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architecture, engineering and construction

The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

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movies and tv

The End of Oak Street

By the life of me, I don’t understand how’s possible that this movie was ever cleared for production. The concept is simple, and shamefully Stephen King-esque: a portion of a small suburban town gets teleported into a not particularly well-defined “age of dinosaurs,” and the

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books and literature

Susanna Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieau

I had forgotten how much I was bored by Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but I trust I’ll like other stuff by the same author and, before tackling Piranesi, I decided to finally approach this one. Not remembering these are spin-off stories from Jonathan

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2 Comments
  • Elderion
    Posted at 12:20h, 18 February Reply

    Ehi Shel, sto guardando Sherlock, ricordo che ne parlasti qui! E' davvero bello! Hai letto? L'attore che interpreta Holmes sarà Bilbo in The Hobbit!

  • utente anonimo
    Posted at 10:57h, 15 November Reply

    L'attore che interpreta Watson ;-)

    * Shelidon sloggata *

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