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by contemporary343 3y ago
Bluey is great. For younger ones, Tumble Leaf (sadly now discontinued) is also wonderful - clay-mation, gentle with lovely music and promoting a sense of discovery.
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by contemporary343 3y ago
Surprisingly, perhaps less effects on the youngest cohort: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... "At 4.5 years of age, pandemic kids had higher vocabulary, visual memory, and overall
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by contemporary343 3y ago
Most materials, aside from metals, of sufficient thickness have high high infrared emissivity. All white paints, for example, already did radiate heat upwards through the atmospheric window. These more reflective films are no more emissive
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by contemporary343 3y ago
There’s been a ton of development in super reflective materials since the first demonstration of daytime radiative cooling at Stanford in 2014. Ultimately though, reflectivity does drop with dirt and pollution exposure over time, even for t
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by contemporary343 3y ago
As a sidenote, this is from Gang Chen, former head of MIT's Mechanical Engineering department who was (rather shamefully in my opinion) wrongly targeted by Trump's China initiative. The government finally dropped the case acknowle
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by contemporary343 3y ago
Some of this is universal, but much of her story is particular to how US med schools operate: their research faculty tend to be largely soft money in nature, so grant money is even more necessary than in other 'hard money' jobs in
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by contemporary343 3y ago
Some of this is universal, but much of her story is particular to how US med schools operate: their research faculty tend to be largely soft money in nature, so grant money is even more necessary than in other 'hard money' jobs in
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by contemporary343 3y ago
I'm genuinely not sure! The virtual pre-screen interview has become the de facto norm in my field, so it's not like it's surprising or unexpected. And it's not like we are looking for TED speakers here - anyone should be
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by contemporary343 3y ago
As a professor who served on a hiring committee this past year in a top-15 engineering department in the US (and not in CS), some of this did not really ring as true to me. Overall, I came away more pleasantly surprised by our process than
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by contemporary343 3y ago
What is concerning is there were even more allegations that weren't included because they could not offer anonymity to those providing them: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/sources-refused-to-part...
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Anthropic and Claude 2's Creation(nytimes.com)
4 points by contemporary343 3y ago|1 comments
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by contemporary343 3y ago
Those micro-OLED displays alone will drive the cost that high. Still kinda shocked to see them at this scale and in a product!
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by contemporary343 3y ago
The micro-OLED displays alone explain a lot of the price point.. along with apple silicon, really hard to see how Meta can compete at the high end.
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by contemporary343 3y ago
This all ignores a basic financial reality underlying 'hard-money' academic positions: we are paid 9-month salaries that come from core funds (ie: teaching, paid for by tuition, government funds, etc.). Yes, bringing grants matter
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by contemporary343 3y ago
Speaking as a tenured PI in the (applied) physical sciences, everything here is true but a lot of it boils down to a lack of perspective and imagination by many faculty running labs. There are many positive examples out there of ensuring st
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by contemporary343 3y ago
There is a potentially valid criticism here since this is ultimately about what the school (with its tremendous resources) is choosing to focus its efforts on. Stanford's previous global climate and energy project was famously funded
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Twitter's Verification Problems(nytimes.com)
2 points by contemporary343 3y ago|0 comments
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New technology could help cool people down–without electricity(nationalgeographic.com)
4 points by contemporary343 5y ago|0 comments
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Radiative cooling: nanoscience to make ACs more efficient(popsci.com)
3 points by contemporary343 5y ago|0 comments
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by contemporary343 5y ago
We don't use the SAT in Canada. Instead it's course grades plus provincial final exams which are subject specific. Generally works pretty well..
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by contemporary343 5y ago
If Death Valley hits 131F today, that will be the highest reliably recorded air temperature on earth. In fact up to 134F is within the range of possibilities today and tomorrow, which would hit and exceed the less reliably recorded values f
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by contemporary343 5y ago
Walked by it every day! I remember reading that if high speed rail ever does materialize (and that's a big, big if..) they'd have to do something about the track positions and the tree.
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by contemporary343 5y ago
Weren't scientists from the Chinese CDC actually authors of the Lancet article that everyone cited? It doesn't seem like they were trying to push any seafood market hypothesis either.
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by contemporary343 5y ago
Well, the app was originally called Vigilante with the goal of enabling... mob justice. So, this really isn't surprising. Applying contemporary growth hacking and engagement techniques to making people feel afraid and seek private secu
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by contemporary343 5y ago
The regulated minimum is around 300 feet, but I'd double that as a minimum (and depending on wind directions): https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...
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by contemporary343 5y ago
A related point: check how close you (and your kids especially) live/ work/ go to school near a gas station. Benzene exposure from living near a gas station is surprisingly high and there's a definition cancer correlation.
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by contemporary343 5y ago
This is why you should live as far away from a gas station as you can!
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by contemporary343 5y ago
To claim this is the whitest ever is dubious. First, things like spectralon have existed for a while. Second, a team at UCLA already demonstrated a barium sulfate paint last year: https://www.intelligentliving.co/amp/ul
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Peter Thiel calls Bitcoin a Chinese financial weapon(bloomberg.com)
26 points by contemporary343 6y ago|11 comments
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Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang(newyorker.com)
30 points by contemporary343 6y ago|1 comments

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