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U.S. life expectancy fell in 2016 as opioid overdoses surged: CDC(reuters.com)
2 points by sndean 9y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 9y ago
For more background, and since this article is surprisingly short: This is a better article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/nih-lifts-3-year-ban... This ban that's being lifted stems from a few
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Datasaurs – Correlations between prehistoric animals and deaths in the US(twitter.com)
1 points by sndean 9y ago|0 comments
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SoftBank Leads $120M Funding Round for Insurance Startup Lemonade(wsj.com)
1 points by sndean 9y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 9y ago
Yeah, and here's a link to their Google Scholar page [1]. It's not surprising at all for a PhD student (especially a full-time one) to be working those hours. [1] https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=JgOyYi8AAA
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How Do Machines Learn?(youtube.com)
6 points by sndean 9y ago|0 comments
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Acoustic delay line memory (2014)(jhallenworld.blogspot.com)
42 points by sndean 9y ago|7 comments
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by sndean 9y ago
Thanks, that "Snow fence" name helps. With zero mountains/trains/snow knowledge, it's hard to google for.
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by sndean 9y ago
Looking at an image in a Guardian article about it ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/world-steepest... ) what is the purpose of those panels further up the mountain on either side of the trac
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FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users(foldingtext.com)
153 points by sndean 9y ago|75 comments
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Statistics, we have a problem(medium.com)
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by sndean 9y ago
It looks like % has a different use in BCPL, but it's used for mod in B [0], so I'm guessing it's a Thompson/Ritchie invention? (unless it came from some other language that came before B) [0] https://www.bell
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Punctuated Equilibrium in the Large Scale Evolution of Programming Languages [pdf](samoa.santafe.edu)
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Calculating Burn Rates in J(hillelwayne.com)
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When Does Work Actually Get Done?(priceonomics.com)
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by sndean 9y ago
Some of this reminds me of The Ph.D. Grind by Philip Guo [0] and my own experience when I was getting my PhD: "For those few months, I morphed into an antisocial grump who shunned all distraction and became deeply immersed in my craft.
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LAPD ask drivers to avoid using navigation apps in fire zones(jalopnik.com)
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by sndean 9y ago
This reminds of a Washington Post article I saw [0], that made me start thinking about travel inequality (?), where someone in Podgorica is more or less cut off from the rest of Europe, while someone in Paris may have an entirely different
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There Is No Finland: Birth of a Conspiracy Theory(skeptoid.com)
6 points by sndean 9y ago|2 comments
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by sndean 9y ago
This then may suggest that there’ll be this detail-light manuscript in the journal and a 50-100 page supplemental document available to download, with all the details to reproduce (hopefully)
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Tatsuo Horiuchi – the 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist(spoon-tamago.com)
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Maybe You’d Exercise More If It Didn’t Feel So Crappy(fivethirtyeight.com)
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The first text message was sent 25 years ago(engadget.com)
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Two Americans Are One Win from the World Chess Championship(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by sndean 9y ago|0 comments
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HN Chat(hnchat.com)
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Etcher – Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives, safely and easily(etcher.io)
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ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment(ustream.tv)
19 points by sndean 9y ago|7 comments
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by sndean 9y ago
>> median salary $167,500 to the beginners It's not all that high, since calling them beginners isn't exactly true [0]. It looks like a decent-sized chunk of the students have years of work experience in finance/consult
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National Exposure Index(rapid7.com)
1 points by sndean 9y ago|0 comments
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Constructed Career Paths from Job Switching Data(flowingdata.com)
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