Knives Out is one of the best films I have seen in theaters for quite some time. That, of course, was back in 2019, but with it now being released to Amazon Prime I had a chance to rewatch the movie and enjoy it again. One thing that immediately struck me was the text on […]
I was very excited for A Memory Called Empire when I purchased it last Winter. I was, of course, in the middle of a vowed non-stop reading of the Wheel of Time, so I didn’t let myself read it then. Yet the excitement remained. A space opera based on Roman (or perhaps more Byzantine, if
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Ages come and go… reading Robert Jordan’s fourteen books of the Wheel of Time, at not quite four and a half million words. My overall evaluation is that I liked it well enough to consider it time well spent reading. The entire series is very ambitious in its scope, which brings with it both pros
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My triplet sister committed suicide a year ago today. The biggest question is always: why? Kelly, after all, pretty much had it all as far as most people can see. She was an Olympic medalist by the age of 21, and multiple time world champion. She almost certainly had greater strength and future victories ahead.
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There is, according to some commentators, a crisis in AI. This is because ‘models are not explainable’ or in other words they are a ‘black box’ – answers come out but they are not necessarily explained. Perhaps more correctly, the answer comes out, but these commentators want the model to babysit them through the entire
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When 2019 started, my life plan was basically to support my twin sister Kelly on her path to greatness. Sheer strength of personality made her unstoppable, but she needed help finding her path and maintaining balance. Socially, I forced her to get engaged with others, and my wild silliness always helped portray her as rational
Both Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker were love-hate movies for me. For all the media commentary I have seen with people comparing the films as such opposites from each other, from my critique they both had very similar strengths and weaknesses. + Awesome Visuals, Beautiful Sets and Dogfights, Great Characters – Lack of Cohesive
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Aero bikes. Fat bikes. Gravel Bikes. Ebikes. Those are major new bike type trends that have affected the industry in the 2010’s. Most of these categories of bikes already existed, but then one frame design and marketing managed to overcome whatever the existing cons were, and suddenly every company had to be making and selling
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Driving sucks. It pollutes, it wastes time, and it is dangerous. Public transit takes forever- although you can multi-task. The main problem is it isn’t nearly as widely available as needed, especially in the US. Cycling is amazing. It is healthy, competitive training, and a great mental transitions between work and home. But it requires
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*This is really not meant for an introduction, although there is some, but rather a reference of links and reminder for people who already know some of the basics (ie me!). I have been busy researching high-dimensional forecasting, and this is part of the result. A time series is any series of numbers that occur
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