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Live++ 2.0.5 out now:
Lots of new additions and bug fixes, too many to list here!
https://liveplusplus.tech/releases.html
Thank you to the people at Sports Interactive, EA, Relic, Guerrilla Games, Blizzard, Creative Assembly, and Valve for their feedback and bug reports.
"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"
"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"
"GUN???"
"HELICOPTER"
Google tweeted a GIF showing its Bard chatbot in action. The only problem is one of the answers given by Bard was inaccurate
Great spot by my colleague Martin Coulter and now Google's stock is down 8%
Alphabet Inc <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/GOOGL.O" target="_blank">(GOOGL.O)</a> lost $100 billion in market value on Wednesday after its new chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and a company event failed to dazzle, feeding worries that the Google parent is losing ground to rival Microsoft Corp <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/MSFT.O" target="_blank">(MSFT.O)</a>.
I find it extremely comforting thatthese masks are really for super extra safety - since we have been using them in the 2000s no one has been in an emergency where they were necessary (there was one false alarm but better safe than sorry)
And good news! This morning I passed my exam and successfully and correctly put on my mask in well under 40 seconds. In the coming years I am allowed to work underground again (including tours!) See pic for proof. Safety is not flattering 🤪
Okay people, I've got some NEW PUNCTUATION for you
The "commash", the "colash", and the "semi-colash"
Back in the 19th century, writers used these *everywhere*. It's hard to open a book to a random page and *not* see one
Yet in the 20th century, they vanished -- practically overnight
It's up to us to BRING THEM BACK
My essay is here, for Medium subscribers: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e
If you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a "friend" link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e?sk=0b0b750a1dc3cf296efbf036ebbd2d34
White Collar Crime Risk Zones.
Predicting Financial Crime: Augmenting the Predictive Policing Arsenal: In this paper we have presented our state-of-the-art model for predicting financial crime. By incorporating public data sources with a random...
https://jwz.org/b/yj9t
Stellar Wind-Shaped Nebula RCW 58
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)
Well! I have accepted an offer to be the Tech Director of Decima Tools at Guerrilla Games! Guerrilla makes some great games and tech that they can really be proud of. I'm super excited to be joining them and working with the talented people there to make their Decima toolset even better!
Special thanks to @aras for giving the little nudge needed for me to reach out to them and say hi. :)