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by kian 6y ago
Curiosity peaking (I have also seen peeking) is quite an interesting mondegreen for curiosity 'piquing'. The latter means 'stimulating' or 'aggravating', whereas the former implies that when you hear about some
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by kian 6y ago
I've been fairly disappointed with the analysis of first doses first. If someone were to recommend half-courses of antibiotics, I feel like a lot more people would instantly recognize what could potentially go wrong here (and for whic
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by kian 6y ago
While speech suppression is a weapon that both sides are more than happy to wield, are you familiar with the history of parental advisory labeling on speech in music? That was the left , specifically Al Gore's wife Tipper, that was re
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by kian 6y ago
He's one of the best modern sci-fi writers. The whole collection of short stories here is fantastic, as is the "Anti-mimetics division" series he wrote over on SCP wiki.
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by kian 6y ago
What do you call a modern-day couch potato? A YouTuber.
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by kian 6y ago
Does this control for people actually getting measles? I.e., are the incidences of disease less after removing the people who got measles who didn't receive the MMR vaccine? Measles is known to strip the immune system of much of its me
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by kian 6y ago
I agree :) It seems like the artist/inventor may have at some point missed that finer linguistic point and attached instead to an alternative meaning of the word 'graph' :)
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by kian 6y ago
I think, in this case, we are seeing semantic a relation between spectra of light (in terms of overlapping sets of frequencies) and producing a 'graph' of the spectrum of rotational frequencies in ink. Anyone know with any more c
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by kian 6y ago
I think the poster you are replying to is saying that shutting down people for spreading false conspiracies will be a net negative, because all of net harm from spreading false conspiracies is a tiny little drop against the vast hurricane
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by kian 6y ago
Thank you for that beautiful sentiment. They're only words, and always spoken much too late to stay -- only for a moment, then they take the breath away
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by kian 6y ago
Wouldn't this imply that they can track who voted for whom by seeing which IPs are visiting to check on which ballots?
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by kian 6y ago
This is what I get as well. GP, are you saying that each time we re-iterate with a new Planck constant? (a new smallest granule of space)
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by kian 6y ago
A thoughtful classification of the ways one can cause damage to emerging fields, cultures, and organizations through participation, and some ways to prevent it. Long, but not unnecessarily so. I highly recommend reading the whole article th
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by kian 6y ago
Is this argument in any way distinguishable from someone saying 'Nobody is forcing you to work a non-union job. You're free to quit and take a union job any time you want'?
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by kian 6y ago
The id at the end is a sequential integer id for their presentation materials. I wonder what other joyful findings await someone willing to wade through 3k+ documents
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by kian 6y ago
That poetic thought at the end is beautiful. Forces and actions (dual tothings) have shapes that are dual to living things - most likely because those spiraling shapes are more protective against forces than right angles.
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by kian 6y ago
Good to see the Hayek Machine idea being rebooted in the age of deep learning. I've been wondering when someone would try this out again.
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by kian 6y ago
I don't see why the COVID context should remove the need to properly handle health information, nor should it remove the burden of compliance with HIPAA.
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by kian 6y ago
I think he's suggesting that any given random set of preconceptions will itself be a 'sample' from the entire preconception-space, and therefor itself a preconception - just one that you didn't involve yourself in choosi
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by kian 6y ago
I highly recommend Drew Nobile's book or papers on functional circuits as an adjunct to this on how to recursively generate songs from an initial seed progression.
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by kian 6y ago
http://archive.is/voHST
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by kian 6y ago
Do you have a source for the claim in the last paragraph? Would be very interested to read it.
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by kian 6y ago
This is really interesting (I remember reading it years ago), but does not, in fact, explain harmony. There is no explanation of why particular harmonies work that generalizes, nor any methods given for calculating harmonies de novo.
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by kian 6y ago
On the contrary, I'd say that public companies accurately forecasted that regardless of their shenanigans they'd be bailed out by the government, and acted accordingly in a long-term fashion. That's why, at some point, it wil
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by kian 7y ago
I'll check back in here later with links - didn't save it at the time I was reading through.
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by kian 7y ago
Only if they form antibodies. Studies have been suggesting that people who get it in asymptomatic form are not all forming antibodies - leaving them wide open to be future communicators of the disease.
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by kian 7y ago
Thank Edward Kmett! That slide is single-handedly responsible for me getting into abstract algebra.
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by kian 7y ago
I apologize for the uncharitable reading and response. I have a number of friends with immune disorders and heart issues through no fault of their own, and I was too hasty in my response. It is true that all of the decisions to be made goin
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by kian 7y ago
Do you really think that all people with cardiovascular and respiratory issues are 'paying the price for their choices'? I guess asthma sufferers (such as the nurse who ran marathons but had exercise-induced asthma who died recent
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by kian 7y ago
see the second-to-last slide for a mapping from Algebraic Structures to Computer Science Concepts. http://comonad.com/reader/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Introdu...

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