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Rich,

I don't see a contradiction. The objective algorithm separates the wheat from the chaff, but is unable to find the choicest kernel....

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Here is an article Quanta published today. It is about "machine scientists." This is something new to me.

https://www.quantama...

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The Wired article was borrowed from the Quanta website, which published it seven years ago.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scie...

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Agreed. But books are transportable. I found this new field guide in my library -- now I am on the lookout for wasps during my desert hikes. Amazon lets...

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10,000 uses! How many have you not tried out?

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Nice engine. I wonder why he calls his Ericsson engine a "Stirling" engine -- they run on different cycles.

https://en.wikiped...

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You have told us that you are a reader. Your local public library is a good one -- currently they have hundreds of nonfiction books published in the last...

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Adobe Lightroom has recently introduced a "Dehaze" slider, which might be what your long lenses need....

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No need for such subterfuge. Safari and DuckDuckGo are search engines which can operate in "private mode" with no tracking....

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Blue and red. I hope Goodwife buys your shirts and socks. 🤔...

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In 2007 I posted a puzzle involving a bicycle. Evan goofed it, but AK Boomer got it right.

https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/fo...bicycl...

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I started this thread, but I don't have the power of deleting it. Maybe George can explain what happened to most of Evan's threads....

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Jerry, Here is the Belplasca. It was manufactured in 1954 by the Belka-Werk in Dresden. The viewfinder is cloudy, so I have attached a Voigtlander 35mm...

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Sid, I'm glad you got it to "pop" into 3D!

For those that have not mastered parallel viewing, the trick is the look "through"...

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Watch it in action, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-Lndf2Rdw

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To get back to the subject, I've taken up stereo photography with a 1954 Belplasca. This camera has two Zeiss Tessar 37.5mm f/3.5 lenses, and records...

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Thanks for jogging my memory. Current Wellington real estate is unfathomably dear.

In 1972 my flat at 20B Hobson St was NZ$20/week, just...

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John, Here is your photo of me with your Fotosniper, taken in Wellington in 2010 before you moved to Ashburton. That house had a million-dollar view!...

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Here is a later thread from Evan. He was about to start as an adjunct under the professor with the neurological lab.

He hosted all his photos...

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Nice sleuthing! Looks like he may still be an adjunct at Univ of Victoria....