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Do You Understand Elizabeth Warren’s Plan for Fixing Big Tech?(nytimes.com)
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“One question that has dogged the discovery of Maier’s photography is how a lowly nanny could make such high art. Let’s call that sexism. I’ve never heard anyone ask how another exceptional Chicago outsider, the visionary writer and artist
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Interesting to compare with large cities in ancient history ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through... ), e.g. if we did the graphics for 3500BC - 2800BC, Uruk would be have been continually number
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One of my most important takeaways from patio11’s list of thing you need to know ( https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/936615043126370306... ) was that for B2B companies sales to engineering ratio is at least
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One candidate would be: “90% of everything of everything is crap” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law , extending to reported laws.
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If you're interested in the mathematical development of Pi the book A History of Pi is a must read: https://www.amazon.com/History-Pi-Petr-Beckmann/dp/031238185...
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The claim “often regarded as the greatest of all novels” right in the opening is so hyperbolically naive and unmatched by the general level of the piece that one wonders if some marketing person added it to boost up the clicks. Even if one
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On related but tangential news: The Académie came up recently in the news in their opposition to a book designed to teach history to third graders that used "gender inclusive" forms ( https://www.theregreview.org/20
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The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked(nytimes.com)
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This is the first time I heard that you have to pay a fee to get a library card in Europe. Honestly, I didn't believe you but it turns out to be true, e.g. for the Berlin Staatsbibliotek you have to pay 15 Euros for a year ( https:&#x2
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We should keep posting this excellent rebuttal from Isaac Asimov to stamp out this misunderstanding: https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht...
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A.I. may replace jobs, but Sam Altman sees global GDP increasing(cnbc.com)
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Good discussion on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/auv63j/cuba_rati...
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By coincidence I'm currently reading The Boy Who Played with Fusion https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Played-Fusion/dp/0544705025 , which tells the amazing story of Taylor Wilson ( https://en.wikipedi
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I think the lesson to be learned here, obvious though as it is, is that there doesn't seem to be any difference in the early stages between startup ideas that are delusional, which seems to be case for Holmes, and those that are "
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On a tangential note: The actual execution probably did not look the one depicted in the engraving, just for the simple reason that the priests and other onlookers would be splashed with gore. I know this is an artistic engraving from the 1
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This is a combination of thoughtful takes on being a school bus driver, quite an interesting topic in itself (how do you deal with the kids, traffic, etc.) and reinventing yourself in middle age in a job far afield. It also contains reminis
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In addition to lenna old timer image processing researchers would also have fond (depending whether your compression or edge detection algorithm worked correctly or not) memories of girl , cameraman , and barbara images as well as the
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Secret History of Women in Coding(nytimes.com)
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Grand daddy of products like Little Bits. If you like this, also check out other projects from the http://otonanokagaku.net/english/ series.
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Gakken EX-System(en.wikipedia.org)
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I agree. This is exemplified by the author of the original piece that started the media storm, Jeff Bercovici himself, in his sorry excuse of an apologetic article after the suicide ( https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/a
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Loved this post! Wished there were more posts like this written by by domain experts: short, succinct (no jokes, unnecessary examples), leads to many interesting thoughts on the subject and has clear references. The fact that smell works so
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I’ve only been to Warsaw once, a couple of years ago, but has a strong mental image of ~80s Polish urban landscape formed from Kieslowski’s movies, esp. the Dekalog ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekalog ) Only the
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This is part of the "Pair Up and Become Family" program innovated by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang Province. Assimilation of minorities using barbaric methods is common throughout history (e.g taking away the children for &q
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China’s Uighurs told to share beds, meals with party members(washingtonpost.com)
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Fantastic article and well written, too. For those of you, like me, who don't know French and miss the pun of the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise-moi . It also mentions the concept of the osculating circ
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I addition to the OKCupid study, here is some other data: * 2007 Chicago Booth paper about online dating ( https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/emir.kamenica/documents/rac... ): One important (probably unsurprising) fin
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Although there's intersection, enjoyable and useful can be quite distinct. Case in point: facebook and messenger apps. I don't enjoy using these but they definitely provide value. A lot of my friends back in my home country do s
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Great opinion piece that deftly demonstrates government action for climate change in the EU and US contains a large aspect of political maneuvering and virtue signaling, with sometimes large unintended consequences. The uproar in France cle

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