#latvian model

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Christel A via Metart

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Aivita Muze

Paris Spring 2024

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Teslas iegādes ABC (The ABCs of Buying a Tesla [in Latvia])

P.S. The representative of this Latvian car sales company says that the most popular Tesla in Latvia is the Model Y, but the most affordable is the basic Tesla Model 3 (Although Latvians more often buy the more expensive long-range and dual-motor models). The company organizes the import of new and used Teslas from Germany. A pre-owned Tesla is actually often cheaper than the electric cars offered by legacy automakers, and you get much, much more advanced technology, great range, and hassle-free trips to Western Europe using the Tesla Supercharger network...

Now it is clearly understandable why Tesla made electric vehicles are so often seen in Latvia. Compared to many ICE vehicles, Tesla's electric cars are NOT THAT EXPENSIVE ANYMORE.

Just buy a Tesla and forget about expensive gasoline and diesel altogether...!

[haggishlyhagging]

It took about two hours for Daina Taimina to find the solution that had eluded mathematicians for over a century. It was 1997, and the Latvian mathematician was participating in a geometry workshop at Cornell University. David Henderson, the professor leading the workshop, was modelling a hyperbolic plane constructed out of thin, circular strips of paper taped together. 'It was disgusting,' laughed Taimina in an interview.

A hyperbolic plane is 'the geometric opposite' of a sphere, explains Henderson in an interview with arts and culture magazine Cabinet. 'On a sphere, the surface curves in on itself and is closed. A hyperbolic plane is a surface in which the space curves away from itself at every point.' It exists in nature in ruffled lettuce leaves, in coral leaf, in sea slugs, in cancer cells. Hyperbolic geometry is used by statisticians when they work with multidimensional data, by Pixar animators when they want to simulate realistic cloth, by auto-industry engineers to design aerodynamic cars, by acoustic engineers to design concert halls. It's the foundation of the theory of relativity, and thus the closest thing we have to an understanding of the shape of the universe. In short, hyperbolic space is a pretty big deal.

But for thousands of years, hyperbolic space didn't exist. At least it didn't according to mathematicians, who believed that there were only two types of space: Euclidean, or flat space, like a table, and spherical space, like a ball. In the nineteenth century, hyperbolic space was discovered - but only in principle. And although mathematicians tried for over a century to find a way to successfully represent this space physically, no one managed it - until Taimina attended that workshop at Cornell. Because as well as being a professor of mathematics, Taimina also liked to crochet.

Taimina learnt to crochet as a schoolgirl. Growing up in Latvia, part of the former Soviet Union, 'you fix your own car, you fix your own faucet - anything', she explains. 'When I was growing up, knitting or any other handiwork meant you could make a dress or a sweater different from everybody else's.' But while she had always seen patterns and algorithms in knitting and crochet, Taimina had never connected this traditional, domestic, feminine skill with her professional work in maths. Until that workshop in 1997. When she saw the battered paper approximation Henderson was using to explain hyperbolic space, she realised: I can make this out of crochet.

And so that's what she did. She spent her summer 'crocheting a classroom set of hyperbolic forms' by the swimming pool. 'People walked by, and they asked me, "What are you doing?" And I answered, "Oh, I'm crocheting the hyperbolic plane."' She has now created hundreds of models and explains that in the process of making them 'you get a very concrete sense of the space expanding exponentially. The first rows take no time but the later rows can take literally hours, they have so many stitches. You get a visceral sense of what "hyperbolic" really means.' Just looking at her models did the same for others: in an interview with the New York Times Taimina recalled a professor who had taught hyperbolic space for years seeing one and saying, 'Oh, so that's how they look.' Now her creations are the standard model for explaining hyperbolic space.

-Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women

Photo credit

[wildersucht]

Y'all remember ODM? She was one hell of a toxic and annoying Latvian chick, glad Richard kicked her out at the end of 2022 tour, then she got serious mental breakdown that she documented with details on Insta Stories and , ended , her own modelling, career after Instagram and Facebook deleted her account cause she violated rules with her p*rn pictures, then seemed to become an escort or men just like her like that to buy her Rolex and Tiffany ring out of good heart and for her smile (sike). Chick destroyed her career and thought Richard will forever cope with her terrible attitude, annoying laughter and phone glued to her hand, she was his greatest fail and mid life crisis at its finest 🐸 #byefelicia #rammstein #rzk #richardzvenkrupse #richardkruspe #emigrate #olgademar #odm #olgamarackovska

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Kate Fresh aka Lulya D via Femjoy

[morning-star-stables]

Edits to one of the horse models. This one was called "war horse" and is on the taller/thicker side. These are all current edit progress and not necessarily final. May tweak in future.

In order:

Default asset (use as Boerperd/Canadian Horse)

American Saddlebred

Morgan/Welsh Cob D (Cob will have leg feathers to distinguish it apart)

Criollo/Barb (Criollo will have coat patterns of high white spotting and dilutions to distinguish it apart)

Georgian Grande/Nonius (former will have a wide range of coat colors to distinguish it apart)

Knabstrupper/Friesian Sport Horse (former will have spotted coats; latter will have leg feathers)

Wielkopolski/Latvian Warmblood (former will have a wide range of coat colors to distinguish it apart)

*Mule ("hidden"--wouldn't be available in normal gameplay; testing the possibility)

*Unicorn ("hidden"--wouldn't be available in normal gameplay; testing the possibility; would have leg feathers)

Ends with default asset again

*Don't know if/how I'd include these. I just wanted to test out if they were a possibility (I'd edit the conformation more for the mule if I did). I like when games have that one hidden, goofy model edit so I'd ideally have something like that, too.

[noahsteensonfilms]

What if when Patroclus died, he waited for his entrance to Elysium. Only that never happens. Only coldness, and blackness. There was no afterlife. He'll never see Achilles again.

READ "THIS IS ACHILLEAN" ON WATTPAD NOW

A MODERN ADAPTATION OF THE ILLIAD

FAMOUS MODEL/ SON OF EX-LATVIAN PRESIDENT PATRICK IS FORCED INTO A WAR IN THE BALTICS. FSOTUS AMBROSE FOLLOWS HIS LOVE INTO THIS WAR. BUT THE ENEMY DOES NOT LIKE THAT AMERICA IS GETTING INVOLVED.

'AMBROSE KENNEDY MUST DIE'

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.9

Beer Birthdays

Peter Barbey (founder, Peter Barbey & Sons Brewery, Reading, Pennsylvania; 1825)

Jack Curtin

Five Favorite Birthdays

Gail Borden; dairyman, inventor (1801)

Hedy Lamarr; actor, inventor (1913)

Carl Sagan; scientist, writer (1934)

Anne Sexton; writer (1928)

Ed Wynn; actor (1886)

Famous Birthdays

Spiro T. Agnew; disgraced U.S. vice-president (1918)

Benjamin Banneker; mathematician, astronomer (1731)

Hermann Conring; German philosopher (1606)

Dorothy Dandridge; actor (1923)

Sandra "Pepa" Denton; pop singer (1964)

Edwin Drake; discovered oil in Pennsylvania (1819)

Marie Dressler; actor (1869)

David Duvel; golf player (1971)

Lou Ferrigno; actor, bodybuilder (1951)

Tom Fogerty; rock singer (1941)

Robert Frank; Swiss-American photographer (1924)

J. William Fulbright; politician, fellowship creator (1905)

Gigo Gabashvili; Georgian painter (1862)

Bob Gibson; St. Louis Cardinals P (1935)

Whitey Herzog; baseball player (1931)

Allama Muhammad Iqbal; Indian poet, philosopher (1877)

Velimir Khlebnikov; Russian poet and playwright (1885)

Nick Lachey; pop singer (1973)

Bohdan Lepky; Ukrainian author and poet (1872)

Elijah Lovejoy; abolitionist (1802)

Phil May; English singer-songwriter (1944)

Roger McGough; English author, poet, and playwright (1937)

Arthur Rudolph; German scientist and engineer (1906)

James Schuyler; poet and author 1923)

Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed red telephone box (1880)

Sisqó; singer-songwriter and actor (1978)

Mikhail Tal; Latvian-Russian chess player (1936)

Heiti Talvik; Estonian poet (1904)

Susan Tedeschi; singer-songwriter (1970)

Lio Tipton; actor and model (1988)

Mary Travers; folk singer (1936)

Ivan Turgenev; Russian writer (1818)

Tom Weiskopf; golf player (1942)

Hermann Weyl; German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1885)

Stanford White; architect (1853)

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Top five EV brands in Latvia in the 2nd quarter of 2023. Source: e-transports.org

P.S. Tesla is only one unit behind BMW (whose BMW i3 model is mostly imported used from Germany. (New electric BMWs are very rare in Latvia, unlike Tesla electric cars.) Recently, new Tesla Model Y electric crossovers have been seen more and more often on the streets of Riga. Most likely, this year Tesla will win the first place in the electric car market and Tesla Model Y will become one of the most popular premium car models in Latvia...

Secondly, a couple of used car sales companies have appeared in Latvia, which have very well organized import business of slightly used and second-hand Tesla electric vehicles to Latvia and their technical maintenance...Second hand Tesla Model 3 and Model Y with LFP batteries have a very good chance of destroying the used diesel market...

[beardedmrbean]

KAUNAS - Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda condemned violations of NATO airspace by the aggressor and called for strengthening air defense in the Baltic countries following the crash of a Russian military drone in Latvia on Saturday.

“Lithuania condemns Russia's violations of NATO airspace and supports the allies affected,” Nauseda posted on X on Sunday.

“The new incident in Latvia shows that we need to strengthen the air defense of the Baltic States. The rotational model of air defense must be adapted as agreed at the [NATO] summit in Vilnius,” the Lithuanian leader stressed.

An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed in the Rezekne region on Saturday, the Latvian Defense Ministry reported.

The ministry pointed out that according to the initial data, this was a Russian drone of military significance and, according to the information available to the National Armed Forces (NBS), it flew into Latvian airspace from Belarus.

According to the ministry, the State Police and the National Armed Forces continue to investigate the circumstances of the incident, which was reported to NATO allies and respective EU authorities.

Foreign Minister Baiba Braze said that a representative of the Russian Embassy had been summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Monday.

"Russia's war in Ukraine requires us not to lose vigilance. Today, a similar incident happened in Romania. We are vigilant, decisive, cool-minded, weighing our next steps, involving allies," she said in a press release.

Fellow NATO member Romania said on Sunday that a Russian attack drone targeting civilian infrastructure in neighboring Ukraine overnight had entered its airspace.

Bucharest strongly condemned the "renewed violation" brought on by Moscow's "illegal attacks" while its foreign ministry said it had informed its NATO allies about the airspace breach.

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THE EVENS ARTS PRIZE 2023

Exploring the critical imaginaries of AI The Evens Arts Prize 2023 is dedicated to artistic practices that challenge prevailing systems of knowledge and experiments new alliances between living beings and machines. 

The Jury is composed of Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Artistic Co-Director, Kunstenfestivaldesarts; Nicolas Bourriaud, Artistic Director, 15th Gwangju Biennale; Elena Filipovic, Director and Curator, Kunsthalle Basel; Matteo Pasquinelli, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science, Ca’ Foscari University; Gosia Plysa, Director, Unsound. The Jury Chair is André Wilkens, Director, European Cultural Foundation. Artistic Director:  Anne Davidian, curator.

Focus of the Evens Arts Prize 2023 The widespread use of AI applications, particularly in the form of text-to-image generators and large language models, has sparked intense scrutiny and debate. These discussions, fueled by both excitement about their potential and concerns about their biases, bring to the forefront crucial questions about human subjectivity, autonomy, and agency.

Technical systems are deeply intertwined with social systems, shaping our lived experiences, aspirations, and politics. Together with artists, how can we better understand and address the impact of AI and the broader constellation of digital technologies and algorithmic politics? What new imaginaries and alliances can we cultivate between living beings and machines?

The new edition of the Evens Arts Prize seeks to highlight artistic projects that explore alternative cosmologies and epistemologies, question human exceptionalism, and shed light on issues such as surveillance, manipulation, extractivism, digital governance, justice, care, and responsibility in the age of machine intelligence. Of particular interest are practices that experiment with AI to challenge prevailing systems of knowledge and power asymmetries, mobilise technologies towards emancipatory community outcomes, and envision democratic futures.

The laureate is selected by an independent jury from a list of nominations put forward by representatives of major European cultural institutions.

The Nominators of the Evens Arts Prize 2023 Ramon Amaro, Senior Researcher in Digital Culture, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; Zdenka Badovinac, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Lars Bang Larsen, Head of Art & Research, Art Hub, Copenhagen; Leonardo Bigazzi, Curator, Foundation In Between Art Films, Rome; Mercedes Bunz, Professor Digital Culture & Humanities, King's College, London; Francesca Corona, Artistic Director, Festival d'Automne, Paris; Julia Eckhardt, Artistic Director, Q-02, Brussels; Silvia Fanti, Artistic Director, Live Arts Week /Xing, Bologna; iLiana Fokianaki, Founder, State of Concept, Athens; Cyrus Goberville, Head of Cultural Programming, Bourse de Commerce | Pinault Collection, Paris; Stefanie Hessler, Director, Swiss Institute, New York; Mathilde Henrot, Programmer, Locarno Film Festival; Nora N. Khan & Andrea Bellini, Artistic Directors, Biennale Image en Mouvement 2024, Geneva; Peter Kirn, Director, MusicMakers HackLab, CTM Festival, Berlin; Inga Lace, Curator, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga; Andrea Lissoni, Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Frank Madlener, Director, IRCAM, Paris; Anna Manubens, Director, Hangar, Barcelona; Anne Hilde Neset, Director, Henie Onstad, Høvikodden; Nóra Ó Murchú, Artistic Director, transmediale, Berlin; Maria Ines Rodriguez, Director, Walter Leblanc Foundation, Brussels; Nadim Samman, Curator for the Digital Sphere, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Andras Siebold, Artistic Director, Kampnagel, Hamburg; Caspar Sonnen, Head of New Media, International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), Amsterdam; Marlies Wirth, Curator for Digital Arts, MAK, Vienna; Ben Vickers, Curator, Publisher, CTO, Serpentine Galleries, London.

The Evens Arts Prize The Evens Arts Prize honours artists who engage with contemporary challenges in Europe and shape inspirational visions for our common world. Far from reducing artistic practice to a function – whether a social balm or a political catalyst – the Evens Arts Prize supports aesthetically and intellectually powerful work that pushes the understanding of alterity, difference, and plurality in new directions, questions values and narratives, creates space for silenced or dissonant voices, and reflects on diverse forms of togetherness and belonging.

The biennial Prize is awarded to a European artist working in the fields of visual or performing arts, including cinema, theater, dance, music; it carries a sum of €15,000. The laureates are selected by an independent jury, from a list of internationally acclaimed artists, nominated by representatives of major European cultural institutions.

The 2011, 2019 and 2021 editions were curated by Anne Davidian and celebrated Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Eszter Salamon, and Sven Augustijnen as laureates of the main prize, while Eliane Radigue and Andrea Büttner received the Special Mention of the Jury.

More about the Prize

📷 from Atlas of Anomalous AI, edited by Ben Vickers and K Allado-McDowell, Ignota Books, 2020

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Lara Sugar and Casey via MetartX

[unhonestlymirror]

You were kidnapped.

Half an hour later, the kidnappers sat you down on the side of the road because they got really tired of you talking about ____

About what?

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Oh, that's easy. We just start talking about humanism as a well-rounded imperialism, then we go in retrospect and look at Plato as a follower of the Persians. If that doesn't work, we'll start talking about Churchill's demonic traits.

Other comments:

The fact that the war on drugs does not help society and only makes it worse.

The same is for the "Nordic model" in providing sex services.

That people ventilate the rooms too rarely.

I tell and show a video with the complete washing cycle of the dishwasher.

How exciting it is to study company annual reports and look for signs of unreported income.

About the role of Smiltēns in the development of Latvian hockey.

That, in general, what is called a role-playing game nowadays should be more correctly called a pretend-playing game, because a "role" is when the same person performs different functions in different contexts (boss, doctor, housekeeper, politician), but the player is usually expected to be another person's embodiment...

About the diversity of nature -> protected habitats -> their management.

About breastfeeding and the care and upbringing of babies. I could finally tell someone everything I've learned in the last 10+ years.

Nothing. I would be happy to just sit quietly for half an hour

About continuous grammar correction and teaching how to say things correctly.

About cats

The fact that the Middle Ages were not a mountain of backwardness and dark ages

About God