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How Objective Is Peer Review? The ESA Experiment(cacm.acm.org)
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> I realize with horror that she’s spent nine hours on the phone that day. She was only awake at 11. > My daughter doesn’t make collages or jewelry or sew anymore. A child who used to read in the bath won’t pick up a book unless threa
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In Dostoyevski Crime and Punishment , there is a similar 'reveal' monologue with an extremely interesting twist (spoiler alert): the narrator knows the murderer, the reader knows the murderer, the detective knows the murderer, th
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> The Murder of Roger Ackroyd A great book, I definitely did not see the ending coming until 2 or 3 paragraphs before the twist. > The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the supreme, the ultimate detective novel. It rests upon the most elegan
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That urge is what I meant by "overwhelmingly archaic feelings". I hesitated to write this as I am a completely nonviolent person, but at one point, I felt the urge to take out my cheap Swiss pocket knife in preparation to kill a d
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> Because, for example, you peeled their orange for them. 1.5 year old daughter wanted to eat the piece of pasta on the upper right corner of the plate last week. Couldn't manage to get it on the spoon. I helped her, but picked the
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> "go to battle" I remember that in the first days after my kid was born, the thought that I would defend that child to the bitter end against any attacker suddenly seemed completely natural, even trivial. It was quite strang
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You might be correct, Frege defined it (roughly) in a similar way, you can read his original publication here: https://ia800207.us.archive.org/22/items/diegrundlagende00fr... It starts on book page 87, or PDF page
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From Wikipedia [0]: > The proof constructs a particular Gödel sentence for the system F, but there are infinitely many statements in the language of the system that share the same properties, such as the conjunction of the Gödel sentence
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This is a very nice and surprisingly readable write up. I think it is the best explanation of the incompleteness theorem I've ever read. Thank you for this! > Now, say he wanted to write when. He could just write 17. Shouldn't
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Same in Chromium.
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I am sure that this is a cool feature, but I am really having a hard time wrapping my head around all the technological overhead required here to avoid having to flip a switch with your elbow or hip if your hands are full. "First world
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So what powers the switches then?
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Why would you leave the room light on for reading in bed?
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What is a wireless lighting system? What is the advantage of such a system over a switch next to the door? E: A wireless lighting systems seems to be a light bulb with WiFi capabilities.
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Proud owner of a Thinkpad R60 [0] here with a 4:3 display. Perfect for coding. (I hadn't planned on keeping it around for 14 years, but these things are simply indestructible) [0] https://thinkwiki.de/R60
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> AI will achieve human-level intelligence This would certainly surprise me very much. > Autonomous vehicles and flying cars will redefine human travel https://www.facebook.com/theseinfeldfriarsclub/videos/fl
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It's usually either outright pain (examples from our child: wasp sting, finger stuck between the valve handle spring of a garden hose, stomach pain, ...), nightmares or the feeling of being stuck somewhere (examples from our child: arm
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"Lavish attention on me and entertain me." ― Maggie Simpson via the baby translator https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Baby_translator That being said, every parent knows the "he/she has never cried li
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Around 12 years ago, I bought a used Model M. It uses a slightly different technique for registering keypresses but looks about the same on the inside as the Model F. It worked great. After 3 days, I decided to clean it up and open it. I th
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> YOU PUT THE EXACT IN INEXACT.
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The transition started earlier, just think of "The Bottle Deposit" in Season 7 (the last season Larry David was showrunner), which could be entirely a Simpsons episode with Homer and Barney instead of Kramer and Newman. IMHO, the
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Not entirely, the only TV show I know of that managed to completely leave on a high note is Breaking Bad. The final Seinfeld episode is one of the weakest of the entire series.
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> the factory subplot alone was funnier than some whole episodes "So this is my life now. At least I've done better than dad." Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGv6RASFsY4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXigSu72A4 > Conan O'Brien as Simpsons writer rarely gets the credit he deserves. Indeed. Him and John Swartzwelder are largely responsible for the increasingly surreal and silly com
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> "If a gun was put to my head, and they said, ‘Tell me the best episode of television ever,’ it’s this." Better than "Homer's Enemy" (the Frank Grimes episode)? No way. While the Monorail episode is extremely go
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I have a strong recollection of the first episode, where he just walks you through the first few days / weeks of a technological breakdown. At one point, you fled the city to a farm, you are looking for food - would you kill the owners
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> When the cryptogram on the paper tape announced a base hit, [Reagan] would whack the edge of the table with a pencil, creating a little sound effect, and describe the arc of the ball as if he could actually see it. His listeners, many
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I have been managing my own mail server for 6 years now, and enabling and configuring all the mail security features (DKIM, SPF, etc), and keeping up with them, is indeed the most difficult part. I regularly check my mail server against too
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As far as I understand it, in Germany you are required to hand in the original documents a few months after you have started your job. If you fail to do so, you are first being reminded, then you pay a fine, and than it increasingly escalat

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