Artificial neural networks are prone to a troublesome glitch known, evocatively, as catastrophic forgetting. These seemingly tireless networks can keep learning tasks day and night. But sometimes, once a new task is learned, any recollection of an old task vanishes. - Nautilus
A 17-acre, $170 million project that’s been an urbanist obsession since it was announced in late 2019, Culdesac is being watched closely as a test case for a new kind of car-free development. - Bloomberg
The exhibition blows through the polite separation between artwork and money work. Not only does it name, in wall label after wall label, what each artist did to keep the lights on — it demonstrates how artists drew techniques, subjects, even inspiration from their diurnal grind. - The New York Times
"A good title won't save an unwatchable movie. But a catchy name has potential to propel a film into the zeitgeist (see 'M3GAN'), and as a clunky one can send a film plunging into obscurity faster than you can say 'Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn.'" - Variety
“It gave people a different way into what I was talking about, other than just showing slides. The sound conveyed what it was like to be there.” - The New York Times
"When Mitsue Nakamura began, she knew of one other woman in the field, but this year, all four of her current apprentices, some of whom study for 10 years, are female. Some adhere to traditional archetypes and techniques, while others radically reinterpret them." - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
The typical Wikipedia editor is a man (fewer than 10 per cent are women) who works in a desk job which involves being online a lot (IT workers have always been over-represented), lives in a first-world country, and who has leftish politics. In other words, the typical Wikipedia editor is a Guardian reader. - The Critic
"Elena Poniatowska has chronicled every major social movement in Mexico over seven decades, her 40-plus books a one-woman time capsule of a country's modern history. … (She) still writes a weekly column, showcasing her uncanny ability to get her subjects — presidents, murderers, victims of unspeakable crimes — to crack open." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"According to the newly launched Prison Newspaper Directory by the Prison Journalism Project, there are 24 prison-based newspapers in 12 states. At least four of the papers were launched in the last year." - Nieman Lab
The frustration of conductors and orchestra musicians was at times quite palpable. One of the instrumentalists, a principal player from a major orchestra, recounted a recent music director search in his orchestra that revealed some of the very tensions occurring at the meeting. - Nightingale Sonata
"It is world of digitally birthed babies that pile pink and helpless atop one another, contained in rectangular digital totems, or kinetic sculptures, flowing in a virtual amniotic fluid in arresting, evolving, transfixing heaps. … And it's hidden in a nondescript factory in an industrial park." - The Post and Courier (Charleston)
"Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as 'waggle dancing' — performing steps that map out where food is located. ... Now scientists have discovered that bees hone these moves when they're young, by touching their antennae to the bodies of dancing elder bees." - CNN
The Montserrat monastery in the mountains of Catalonia, home to the famous Escolania de Montserrat boys' choir, is forming a new ensemble of 25 singers -- a mix of boys, girls, and young women -- which will fill in for the main choir for one weekend each month. - The Guardian
In 1798, King Stanisław II, exiled to St. Petersburg and knowing he was dying, commissioned Józef Kozłowski, who'd come to the Russian capital a decade earlier, to compose a funeral Mass. The little-known score had survived only in a later recomposition for Tsar Alexander I -- until Graf started researching. - Bachtrack
