Category: Blog
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Monticello
There is so much to say about this place. It was Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate. He wrote “All men are created equal” in the American Declaration of Independence, and yet he died owning hundreds of enslaved people, including his own children. Just down the hill from Jefferson’s enormous mansion is a dirt road called Mulberry…
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USP 530 – Session 10
April 7th Session Ten: Infrastructure: Water, Waste, Energy, Transportation, Building, Food This session will focus on how changes in urban infrastructure can help cities become more inclusive, resilient, productive, livable, and sustainable. We will be guided by the following questions: Infrastructure: Infrastructure refers to the long-lived engineered structures central to economic and social development. (Slightly…
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty! Unfortunately the ferry was not running but I was able to get pretty close on the land. Very cool to finally see it in person!
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Manhattan: Pastrami on Rye at Katz’s
I’ve been scouring all the online food guides as I traverse the nation, looking for gems. This is one to remember. A LOT of people have responded to my post about this sandwich with stories of their own pilgrimages to Katz’s deli in New York City. The process of actually buying the sandwich was…
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OurSpace
A distributed alternative social media system based on RSS over IPFS and using BitTorrent to distribute media attachments. Use something like ENS to resolve usernames to a wallet public address and corresponding RSS feed file of their posts. People could easily restrict their feed to only be viewable to friends, like how TOX works, and…
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Philly Cheesesteak
Philly Cheesesteak is the obvious choice in Philly. I found this great place called John’s Roast Pork on a food blog. I drove several hours to get there, and very nearly missed out. I got one of the last sandwiches of the day! It had very little cheese. It was mostly this great moist and…
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Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell was forged with the words “Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof.” It was meant to be hung in the Pennsylvania state house (now called Independence Hall). But it cracked when it was first rung. They tried reforging it twice, but every time it was rung, it would crack. Maybe…
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Washington DC
This city is not just full of monuments, it is a monument. There is so much history everywhere. From the capitol building that Canada burned down after we tried invading and annexing them, to the Lincoln Memorial which for some reason was full of Nazis when I visited. It’s a wild and complex place full…
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A GPT-3 site that will write essays for you.
Just submit your bibliography and thesis and it will do the rest.
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Taskflow
Is service oriented architecture that takes input in the form of natural language requests and create threads sort of like pendings and then tries to solve the requests Their class can also be programmatically entered. For example download the latest episode of some TV show. And then it has to go find it and download…