Come ride shotgun with me on my drive to work on this last official day of winter! 
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IBM's Watson machine, which won Jeopardy! against human champions, recently memorized the Urban Dictionary as part of an effort to pass the Turing Test.  Subsequently, researchers were forced to wipe its hard drive because it wouldn't stop swearing at the engineers.  What a shame they had to do that.
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This is my go at drawing Rainbow Dash in the style of Petirep.  I hadn't been able to shake the desire to try this, so today I finally went ahead and had some fun with the ArtStudio app on the iPad.  I make no claims to be an artist or even to be so inclined, I'm just trying to imitate what I see artists do.  ArtStudio is great!  The actual drawing ( Read more... )

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