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If you scroll down to "Prime Performers" on the page I linked, it lists a Massachusetts company and a USC lab that turns out to have a branch office in Massachusetts.

Perhaps remarkably, the US intelligence community is funding work on this problem in the open, as part of IARPA HIATUS [1]. The program's initial phase is winding down now, so some…

These days when people see consecutive pithy sentences with parallel structure, they immediately holler "AI generated." For years I've wanted to improve my writing and reduce my te…

Judging by ads for cell phone service, most people pay more than that per month to be monitored by the Feds.

Similarly, in 1790s America, farmers west of the Appalachians were growing plenty of corn, but because of bad roads the only feasible way to transport it to the much larger markets…

Ever since the invention of the printing press, every new communication technology has reduced the effort needed to widely disseminate information-- and misinformation! So you coul…

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." -Blaise Pascal

This collection of "Rabinisms" [1] (thanks to the Internet Archive for keeping it from being lost) can give you some of the flavor of the delightful experience that it was to take …

The article "FTFY Buddhist Ethics" [1] comes to a similar conclusion about the development of West Coast Buddhism but isn't on board with it. IMHO an interesting contrarian take. […

I have this problem despite adjusting my monitor height properly. I consulted a practitioner (in Taiwan, so I'm not exactly sure how to describe her.) She directed me to do the fol…

See also the very comprehensive presentation at https://codepoints.net . For example https://codepoints.net/U+2248?lang=en

OP wrote: "My current laptop is an aging X1 Carbon generation 7... A few months ago a few keys of the keyboard stopped working. I decided it was time to look for a replacement." Is…

This puts me in mind of the words of George Bernard Shaw: ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Th…

I am usually working with historical documents, where both Otsu and adaptive thresholding are frustratingly almost but not quite good enough. My go-to approach lately is "DeepOtsu"…

Bikes can work great for travelers aged from, say, 13 to 70 without much luggage. Not so great for travelers outside that age range, with more luggage, or with physical disabilitie…

I agree that in our current system, consumer choice generally determines which product wins. But does the best product really always win? As a fan of BeOS, it doesn't seem that way…