Having breakfast in an interesting cafe in Baltimore. Their menu includes behavior rules đ no screaming kids, no strollers, tables are for at least two people, groups should gather outside before entering, a minimum spend of $15 per person, sharing a plate with a neighbor is allowed, but costs extra, and balloons must be parked outside the cafe.
Currently rereading Sapiens by Harari and was surprised to learn for myself that Cunei Form is cuneiform. I always thought that the name of the once-popular OCR system from the Russian company Cognitive, CuneiForm, a competitor to FineReader, was just nonsensical gibberish. And it turns out, itâs cuneiform.
Went to Google whatâs up with Cognitive.
Since its foundation in 1990, a lot has happened with Cognitive Technologies. They developed text recognition algorithms, which in 1992-93 were integrated into Lotus Organizer, the graphic editor CorelDRAW, the business card scanning system BCR, and the bank form scanning software of Electronic Data Systems, while the CuneiForm application was sold through retail networks and bundled with popular scanners (Epson, HP, Xerox, and others).
Today, nothing is left of that business. Around 2014, the focus shifted to autonomous vehicles, and for a while, Olga Uskova was sharing achievements in the field of self-driving harvesters in my news feed. Essentially, this is a completely new startup, even though the name Cognitive remains the same as before.
Cognitive Technologies’ competitor, ABBYY, has long been erasing all traces of its past business in Russia, and is now headquartered in Charlotte, NC. I donât know how they are doing, but David Yanâs company is one of the few IT companies born in the nineties that entered the global market, made a name for themselves, and are still somewhat alive to this day. The rest are either dead or nearly dead. Among them, for instance, is Kaspersky Lab, which has been losing the market rapidly for many years, not to mention as of 2023.
I have 25 outlets in my hotel room.
It was still a shock for me to see the audience returning from intermission with plastic cups of beer. Between Beethoven and Sibelius. I wonder, was there also popcorn? Perhaps such things only happen in America? Or am I out of touch?
It turns out that the word “bedlam” originates from Bethlehemâspecifically, the hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem. I’m reading the concert program, and there’s a phrase inspirational bedlam. That’s how Beethoven’s biographer, Edmund Morris, described the composer’s drafts.
The term bedlam comes from the name of a hospital in London, âSaint Mary of Bethlehem,â which was devoted to treating the mentally ill in the 1400s. Over time, the pronunciation of âBethlehemâ morphed into bedlam and the term came to be applied to any situation where pandemonium prevails.
Interestingly, out of the 92 people in the Atlanta National Symphony Orchestra, only two are black. And the conductor. Surprised. However, at first glance, a similar ratio among the audience as well.
Hmm, didn’t know
yes, Google isn’t very useful in such an exercise
I wonder why you can’t report dishonest advertising on Telegram? Everyone else’s ads are just ads, but on Telegram it’s a complete dump. Practically one hundred percent of the ads are spam. Not a single useful one. Is it because it’s inexpensive and easy to get into? Or because mechanisms resistant to malicious use are difficult to implement? Mikhail Gelfand is now our lecturer from MIPT Andrey Anatolyevich.
Itâs impossible to conceive of a more idiotic shower design. To turn on the shower, you must stand under it. The handle adjusts the temperature. It turns around one and a half times. You have to turn it and stop it at the desired position. In the process, cold water suddenly pours on your head with great force, which heats up in a second depending on the position of the handle, but you have already jumped back. And if you have overdone the turn by nearly one and a half turns and turned on the scalding water (thatâs a full one and a half turns), then to turn it off, you need to stand under that boiling water. Because otherwise, you can’t reach the handle! The right part of the door doesn’t move, of course. And this is the Hilton, costing $200-250 per night.
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