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Pidgin Version
(bbc.com)
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Making Visual Anagrams
(google.com)
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The Zilog Ez80
(en.wikipedia.org)
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You might be surprised to learn that Baddeley is a) still an active scientist and b) still turns up to undergraduate seminars (although now on zoom).
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Numerical recipes in C. I still find myself looking stuff up there after all these years...
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It will take longer than the age of the universe to evaporate. So tides. For a while.
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I've often wondered if it might be possible to set up an 'auction' system for papers. Post on arXiv and then have journals 'bid' for publication - saying how much they would charge in publication fees, review turnar
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Do you have more details on this? I have never heard of it.
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David Heeger's long Covid blog
(cns.nyu.edu)
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Can we also have a discussion about the 'normal' behaviour monitoring tools like Classcharts that are used by pretty much every school in the UK? These collect fine-grained data about behaviour throughout the day and link it both
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Bach – maestro of more than music
(aeon.co)
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It's the Dr Bronner's Soap of electronics supplies :) Love the stuff about Ebay and Ebola...
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Plasma Wakefield Acceleration [pdf]
(indico.cern.ch)
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How to build a future no one wants
(backstory.substack.com)
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That's actually what prompted the submission. I was amazed :)
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Prince Rupert's drop
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Major security breach at UK IT consultancy
(capita.com)
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Ern Malley Hoax
(en.wikipedia.org)
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From this map you might think that the UK is currently depending (96.5%) on fossil fuels. But it's not quite that bad: https://grid.iamkate.com/ The real eye-opener (for me) on the latter display is the emissions per k
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Never mind space elevators - we could build useful sky hooks right now (and Mars might be the best place to do it...) https://youtu.be/dqwpQarrDwk
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Starship launch date now 04/20
(spacex.com)
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Recommend two nice books on this: the ancestor's tale by Richard Dawkins and Otherlands by Thomas Halliday. Both absolute page turners!
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The Landscape of Biomedical Research
(static.nomic.ai)
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But the human visual system is insensitive to high resolution yb and red/green information so you can essentially down sample those layers to almost nothing before you even start. That's a fundamental trick which is also used in a
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See air tankless diving system
(see-air.com)
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Why Alex Murdaugh’s Quick Conviction Worries Me
(nytimes.com)
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Dietary Fiber in Brewed Coffee
(pubs.acs.org)
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Never mind signal, what would Apple do if the UK government forced them to compromise E2E crypt? Someone hasn't thought this thorough properly...
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Ask HN: How do I examine an undergraduate programming course in the era of GPT?
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Author here: Yup - that's a great paper (published just after the Frontiers piece). There >are< some other organisms that have more than three photoreceptors and seem to use them for 'proper' color vision though: many b
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