Month: March 2024

Published a new article on Hybrismart about my developments in the area of Search Analytics. The idea is about how to collect data on search usage in such a way that one can extract flaws in the search configuration and product descriptions on the site. Also, when you change the settings of the search system, it’s possible to fix one thing and break another. The article describes how to monitor such changes and understand which direction they lead.

Search Analytics: Testing and Monitoring eCommerce Search

https://hybrismart.com/2024/03/07/search-analytics-testing-and-monitoring-ecommerce-search/

Currently in the studio, we are viewing the best works from the Portrait Society Competition. This is the kind of modern art I love! A couple more links in the comments

The American state of Utah has been “captured” by an invasion of tumbleweeds. The plants in huge numbers have overrun the cities.

The apocalypse has come from where it was least expected. Although everyone in Utah is accustomed to it, it’s like snow in the north during winter and tornadoes in the south.

This morning, the city greeted me with the sound of a helicopter hovering in the air and slightly blocked roads. At our city church (a huge building covering 10,000 sq.m with a hall for 2,000 people), a “celebration of life” ceremony is taking place in honor of Trevor Brown, a firefighter who died while extinguishing a house fire, followed by his funeral. The Governor of Virginia attended the ceremony, and firefighters from all over Loudoun County gathered, totaling up to 3,000 invitees. Flags are lowered throughout Virginia today in honor of Trevor.

Trevor was a volunteer at Sterling Volunteer Fire Company and was the first to respond to a “gas smell” call. There was a large 1500-liter propane tank under the house, a leak from which caused an explosion and the collapse of the house. Trevor died, and eleven others were injured, but it seems that everyone is now recovering.

The word Volunteer in the title indicates that firefighters are not paid for this kind of work, which, as we see, is associated with risks to life and health. I mean, they don’t receive money at all. Not a penny. All of them usually have some other job that they and their families live on. Serving as a firefighter is not just a job, but a matter of great pride and respect.

Besides volunteer fire stations, there are career (non-volunteer) ones. In the USA, there are over 1 million firefighters, of whom, on average, 70% are volunteers. In our county, there are 15 volunteer stations with about 600 volunteers, which makes up about 50%.

It turns out, Christopher in Chinese is 克里斯托弗 (Kèlǐsītuōfú), and Christ is 基督 (Jīdū). Does Petr Didenko adapt to this? The name Barbara is beautifully written as 芭芭拉 and pronounced bā-bā-lā!

Google Translate

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=ru&text=克里斯多福·哥倫布&op=translate

Interesting art

I am currently reading about the invention of the microscope, and there’s mention of a scientist whose name I had never heard before – Leeuwenhoek. Went on Wikipedia, and darn it, it’s Leeuwenhoek! Also, remember Ilya Mechnikov? His first name in English is Elie, and his last name ends with off. Adding to the recent discoveries that Bouguereau is Bouguereau, and Coulomb is Coulomb.

Speaking of Mechnikov. He tried to end his life by suicide twice – the first time because of the death of his beloved wife, and the second time – when he married a 17-year-old student who fell sick with typhus, he remembered about those who died on the same day and injected himself with typhus too. He miraculously survived both times. Then he wrote a book called “Studies on Optimism.” Such an optimist! By the way, the book is about extending life.

“come to me, I’ll scoot over” // “иди ко мне, я подвинусь”

Finished drawing today

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