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Why this Question Matters Around ten years ago, music streaming services were competing heavily for the best music recommendation system. Clearly, a flawless recommendation system would provide the user with the exact piece of music that optimally satisfies their needs, every time. However, some ...

Asthe internet picked up steam into the early 21st century, consumers shifted from newspapers as a primary source of information to the internet. Search engines filled the searching gap and sometimes the knowledge gap. Unless they can adapt, search engines may be facing similar challenges as newspap...

Merriam-Webster defines the word “perfect” as being entirely without fault or deficit, flawless, for example, “a perfect diamond.” When I think of a “perfect diamond”, I recall jewelry infomercials featuring symmetrically cut gems glistening beneath studio...

Show Me the Money! Have you ever been asked by your CEO to prove with scientific evidence, as opposed to feel good concepts and theories, that employee attitudes, work environment, culture or climate have a direct impact on corporate profits? Well, an interesting article relating employee percept...

I’m not used to looking for work, I’ve always found it a fairly easy thing to do, but now I’m a bit older, I’ve a few more grey hairs and my fitness level is not as it was. No longer can I work a physically demanding job, and neither can I work full time. I’m stuc...

window boy would also like to have a submarine’, by the Uruguayan Alex Piperno, tells three simultaneous stories. The Uruguayan girl living a quiet life in a comfy apartment, the Window Boy, a cruise worker constantly escaping from work, and the Filipino peasants facing the randomness of natur...

The fact is I, like you, represent a destructive force that’s bringing the very thing I’m trying to escape from into this town, and, well, I got here before you. Walking down Parkside Drive on a cloudy November Sunday afternoon, through older neighbourhoods filled with unevenly-sp...

Hellbenders live only in the eastern part of the United States in shallow, fast-flowing, rocky streams that are cold and well-oxygenated. They are extreme habitat specialists, adapted to a specific niche within a very specific environment. Their exacting requirements makes them an important environm...

I remember when I first found my friend Rose (@thecreativeclassicist on IG) and saw she was exploring “her adjectives” in her highlights. And I felt an instant connection. I’m always exploring my adjectives and others’. In my work, everything starts wit...

I remember when I first found my friend Rose (@thecreativeclassicist on IG) and saw she was exploring “her adjectives” in her highlights. And I felt an instant connection. I’m always exploring my adjectives and others’. In my work, everything starts wit...

My first book is close to completing five years of publication and reaches its tenth or thirtieth revision. I’ve lost count, but there were many. With each reading, the text undergoes a small transformation, even though most of the time it’s not more than a sentence or even a word. Th...