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Heather Way in east Saint John. (Image: © 2021 Google) Saint John is seeking input as it looks to improve traffic safety and active transportation access on Heather Way. City staff held a virtual community meeting Wednesday evening to discuss options for the four-lane street on the east side. Tim O’Reilly, the city’s traffic engineer, said Common Council requested a “rethink” of the street ahead of repaving planned for this year. “This whole idea of rethinking of Saint John streets has become new over the last number of years, so obviously a growing interest in active transportatio...

Turn Your Business Into 'The Imagination Machine' PHOTO: Diz Play How can businesses harness the collective imagination of their workforce at a time when innovation is at a premium? That is the central question of Martin Reeves' and Jack Fuller's forthcoming book, "The Imagination Machine." Are there methods to increase both the predictability and the frequency of bursts of imagination? Businesses tasked with innovating — and that means all businesses — struggle with questions like these on a daily basis. The strategic diagnostics Reeves and Fuller offer throughout the book make th...

How to ensure data quality in the era of Big Data Patrik Liu Tran Contributor Patrik Liu Tran is the co-founder and CEO of Validio, an automated real-time data validation and quality monitoring platform. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (as well as an M.Sc. and B.Sc.) from Stockholm School of Economics, and a Civil Engineering degree in Engineering Physics with an M.Sc. in AI and machine learning from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Patrik is also the chairman of Stockholm AI. A little over a decade has passed since The Economist warned us that we would soon be d...

℘℘℘ A summer journey fills the pockets with scraps of nothing and bits of everything. The boarding coupon for seat 33F. A receipt for two crunchie bars, a ticket from that play in Galway, a few 20-pence pieces, a flat lake stone for skimming. And that slip of paper, scrawled with the name Dad mentioned as we traveled through Ireland in July. “No one slept. Eight of us in the one car. We drove all night from Sneem to Cobh, May 19, 1949,” said Dad. “The tender left for the ship at 11 a.m. It was an old troop carrier. Frank sent me the ticket from Rhode Island.”

.github Orbit Orbit is an experimental platform for publishing and engaging with small tasks repeatedly over time. In the short term, it's focused on supporting the "mnemonic medium", a way of augmenting texts so that readers can easily remember all the key details. For an example, see Quantum Country, a textbook on quantum computation. More abstractly, Orbit aspires to offer a more general form of spaced repetition systems like Anki, as part of a connected cloud service. Learn more on the home page. Orbit is a (nascent) ecosystem. At its core are decentralized data structures defining tasks,...