashian finally it seems that coco has at last tristan thompson how many years i've been waiting to say that i just gotta let it wash over me and she has been a...
After eating some berries and listening to music, I pluck off my earphones, plump my campout pillow, and drift off to sleep, dreaming that I'm lost at night inside a green forest, running in a man's shirt, and when Gina, Helen, and my mom shout for me to come out, I can never find my way out of the deep. I wake up with...
Yet your whole contention that basing the commandments of civilization on religious grounds constitutes a danger for civilization rests on the assumption that the believer can be turned into an unbeliever. Surely that is a complete contradiction. ‘And here is another. On the one hand you admit that men cannot be guided...
Psychology Hacks to Become a Better Teacher (or Student!) At some point in our lives, we all act as teachers. Maybe you’re trying to make sure your BFF doesn’t fail algebra, or helping your kid with their social studies homework. Or maybe you’re a teacher-teacher who wrestles with classes of students every day, and if ...
But as Leonard pushed farther in, Madeleine thought better and said, "Hold on." She tried to be as quick as possible. Throwing her legs over the side of the bed, she opened the bedside table drawer and took out her diaphragm case. She removed the disk, with its rubbery smell. The spermicide tube was all crumpled up. In...
THE TRUTH ABOUT BEING A YOUTUBER & INFLUENCER: How To Grow Your Brand | Shallon Lester welcome back alligators today we're doing part three of my series on life as a youtuber and an influencer what's it really like so the first video we did the business side of it you know the logistics of how you make money as a youtu...
During the recording period the stimulus person in the chamber was asked toimagine being in the other room with their sibling and touching him or her. The results were clear. When the 20+2 ms presentations occurred the response person’sEEG showed increased power within the theta range, particularly 5 Hz to 5.9 Hz but o...
Pattern-Exploiting Training for NLP! this video will explain pattern exploiting training a really exciting new technique to leverage the knowledge in pre tran language models to label data for downstream tasks this is done by using patterns that guide the language models predictions this could be something like taking ...
And the quiet vow in his voice. No, she didn't imagine their relationship would be at all cold. Hot. Torrid. Breathless. Consuming. All of those words she could well imagine. But definitely not cold. He went to his desk and hastily scribbled his initials, and then affixed his signature beside hers on the last page. The...
The complete package of instruments - for this is what they undoubtedly were - is held in place with the aid of the two sets of straps that stressors the goddess's back and chest. The parallel between the seven objects required by lnanna for her aerial journeys and the dress and objects worn by the statue from Mari (an...
"Jesus," Greyson says after we've all piled in the car, "I thought they were going to fuck right there on the street." Seth glances at me in the rearview mirror and gives me this knowing look. Seth has known me since my manwhore days and knows I've never acted this way before with a woman, so uncontrolled. A little whi...
It's not so much the merchandise - it's the pierced, tattooed, virtually naked bird in the corner, wearing eight inch platforms and performing some highly illicit moves. That's what's got me scooping my tongue up from the floor. Holy fucking shit! Does Jesse go for all this shit? 'It's a bit over the top, isn't it?' he...
Hofstadtercan profit from reading Whitehead's "Process and Reality," where we find even Whitehead movingbeyond PM, and moving beyond self as caricature. ReferencesDouglas R. Hofstadter, 2007, I Am a Strnage Loop, Basic Books. ISSN: 2153-8212 Journal of Consciousness Exploration & ResearchPublished by QuantumDream, Inc....
The running path, a utility road, really, curved through a wooded area. The foliage crowded out all signs of urban life. For a moment, Nate just listened to the sound of his footfalls on the asphalt. A few days ago, he'd received a solicitation from the nonprofit that maintains the park. He'd felt a pang of guilt when ...
'Lounge,' I wave my hand about in the general space around us. 'You've seen the kitchen,' I say over my shoulder as I walk through the open space and onto the terrace. 'View,' I maintain my tired tone, hearing him laugh lightly behind me. I lead him back through the lounge to the workout room, not saying a word as we t...
The world of neurotics or unsatisfied spirits has a red light and visions of desolate plains and forest wastes. The hell world emits a smoke- colored light and is preceded by sounds of wailing, visions of gloomy lands, black and white houses and black roads along which you have to travel. Use your foresight to choose a...
These cadavers were so unhuman-looking they didn't bother me a bit. They had stiff, leathery, purple-black skin and they smelt like old pickle jars. After that, Buddy took me out into the hall where they had some big glass bottles full of babies that had died before they were born. The baby in the first bottle had a la...
I snapped back against the webbing of my harness, bumped against the rebounding armored body next to me. Sascha. Only Sascha, I remembered. Cunningham had sedated the rest of them, left this one core lonely and alone in the group body. I hadn't even realized that that was possible with multiple personalities. She stare...
Welcome Remarks at Beneficial AI 2017 | Max Tegmark good morning I'm max tegmark and it's a great pleasure to welcome you all to Asilomar first of all I would like everybody who's wearing an organiser nametag to stand up any questions you have these are all the friendly faces you should remember these are the people yo...
He clutched at his heart. It was at this point that I turned my head and saw Nathan watching. He gave a faint lift to his eyebrow, then tapped his wrist. It was enough to bring me back to earth. "You know--I really have to go. Early start." "I've gone too far. I've frightened you off." "Oh, I'm not that easily frighten...
The Thrill of Monster Hunter | Design Dive the monster hunter franchise is approaching 20 years old but unlike many of capcom's other properties it has only really achieved mainstream success in western markets over the past five years while the series dates back to the playstation 2 in japan the series has suffered fr...
MY WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY & DIET TIPS: How I Lost 30lbs Without Exercising | Shallon Lester welcome back shala gators oh it's the video you guys have been waiting for and i'm so sorry it's taken me so long the weight loss video so you guys might know i recently dropped quite a bit of weight i think i've lost now about 32 ...
"You'll be surrounded by so much... temptation." I bit my lip. "And I've seen 'Behind the Music.' I know what gets offered to rock stars." He narrowed his eyes but then laughed. "Wait, 'Behind the Music?' You really have already mapped out my career, haven't you?" Smiling devilishly, he ducked down and looked me in the...
I knew when a guy became a threat. He hadn't hit that stage. Who knew if he would have, but it had been the memories that had sent me over the edge. "You didn't need to come here," I said finally, suddenly very tired. "You should be at the party having fun." Cam was quiet so long that I had to look at him. The expressi...
Because there are \(K\) such vectors, this requires \(\log_{2}K\) bits per pixel. We must also transmit the \(K\) code book vectors \(\boldsymbol{\mu}_{k}\), which requires 24\(K\) bits, and so the total number of bits required to transmit the image is \(24K+N\log_{2}K\) (rounding up to the nearest integer). The origin...
MIT computer scientists on the most important unsolved problem in computer science [MUSIC PLAYING] I guess how to get a data-driven learning-based approach to work on real robots. I don't know. I mean, I guess AGI is one of these things that's like, if you did solve it, it would be truly a landmark. I guess in my field...
The importance of day-dreams has not escaped the unerring vision of imaginative writers; there is, for instance, a well-known account by Alphonse Daudet in Le Nabab of the day-dreams of one of the minor characters in that story. The study of the psychoneuroses leads to the surprising discovery that these phantasies or ...
And what was coming for her in a few minutes. Thank the gods he was getting out of here. He'd probably have to fly to the sea itself not to hear Rhys. Or feel his power when he ... Cassian stopped himself before he could finish the thought. He and his brothers had put a good deal of distance between the stupid youths t...
But all the weight, the echoing thoughts, the hatred and guilt that sliced her like knives--they had vanished. And it had been so seductive, so freeing and lovely, that she'd known the Mask had to be destroyed. If only to save herself from it. But it could not be destroyed. And she was the sole person who might contain...
Hugh McCann - Pantheism: Is God All Reality? you you believe in the traditional concept of god and in today's world there are a lot of alternative concepts that people are putting out so i'd like to distinguish one from the other first give me a sense of what the traditional god would be in a very strong philosophical ...
He spins around and walks backward, facing all three of us. "Abandon the modesty for once, man. Rub it in our faces a little. We'd do it to you if the roles were reversed." I don't know how long they've been friends, but I like Ian. I can tell he and Miles are close, because Ian is genuinely proud of him and not at all...
How Egypt invented the alphabet - History of Writing Systems #7 (Abjad) How did Egyptian hieroglyphs give birth to the alphabet? Even in these ancient times, Egyptian monuments have been sitting and weathering for thousands of years. On their great murals and pillars, you find rows of little pictures. Sorry, not pictur...
[ML News] Microsoft combines Images & Text | Meta makes artificial skin | Russians replicate DALL-E microsoft trains a universal image language representation model facebook gets all touchy touchy and the russkies release their own dali model welcome to ml news hello there this video is sponsored by weights and biases ...
Caleb's tone again ironic or enthusiastic or, somehow, both. "You and I will talk about this later, Caro," Gary said. Warmth and perversion and stupidity, all deriving from the gin, were descending from behind his ears and down his arms and torso. Jonah came back inside smelling like mesquite. Caroline had opened a sec...
Would she hang up and call the other William Matthew Griffith's wife? "I'm Iris Griffith." "Mrs. Griffith, my name is Carol Manning of Liberty Airlines. William Matthew Griffith listed you as his emergency contact." Will is in Orlando. Will is in Orlando. Will is in Orlando. "Yes." I clutch my stomach with an arm. "I'm...
Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, ...