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- The Art of Conducting (2018) https://www.commentary.org/articles/terry-teachout/the-art-of-conducting/ 12 comments
- The Art of Conducting https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-art-of-conducting/ 30 comments
- In a Society That Doesn’t Support The Arts, Pakistani Entertainers Continue To Conduct Themselves In A Conscionable Manner; Not Succumbing to Toxic Jingoism To Appeal To Their Public https://twitter.com/mehwishhayat/status/1160678267680149508?s=21 8 comments pakistan
- [Nahmad] Kawhi Leonard is obligated by Sec 10(c) of his contract to report to Raptors within one week. If doesn’t, w/o reasonable excuse, he’d be subject to discipline by (i) Raptors (or, if trade voided, Spurs) and (ii) NBA, for conduct prejudicial to NBA under Art 35(d) of Constitution. https://twitter.com/albertnahmad/status/1019572260196188160 304 comments nba
- [Blum] Arte Moreno conducted an interview today with a different local news outlet. He declined to speak to @TheAthletic for unknown reasons. I did ask him if he planned to sell the team. His response: “No.” https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/1757843811777327547 78 comments baseball
- Researchers have conducted experiments showing that, contrary to popular intuition, people perceive emotions and intentions when viewing art even when they know the work was generated by a computer, but human-made art gets more positive reviews https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/people-experience-emotions-with-computer-generated-art/ 13 comments science
- 'Meena' a 2.6 billion parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model that can conduct conversations that are more sensible and specific than existing state-of-the-art chatbots. https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.html 48 comments artificial
- After enrolling at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and spending $70,000 on her education, a graduate has turned to stripping, noting “there’s something wrong” with the way for-profit colleges are conducting business http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295688 203 comments reddit.com
- [Pryor] Steelers GM Kevin Colbert is stepping down after the draft, per Art Rooney II. Team will conduct a search for a new GM immediately, but likely won’t make the hire until after the draft. They have already interviewed two in-house candidates: Brandon Hunt and Omar Khan. https://twitter.com/bepryor/status/1487136639164063746 128 comments nfl
- Research conducted by neurobiologists has shown that when people experience a beautiful piece of music or art, a specific area of the brain becomes active. Now these scientists have found that the same area of the brain lights up when mathematicians study equations they deem beautiful. http://theamericanscholar.org/hey-good-lookin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+theamericanscholar%2Fyasq+%28the+american+scholar%29#.u1v_a8dwjup 11 comments science
- [Wallach] If NFL appeals Judge Robinson’s order, they will point to the CA8’s statement in the Adrian Peterson case that Art. 46 and the Personal Conduct Policy “place no limits on the Commissioner’s authority to suspend players” and that he “is not forever bound to historical precedent.” https://twitter.com/WALLACHLEGAL/status/1554888205534728195?s=20&t=-3A4G358CEEEnSN3KAZfpw 220 comments nfl