What are the general views of mainland Chinese people towards the Western countries?
https://qr.ae/pN6auw Through my Chinese wife, I have been able to gain some insights into how we Westerners are apparently often viewed in Mainland China: pampered; there is a notion that…
How Versailles Still Haunts the World
The Treaty of Versailles—a contract that changed the course of the century and beyond—has been all but forgotten in the public sphere and in popular discourse. As a result, few…
Fractals can help AI learn to see more clearly—or at least more fairly
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/04/1017486/fractals-ai-learn-see-more-ethically-bias-imagenet-training/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1612484124 Large datasets like ImageNet have supercharged the last 10 years of AI vision, but they are hard to produce and contain bias. Computer generated datasets provide an alternative. Most…
The Fishing Boat
Kostas GR Old but still going strong.Like myself!Silly comparison......I'm still young!
Sunrise over the Canola Field
Ray Jennings This was the scene that greeted us on the morning after the "Colour of Rain" Image previously posted
Forget SQL vs NoSQL – Get the Best of Both Worlds with JSON in PostgreSQL
https://dev.to/arctype/forget-sql-vs-nosql-get-the-best-of-both-worlds-with-json-in-postgresql-2oan Have you ever started a project and asked – “should I use a SQL or NoSQL database?” It’s a big decision. There are multiple horror stories of developers choosing…
Dante’s descendant seeks to overturn poet’s 1302 corruption conviction
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/01/dante-descendant-seeks-to-overturn-poets-1302-corruption-conviction Seven centuries after the poet was found guilty in Florence, Sperello di Serego Alighieri has begun a campaign to clear his ancestor’s name The reputation of Dante Alighieri needs…