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The Leica D-Lux 7 got here two days ago. I took an immediate liking to it. It's outdated now—it's the predecessor to the forthcoming D-Lux 8, which isn't available yet. I thought I'd take a preliminary reading on the form-factor... Related Stories Sign o' the Times The Upcoming P … | Continue reading
Some songs just get ya. I rediscovered an old favorite last week—"Nadia," from the album the late Jeff Beck made with Imogen Heap, among others, back in 2000. I listened to that song a hundred times when I was dating... Related Stories Too Soon Alt, Too Late Schmardt (OT) | Continue reading
So I have two or three more things to say about the T feature I wrote about on Wednesday. John Camp suggested it needed a different title, and I agree. First of all, get rid of the word "The." The... | Continue reading
Explore the fundamental differences between the get() and load() methods in Hibernate. | Continue reading
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Every now and then, back in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in the early days of this century, I used to stop by the local Best Buy, a so-called big-box store, to visit the camera department and have a look around at what... Related Stories The Upcoming Pentax Film Camera Project AI, Get Ba … | Continue reading
Ah, lists. Always fraught. "T," the New York Times Style magazine, recently gathered seven photography- and art-world luminaries and asked them to create a new article for the magazine's series of articles of 25 this-that-and-t'other things. Other entries include "The... | Continue reading
It just occurred to me, amusingly, that my "white whale" is...Moby-Dick. I've been trying to read Moby-Dick for most of my life, or at least I've been holding the idea in my mind that I will one day read it.... Related Stories Open Mike: Those Wonderful Sit-Stand Desks Open Mike: … | Continue reading
Andrew Scott as Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley in Ripley SPOILER ALERT: There are no spoilers in this post. I've policed myself. You're welcome. I might have mentioned once or twice over the years that I like black-and-white. Also that movies... | Continue reading
As a side note, for the first time I've written posts and moderated comments for several days now entirely typing in Colemak on the Kinesis Advantage 2 I bought in 2021. After practicing daily for three months I'm not really... Related Stories (Blog note) Comment Problem Who Are … | Continue reading
1. Alex Ross on Yuja Wang (New Yorker). 2. More on the South Korean gender gap. 3. Kyla Scanlon now has a book. 4. The San Francisco highway to NIMBYism. 5. Aristotle suggests a reverse Turing test (video). And Sam Hammond on the new California AI bill. 6. Alice Evans podcast wit … | Continue reading
The excellent Tim Taylor on a new paper on plasma donation: John M Dooley and Emily A Gallagher take a different approach in “Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans” (Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming, published online May2, 2024; SSRN working paper versio … | Continue reading
Kirk wrote, yesterday: My prediction? In the near future it will be Nikon, Canon and Leica selling us cameras. Sony will do the math the same way Samsung did all the way back in 2014 and exit the market along... Related Stories The Panasonic Situation Nikon FX / APS-C Nikon-RED | Continue reading
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Michael Nielsen is scientist who helped pioneer quantum computing and the modern open science movement. He’s worked at Y Combinator, co-authored on scientific progress with Patrick Collison, and is a prolific … | Continue reading
I haven’t listened yet, but I am told he goes through an exegesis of Coase on the lighthouse… Here is a Jon Hartley summary, he also talks about the Lakers and the Celtics. The post The Milei speech at Hoover (in Spanish) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply t … | Continue reading
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, due out in October. The post New Malcolm Gladwell book appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to Reason. I only compared their choice of topics ... by mento In reply t … | Continue reading
1. Rave review for Richard Flanagan’s Question. 2. Longer novels are more likely to win literary awards. 3. Typing Chinese on a QWERTY keyboard. 4. “ChatGPT is used most frequently in India, China, Kenya and Pakistan, with 75%, 73%, 69% and 62% of respondents, respectively, repor … | Continue reading
The Dalmation Coast in Croatia, the Amalfi Coast in Italy and Monaco’s coast on the Mediterranean Sea are often found on lists of the most beautiful coastlines in the world. Here are some pictures. Hard not to agree. The fourth picture is of the Marin coastline near San Francisco … | Continue reading
That is a reader query, I take it there is no point in my trotting through the obvious picks, starting with I, Robot and Her. Sophisticates will ponder Stanislaw Lem’s Cyberiad, which very well understood the quirky and semi-religious potential in LLMs, even though he was writing … | Continue reading
Why does “how would you design a city so that more people fall in love?” feel like an absurd question? It shouldn’t be https://t.co/Z2GfCYEOjo — Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) April 28, 2024 GPT-4o suggested: “1. **Serendipity Corners**: – Implement areas designed to encourage u … | Continue reading
Learn how to remove different kinds of bracket characters from a String in Java. | Continue reading
Quick tutorial on how to autowire an interface with multiple implementations in Spring Boot. | Continue reading
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Yes, in Tokyo women pay men in make-up to flatter them. But what does the whole market look like? Yamada Kurumi, a client, works at a brothel to earn enough money to visit the clubs, which she does about once a week. She had boyfriends in the past but finds hosts more exciting. S … | Continue reading
1. How pro-China is Singapore? 2. Will home insurance cease to be a norm? 3. She has an AI arm (NYT). 4. Hari Kunzru on reading, and rereading, and Zola. 5. South Korean rebellion: “Organisers monitor the participants’ heart rates; the contestant with the most stable heart rate w … | Continue reading
Panasonic Holdings Co. Ltd. a.k.a. Panasonic HD, formerly Matsushita Electric, the global multinational headquartered in Kadoma, Japan, announced in a meeting on the 17th of this month that it will fail to meet two out of three of the business... Related Stories I Need a New Came … | Continue reading
MSNBC asked me to put together my thoughts on the FDA and sunscreen. I think the piece came out very well. Here are some key grafs: …In the European Union, sunscreens are regulated as cosmetics, which means greater flexibility in approving active ingredients. In the U.S., sunscre … | Continue reading
That is a recently translated Brazilian novel by Itamar Vieira Junior, set in Bahia. It is better to read this one without any spoilers. And I am pleased to announce that we have another great Latin American (and Brazilian) novel, worthy of entering the canon. I haven’t seen a go … | Continue reading
I won’t be there for long, but what should I see and what should I eat? How is the general level of safety these days? I thank you all in advance. The post What should I do in Cape Town, South Africa? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to Marcel. Agree, a ca … | Continue reading
We investigate whether an LLM can successfully perform financial statement analysis in a way similar to a professional human analyst. We provide standardized and anonymous financial statements to GPT4 and instruct the model to analyze them to determine the direction of future ear … | Continue reading
Funny. Thanks to James Boykin for finding this, and to the cartoonist, Adam Sacks, for giving me permission to publish it. I don't know about you, but, personally, it both amuses me and also makes me feel a bit skewered.... Related Stories Open Mike: Own Work Tolerance and Patien … | Continue reading
Learn how to create an XML Document from a Java String object and convert it back into a String using the javax.xml.transform package. | Continue reading
Learn how to read CSV headers into a list in Java using JDK classes, OpenCSV, and Apache Commons CSV. Explore these efficient methods with code examples for each approach. | Continue reading
My all-time favorite digital camera is still the Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D, c. 2004. (Dynax 7D in Europe.) I bought mine used in 2006 from a guy named Peter Gregg (looks like he's still online, here) and it lasted about three... Related Stories Your Favorite Old Camera, REISSUED N … | Continue reading
I'm very sorry—due to a SNAFU, a block of about 50 recent comments didn't get published. The missing ones are posted now, with my apologies to all those who spent their valuable time writing them. If you were interested in... Related Stories Who Are You? What Would You Like to Se … | Continue reading
Look what I just found... Leica is soon to reissue the D-Lux 7 as the D-lux 8. Okay, deluxe, we geddit. What is it? It's Leica's version of Panasonic's LX100 II, an appealing, slightly-smaller-than-Micro-4/3* pocket camera with a compact 28–75mm-e... | Continue reading
Learn how to use regular expressions to extract text between parentheses in Java. | Continue reading
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Markdown in Javadoc, JSR 310 with Hibernate, Spring Boot and different Java runtimes, and Postgres plan cache mode! | Continue reading
DPReview had a nifty idea a few weeks ago, and I thought I'd steal it. They asked: if you could personally pick one old camera from the past and have it reissued in updated form, what would it be? This... Related Stories Need Your Help: Best Enthusiast Cameras List | Continue reading
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, and here is one part: The safety movement probably peaked in March 2023 with a petition for a six-month pause in AI development, signed by many luminaries, including specialists in the AI field. As I argued at the time, it was a ba … | Continue reading