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by thadk 5y ago
The interpretations in 2018 from the Six4Three emails released through efforts by a British MP were the most damning on this point. Key points: https://twitter.com/YBenkler/status/1070337233159372806?s=20... Here
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by thadk 5y ago
Looks similar to http://italictype.com
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On a mostly-plant and a few fish diet: I supplement zinc on an empty stomach, and 750mg EPA+(a little DHA) Omega 3 oil early in the day and find both aid focus, the second more directly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by thadk 5y ago
Thanks for these, really enjoying your posts here to complement the things I've figured out. You might also enjoy the brief remarks from this old OpenVisConf USDA parallel coordinates data visualization+video of animals aggregating the
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I hacked together a side-by-side browser for Oilslick in Maplibre: https://observablehq.com/@thadk/oilslick-side-by-side
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by thadk 5y ago
Would be good but on my accounts which didn't have 2FA, they seemed to have removed Authenticator as an option: only phone numbers available now.
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by thadk 5y ago
Doesn't Alicia Boole Stott's ability indicate that solid intuitions are plausible though? https://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/sci...
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by thadk 5y ago
Thanks for https://ttc.tasuki.org/ ! I forked it and put the first 10 verses of Ursula K LeGuin's interpretation here as it was missing: https://thadk.net/sbs/#/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh,u
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by thadk 5y ago
If you enjoyed this article but your biology background is from the 1990's or early 2000's, you might check out The Tangled Tree (2018) by Quammen https://bookshop.org/books/the-tangled-tree-a-radical-new-hi.
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by thadk 5y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#The-Set-B...
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I was also struck by a similar section of Reflective Practitioner and wrote this thread some years ago about how professional ambiguity is furthered as computers advance: https://twitter.com/thadk/status/1211175280
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by thadk 5y ago
Maybe at our local library we should be able to check these nanopore sequencers, or even other devices like simple & robust medical devices like handheld ultrasound devices that plug into iPad's?
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by thadk 5y ago
It's certainly not perfect, but it is funny to me that the author on one line complains the Peace Corps "produce[s] little value" but then in the surrounding lines talks about how important it is for individuals to bridge and
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How to help someone use a computer(pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
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Some of these comments, like attending to relative position in space, remind me of Phil Agre's fantastic "How to Help Someone Use a Computer" (1996) – https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to
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by thadk 5y ago
Goodereader.com had a write-up from their conversations with suppliers of eInk displays being effected as well: https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/the-power-situation-in-...
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China Coal Power Outages Pose New Threat to Supplies of Goods(wsj.com)
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by thadk 5y ago
I've resolved several "celestial body" problems with routers and modems in East/West Africa over the years by pointing USB fans at them – between the sun and the workday generating heat with higher load in lower-end rout
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by thadk 5y ago
This Drainage Basin map (1943) seems to explain the salt and alkaline lakes around the world, like Salton Sea in CA, but I'd love to know more. https://www.reddit.com/r/oldmaps/comments/d0ilnn/world_
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by thadk 5y ago
This article "50 Years of Data Science" by David Donoho (2017) had a sharp point about Kaggle-like competitions being under-valued by stats: "To my mind, the crucial but unappreciated methodology driving predictive modeli
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by thadk 5y ago
Try: https://howmanyplants.com/post/bugging-out-tackling-common-h...
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I Don't Have the Bandwidth(reallifemag.com)
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by thadk 5y ago
Has the author put this up on `npm` yet? I don't see it and want to use it in platforms like ObservableHQ easily.
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by thadk 6y ago
"So they used a remote acoustic sensing system built around a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV), which measures non-contact vibrations over a wide range. In their tests, they placed a tiny, jewelry-sized, retro-reflective membrane in the
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by thadk 6y ago
I'd seen an ad about this in the airport but wasn't sure whether it had to do with the bleed issue. Seems not: "A jet bridge (also termed jetway, jetwalk, airgate, gangway, aerobridge/airbridge, skybridge, airtube, or it
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by thadk 6y ago
How might we access this HDR in animated/interactive javascript data visualizations?
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by thadk 6y ago
Along similar lines, our open source React Native app at Code for Boston for iOS and Android is in beta testing from the last several years of work: https://github.com/codeforboston/plogalong – if there is interest I t
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by thadk 6y ago
All the cake memes are remixes of this story as far as I'm concerned
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by thadk 6y ago
In 1897, philosopher Paul Janet came up with the model that current moments of time in our lives might be perceived by their "fraction of life lived thus far". This would seem to undermine the value of longevity somewhat: accordin
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