No, not that kind of discharge - the cardio-thoracic surgeons have decreed that I am ready for release back into the wild, though still to be cared for by relatives for another week or so 
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- How Land Registry data reveals London’s secret tunnels - Guy Shrubsole digs into some recently released public data: ”Last month, the Land Registry released free of charge its Corporate & Commercial dataset, which lists the 3.5 million land and property titles owned by all UK companies and corporate bodies. Some careful sifting of this vast dataset has uncovered various tunnels and underground chambers beneath London owned by the Post Office, BT, and the Ministry of Defence.”
- Have yourself a deadly little Christmas - Raychelle Burks on festive poisoners: ”While we often focus on the Grinch-like stealing of presents, such property crimes are not the only type of misdeed that mars the merriment: foul fare and treacherous tipples have spoiled many a holiday celebration. Here are two stories of nightmares before (and after) Christmas…”
- Mr Bunny Roger - ”Couturier, socialite and war hero, this man was an extraordinary but admirable concoction.” And is believed to have been the inspiration for John Steed of the Avengers
- When the Cure Is the Cause: The Case of the Green Hairy Tongue - "A bizarre epidemic in 1960s Japan should have set off alarms around the world."
- The Secret History of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco - A detailed look at the activities associated with the currently-closed West Coast facility: ”According to multiple former intelligence officials, while these ‘strange activities’ were not limited to San Francisco or its environs, they originated far more frequently from the San Francisco consulate than any other Russian diplomatic facility in the United States, including the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. As one former intelligence source put it, suspected Russian spies were ‘doing peculiar things in places they shouldn’t be.’”
- The State Folk Dance Conspiracy: Fabricating a National Folk Dance - Not all conspiracies are about aliens or world-shaking events: ”Modern Western square dance clubs are coordinating across the U.S. to have square dancing declared the state folk dance of all fifty states. At the time of this writing, there are twenty-two states that have passed legislation designating square dance as the ‘state folk dance’… It’s no wonder that legislators who vote in favor of state dance legislation don’t know what it is they are supporting.”
- 8 Historic London Shopfronts - "Kathryn Morrison, Head of Historic Places Investigation, selects eight shopfronts that can be appreciated by anyone strolling along the pavements of London, and offer a glimpse into the city’s rich history as one of the world’s most exciting shopping centres." No doubt Mr. Bunny Roger would have frequented one or two of these emporia
- Exploring the ChestXray14 dataset: problems - Luke Oakden-Rayner argues that a well-known dataset being used to train medical AI systems risks falling into the trap of “garbage in, garbage out”: ”I believe the ChestXray14 dataset, as it exists now, is not fit for training medical AI systems to do diagnostic work… Particularly given the fact that many of the data users will be computer scientists without the clinical knowledge to discover any pitfalls. ”
- A Neural Network in the Shape of a Koch Snowflake for Classifying Words in the Twelve Days of Christmas - From the ”More Information” page: ”There's a well-known song called 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'. It has a lot of repetition in it and this project is an attempt to train a neural network to see if it could 'learn' about this repetition and classify words from the song into different categories.”
- Ivan Kislov Photography - Ivan Kislov is a Russian miner based in Magadan, on the northern shore of the Sea of Okhotsk, where he photographs the wildlife, landscapes, and people.
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