Month: July 2019

Sensors and various small items, about forty positions, have arrived. Weekends and evenings are now devoted to them. For instance, in the center there’s a laser, just above it an IR pair, thermometers, humidity meters

First time encountering a shower with a speedometer, oops, I mean thermometer. Actually, it’s very convenient.

In the USA, hotel showers have a single control handle – for temperature, and the water pressure is just normal. And this handle, after a couple of attempts, can be set “without looking” to the right position predictably and reliably. Couldn’t ask for better.

All over Union Station – Microsoft advertising. How can this be allowed!

What your phone can tell about you

This is a visualization from Animusic, “Resonant Chamber.” They also have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCIpKAIFyo (Pipe Dream) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgt4DEBQy50 (Aqua Harp). All of this is very old, and the company, apparently, has ceased to exist

And here is the entire album – very https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqek4lSw5vw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiC2B_hiTzo

Interestingly, every student here gets a laptop for school almost for free ($50 a year). If you have your own, you need to formally opt out, as personal laptops are not covered by school tech support. https://www.fcps.edu/resources/technology/fcpson

Well, I was flying to Washington, but landed in Baltimore. It seems the weather conditions

P.s. He finally decided to fly to the right airport!

Something has docked

This is Daria Rodionova’s Lamborghini. She’s a model from Moldova. Two million Swarovski crystals and an Aventador

Reading about the problem of segmenting Chinese sentences (topic – search). Like, in Russian and English you can split by spaces, but in Chinese – no such luck.

Interesting example:

我␣喜欢␣新西兰␣花 – I like fresh broccoli

我␣喜欢␣新␣西兰花 – I like New Zealand flowers

or another one

才能 – two characters, translation – talent

才 能 two words, one character each, translation “only then capable”

or here –

学会 two characters, translation – society

学 会 two words, one character each, translation “learn how”

and also shown in the picture, how three words combine into one, and it cannot be split)