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by jxramos 6y ago
I recall reading about him as a teen in the great little bio book https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-People-Interviews-Donald... There's a brief preview you can find in the Look Inside Amazon feature, navigating to th
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What's the backstory on Argentina being an economic drag that it would be detrimental to be connected with them?
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I've heard an interesting take from an assistant to a lawyer who helped someone defrauded of money. Nobody ever wakes up in the morning and says, "What I am going to do today is evil, and I'm okay with that." W
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> Joseph Stalin supported the campaign. More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the campaign to suppress scientific opponents. Wow, so what sort of rationale can we mak
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We are delighted to announce that Zoox is teaming up with Amazon(twitter.com)
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Is the incestuous detail significant/material to the story or just eyecatching clickbait hooks?
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This would be an interesting history to follow and summarize somewhere well documented for sure.
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I've always wondered if there's a probabilistic argument to show just how biased of policing there is by quantitating somehow the arrests made on a given subpopulation and somehow show how improbable it would be to randomly achiev
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Ha, I thought only technical knowledge requires intelligence. Besides... “I could teach anybody … to be a farmer. … You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”. The old Asimov mechanic story comes
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In 1992 the bus was inhabited by 24-year-old adventurer Chris McCandless, who eventually died of starvation. ... The 1940s bus was brought to the remote trail about 60 years ago by a road crew, Mr Walker said. Interesting
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So did the gal plead guilty already? Has she been arraigned yet, I couldn't make it out.
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That is an exceedingly thorough wiki article. What a great testament to community efforts. Thanks for sharing.
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I've actually been wondering as covid19 winds down and people's lived experiences no longer perceive it as the doom and gloom threat it once held sway with, if given that perception whether the market rewards will continue to stan
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Other than speaking poorly about ebay what specifically did the so called Natick couple present as a threat to ebay or to these criminals individually? Anyone have a link to the newsletter that was being published? Should be useful to brows
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It's not mob rule it's those who run the outrage-triathlon where those with the highest blood pressure and boil over tops win. If they can't steam anybody up to join them from their effervescence alone they deserve to fall to
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by jxramos 6y ago
Navigation is very important too for large graphs. Go with yEd instead and graphml, networkx is great too https://networkx.github.io/documentation/stable/reference/re...
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Exactly, family is its own community.
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Nice work! Any specific techniques you used to identify the source? I've longed for the day an inexpensive or software based acoustic camera comes into reach. So many sounds I've been on the hunt for in the past an even unto today
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I had heard once that new imaging modalities that advance a lot of new research invariably translate to Nobel prizes. Would that be expected of cryo EM techniques?
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I quite enjoyed this exchange at the end I even took one on Blue Peter and demonstrated it to Anthea Turner! (embedded video @ 1:48) Anthea: What do the manufacturers think of it? James: Well they quite like it, but they&#
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by jxramos 6y ago
I remember reading somewhere where an author realized all that lint they collected from their dryer was a result of their clothes literally falling apart fiber by fiber. In other words all the mass of the lint didn't just spontaneously
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I wonder if these methods would be allowed if one put up a frosted glass greenhouse of sorts to obscure the view yet allow sufficient light and wind to pass to allow them to dry reasonably well.
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I guess that's the thing with me and epidemiological models. I think for the bulk of Americans, maybe even people around the world, these models haven't really entered into everyday life with the ramifications of their accuracy. I
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It's also host to a pretty useful experiment page to try things out yourself. It's great for whipping up small scale prototypes with.
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I don't know about uncertainty per se or on isolation but I know at least with respect to economic downturns, recessions, and slumps and all the relation has been quantified to some extent by economists or social scientists from what I
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Yep, it's interesting we're absorbing costs in known areas to unknown costs in unknown areas. I'd say focus on the known, and get more skeptical about the worst case scenarios we're comparing against. As always the &quot
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Does this mean the UC system will leave it up to the individual universities or departments within? Or is this an outright ban they're going for?
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I thought I read at some point that several decades in the past there was a period when you could opt out of Social Security and put retirement in one's own hands. I always wanted to look up that history for when that forked path was a
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People who make universally bad ideas will continue to do so.
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Wow, I would have thought that a p-trap filled with water would have blocked gases from the drain waste vent system. What's going on here, do the vents not vent all the way to the top of the building but come out the sides of the build

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