However I’m less worried about identifying the artist than I am about the quality of the picture. Value should relate to this rather than who painted it. The obsession with high value artists seems about artificially boosting market value and supporting speculation.

Key factors are a) at least the “expert” can be challenged to set out in detail the evidence that they have used and the detailed interpretation they have derived. b) AI models require quite large & accurate data sets for development. c) Most people fail to do robust model evaluation tests.

My botany’s degrees have taken me boating up creeks in Sumatra , to the top of pyramids in Mexico, kayaking in the Bay of Fundy and walking in the Andes.

Appalled that is!

My training allowed me to travel over world working on projects that had real impact on both lives and livelihoods in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America & Australia
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As someone who completed a degree & PhD in Botany in 1979 & then spent the next 3 years working in an Agricultural Botany department I am appealed at this prospect. Then as now I suspect that one of the key problems is the failure of school biology to convey the excitement of modern plant science.

Rigid heddle. It's a way of simplifying the basic operation of a loom to a single frame.

The aged mature Pisco from Peru drunk directly is beautiful.

I’ve found that saying you prefer Chilean Pisco Sours is a great way to piss off Peruvians. However the best Pisco I’ve ever drunk was Peruvian. Incidentally the most dirty disgusting distillery I’ve ever visited was in Pisco.

We are still not ready.

We have buckets of fruit. 15 kg of apples and 20 kg of pears so far with lots on the ground and a pear tree and a cooking apple tree yet to harvest.

Macintosh very much viewed her as an equal.

Ok name them.

Great to hear from you again!

Delighted to see the one in the Hunterian on Tuesday.