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- Show for Aug 25, 2013: Henry Jaglom on Orson Welles. It’s tempting, if you’re tempted by clichés, to call Orson Welles “larger than life.” But he was after all an ordinary mortal, however...

Challenged British Counterfeiting - A blog post from The Ephemera Society of America. Marbled edge paper was used to reduce counterfeiting

Discover the epic match between Go master Lee Sedol and AI AlphaGo. Explore how this historic confrontation transformed the world of Go and AI advancements.

The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This is a practical guide on how to do them yourself.

Elif Batuman examines a new collection of Vladimir Nabokov’s scientific drawings of butterflies, published by Yale University Press as “Fine Lines.”

They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.

American puppeteer. Remo Bufano’s bold, prolific imagination produced works that gave American puppetry a presence in the world of theatre for adults. In 1897, the Bufano family emigrated from Italy to the United States…

This application displays detailed training data for large language models (LLMs) on GPU clusters, showing performance metrics and configurations. Users can view the data through an interactive plot.

With its first signing, a moody Brit named Mark William Lewis, the auteurist film juggernaut starts a record label. Why?

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Deck houses could be your next mid-mod obsession.

An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City

Josh and Benny Safdie's Sight & Sound ballots gave fans an inside look at their favorite films.

Contrary to the popular notion, nostalgia is pretty much what it’s always been, judging by the latest offering from the Frommers (It Happened on Broadway, 1998, etc.).

The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, & the Human Spirit by Henry Kissinger, Schmidt & Mundie explore AI's transformative potential & existential dilemmas

Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Das Boot Script taken from a transcript of the screenplay and/or the J�rgen Prochnow movie