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Forbes' annual list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood has been unleashed. The World’s highest paid actresses 2018 are;

http://www.styleglamor.com/the-worlds-highest-paid-actresses-2018/

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" But Elon Musk has built the ship of the future. It’s a seven-place spacecraft. It is re-usable. It is new technology. Accordingly, it beats Soyuz according to every parameter, by every technological indicator. It only needs to prove its usefulness for manned space launches, and then in July it will make its first manned flight. Musk will not only take away from Roscosmos… Transporting foreign astronauts [on Soyuz] to the ISS is ending. "

Why We Can’t Stop Thinking About Other People’s Lives - observations on jealousy and social comparison.

"There exists, in the human organism, a habit to evaluate our opinions and abilities. In most situations, the way to evaluate oneself is highly contingent on the performance of others."

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[ Hierarchical Comparison ]

We make upward comparisons with people who we think are better than us, and downward comparisons with those who we think are worse off. Downward comparisons tends to make us feel happier and better about our abilities, whereas upward comparisons usually make us feel like we aren't good enough.

Attention all: It's time to start thinking about phones in the same way we think about appliances — and that means we need a whole new system for interpreting their costs and assessing their actual value to us over time.

Fear not, for I have the formula:

Democrats blacklisted Fox News for the 2020 presidential primary debates
what are the democrats scared of that they would go to these extremes of banning a news station from their debates .

50 years ago the crew flies the LEM for the first time
Apollo 9 was a 10-day low-Earth orbit flight. It was the 19th American manned spaceflight, the third manned Apollo mission, and the second to be launched atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket. But most important, this was the first mission where all three of the main components for a Moon lander – the Saturn V, the CSM, and the LEM – flew at the same time, and the first time that NASA could fully rehearse the launch of a lunar mission.

A new course has been added to the deeplearning.ai series, TensorFlow: Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Eye contact 2

A photo of this new post on my website: Eye contact
A young Ring-tailed lemur in Wildlands in Emmen
https://anjawessels.photography/eye-contact/

CAMERA: Canon EOS 80D/650D
LENS Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD Macro

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#photography #animal #zoo #Wildlands #EyeContact #lemur #Ringtailedlemur

More like a parliament if you ask me, but certainly a pluralism of influences that coalesces into a singular outcome.

Hormones united: The hormone system works like a democracy: every tissue in the body is an endocrine organ asserting its needs and demands

https://aeon.co/essays/the-revolutionary-idea-revealing-the-bodys-hormonal-democracy

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A photo of this new post on my website: Eye contact
An impala in Noorderdierenpark in Emmen
https://anjawessels.photography/eye-contact/

CAMERA: Canon EOS 80D/650D
LENS Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD Macro

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#photography #animal #zoo #Noorderdierenpark #EyeContact #Impala

John Ruskamp claims to have found pictograms from the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty etched into rocks in New Mexico, California and Arizona, the USA.

He further claims the symbols give details of the journeys and honour the Shang king (http://viewofchina.com/chinese-business-traditions/)

I picked up some great comics this week. I love this Amazing Spider-Man #15 cover. What do you think?

Mermaid Cascade, Bargo Canyon
Celebration: countdown 17

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." (monologue, 'Blade Runner')

A lot of what i see out in the wilderness is an assault on the imagination. When i come across something unexpected by myself deep in the mountains, i trust that sudden twist in the mind, that cold apprehension of fear, regardless of how irrational it might seem.

A couple of years ago, i didn't know any of this stuff existed.

Here a fast flowing cascade falls into a pot hole and re-emerges further down the cascade. Pot holes like this one in the center of a waterfall gutter are a hidden risk in Australian waterfalls. Active potholes can be deadly, particularly when hidden by the flow or at the bottom of a high pool. The flow of even a modest drop can create enough pressure to trap or pull you into the pothole. Never swim in a pool immediately above a waterfall.

I cannot speak confidently about this, but local knowledge suggests one death at this pothole and a near miss, when a person was swept over the hole and down the cascade to the waterfall plunge below.

A single shot toned for structure.

Celebrate: Thank you. To celebrate what we all achieved on G+, i am publishing the 50 most viewed posts in this collection until shutdown. This is an unreprocessed image of this fall (17th most viewed: 2,247,120 times).
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This platform has been great for photographers and writers. For more Australian photography, please check out my friend +Chris Sutton. Or check the b&w of
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Cityscape © Holger Nimtz
Berlin | Germany | 2018
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Sunset among the mountains, in norther Laos

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Civil servants 'Sir Humphrey' their way through grilling on UK.gov's digital transformation - MPs ask for specifics, get evasive umming and erring

The Whitehall officials running departments and agencies at the centre of efforts to boost digitisation, along with their political bosses, were yesterday quizzed by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

The MPs are trying to get to the bottom of the government's progress towards becoming 'truly digital', rather than just sticking a fancy front end on processes that are often manual. They've so far taken evidence from the founders of the Government Digital Service (GDS), industry and various Whitehall tech-watchers.

Among these concerns are that efforts to reduce vendor lock-in and bring IT in-house, kicked off by Francis Maude in 2011, have lost momentum – and that progress in ripping and replacing outdated kit risks grinding to a halt, with some departments falling further behind and GDS being increasingly sidelined.

My comment: Interesting to see politicians getting into the real specifics and holding departments accountable for the efficient (or not) expenditure of taxpayers money.

See https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/05/uk_digital_government_inquiry/

#digitalgovernment #UK #government

"We'll use a phenomenon whereby 'sub-vocalizing', or saying a word in one's mind, even if not spoken aloud, can result in the firing of the nerves controlling the muscles involved in speech."

"In this article, I'll describe how to use these signals and deep learning to classify sub-vocalized words  --  specifically by reading the electrical nerve activity using an EEG/EMG sensor, setting up a pipeline for processing and acquiring labelled training data, and creating a custom 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for classification."

"While this approach would be limited in its ability to provide us with extra bandwidth we'd expect from a brain-computer interface, it is nevertheless an impressive and educational example of processing and interpreting thought-driven biosignals. Let's dive in..."

A Florida Swamp

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She was the most breathtaking mess

"Asked why the push toward automation didn't pan out, Elon's answer revolved around one major issue: robotic vision, or the software that controls what the assembly line robots can 'see' and then do based on that computer vision. Unfortunately, the assembly line robots just couldn't deal with unexpected orientations of objects like nuts and bolts, or complicated maneuvering between the car frame. Every such issue would cause the assembly line to stop. In the end, it was far easier to substitute humans for robots in many assembly situations.

"Today, computer vision (the umbrella term for robotic vision) is everywhere and represents the next frontier of AI technologies and groundbreaking applications across a variety of industries. The advances being made right now by researchers and companies in the space are impressive and represent the missing pieces needed to make Elon Musk's vision of an automated car assembly line a reality."

Illegal Border Crossings Surged in February, Bogging Down Border Patrol