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by noodlenotes 7y ago
I hadn't seen recent photos until this article, and I didn't realize how different Notre Dame looks now with all the wooden frames supporting the buttresses. https://images.graph.cool/v1/cj6c28vh912680101ozc2p
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
> And the information revealed that people in crisis regularly turn their pets over to an animal shelter. I don't know why I assumed they were visiting the animals at the shelter to try to find comfort when I read the headline. The
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
Do "physical objects" include communion wafers, holy objects, and churches? If so, this is hardly a new idea and I'm surprised it's as low as 42%.
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
I agree. The prefix "pseudo" implies that there is some normal behavior (addiction) and faked behavior (pseudoaddiction). But it's the other way around. Wanting medication for legitimate reasons should be the normal behavior
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
There's a lot of social pressure for women to wear makeup which is especially hard to pull off if you bike to work. A woman with tasteful makeup is perceived as more professional, even if it's just subconsciously. I'm sure th
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
To me, "pseudoscience" means that the approach isn't grounded in the scientific method. It's not pseudoscience to collect data to try to predict a phenomenon, even if the prediction isn't successful. That's lik
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by noodlenotes 7y ago
For context, there are ugly groups on the internet that refer to women as "females" in a way that's intended to be derogatory. (The noun form, not the adjective.) Think of how impersonal it is to say "I sat next to a mal
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by noodlenotes 8y ago
This brings up an interesting ethical question. Let's say for every entrepreneur who stays afloat because of a payday loan, there are two people who don't manage money well and the payday loan sends them spiraling into debt. Do yo
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by noodlenotes 8y ago
One of the complaints by the ACLU was that 39% of the false matches of congressmen to mugshots were people of color, even though only 20% of congressmen are PoCs. This is a subtle way of saying that the mugshot dataset is probably not repre
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by noodlenotes 8y ago
I've observed this myself and it's creating a weird dynamic in data science. More often, companies are requiring PhDs for their entry level data science positions. (Because there's a surplus of people who want to enter the fi