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But what generally goes unmentioned is a more important distinction: that single-table conversations rarely happen in Britain. I first realised this when I started attending friends’ dinners in London a few years ago, when I was visiting from New York: when I tried to start a sin … | Continue reading
Most of all, I like the city for its visual complexity, and for its recurring architectural surprises. It is the best Art Nouveau city in the world, with only Brussels as a rival, and also a top tier modernist city. Public buildings are excellent, and unlike in Stockholm you ar … | Continue reading
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions. U.S. Olympic and Paralympic CEO Sarah Hirshland said Friday that while the U.S. team appreciates e … | Continue reading
1. Sabine Hossenfelder on German highway speed limits. 2. Sheep to humans ratios are falling in the Anglosphere. 3. Why are international firms leaving Nigeria? 4. Can Claude Sonnet 3.5 identify a Robin Hanson talk from a single slide? 5. Gavin Leech on living in Estonia. 6. Just … | Continue reading
By the way, my new morning routine is going well. I get up at 7:00 or 7:30, take the dog out and feed him, sneak off for my walk while he's distracted with his breakfast, shower and change when I... Related Stories Comments (Blog Notes) Personal Note (Blog note) Comment Problem | Continue reading
Explore the causes of the "could not determine recommended JdbcType for class" error in Hibernate and learn how to resolve it. | Continue reading
By Aaron S. Edlin and Michael Love: Knowing the magnitude and standard error of an empirical estimate is much more important than simply knowing the estimate’s sign and whether it is statistically significant. Yet, we find that even in top journals, when empirical social scientis … | Continue reading
Debuggers, with recursive in Hibernate, transactional tests, Aqua, and code reflection! | Continue reading
I'm doing my best to restrain myself. I'm chomping at the bit this morning. I had a sarcastic, snarky, and hopefully humorous post all planned out. But people are touchy lately—it's an election year, schools are no longer teaching students... Related Stories The Upcoming Pentax F … | Continue reading
Explore the problem of finding the closest number to zero within a Java array. Comments Your comparison and conclusion are incorrect, because you state ... by Java Jim Optimized approach with sorting and binary search: it offers ... by Richard How can O(n log n) be “significantly … | Continue reading
Learn how to split a String based on the last instance of a character in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to search an array to find the index of the maximum element in Java. Comments Thank you very much for the post, it was very helpful for me. I ... by Leandro Gramajo | Continue reading
Comments are 100% moderated as of 8:48 a.m. today, Wednesday, Juneteenth. There are new Featured Comments on posts going back to "Sweet Spot." (Happy Juneteenth to all our Black readers, by the way. It's an exclusively Black holiday, and belongs... Related Stories It's Here! The … | Continue reading
The first all-new full-production 35mm film camera from an old-line manufacturer in many a year. It's called the Pentax 17, a refreshingly simple name. (Today's the 17th, you'll notice. The half-frame format is 17x24mm.) It has a BOKEH mode on... Related Stories What's the Sweet … | Continue reading
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." Napoleon Hill said that. I'm more than a bit ambivalent about Hill, and a bit embarrassed to quote him. More about that in a moment. But I still like the quotation. I've... Related Stories Personal Note (Blog note) Comment Problem Who Are You? | Continue reading
Picture from the Cruise Day show in town this weekend I like exercises. I used to teach, and I liked devising exercises that might stand a chance of shaking my students out of their "usual tricks" as my own teacher... | Continue reading
A recommendation for an idle weekend afternoon...if you love English, as I do and as I know many of you do, you might enjoy Olly Richards' video "10 Reasons English is Ridiculously Hard." You probably know a fair number of... Related Stories The Upcoming Pentax Film Camera Projec … | Continue reading
Just an idle question—what, in your opinion, would be the sweet spot in the Nikon Z lineup? And, more generally, what do you think is the sweet spot in full-frame? I've been taking a look at the whole landscape, and... Related Stories The Baby Leica Arrives Sign o' the Times The … | Continue reading
1. The Chinese version of the Stanford AI “bamboo strips” plagiarism story. 2. Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo. 3. Scott Sumner on progress in the arts. 4. Why do many people subvocalize when they read? 5. Henry Oliver on late bloomer … | Continue reading
Helsinki, Turku, and Tampere — what please are your recommendations? I thank you in advance for your sage counsel. The post Finland bleg appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments Longer top comments are good. On the archipelago Suomenlinna is ... by Janne S FOOD: Fish, espe … | Continue reading
From Ken Opalo: A common misperception economic policies in African states tend to be statist, far-Left, or anti-market. This is not supported by the data (see examples of Kenya, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and South Africa below). In actual fact, most governments in the region tend … | Continue reading
By John Strausbaugh, an excellent book. Here is one good passage of many: Putting dogs on top of rockets was nothing new. Since so little was known about the effects that blasting off in a rocket might have on th ehuman body and brain — the g-force of acceleration, the disorienta … | Continue reading
1. Iran to give awards to religious leaders who convince their congregants to have more babies. 2. A critique of travel. 3. How much of life on earth is “dormant”? 4. Akira Endo, RIP. He discovered statins. 5. ““Walking” Tree That Looks Like An Ent Just Won New Zealand Tree Of Th … | Continue reading
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Frederic Chopin are household names, but few will recognize Francesca Caccini, Elisabeth Lutyens or Amy M. Beach, who are among the top-10 female composers of all time. Why are female composers overshadowed by their male counterpar … | Continue reading
Three fiery flavours of the Samyang instant ramen line are being withdrawn: Buldak 3x Spicy & Hot Chicken, 2x Spicy & Hot Chicken and Hot Chicken Stew. Denmark’s food agency issued the recall and warning on Tuesday, urging consumers to abandon the product. But the maker Samyang s … | Continue reading
Trump on AI. It feels like someone just showed him a bunch of stuff for the first time? And here is Trump on UFOs. The post Another Friday assorted link(s) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to Phinton. I believe this is the first time a ... by I'm impressed … | Continue reading
1. New AI video generator, open for public use. 2. The Chicago Cubs really were hurt by playing day games (a semi-new Substack from a GMU Ph.D. student). And his (Nicholas Decker) observations on South African unemployment. 3. Major deposits of rare earth minerals discovered in N … | Continue reading
Many countries look to the US FDA for guidance on approval decisions. In fact the FDA will sometimes receive and evaluate drugs and vaccines whose primary market is in less developed countries. Fexinidazole, for example, is a drug for treating African trypanosomiasis, i.e. sleepi … | Continue reading
From Jimmy: Here is the post on LinkedIn and here is the post on X / Twitter. Any engagement / amplification would be much appreciated. Here is the link to the YouTube episode. I had good fun doing this episode… The post Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future episode appeared first on Margin … | Continue reading
I have a new Bloomberg column on that topic, I would most of all stress the closer: When I think about all this, I try to keep two questions separate. First, is there a major puzzle to account for? And second, what is the best explanation for that puzzle? It helps to focus on the … | Continue reading
I got behind on comments again, and I apologize. I think I might have actually lost a reader over it; he thought I had censored him. No, just not persisting as I should. I'm sorry. Time is speeding up, though.... Related Stories Open Mike: The Great White Whale Too Soon Alt, Too … | Continue reading
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization of a state of the world and must decide whether to report the realization to a consumer who pays an opportunity cost to consume the report. The consumer-optimal … | Continue reading
1. Are border crossings really at an all-time high? Maybe not. 2. Some detail on who pays whom in OpenAi and Apple (Bloomberg). Not everything in the article is clear to me, but it seems at first no one is paying anybody? Eventually there may be revenue-sharing agreements. 3. Wha … | Continue reading
Argentina President Javier Milei’s economic reform package won a key victory when the Senate approved his omnibus bill Thursday but additional income tax legislation was rejected following debate marred by violent protests that broke out earlier in front of congress. After weeks … | Continue reading
"You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that... | Continue reading
Learn various methods to retrieve distinct entities and fields with Spring Data JPA. | Continue reading
Quick tutorial on how to get the size of a web file in Java. | Continue reading
Explore the purpose and configurations of ConstructorDetector in Jackson, which is crucial for effectively mapping JSON data to Java objects during deserialization. | Continue reading
Learn how to group elements by value and find their minimum and maximum values in each group. | Continue reading
Explore multiple ways to convert exponential values into the standard number format. | Continue reading
Thanks for the tips and pointers yesterday. My reply: big sigh. I wish I were rich enough to simply clear out the house. I should point out that I'm plenty prosperous by any reasonable standard, especially by world standards, and... | Continue reading
Learn to use Java Flight Recorder to record events during a Hibernate lifecycle. | Continue reading
Learn how to use the @Valid annotation. | Continue reading
Understand why instantiating a generic type isn’t as straightforward as instantiating a class and explore several ways to create an instance of it. | Continue reading
Learn about one's complement and how to calculate it in Java using three approaches. | Continue reading
Explore three different approaches to checking the write permission of a directory in Java. | Continue reading
I put up a lens for sale on eBay yesterday evening. I think the price is pretty keen for an example in such good condition, less than half the price of new. But it's been up for about 21 hours... | Continue reading