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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)

Here in Cambridge, there is a very interesting bus route, a guided bus route (incidentally, the longest of its type in the world). It’s fascinating because the bus essentially mounts rails and then travels at a speed of about a hundred kilometers per hour, virtually without the driver’s involvement (he doesn’t even need to touch the steering wheel). Effectively, it’s like a tram or subway, only much simpler in design – it uses nearly regular buses (though they do have a small steering wheel on the side). Plus, unlike trams, they can always operate as a regular bus (which happens outside of this 25km segment).

Some incomprehensible stuff in a dormitory of one of the Cambridge colleges (where I have been living for the past two days). Each coat hanger is tied with a cord to a lock, from which a key protrudes (it does not turn or come out). Located behind the restroom signs (further specialization there). Any ideas what this is?