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Possibly a co-factor, since many get EBV and few MS.
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There was a similar debate in the 1880s. Dr. Robert Koch claimed some diseases were caused by bacteria and developed a procedure to prove it. The germ theory of disease was controversial until then. Its suspected several diseases without kn
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Asian migrants (east, south) lok down on trades. Not core US middle class looks down on such.
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Down 28% since 2012 (19.8 M to 14.4 M) as stock market booms. Long term issue.
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I wonder how Jeff Bezos Leadership Principles competes with Charles Koch's Secrets of Success. At times these have a cult-like following. And both companies are among the largestpublic and private in the world.
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There was a hardcore "Revive Arecibo" workgroup at two recent astronomy conferences. That telescope made important data contributions up to the end, despite its age. Alas, probably a pipe dream, since NASA/NSF has limited fun
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The 1800s era core buildings at MIT (1906) and Stanford (1892) are made out of bulk sandstone/limestone and are still standing. Post WWII concrete crap are crumbling and being replaced by fake-stone cladding buildings. One gem ironical
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Lets see, Bill Gate's 1990s house had ethernet ports and a 512K screen on every wall. Perhaps he should have consulted Gordon Moore (still alive) first.
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A number of governments claim to have solved the problem in virtual licenses and vaccine passports. But I could guess ways to fake that too.
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These were slave societies. Buckminster Fuller enunciated the concept of 'energy slaves', that is each modern person vampires off the energy of certain number of fossil fuel human equivalents. One calculation in the Wikipedia arti
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MicroSoft's first products were programming languages for PCs. BASIC for the Altair in 1975.
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If itcan guarantee too break every dish in abox, then its ready for moving companies.
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2020 Pandemic (restricted life) 2021 Vaccine (politics) 2022 Endemic (living with it)
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Having both a STEM PhD and been software engineering for decades, I'd say article covers the operational aspect of the PhD, i.e. project management skills. The other half of the PhD is knowing what is a significant chuck of doable rese
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One percent in US have PhD.
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What do Americans think of the Wolf Warrior movies from China? Part Bond/Rambo achinese guy geats bumbling evil Americans.
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No smartphones then, though there was a rudimentary internet. I had to ftp earthquake from the USGS because the web had not been invented yet.
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Sort of like the Blue Cube in Silicon Valley. Even knows its a bullseye in nuke war. It closed in 2011.
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Sort of like the Blue Cube in Silicon Valley. Even knows its a bullseye in nuke war.
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I entered grad when labs were freed from the tyranny of central university mainframe into local computers. The mainframe inputted punchcards and output to lineprinter. The lab computer ran UNIX and had CRT terminal input/output.
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by peter303 5y ago
Agreed. I have been going to those VR demos at SIGGRAPH and film festivals for years, generally ending up with eyestrain or nausea. This year, after a covid hiatus, I notice much more attractive results. (1) The hardware is better: higher
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Deep neural networks are being tried everywhere , i.e. for things I didn't imagine they could be useful, others did.
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Bugs have eaten much of Titanic's metal and organic parts. There should be little left by its 200 year anniversary.
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You have to discover some "trusted curators" bloggers or columnists who make suggestions. For example when libraries closed their new book shelves for a years due to covid fears, I started relying on NYTimes Sunday Book Reviews of
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Furthermore, there are many openly visible bike chop-shop shops among the numerous tent camps around Denver. I have seen some with 20-50 bicycles lying about; many more then camp inhabitants could personally use. Social media like Nextdoor
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Prof Erik Demaine of MIT pioneers the field of computational origami. I do not know the details of his research. But there are practical applications like fitting large space probes into narrow rockets. Or making machines that flex without
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The term cybernetics was used for both analog and digital feedback automation systems. There is overlap with AI.
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Saturday Night Live has had at least six Harvard writers, weaned from the Harvard Lampoon.
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They should deploy in Earth orbit near the ISS, then move to L2. Would give option for repair. The shuttle was decommissioned after the primary Webb design was done. What would have known the launch options at the time it was ready?
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Stanford University has been systematically erasing the names of early professors and missionaries from buildings and streets who were politically incorrect by current standards. They almost needed to rename the university itself due to the

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