Saturday, June 18, 2016

Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.


Good Bones

Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children. 

Life is short, and I've shortened mine

in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, 

a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways

I'll keep from my children. The world is at least

fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative

estimate, though I keep this from my children. 

For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. 

For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, 

sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world

is at least half terrible, and for every kind

stranger, there is one who would break you, 

though I keep this from my children. I am trying

to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, 

walking you through a real shithole, chirps on

about good bones: This place could be beautiful, 

right? You could make this place beautiful.

---Steve

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

FBI — Latest Hate Crime Statistics Report Released

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Computerworld: Here's how A.I. is about to make your car really smart


Here's how A.I. is about to make your car really smart
Computerworld

The number of intelligence (A.I.) systems used in infotainment and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) systems will jump from 7 million in 2015 to 122 million by 2025, according to a new IHS Technology report. IHS's Automotive Electronics Roadmap Report found the install rate of A.I.-based systems in new vehicles was just 8% in 2015, and the vast majority were focused on speech recognition, according to IHS. However, that number is forecast to rise to 109% in 2025, as there will be Read the full story


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Phys.org: Quantum 1, classical 0: Bell nonlocality universally confirmed in any large communication complexity advantage


Quantum 1, classical 0: Bell nonlocality universally confirmed in any large communication complexity advantage
Phys.org

by Stuart Mason Dambrot (Phys.org)—The relationship between communication complexity problems, Bell nonlocal correlations and the advantage of quantum over classical strategies has long been recognized, but has been confirmed in only two problems. Recently, however, scientists at University of Cambridge, University of Amsterdam, CWI, QuSoft, Gdansk University, Gdansk University of Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University, and Jagiellonian University employed a two-part method based on port-based Read the full story


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