Van Rensselaer

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Bass, datascience, stats, programming, computer graphics, sci-fi, biology, food, vegetable gardening, hiking, cycling, interested in philosophy.

Biking in Antarctica.

#vr #fitness #holofit #biking

Jonathan Berger - Using Art to Understand the Mind

YouTube

Alright everyone, multiverses are done now. Seriously, take your stupid multiverse screenplay and chuck it, it's over, the peak of the form has been reached. Do you hear me, Marvel? It's DONE.

(Rick and Morty, you're fine but that's it)

#Movies #EverythingEverywhereAllatOnce https://letterboxd.com/rodhilton/film/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/

A ★★★★ review of Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Alright everyone, multiverses are done now. Seriously, take your stupid multiverse screenplay and chuck it, it's over, the peak of the form has been reached. Do you hear me, Marvel? It's DONE. (Rick and Morty, you're fine but that's it)

“The Magic of mRNA Will Push Medical Advances for Everyone

mRNA gave us a breakthrough vaccine with which to fight Covid-19, but it has even greater potential to democratize access to innovative medicines.” https://www.wired.com/story/medicine-mrna-health-science/

The Magic of mRNA Will Push Medical Advances for Everyone

mRNA gave us a breakthrough vaccine with which to fight Covid-19, but it has even greater potential to democratize access to innovative medicines.

WIRED

I wish more Mastodon clients supported this

#mastodon #markdown

404 errors and blue screens of death are so boring, and even display-memory corruption looks a bit hackneyed. Tech should fail in more evocative ways, with glyphs coming unstuck and plummeting towards the bottom of the screen, burning up from friction as they descend.
Pink Floyd - Echoes (A.I. Generated Music Video)

YouTube

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?

The Honest Broker
Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status

Open source microblogging site has seen surge of interest since Musk took over Twitter.

Ars Technica

Thinking about how to enable full-text searching of a useful subset of Fediverse posts in a way that is controlled by post authors and has humane unsurprising defaults.

The current yes/no binary toggle under Settings/Other (that most people have never seen) probably isn't going to do the job.

The problem needs a long-form write-up (coming), and is controversial, but I’m pretty sure won’t go away, so the community should get in front of it.