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German spy agency concluded Covid virus likely leaked from lab, papers say(reuters.com)
5 points by isolli 2y ago|0 comments
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An Inconvenient Probability v5.11 (2024)(michaelweissman.substack.com)
1 points by isolli 2y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 2y ago
I remember, as a child, reading and wondering about the computer-assisted proof of the four color theorem. (The first major theorem to be proven so, according to Wikipedia.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theo
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by isolli 2y ago
Maybe even more importantly, he dropped his preferred theory of fitting the orbits of known planets (at the time) with Platonic solids. That requires iron commitment to science.
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by isolli 2y ago
Indeed, and they recently blocked the workaround I was using, namely: e-mail aliases are no longer allowed.
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by isolli 2y ago
Interesting comment regarding the lack of a thermostat. Sometimes, qualitative setting is better than quantitative. Precise temperature settings lead to overthinking and fiddling, in my experience. With qualitative settings, at most two int
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Is USAID mainly serving US interests? (2013)(cepr.net)
16 points by isolli 2y ago|19 comments
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by isolli 2y ago
I did not downvote, but OP failed to provide a link to back up his claim, or to make explicit what "slowing decline by about 30%" even means. In light of the fraudulent and scandalous approval of aducanumab [0] (which also targete
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by isolli 2y ago
I miss Picasa, in the sense that, when it was discontinued, I still had the underlying folder structure to fall back on.
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by isolli 2y ago
Question I can't find the answer to anywhere: considering that SpaceX already had other ways of re-using boosters, why are they doing this? Is it to explore more options? Or because it's faster to re-use the booster if it's a
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by isolli 2y ago
It's of course a matter of taste, but I don't think I will ever want to put such glasses between me and the world around me. It feels unnecessary, distracting, cumbersome, and slightly headache-inducing. I made a bet 10 years ago
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by isolli 2y ago
From the article: > In many cases, the responses are actually written by a member of the creator’s extended team – remember, many of these creators are now multi-million dollar enterprises, and its obviously impossible for creators such
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by isolli 2y ago
Indeed. Some researchers have proposed quintessence, a time-varying form of dark energy [0]. > A group of researchers argued in 2021 that observations of the Hubble tension may imply that only quintessence models with a nonzero coupling
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by isolli 2y ago
This feels important: > The other thing this taught me is the danger of an up-front paid model for apps that depend on ongoing access to third-party services. If users were continually paying for the app, paying for Yelp’s APIs would not
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by isolli 2y ago
I love how one competitor completely disparages his mouse: - Can it be considered intelligent? - No, it's absolutely dim. It will solve, I hope, a particular problem. Outside of this environment, it's useless. He's only follo
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by isolli 2y ago
Wipe out existing shareholders and sell fresh shares on the open market. Nothing else needs to change.
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by isolli 2y ago
I learnt German at the age of 25. I distinctly remember the first time I was exposed to it (before learning it), it sounded like water gently flowing down a creek. Then I learnt the basics, and my brain started to catch on to patterns. Howe
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by isolli 2y ago
That's my intention too. As soon as we're done moving houses, I will buy the latest print edition of the French Encyclopædia Universalis, from 2012. A childhood memory I have is that my friends who had one at home had a much easie
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by isolli 2y ago
Not to mention that 2 out of 5 Space Shuttles suffered catastrophic loss, one of them (Columbia) almost certainly because it was being reused and the heat shield failed.
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by isolli 2y ago
Definitely getting it for my kids!
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by isolli 2y ago
We already had a strong and clear signal from the financial industry in 2008...
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Ralph Baric, Whose Techniques Were Used in Wuhan, Testified LabLeak Was Possible(vanityfair.com)
9 points by isolli 2y ago|1 comments
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by isolli 2y ago
Good point. It reminds me of an observation made by Paul Sutter in his podcast [0]. Paraphrasing, there so many layers of emergent phenomena, most of whom we will probably never figure out: - From quantum fields to atoms - From atoms to che
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by isolli 2y ago
I'm sorry, but no: such comparisons make for clickbaity headlines. I don't like clickbaity headlines.
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by isolli 2y ago
Indeed, but it still unconsciously invites controversy (in my opinion) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by isolli 2y ago
Oh, I agree! But I did not want to make more than one change at a time ;)
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by isolli 3y ago
My daughter (in 5th grade) is interested in learning advanced maths, so we looked at sine and cosine. Question: is there an easy, geometrical way to "show" that `cos(60º)=1/2` using the intuitive definition based on the trigo
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by isolli 3y ago
Agreed, this was the most stunning part (and they climbed an icy mountain right after). It reminds me of the beautiful story of the last (traditional) master navigator in the Pacific ocean, Mau Piailug: https://www.economist.com&
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by isolli 3y ago
I always recommend Shackleton's book "South". It is a riveting account of his failed expedition to the South pole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_(book)
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by isolli 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. I have lived in two European countries in the past 4 years, and the silence is palpable. No one wants to talk about what we were put through. Everyone is trying to move on, but it doesn't feel the same.

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