Herman

In the Prison PenListless he eyes the palisadesAnd sentries in the glare;’Tis barren as a pelican-beach —But his world is ended there.Nothing to do; and vacant handsBring on the idiot-pain;He tries to think — to recollect,But the blur is on his brain.Around him swarm the plaining ghostsLike those on Virgil’s shoreA wilderness of faces dimAnd pale ones gashed and hoar.A smiting sun. No shed, no tree;He totters to his lair —A den that sick hands dug in earthEre famine wasted there,Or, dropping by his place, he swoons,Walled…

There are so many icons when you think about furniture. The Eames Lounge by Charles and Ray Eames, the Egg Chair, and the classic Chaise Longue on which you can be painted like a French girl. In terms of modern office furniture, there is one design that is instantly recognizable — the Herman Miller Aeron.First developed and released in 1994 by designers Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, the Aeron is about as recognizable as an office chair could possibly be. From its metal skeleton to the mesh that you sit in instead of a…

Best-selling author and screenwriter Herman Raucher, who received an Oscar nomination for his work on the coming-of-age drama `Summer of `42,` has died, as per the Hollywood Reporter. He was 95. Raucher died of natural causes on Thursday at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, according to his daughter, Jenny Raucher. Raucher, who began his career in live television, wrote screenplays for two Anthony Newley films: Sweet November (1968), directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Sandy Dennis, and Can Heironymus…

Warner Brothers/Getty Images In the mid-1980’s, Paul Reubens became a part of Star Wars after he was seen playing Pee-wee Herman on television. What was this unique Star Wars role and how, exactly, did it come about?  Here’s a brief version of the story, the details of which were featured in the “Star Tours” episode of Behind the Attraction, a 2021 original docuseries from Disney Plus. It all starts with Disneyland in the 1980’s trying to figure out how to make a new ride for Disney’s 1979 feature film The…

“Gaming chair” need not equal “primary colored racing chair.” That seems to be the message the Herman Miller x Logitech G Vantum is projecting. A fresh collaboration from the premium office furniture manufacturer and Logitech’s gaming-focussed division, the Vantum instead wants to tick the adjustability and comfort boxes that gamers request while packaging it up in a design that wouldn’t look out of place in a fancy office.It comes together in a seat that’s very comfortable, happy to accommodate people of all sizes, and…

Using pyenv and poetry to organize PythonPhoto by Clément Hélardot on UnsplashOne non-trivial thing about Python is managing its versions, environments, dependencies — and thus shipping projects to other people. In this post we will have a look at the packaging and dependency manager poetry — which — in the author’s humble opinion — is the best way of doing said things.Before getting started, let us define some terms and clear up a bit of confusion, which also I have fallen victim to initially: in addition to poetry, we…

Mathematical explanation and Python implementationPhoto by Edge2Edge Media on UnsplashIn a previous post I introduced different numerical sampling techniques, one of them being importance sampling. In that post we used this technique to allow sampling from complex distributions, sampling from which would otherwise be infeasible. However, importance sampling is frequently used for another reason, namely variance reduction: that is, by choosing a suited proposal distribution we can reduce the variance of our estimator —…

Implementing inverse transform sampling, rejection sampling and importance sampling in PythonPhoto by Edge2Edge Media on UnsplashIn this post we’ll discuss how to sample from a probability distribution. This is a common need, in an ML setting this is most frequently used to run inference for probabilistic models. However, due to the distributions being very complex, this is often intractable. Thus, main focus of this post is introducing approximate methods for this task, in particular using numerical sampling, known as…

Logitech G and Herman Miller have jointly debuted the Vantum gaming chair. It’s available to order now for $995, which is a significant price difference from the $1,500 Embody, the partnership’s first gaming chair I had the pleasure to sit on for many hours in mid-2020. While the Embody was a gamer-friendly twist on a preexisting design in Herman Miller’s catalog of chairs, the Vantum appears to be a new chair altogether. It’ll come in multiple color options (white, red, and black), each including a 12-year warranty.Like…