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As much as this is coming from a good place with good intentions, some things are human rights[1] that parents shouldn’t be able to withhold. [1] https://theweek.com/articles/470330/birth-control-human-righ...
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“It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry languidly. “You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor.” … “I know you will laugh at me,” he replied, “but I really can’t exhibit it. I have put to
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For an earlier example of a related vibe, I recommend checking out sicp: https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf#page29
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Great news for tech workers imo. Part of the tech labor market downturn has been driven by skepticism over the costs: if Twitter can slash its workforce and keep running just fine, why can’t other companies? Well, Threads swooping in to rap
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SEEKING WORK | Remote | Virginia, US Backend-leaning, full-stack software engineer with 8 years of experience including at a big and established healthcare tech company, at a small startup, and through 1099 freelancing. - Creating APIs and
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This is very cool, and I hope the dialect isn’t defeated by prescriptivism. Somehow — and I can’t trace exactly how — my public school education removed most of the dialect that I had when I started; I feel this is a shame since I’m fond of
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I can see why some might think this is silly, it seems unscientific. But what exactly is human-level performance in music, and how can we detect that? If music is an artifact appreciated by listeners, then any metric apart from whether the
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MUMPS appeared in 1966, predating Edgar Codd's 1970 paper that would later give rise to relational databases. Additions to SQL introduced by the 1992 ANSI standard have become essential to its modern form. So, although NoSQL is a famil
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Infinite music is interesting from the angle that the music that we value is connected to our cultural and social experience. How can we cherish a song that has never been heard before and will never be heard again, which means it is depriv
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Agreed, Python is designed for something other than functional programming, so a functional programming enthusiast would get better mileage out of something else. Even if you were to write all of your Python programs against the grain in a
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World Capitals Voronoi (2014)(jasondavies.com)
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Indeed, the path to a research career — necessary for the grants and facilities you’ll need to test your hypotheses — involves such high barriers that you would almost need to already be on that path by your freshman year in undergrad.
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It could be true for some of them, but it's also possible that "autoimmune" is not a very good description of what's happening for some others. Disorders lacking an obvious cause seem to get lumped into the autoimmune ca
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It's not as much of a counterexample now as it would have been years ago, thanks to performance improvements, but JavaScript won on portability despite not being high-performance.
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The opening sentence is a reference to the influential software engineering paper No Silver Bullet , and the overall post is aligned with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
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Interesting project - you might be intrigued by algorithmic music composition. The link you shared sounds atonal to me. So, you could be thinking about free jazz. Here's a YouTube video that discusses it: https://www.youtube
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Very interesting, though it’s worth pointing out that he brought other forms of knowledge to the table. For example, he had worked as a land surveyor, a specialized trade that gave him knowledge of the landscape.
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Unsure which of these gets me more. "an immune system controller found in 'barrier tissues' such as the intestine" This sounds like academic wording for "leaky gut." "doing so had a dramatic effect on th
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The means publicly demonstrated in a non-emergency are not necessarily the state of the art.
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Once I learned safer and more advanced languages post-university, C++ just wasn’t fun anymore.
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What is the difference between a gesture and behavior? Lots of animals can read the behavior of some other species.
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How many tries does it take for an expert to succeed at training a custom Stable Diffusion?
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If you can’t find what you’re looking for right away, can any of your research collaborators buy you more time by keeping you on or adding you to their projects for a little while?
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For an alternate implementation, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stalacpipe_Organ
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> easiest way to fix this is to fire a bunch of people at a time rather than individually and then blame it on perceived recession "Hence it is to be remarked that, in seizing a state, the usurper ought to examine closely into all t
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Agreed —- If there’s a way of leveraging it effectively, then evolution will do so, somewhere. My guess is that the brain isn’t unique from other tissues on this.
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Especially if there is no cure for inherited damage already done. A solution would include medical therapies in addition to avoidance.
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> it is difficult to imagine that even a simple dream is possible without something like an ego or an “I” experiencing it, he adds. So if spiders dream, “it might mean that we start talking about spiders having something like a minimal s
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While it's not a security and summarizing its returns is more complex, it would also be interesting to see "home ownership."
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Not code, but perhaps an algorithm. "The author has in fact barely resisted the temptation to name the present volume 'The Programmer's Cookbook.' Perhaps someday he will attempt a book called 'Algorithms for the Ki

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