Comic by Tiger Tateishi
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A New Robot Dealer Service Makes Buying Drugs Easier Than Ever
"Televend is an automated digital retail system used to sell illegal drugs on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. The online stores it facilitates are staffed and operated, 24 hours a day, by a clever string of ones and zeros. Or, if you like, robots."
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The Citadel of Bam (ارگ بم) - Kerman Province, Iran. The largest adobe building in the world.
The Arg-e Bam also known as Bam Citadel, traced back to at least the Achaemenide Empire (sixth to fourth centuries BC). This is how it looks after the 2003 earthquake. 70% of all buildings plus the citadel itself was destroyed. The citadel was rebuilt in 2016.
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Hans Henrik Ágost Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (1921 – 2002)
An industrialist and art collector, was a Dutch-born Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title and heir to a German fortune, a legal resident of Monaco for tax purposes, with a declared second residency in the United Kingdom, but in actuality a long-time resident of Spain, and son of a German father and a Hungarian and English American mother. His fifth and last wife, Carmen "Tita" Cervera, is a former Miss Spain titleholder.
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"An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory" - Paramahamsa Hariharananda
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"There's living things that aren't organisms. Not all Life is Physical. It could be an animated substance." - From "The Trial of Kitaro" by Shigeru Mizuki
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Jointly learning video, audio, text to recall digital memories (facebook AI)
"Smartphone cameras have made it simple to take photos and videos on the fly. In the future, wearables such as AR glasses will make it even easier to capture things — hands free. As this becomes the norm, people should be able to recall specific moments from their vast bank of digital memories just as easy as they capture them. It’ll be valuable to build smarter AI systems that can understand what’s happening in videos on a more granular level."
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Im2Vec: Synthesizing Vector Graphics without Vector Supervision
Machine learning will soon surpass hand-engineered image vectorization methods (which are already quite good), but will allow us to more interesting things with the learned representations
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Shen (神)
Shen in Chinese Medicine refers to the consciousness in a large sense. It is further divided:
- Lower consciousness: the automated survival instinct, the biological will to live. It is often referred to as animal instinct. The feeling for the need to eat, to reproduce, to protect your body from harm (cold, fire, water, fall, etc…) It is also that voice in your head that tell you to get out of a dangerous place or to take a different route.
- Normal consciousness a.k.a. Monkey Mind: the acquired emotional response to your environment. What you learned from your experiences and those of others. The use of your emotions, positive and negative, to communicate with others and yourself. Basically all of your thought. Where there is a thought, there is an emotion.
- Higher consciousness: being conscious of our consciousness. Feeling connected to the infinite universe and everything in it. This is the state of meditation, of tranquility, from which you have no thought but can feel everything as they are, without comment/ judgment.
The level of higher consciousness is what we are looking to develop during Qigong practice. It is easy to attain it. It is instantaneous. But to be able to keep it for a period of time require training. Not training in developing this higher consciousness but in quieting your Monkey Mind. Once the mind is calm, the higher consciousness manifests itself.
Text from qigong18 online course
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"Trust the Science": Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
A third of all genetics papers published in Nature over a decade (and 20% across all journals) had errors due to the fact that many gene have names like SEPT2 (the official name of Septin 2), which were automatically coded as dates by Microsoft Excel.
