A writer has to be a fighter at heart, to deal with the failures and the rejections, and like a fighter, he’s going to lose some, but he’s got to keep going. Whatever the job, whatever the pursuit, there will be moments when you taste some leather. The more you care, the more it hurts. The fighter’s way of laying in the training and converting the pain into motivation is universal. And when it gets hard, when the idea of quitting might start to glow like a lantern in the distance on a dark night, it inspires me to remember that if my grandfather could do what he did that night in the Garden, then I can at least try my damndest to answer the bell in my own way.
Blue Period: Analyzing the Color of Paintings with R
The image above shows the color spectrum of almost 100,000 paintings created since 1800.
In an article for Significance magazine, Martin suggests a few possible reasons why paintings are getting bluer with time:
- The colour blue is a relatively new colour word.
- An increase in dark colours or black might drive the effect if these contain more blue or if the camera register them as blue to a larger extent.
- The colours in paintings tend to change over time, e.g. due to the aging of resins.
- Blue has historically been a very expensive colour, and the decreasing price and increased supply might explain the increased use.
The Man Who Broke The Music Business
The dawn of online piracy :
Glover enjoyed both albums, but he was in an unusual position: he had the power to influence the outcome of this feud. If he leaked “Graduation” and held on to “Curtis,” Kanye might sell fewer records. But if he leaked “Curtis” and held on to “Graduation”—well, he might make 50 Cent retire.
How a Mystery Trader With an Algorithm May Have Caused the Flash Crash
That same day, Sarao and his firm, Nav Sarao Futures Limited Plc, used “layering” and “spoofing” algorithms to trade thousands of futures S&P 500 E-mini contracts. The orders amounted to about $200 million worth of bets that the market would fall, a trade that represented between 20 percent and 29 percent of all sell orders at the time. The orders were then replaced or modified 19,000 times before being canceled in the afternoon.
About three weeks later, Sarao told his broker that he had just called the CME and told them to “kiss my ass,” the affidavit said.
Take a Deep Breath if You Want to Try Competitive Vaping
They begin tuning up their devices like drag racers tuning hot rods before a race. They twist resistant wire into coils to carry electricity from their vaporizer’s battery, and weave dry cotton through the coils. The cotton acts like a wick, soaking up e-cigarette juice so the coils can heat it as electricity loops through them.
