Off Topic 2020-07-03

TV Show Lie to Me is an American crime drama television series. It originally ran on the Fox network from January 21, 2009, to January 31, 2011. In the show, Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and Read More

British TV Shows

Beginners Sarah & Duck (link) Katie Morag (Scottish Accent) (link) Nature Shows with David Attenborough (Frozen Planet, Planet Earth, …) Intermediate Cooking Shows Jamie Oliver (link) Nigella Lawson (link) Fun The Office (UK) (link) The Inbetweeners (link) Others Informer (many accents) (link) Sherlock (link) Dr Who (link)

Off Topic 2020-06-26

Books Future Shock is a 1970 book by the futurist Alvin Toffler, in which the author defines the term „future shock“ as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. The shortest definition for the term in the book is a personal perception of „too much change in too Read More

Off Topic 2020-06-19

Books Rutger BregmanUtopia for Realists:And How We Can Get There GÖTZ W. WERNEREinkommen für alleBedingungsloses Grundeinkommen – die Zeit ist reif Other Topics Those who fall asleep in a democracymight wake up in a dictatorship Switzerland’s voters reject basic income planhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36454060 Coronavirus: Spain set for basic income to ease crisis Read More

Off Topic 2020-06-12

Canary Test and its origin Technical viewhttps://dzone.com/articles/canary-tests#:~:text=Canary%20Tests%20are%20minimal%20tests,the%20other%20tests%20are%20red. Originhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_species#:~:text=The%20idea%20of%20placing%20a,toxic%20gases%2C%20primarily%20carbon%20monoxide. There are countless examples of environmental effects on animals that later manifested in humans. The classic example is the „canary in the coal mine„. The idea of placing a canary or other warm blooded animal in a mine to detect carbon monoxide was first proposed by John Scott Haldane, Read More

Off Topic 2020-06-05

The Extra Mile Matthew 5:41 In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. The World English Bible translates the passage as:Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Scholarly versions of this Read More

Diners, the original prefab success story

These streamlined eateries offer nostalgia, a cheap meal, and prefabricated construction at its best https://www.curbed.com/2017/5/30/15716116/restaurants-diners-prefab-historic-preservation

When will you do what? – Anticipating Temporal Occurrences of Activities

An der Universität Bonn entwickelte Software kann künftige Handlungen treffsicher vorhersagen https://www.uni-bonn.de/neues/154-2018 Informatiker der Universität Bonn haben eine Software entwickelt, die ein paar Minuten in die Zukunft blicken kann: Das Programm lernt zunächst aus Videosequenzen die typische Abfolge von Aktionen, etwa beim Kochen. Basierend auf diesem Wissen kann es dann Read More