This is a review of a manifesto associated with a learning program.| maya.land
I don’t know how much we ought to trust this source but I’d definitely believed the included myths without any sources at all, so this may be of interest to others.| maya.land
The ILC developed a database of tens of thousands of dissidents living in the Eastern Bloc and carefully targeted the books it sent. Paris became a critical hub where travelers could load up; the Librairie Polonaise, a venerable Polish bookshop, let visitors take several volumes for free on their way home. Its manager sent a bill to the CIA, which by the mid-1980s was covering half of the store’s inventory.| maya.land
Female velvet spiders exhibit a remarkable type of maternal care unique among arachnids. Upon the birth of her brood, the mother spider liquefies her internal organs and regurgitates this material as food. Once her capability to liquefy her insides is exhausted, the young sense this and consume the mother.| maya.land
What is PDF Annotation? Annotating PDF files is an essential skill for collaboration, review, and seamless communication in both professional and educational workflows. PDF annotations allow you to draw over, highlight, label, or otherwise “annotate” the document without modifying the existing content. Why Annotate PDF Files? A common use case would be for gaining feedback […] The post How to add annotations to a PDF file appeared first on Java PDF Blog and was written by Jacob Collins.| Java PDF Blog
Today I will demonstrate a worked example to show how you can create a PDF translator using our PDF toolkit JPedal and Translator. This will convert any PDF Document from one language to another (in this case English to Chinese). You can get a copy of JPedal here. Extracting text First, we will need to […] The post How to translate PDF files in Java (Tutorial) appeared first on Java PDF Blog and was written by Jacob Collins.| Java PDF Blog
English version Par Laura M. Smith La collection permanente de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC) conservée à Winnipeg comprend maintenant de nombreux carnets de terrain ayant appartenu à des employés de Parcs Canada. Ces carnets soigneusement remplis dans le cadre de différents … Lire la suite →| Le blogue de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Every day I spawn in. Emerge wriggling out my skibidi bolus of slime. Whence and where? Lol. Idk. Vibes here be mad shady fr. Shit is not aesthetic. Shit is not bussin. Shit is burned-out cars piled in barricades across the street. Shit is THE END IS NIGH scrawled across bridges. Shit is roofs caved in, windows boarded, thin trees already rising out the wreckage, with roots that slip through gaps in the brickwork to return the brief work of man to the senseless rubble that came before. This s...| maya.land
Monthly Packet of Evening Readings, Volume 19, (London: Mozley and Smith, 1875), page 213: —and the rule for sowing is, ‘One for the mouse, one for the crow, One to rot, and one to grow’| maya.land
Version française By Laura M. Smith Within the walls of Library and Archives Canada’s Winnipeg facility, we find an accession from Parks Canada containing numerous field notebooks used by its employees. These notebooks contain measurements, calculations, technical drawings and notes … Continue reading →| Library and Archives Canada Blog
The Goomba fallacy is a reasoning mistake. When there are two contradicting opinions in one internet community, some readers think that everyone in the community is stupid, because the opinions are contradictory. They do not realise that there are separate people posting in the community, with separate opinions and beliefs. In other words, two groups with contradictory views are perceived as one group that contradicts itself.| maya.land
In this article I will show you how you can attach PDF files in Java using our JPedal PDF SDK toolkit, using a few lines of Java code. JPedal offers other PDF manipulation features, to aid Java developers working with the PDF format. Introduction PDF is a powerful format, and one such feature is the […] The post How to attach files to a PDF in Java (Tutorial) appeared first on Java PDF Blog and was written by Jacob Collins.| Java PDF Blog
If you are looking to add images to pdf in java you have a couple of options: Insert an image as an annotations Insert an image into the page content stream This article explores the pros and cons of each method and how to perform them in Java. Image Annotations Using annotations to insert images […] The post How to Add Images to PDF files in Java (Tutorial) appeared first on Java PDF Blog and was written by Jacob Collins.| Java PDF Blog
Rather than engaging with my concerns, some editors have chosen to mock, speculate about my motives, or label my arguments “AI-generated” — without explaining how they are substantively flawed.| maya.land
Work on motivations for using Facebook also supports the distinction between connection-promoting and non–connection-promoting use. A longitudinal study conducted across two time points looked at the impact of Facebook use on adolescents’ well-being. Use motivated by compensating for insufficient social networks predicted increased loneliness at follow-up, while use motivated by the desire to connect with other people predicted decreased loneliness at follow-up (Teppers, Luyckx, Klimstra,...| maya.land
Like – are they? On the one hand, I love the idea of sheer panels as an easy-mode approach to the giant baggy silhouettes the moment favors. On the other hand, the raw edge where the denim’s been cut away – eugh. (On the third hand – even though that Renaissance mesh pulls toward kitsch, I’m still down!)| maya.land
The promptuary, also known as the card abacus is a calculating machine invented by the 16th-century Scottish mathematician John Napier and described in his book Rabdologiae in which he also described Napier’s bones. It is an extension of Napier’s bones, using two sets of rods to achieve multi-digit multiplication without the need to write down intermediate results, although some mental addition is still needed to calculate the result.| maya.land
This is a long blog post. If you’re not inclined to read something long, please still click through and read the one section the author recommends!| maya.land
“Paul Graham has published a blog post where he is wrong about something” is not a news item so much as expected background radiation of contemporary life. However, I have something specific to say about this one.| maya.land
This application uses a unique approach. It employs statistics and smart algorithms to automatically create typing lessons that match your current skill level.| maya.land
Act II, Scene 1: Ophelia tells her father about how a half-naked, deranged-looking Hamlet barged into her room, physically assaulted her, and ran off into the night. Since we never hear anything about Polonius’ wife, we must assume that the strain of raising two children on his own has rendered him non compos mentis, as this leads him to believe that Hamlet is in love and not a booze-shattered date rapist. He decides to tell the King and Queen about it, because Ophelia’s personal life...| maya.land
Through the DARPA award, Szablowski will work with Miao-Hsueh Chen, an associate professor of pediatric nutrition at Baylor College of Medicine and an expert on [brown adipose tissue], to enhance nonshivering thermogenesis. A drug that boosts BAT response could help first responders treat victims of hypothermia and even lower the cost of arctic exploration. “If you have a drug that makes brown fat more active, then instead of having to spend weeks and weeks adapting to cold, you can perfor...| maya.land
The definition above implies that the “World Wide Web” uses the http protocol to send its data. Why then, do we still need to add the “WWW” subdomain? It’s a waste of time to type it. Wouldn’t it be easier to just type in the domain name, without the “WWW”?| maya.land
A few weeks ago, I held a guest lecture at University of North Carolina Charlotte on how we can use large language models for annotation in the context of argument mining and fact verification. Here are the contents of that lecture in blog post format.| Lj Miranda
I just had a post published on the ALTC (Association for Learning Technology) blog in which I share a few observations on what it means when students engage in ‘discussion’ when annotating digital texts online. Here is the opening to the blog: While social annotation can be an effective means of engaging students in readingContinue reading What is discussion in social annotation?| Making Digital History
I had a post published on the SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association – the professional association for staff and educational developers in the UK) blog the other day. In it, I t…| Making Digital History
Last week, the brilliant Aimee Merrydew (Keele University) shared a Study Matters podcast in which she interviewed me about the work of the Active Online Reading project on digital reading pedagogi…| Making Digital History
Unlock SwiftUI's potential! Learn to persist user settings with AppStorage, avoiding UserDefaults pitfalls. Dive into iOS dev now!| Holy Swift
On 20th March, I delivered my inaugural lecture at the University of Lincoln. I can’t say that I was massively looking forward to it, but in the end I really enjoyed it. The Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies organises, records and shares the lectures on their website (see here for the full list). You canContinue reading Inaugural action: Reading Lessons – From Papyrus to ChatGPT| Making Digital History
Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.| Rest of World
…year so far: “radioactive data.” They write:| maya.land
And we can’t settings-toggle our way out| maya.land
