Huh. I share a surname with the original owner (Sheldon) and once researched Henry XIII for a people fair. I think that means I’m the rightful owner…
You'd have to travel into the future to research Henry XIII
Ha, good catch
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#42When you're an expert at something and you spend all your days looking at these things, you can pick out remarkable details from nothing. Any regular person looking at the original photo (below) would have seen nothing! https://x.com/Warkslieutenant/status/1808884139585610231/pho... (it's the picture with the curved frame on the left)
An article from Smithsonian shows that there's a drawing showing what the gallery had looked like.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/art-historian-disc...
So somewhere in his brain he must have had "missing rounded-top portraits of 16th century VIPs, including one of Henry VIII posed kind of like this" filed away.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Random" is also a pretty bad word for this. But hey, English is hard, and neither word usage impedes understanding of the article itself.
As in Random Access Memory? (I'm not sure of an application for memory that can only be accessed randomly).
It's not exactly random, but delay line memory[1] accesses are arbitrary with respect to where your program counter is or what youre trying to access- so the delay can appear "random"
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#44When you're an expert at something and you spend all your days looking at these things, you can pick out remarkable details from nothing. Any regular person looking at the original photo (below) would have seen nothing! https://x.com/Warkslieutenant/status/1808884139585610231/pho... (it's the picture with the curved frame on the left)
my nephew is good at identifying teslas.
"if the door handles are straight - S, together - X, hockey sticks - 3 or Y. No handles? cybertruck" :)
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#45When you're an expert at something and you spend all your days looking at these things, you can pick out remarkable details from nothing. Any regular person looking at the original photo (below) would have seen nothing! https://x.com/Warkslieutenant/status/1808884139585610231/pho... (it's the picture with the curved frame on the left)
Yeah, I worked with radiologists... What they can see in x-ray, CT, MR, PET, ultrasound... it's mind-boggling.
The most mind-blowing thing is just how much those skills rely on tacit knowledge and subconscious pattern recognition.
There is really a lesson to be learned here in our age when data-based everything is en vogue. Our decision-making shouldn’t be data-driven, it should be data-informed.
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#46As an aside, I really appreciated the BBC not loading twitter content by default and asking first.
This is pretty amazing that such an offhanded catch led to a recovery of something assumed lost to history though.
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#47Huh. I share a surname with the original owner (Sheldon) and once researched Henry XIII for a people fair. I think that means I’m the rightful owner…
By British rules if you can smuggle it out of the country, it's legally yours. That's how they filled the British Museum.
That’s such a dumb comment. Back when the British was taking items back to the UK. There were no rules or systems in place for this stuff. You could buy it, trade it, steal it. It didn’t matter. And the UK isn’t the only country to ever do this.
Laws were created to resolve/fix/prevent things happening. You can’t blame people for shit that happened before someone decided it’s wrong.
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#48Reminds me of the "lost" painting that was rediscovered via the movie Stuart Little : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Little_(film)#Lost_pain...
That's wild. Also wild that the set dresser paid $500 from the film's budget for a random piece of non-key set dressing like this.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think Sheldon made these portraits? They were commissioned as mentioned in other comments.
Got you. I was just confused as to why a guy would commission paintings of a king for his own use but I didn't live in that era so maybe it was in vogue.
It's patriotic to have a picture of your royals in your home. You'd find pictures of The Royal Family in British homes, not so much now, but certainly photos of say Diana were fairly common in the 80s.
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#50As an aside, I really appreciated the BBC not loading twitter content by default and asking first. This is pretty amazing that such an offhanded catch led to a recovery of something assumed lost to history though.
Especially when you consider the vast majority of art is hidden away in storage boxes as investments (someone for money laundering) never to be seen again.