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by rmbryan 7y ago
Full disclosure, I did get into two schools in the fall which I am excited to attend. How does that work? The whole lead in was specific about complete failure.
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by rmbryan 7y ago
This was worth my time: https://sandspiel.club/#dac3ceca6a45502e8dc5 click play in the top right after it loads.
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What a great question!
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What are your thoughts on projecteuler.com?
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by rmbryan 7y ago
Can anyone think of a reason the organizers would have decided to use workplace email for this?
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by rmbryan 7y ago
This makes it look like there are some unresolved challenges with fulfillment: https://www.bbb.org/us/wa/seattle/profile/international-mail...
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by rmbryan 7y ago
I love this sentence from the article: “I make my living convincing male skeptics of the power of emotions,” he says.
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by rmbryan 7y ago
The answer is "No." Peguy is not the most revolutionary philosopher since Plato. Evidence: "It is for this reason that his stylistic response to Bergson exceeds that of the modernists: he is not interested, as with Marcel Pro
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by rmbryan 7y ago
The heart of the article: "PepsiCo has invoked Section 64 of the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV&FR) Act, 2001 to claim infringement of its rights. However, farmers groups cite Section 39 of the same Act, whi
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by rmbryan 7y ago
MuseNet will play an experimental concert today from 12-3p PT livestreamed on our Twitch channel. No human (including us) has ever heard these pieces before, so this will be an interesting showcase of MuseNet’s strengths and weaknesses. Thr
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https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20case%20of%20the%20500-mi...
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It's important to note that this study focuses on data from 15-year-olds taking a math test. I assert that drawing broad conclusions based on that sample is suspect and may be, in fact, bullshit itself.
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"Gaslit" is the preferred nomenclature.
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by rmbryan 7y ago
A list of the negative impacts of social media and mobile tech that do not show up on the balance sheets of companies, but on the balance sheet of society.
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Ledger of Harms – Center for Humane Technology(ledger.humanetech.com)
3 points by rmbryan 7y ago|2 comments
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You should read about the guy who sells onions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
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by rmbryan 7y ago
I will always pronounce "capsule" with the Jean-Luc Picard glide, and you can't stop me. Capshule-corp.
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The article builds up to this: "By encouraging our minds to wander, leisure activities pull us out of our present reality, which in turn can improve our ability to generate novel ideas or ways of thinking." Then wraps up and ends.
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by rmbryan 7y ago
Happy Birthday!
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You can only earn a maximum of 10 points per single ISBN. You may not earn additional points by purchasing multiple copies of the same ISBN. Members can earn a maximum of 720 points per calendar year. If a title is not eligible for points,
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by rmbryan 7y ago
The original paper is extraordinary: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05178.pdf
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by rmbryan 7y ago
The original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09730-9
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Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
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I wonder what they mean by "insect phantoms"? Probably not what I imagine.
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How is this an accident? The technique called “microfragmenting” works by essentially cutting living corals into 1-5 smaller polyps using a specialized saw.
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by rmbryan 7y ago
Okay, again, I'm uninformed: How is anyone supposed to establish WHY a company does something? The rule says, "For example, depending on the facts, it could be retaliation if an employer acts because of the employee's EEO act
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by rmbryan 7y ago
Thank you! TIL, etc...
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by rmbryan 7y ago
I apologize if this is a naive question, but didn't they expect to get fired? I certainly would, if I started publicly protesting my employer.
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by rmbryan 7y ago
Is there a proper summary somewhere? The "summary" from wolfram is 61k words. I get that there's a lot in the update. Isn't summarizing a mass of complex information well suited to some kind of mechanical processing?
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by rmbryan 8y ago
You need a proofreader. Also, to save everyone time, the guy concludes that he probably shouldn't resign, but he's going to anyway, because it's what he wants to do. Also, he comes up with reasons.

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