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The Pain of Watching an Avatar Learn to Backflip

In a NY Times video, A Fun Film About a Topic that Scares Me A Lot, watch as an avatar learns how to do a backflip through machine learning. To…

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August 22, 2023

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How to Read Unopened Letters with Virtual Reality

The NY Times reports how computer scientists at M.I.T. developed a technique to read historic letters that are so fragile they cannot be opened. The new technique could open a…

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March 8, 2021

Everything Else

Horror Movie Idea: The Dolls Used to Be Real Children

The last children were born in the remote mountain village of Nagoro 18 years ago. Now, just over two dozen adults live in this outpost straddling a river on the Japanese island of Shikoku. The elementary school closed its doors in 2012, shortly after the last two students completed sixth grade.

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December 17, 2019

Technology

Code to Joy: The School for Poetic Computation Opens

Written by Amy O'Leary and published by the NY Times Bits Blog.

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August 13, 2013

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I’m a technologist, librarian, writer, and father currently working in the Archives of WGBH Educational Foundation.

(9/21/2023)

Each fall the coats on the hooks get a little longer.
(9/15/2023)

Hurricane Lee is coming up the coast. Rain, wind, and flooding in Boston?
(8/22/2023)

Tesla Syndrome and Enshittification seem to be two articles in conversation with each other.
(8/18/2023)

Rainy and the kids are away with their grandparents.
(7/20/2023)

We’re in Maine and falling in love with Rangely.
(7/3/2023)

Will we get our passports in time?
(6/30/2023)

Will we get our passports in time for our trip?

I’m nervous.
(6/28/2023)

Sifting through Truman Capote’s notebooks for new insights into the creation of In Cold Blood.
(6/26/2023)

Are there any e-ink tablets that do just ebooks, notes/drawing and music? That would be great for my kids.
(6/21/2023)

The World’s Digital Memory is at Risk, “much data loss today occurs in ways that are deeply unjust and that have monumental implications for both culture and politics.”