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by HuShifang 6y ago
One of the major observations in Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora [0] (which is excellent, well-informed, and worth a read) is that "99.9%" self-sufficient isn't going to cut it, at least for a multigenerational interstell
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by HuShifang 6y ago
> But really I don't see why you need either system. Why not a system where nobody has these unfair special privileges? I guess I tend to think that a reconstructed meritocracy would be precisely such a system -- genuine equality of
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by HuShifang 6y ago
It's fair and fine to critique the implementations of "meritocracy" that we see in the world, and also to critique the inflationary aspects of how it's usually articulated (e.g., person X is good at taking calculated fi
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by HuShifang 6y ago
I like "Unconventional Success" by David Swensen, who was Yale's endowment manager for a while (and his apprentices now run several Ivy endowments). Very Bogle-esque
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by HuShifang 6y ago
Coincidentally I was just looking at this after upgrading from 19.10 to 20.04 today -- basically, the version installed from Nvidia's old 18.04 repos work fine on 20.04.
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by HuShifang 6y ago
As someone who studied mathematics as an undergrad and then intellectual history (with an emphasis on philosophy) postgrad, I second this. I would add too that learning how to write effective philosophy papers is an excellent way to improve
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by HuShifang 6y ago
As has been reported, [1] the doctor at John Muir was speaking off the cuff, and impressionistically. And as it happens, inaccurately. [1] https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/05/29/no-bay-area-ho
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by HuShifang 6y ago
Public health is concerned with the health of the public -- which includes health issues induced by stress, poor nutrition, pollution, etc. (Ever notice how African Americans' life expectancy is much lower than that of white Americans?
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by HuShifang 6y ago
Impossible Foods is expanding its grocery store presence right now, and says that its production plant is less susceptible than meatpacking plants due to increased amounts of automation.... https://www.sfchronicle.com/food&#
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Check out Zeal, which piggybacks on Dash for Linux and Windows: https://zealdocs.org/
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Lingvist [0] has been useful to me for vocab building post-Duolingo. The mobile apps are thoughtfully designed -- you can use text or speech input fairly easily -- and they're rolling out (for Spanish and French so far; I'd expect
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by HuShifang 7y ago
A valid point. But I think that occasional (perhaps regularly scheduled) and mindful checks of select, thoughtful news sources that aren't overly focused on driving engagement with clickbait topics, article titles, etc allows you to st
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by HuShifang 7y ago
There's a reason SLS is nicknamed the Senate Launch System -- Sen. Shelby of Alabama rains fire down on any NASA official who comes anywhere near observing that SpaceX could fulfill any objectives allocated to the SLS. It's as muc
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by HuShifang 7y ago
That would be very appealing to me. (Not sure what you have in mind, but it could also serve as a backdoor into freehand note capability, as it does in Xodo -- you just make your stylus input on a blank PDF page...)
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I'm using the Samsung Chromebook Pro, which is getting a bit old itself. While I like the stylus and the screen, I can't wholeheartedly recommend the device -- while it might come further down in price soon, with Samsung apparentl
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Interesting, thanks. Sounds like it's something that could eventually get done... (On ChromeOS I often split-pane Squid and Xodo, or a video player -- not that I would ever expect that to work on e-Ink! -- and just embed complicated di
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I'm intrigued by the remarkable, and may well buy the color e-ink version when it arrives (I gather it's expected late this year). One question, if I may: is there any way to import screenshots (ideally .png files) into otherwise
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I have a jury-rigged system, as I use my 2-in-1 stylus-equipped Chromebook for most of my reading and annotating. It's not very elegant, or FOSSy, but it works reasonably well. I basically use Dropbox as a back-end, using Autosync for
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I think the keys are 1) don't be soy-phobic (eat tofu/tempeh, yes, but also soy milk -- esp. the fortified, unsweetened kinds, they demolish most other vegan milks nutritionally), 2) eat lots of pulses (so peanuts, lentils, beans,
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Seconded -- read this earlier this year, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It also rather radically altered my perception of the "usual" German historical narrative about Prussian militarism etc. Winder's a very humane writer, in ad
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Beyond the books mentioned elsewhere in this thread, for Japanese, I think the Japan Times published books tend to be good, e.g. Seiichi Makino's grammar dictionaries. It's more app- and website-oriented, but the Tofugu website ha
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Second this - I think it's the strongest textbook out there. Paul Kroll's dictionary (which is also available on the Pleco app) might be a good complement.
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by HuShifang 7y ago
American universities often have courses designed precisely for this purpose, intended for graduate students who need to be able to read scholarship in language X (often called "X for Reading Knowledge”). And the courses often stick pr
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Ok, one more anecdote for you: I've been vegan for about five years, for ethical reasons. (Which is to say, I basically have eaten a similar diet to what I did before, only vegan -- so vegan ice cream in lieu of dairy ice cream, sofrit
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Some recent, informed speculation about such possibilities: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
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by HuShifang 7y ago
It's a common way of getting around censorship (specifically taboo words). A classic (if recent), comedic example is the Grass Mud Horse [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
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by HuShifang 7y ago
There was actually a group of biohackers working on producing lab cheese a while back ("Real Vegan Cheese" IIRC) that included producing narwhal cheese as a stretch goal in their crowdfunding campaign. Sadly I don't think the
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Yes. Albeit probably infrequently. My motivations are primarily ethical and environmental, though I have grown more sympathetic to certain of the health arguments too. If it were ethically and environmentally acceptable, then I'd have
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Anyone have thoughts on the utility of the Intro to ML and Computational Linear Algebra courses? I've done Ng's ML course and was interested in the first of these as a more practice-oriented complement to it; the latter sounds int
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Correct -- I took the parent question to be about shifting cultural definitions of "smart" and not about IQ tests specifically.

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