Experimental data is often not only highly dimensional, but also noisy and full of artefacts. This makes it difficult to interpret the data. Now a team at HZB has designed software that uses self- .
I’ll start with a story from the November-December
Asimov’s that doesn’t really qualify as SF or fantasy, but that will appeal to many of our readers. This is
Connie Willis‘s latest Christmas story, “
Take a Look at the Five and Ten“. Ori is telling about her Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners with her ex-stepfather, who has a habit of inviting almost everyone in his widely extended family (extended particularly by his half-dozen or so marriages). The latest Thanksgiving dinner is hosted by Dave’s latest wife, Jillian, who has a stuck-up blond daughter, Sloane, about Ori’s age. Sloane brings her latest boyfriend to the dinner, and among the other guests are cranky Aunt Mildred and boring Grandma Elving. Why is Grandma Elving boring? Because she has just one story to tell, and tells it again and again, about her time working at Woolworths in Denver one Christmas decades in the past, in interminable detail. This time Grandma Elving is telling her story again and, o