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by pigscantfly 4y ago
It was a (possibly-overly-blunt) attempt to tie this cultural shift to outcomes the bureaucracy cares about, but absolutely the biggest loss is to the undergraduate culture and future students' experiences. Both future grads and the un
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
I was in the co-ops and also a frat in the early 2010's. I knew about XOX, SAE, and KA but not theta delt or sigma chi -- let alone french house, slav, haus mitt, or casa italiana. Aside from undergrads, the school will miss out, too -
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Ask HN: Seeing Problems with MarkMonitor?
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
The hardbread and raspberry gumdrops (gelehallon) are great, too. I'll usually get Kalle's spread, but it's maybe not for everyone.
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
I live in a rural area and grew up working a beef ranch in the Poconos, and all of these claims (less educated, lower income, more conservative, more religious) sound obviously true to me, but I looked up the data out of curiosity. Here is
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
No, they're saying the problem existed before AirBnB.
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
I think it is important that normal Russian people have access to outside sources of information to erode popular support of the war; their politicians seem to have no difficulty using Twitter to spread propaganda to the English-speaking wo
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
This is exactly why Mat was so badly butchered at the end of the Wheel of Time: Sanderson doesn't have any experience of carousing to draw on, and prudish is spot on.
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
Certain people high up in the org get irritable over launch delays. Sometimes others think the risk isn't worth the yelling and go ahead in less than perfect conditions.
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
The price of a house is not fixed. Likewise, in your example, you would have to lower the price from $10 to sell your goods.
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
Thank you very much! I will order it.
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
I've been researching these cultural echoes of the Proto Indo-Europeans online for some time now; it's fascinating that over a billion people (Catholics, etc.) use roughly the same term 'Deus Pater' to describe their sup
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
> UK is the country that has mangle EU rules the most. Can you explain what you mean by this? To me, it's always seemed that Germany and France benefit most from EU integration at the expense of the southern nations which have less
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by pigscantfly 5y ago
It sounds to me like GP is hinting that the rate of particle emission for a given mass of uranium (maybe just the more fissile U-235?) is deliberately misreported in the literature. The way people originally determined that value experiment
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
The eruption of Vesuvius was in 79 AD, so less than 2000 years ago, but if you'd like to know about a much earlier site that had these amenities (and more, like possible public street lighting), you should read about Mohenjo Daro in pr
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
Another fun one is Jamtli [1] (Jämtlands läns folkhistoriska museet) in Östersund, which holds a museum and about ten acres of grounds with historical reconstructions of Swedish homes, farms, and businesses from roughly the 18th c. to the p
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
I've been using a finetuned T5 model for commercial text generation for the past six months. The volume of discussion around the model on github and elsewhere leads me to believe others are as well, although people tend to be circumspe
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
I would check out Michael Genesereth's course on general game playing [1] -- I don't remember if we specifically implemented a chess engine, but it's more or less exactly what you're looking for. Once you've mastere
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
IP addresses linked to North Korea and Crimea are also blocked or at least were several years ago. I believe the issue is certain advanced technical courses being subject to sanctions -- at least that's what I heard secondhand.
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
Jansson is one of the greats -- both for the seminal Moomin tales and lesser-known, more adult books like Sommarboken. I fell in love with her work through translations as a child but since reading the originals have realized that the Engli
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but my father has been practicing civil rights law in central Florida for several decades now, and he's brought multiple lawsuits against police departments there which are very similar to the situa
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
My house is two miles down a paved road from the nearest village (800 full-time residents in the Western Sierras), and USPS doesn't deliver mail, although they do provide a free PO Box in the village. UPS and Fedex both deliver to my d
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
I see; I didn't know that. I was using the quotes from the parent comment; I don't know enough about the UK system to know which are considered 'top' -- which I'm guessing is as subjective and rancorous a discussion
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
From an American perspective, it seems extremely easy to get into a 'top' UK university. Oxford and Cambridge admit around 20% of applicants. Compared to Princeton (6%), Stanford (4%), MIT (7%), etc. it seems like a cakewalk. Is t
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
Not a stupid question at all, but one problem is that the boundaries of a zero-train-loss region are not well characterized and evaluating the validation loss even at a single point is computationally expensive. The centroid of one of these
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
There is some additional physical evidence for this in the form of plants and animals with American origin appearing in the archaeological record in Asia well before 1492. This paper [1] lists around 100 cross-hemispheric species. I'm
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by pigscantfly 6y ago
I agree with your main point, but Skripal and his daughter both survived the attack and are still alive.
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
Even beyond that, do not get in someone else's car if you suspect they may be drunk!
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
To add my two cents, I've studied half a dozen languages over my life and managed to become fluent in three, give or take. My favorite part of the process is always the first few months, when new concepts come the quickest and one sees
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
I've been working in data science or in academia for most of the last decade and would argue that the primary benefits of using statistical models for automation are that they are fast and cheap compared to a trained professional, whic

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