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by jyunwai 3y ago
A great reference for further reading about data visualization is "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte, a classic book originally published in 1983 with enduring relevance today.
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I share randcraw's recommendation of Harper's and The New Yorker, as I've subscribed to both and found their writing quality to be excellent. If you'd like to try them out, I recommend reading some of the past "Easy
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Mysterious 'Tasmanian devil' space explosion baffles astronomers(nature.com)
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I second the recommendation for "On Writing Well." I read this many years ago, and the book had a strong positive influence on my writing (serving me very well when later doing editorial work, writing articles, and writing summari
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by jyunwai 3y ago
Related to writing, I also high recommend Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running." He wrote this as a memoir centred along running, and he often writes about how his habits of running carries over to other ha
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by jyunwai 3y ago
I wonder if there is a way to easily export one's own Hacker News comments. It might be useful for you to back your comments up one day, as there can be value in searching through your past writing and also having a backup (which never
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by jyunwai 3y ago
That is an excessive response by the director. I wonder if the CEO would have approved of the director's comment if you emailed an apology to the CEO, identifying that the director made the comment ("I apologize for the excessive
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A mismatch in formality is noticeable too in English, from my experience. It think it's a bit more subtle compared to other languages, as there is no formal "you" (in contrast to "du" versus Sie" in German, &qu
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I came across this article from a website for mathematicians that was quite interesting to me, as it's rare to read about a professional with a mathematics PhD and an established career in academia who decided to do an online Master&#x
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Was a Master's Degree in Computer Science Worth It?(mathvalues.org)
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The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences(quantamagazine.org)
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A brief history of weather control(hackaday.com)
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Thanks for sharing the info on different approaches. I did check out your blog as thanks and read through a few posts, and decided to write feedback as a non-expert opinion in case it's helpful. For positive feedback, the best part of
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Google wants governments to form a 'global AI corps'(washingtonpost.com)
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Back when I did this, you could already technically "win" the pat on the back just by copying and pasting 50,000 words of gibberish to meet their word count. But then you would be cheating yourself: the point isn't truly to g
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The main focus of the article is on a scientific study that showed that ChatGPT-written argumentative essays were graded, on average, with higher marks by teachers than essays written by human students. However, the conclusion and the headl
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In Canada's battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers are caught in the crossfire(niemanlab.org)
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Science Says Teens Need More Sleep. So Why Is It So Hard to Start School Later?(kffhealthnews.org)
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How to get young people (and everybody else) to care about cybersecurity(itbrew.com)
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Big picture software testing (2017) [video](youtube.com)
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AI Is Already at War(foreignaffairs.com)
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This worked for me. I found that I changed my DNS server to Cloudflare with the AdGuard software installed on MacOS a while back (AdGuard > Preferences > DNS), and changing this to a different server fixed it. I also used the command
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Universities Can't Accommodate All the Computer Science Majors(insidehighered.com)
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America's Battle Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases(thinkglobalhealth.org)
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Language gaps constrain generative AI development(brookings.edu)
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The Looming Spaceport Bottleneck(newsletter.spacedotbiz.com)
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The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny? (2022)(1000wordphilosophy.com)
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Beyond the incredible quality and quantity of his work starting from early in his life, what makes Terence Tao memorable to me, is his approachability and willingness to write advice for mathematicians and math students in a blog: https:&#
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It remains possible to produce great original works of art, independent of popular trends. For example, Thomas Pynchon is a modern-day example of an author still creating significant works of literature, who is notably reclusive from the pu
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Laid-off life sciences workers give a snapshot of a cooling-down sector(bostonglobe.com)
2 points by jyunwai 3y ago|0 comments

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