2 national chains that focus on craft beer are putting their stakes in Manhattan’s beer scene with upcoming openings. Florida-based World of Beer and The Brass Tap will open franchises in the coming months, bringing with them wide selections of beer to compete with local beer bars. Here’s a look at what both have to offer.
Month: July 2015
Computer-Aided Explanation
the point where AI is helping understanding directly isn’t that far off.
For instance, might it be possible to get the statistical models of language to deduce the existence of verbs and nouns and other parts of speech? That is, perhaps we could actually see verbs as emergent properties of the underlying statistical model. Even better, might such a deduction actually deepen our understanding of existing linguistic categories? For instance, imagine that we discover previously unknown units of language
Super-cheap flights
If the cost of international flights drops to the $300 to $400 range instead of $700 to $1500 or more and better cabin air pressure means no jet lag, then shorter one week international vacations would open up as a far bigger market and more frequent option.
2017-09-05:
After 2050, there will likely be 6-7B people that are the equivalent of today’s developed world middle class or affluent class. 2 to 4 trips per person per year is not inconceivable (higher incomes and low transportation costs). This would be 12-28B international arrivals.
A shark with a hacksaw
eventually, predators will evolve to hunt humans.
Food Cinemagraphs
applying shitty vintage filters on your food pictures means you’re an amateur. this is how the pros do it.
Cooling clothing
Air-conditioning uses 5% of all the electricity produced in the US Not only are most clothes opaque to visible light, they are also opaque to infrared. This traps infrared radiation, causing the body to heat up. new materials would provide the equivalent of at least 23W of cooling. Crucially these materials should still be opaque at visible wavelengths.
Plankton evolves eye
A single-celled marine plankton has evolved a miniature version of an eye to help see its prey better. It’s an amazingly complex structure for a single-celled organism to have evolved. It contains a collection of sub-cellular organelles that look very much like the lens, cornea, iris and retina of multicellular eyes found in humans and other larger animals.
23 ka Plant cultivation
Until now, researchers believed farming was “invented” some 12 ka ago in the Cradle of Civilization — Iraq, the Levant, parts of Turkey and Iran. A new discovery offers evidence that trial plant cultivation began far earlier — 23 ka ago.
Onigiri
Finally found a good supplier for Onigiri in NYC: Cafe Zaiya
medieval DRM
Considering these 2 practical theft-prevention techniques – chaining your books to something unmovable or putting them into a safe – the third seems kind of odd: to write a curse against book thieves inside the book. Your typical curse (or anathema) simply stated that the thief would be cursed, like this one in a book from an unidentified Church of St Caecilia: “Whoever takes this book or steals it or in some evil way removes it from the Church of St Caecilia, may he be damned and cursed forever, unless he returns it or atones for his act” (source). Some of these book curses really rub it in: “If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgement the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Gregor J. Rothfuss 