hdevarajan

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by hdevarajan 10mo ago
“Unfortunately, much of this knowledge – and the texts that contained it – was destroyed during the Spanish Inquisition, leaving only a few bits and pieces from which to reconstruct these advanced methods for celestial prediction.“ Not the
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by hdevarajan 2y ago
I don’t think the Eu got it right; crucially they missed requiring these choice points to be automatedly navigable for users (eg “.. and if you must publish the metadata representing the choice architecture this way, use these standard keyw
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Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice(jamanetwork.com)
395 points by hdevarajan 3y ago|262 comments
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SEC Closes Insider-Trading Investigation into Ex-Sen. Richard Burr’s Stock Sales(wsj.com)
2 points by hdevarajan 4y ago|1 comments
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by hdevarajan 4y ago
“The SEC this week told Mr. Burr, a North Carolina Republican who retired from the Senate at the start of the year, that it closed the investigation and wouldn’t take enforcement action against him.” Regulators had earlier said that Mr. Bur
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by hdevarajan 4y ago
(2021)
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The Mathematical Problem with Musical Tuning, and How to Solve It(youtube.com)
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by hdevarajan 5y ago
Might you have references ?
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by hdevarajan 5y ago
https://youtu.be/6C72u3v-Y-Y (No English subtitles unfortunately!)
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by hdevarajan 5y ago
Actually, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...
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by hdevarajan 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici... “.. older representations from Syria and India of sticks and animals looking like serpents or worms are interpreted by some as a direct representation of
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by hdevarajan 5y ago
It is believed that those snakes you see in the logo for medical services (caduceus) are actually Guinea worms as physicians used to advertise their services that way. See for example https://medium.com/@DrWink/what-doe
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by hdevarajan 7y ago
It's speculated in [1], that agriculture selected evolved humanity towards both long term planning and docility [1]Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. The 10,000 year explosion: How civilization accelerated human evolution. Basic B
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by hdevarajan 7y ago
Were parties aware that this was close to or a de facto reg fd violation ( https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/33-7881.htm ) and/or how was this handled internally?
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Tell HN: Vulnerable incumbent in EHR
4 points by hdevarajan 8y ago|1 comments
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Dogs Can Detect Malaria(nytimes.com)
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by hdevarajan 8y ago
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(...
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Animals with larger pancreatic cells tend to age faster(timesofisrael.com)
2 points by hdevarajan 8y ago|1 comments
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That Calm Chinese Stock Market? It’s Engineered by the State(wsj.com)
3 points by hdevarajan 8y ago|0 comments
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by hdevarajan 9y ago
I would and kind of you to propose.
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by hdevarajan 9y ago
Thurston is low dimensional topologist and Fields medalist. From the Wikipedia page: 'In fact, Thurston resolved so many outstanding problems in foliation theory in such a short period of time that it led to a kind of exodus from the f
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by hdevarajan 9y ago
Look up morbidity compression. Not my area so no views myself but it's a thing, and correlates with regular moderate exercise
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by hdevarajan 11y ago
Look up egroups or the Wikipedia entry on him (disclosure: am an old friend of Martin's)