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by sieste 3y ago
The video mentions a variety of hydrocarbons emitted from fracking sites (and a noticeable smell), which would be a plausible cause, no? That said, I don't have a dog in this fight and no strong opinions, and happy to be educated with
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by sieste 3y ago
Some interesting bits: Total is fracking in the middle of residential areas, drilling sites hidden from view by portable walls, protected by police from investigations of air pollution, while asthma rates are over twice as high as in the re
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I hate the ocean sunfish(boredpanda.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
episode 53, when jerry dropped the anvil on tom's head.
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by sieste 3y ago
> Many universities have almost a "no child left behind" policy. That's true, it's difficult to encourage independent learning at undergrad level and we often end up hand holding and spoon feeding material like in hig
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Is Link Curation Underrated?(benen.notion.site)
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The University Presidents(marginalrevolution.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
Specifically, UV radiation affects DNA by forming new chemical bonds in the DNA strand, creating pyrimidine dimers[1]. These can lead to mutations and, ultimately, cancer. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimidine_di
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by sieste 3y ago
No mention of Kim Jong Uns personal stadium sized led screen? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmxTy5L7Rc
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by sieste 3y ago
Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's
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by sieste 3y ago
I didn't know about the story when posting this. I also don't think it's relevant, even in a read-the-room sense. Bad press about the leader of an institution isn't a reason to stop discussing the institution's wo
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Open, rigorous and reproducible research: A practitioner’s handbook (2021)(stanforddatascience.github.io)
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by sieste 3y ago
Thanks for the PSA. One would think a 10,000 word article on the benefits of non-smoking nicotine use, with a dedicated section on health issues, might mention this important detail...
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We built EconGOAT: Connecting an external knowledge base with a LLM(econgoat.ai)
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Doritos creates technology to 'silence' its crunch(fooddive.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
I like this explanation[1]: We live in a simulation where crypto became popular. All those hash function evaluations can't be approximated by the simulation engine, unlike most other natural phenomena, and so our reality uses up more c
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English graduates leave uni with far more debt than other countries, incl US(marginalrevolution.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
I really don't understand what the big deal is with "Do you remember saying 'these precise words'?" - "No, but it sounds like something I could have said." Given how human memory works, that should be the
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In 1981, this 172-Year War between Denmark and a Spanish Town Ended(historycollection.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
... or Intellectual Hipster
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by sieste 3y ago
The look on Christina of Sweden's face on page 1 made me laugh, she looks exactly how you would imagine a 17th century princess hearing about Linear Algebra.
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by sieste 3y ago
> Here’s why I think speed depends on a product rather than a sum of factors. If all of your factors are good, you are fast; if any of them are bad, you are slow. Mathematically, the operation that has this property is multiplication. Ni
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Halloween portraits on the New York City subway(cnn.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
This quote immediately reminded me of "Rubber Johnny". (Trigger warning!) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvfxWRi6qQ
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by sieste 3y ago
I'd like to have a shortcut that appends currently highlighted text, current url and timestamp to a text file on my disk. Can this be done with a bookmarklet?
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Happy Avogadro Day(en.wikipedia.org)
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Econgoat.ai – A generative book by Tyler Cowen(econgoat.ai)
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by sieste 3y ago
The highly trained, nuanced, capable scientist you are describing is unfortunately only a small part of the bigger "system" I referred to, which also involves regulators, insurers, phone line operators, hospital staff etc (as desc
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by sieste 3y ago
The system seems to select for people who are fit and healthy enough, and live long enough, to make the ordeal to get admitted to cancer trials. This means the results are not representative, and effectiveness of these trials is probably ov
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Who's Harry Potter? Approximate Unlearning in LLMs(arxiv.org)
2 points by sieste 3y ago|1 comments

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