Jun8

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U.N. body rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims(reuters.com)
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2023 Breakthrough Prize winners Announced(breakthroughprize.org)
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Learning Tok Pisin(unravellingmag.com)
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by Jun8 4y ago
If you’ll be getting rid of it I’d love to get it, if possible.
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by Jun8 4y ago
Hey I was there, too. For those in the area this is an event you cannot miss and this year it was packed . I went there with my 15 year-old, he spends a ton of time on Xbox so it was great to see him enjoy playing with a PET, Sinclair Spec
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by Jun8 4y ago
Reading his Naming and Necessity in my MA Philosophy of Language class was both disturbing and a delight.
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by Jun8 4y ago
Great to see this project (again) on HN. I backed this project on kickstarter and have a box of them from a few years ago. If you want some and are in the US I’m willing to send two your way.
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What was happening in the English language that led to coined exocentric nouns?(old.reddit.com)
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by Jun8 4y ago
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008
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by Jun8 4y ago
Since we're on the topic, which is one I have put some thought on, allow me to put forth my theory on how time travel as a business would work: * How would it feel: You and your fellow audience will be comfortably placed in a force fie
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Court Rejects Google's Attempt to Dismiss Rumble's Antitrust Lawsuit(greenwald.substack.com)
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by Jun8 4y ago
“I have never found Larkin an easy poet to like…”. On the contrary, I’ve always loved him since I first read “Toads” in Sound and Sense , a poetry anthology, in high school. I didn’t understand all of it, but it felt close, maybe because s
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by Jun8 4y ago
Sure, you usually see this poem in your LIT101 class or samesuch, agree with a snicker and move on. The terrifying clarity of these three stanzas are only grasped when you have children of your own.
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by Jun8 4y ago
Umberto Eco’s answer to the very same question: “"In the past I adopted a tone of contemptuous sarcasm. ’I haven’t read any of them; otherwise, why would I keep them here?’ But this is a dangerous answer because it invites the obvious
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by Jun8 4y ago
21 pages! Dedicated to his mathematician friend Marcel Grossman ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Grossmann ) The thesis is Einstein’s fifth paper in his Annus Mirabilis. If you want to delve further: https:&#x2F
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Einstein’s Doctoral Thesis (1905) [pdf](research-collection.ethz.ch)
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by Jun8 4y ago
Here’s one of the authors of the mentioned article explaining how the situation developed for more context: https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...
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by Jun8 4y ago
As usual Aaranson’s plea is heart-felt and non-escalatory, so worth a 5min read, even if you totally disagree with him. And good comments in the discussion.
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Because I couldn’t not post(scottaaronson.blog)
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The Outback Way: Is this the emptiest road?(bbc.com)
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by Jun8 4y ago
Agreed on Roman cement but AFAIK there is no definitive explanation of ingredients for Greek fire, e.g. to explain how contact with water actually fed the flames. The Wikipedia article has an extensive section in the manufacture but it’s al
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by Jun8 4y ago
Sometimes it does come in handy, case in point, Sophia Tolstaya ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Tolstaya ): “ Sophia acted as copyist of War and Peace, copying and editing the manuscript seven times from beginni
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America’s Innovation Engine Is Slowing(theatlantic.com)
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India's Mysterious Gateway to the Stars(bbc.com)
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by Jun8 4y ago
Article states that Trump-backed candidates did not do well.
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The paper that this article is based on: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl7655 . On a tangential note: Corpus of Classical Texts that we have is really small, e.g. ( http://blogicarian.blo
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Musk and Moderation(quillette.com)
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by Jun8 5y ago
I didn’t know about surface luminescence dating. For others who’d like to read the paper on using it to date monuments: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263201697_Surface_l...
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by Jun8 5y ago
I wish more research companies and labs had summer schools for the 14-20 age group with ambitious research projects.
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Wolfram Summer School applications open(wolfram.com)
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