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by valarauko 3y ago
I'd also add that holy men smuggling out the means to break monopolies in their walking sticks is a popular theme, to the point of being a trope.
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by valarauko 3y ago
The Ajanta caves were monasteries, but they still had contact with each other. The monks would also have responsibilities and chores to do around the site, plus interaction with the lay public who bought offerings, and presumably with visit
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by valarauko 3y ago
Which record? It looks like she had contact and interaction with her captor every single day.
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by valarauko 3y ago
I've looked through a couple of articles, and none mention any samples collected while she was in the cave. She'd have to draw the samples herself, and at regular intervals at that. It seems she had no means of orienting herself w
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by valarauko 3y ago
She had a support team above ground monitoring her, and would send her supplies and remove waste.
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by valarauko 3y ago
She's had no human contact for 500 days, so no samples or examinations. That process starts now.
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by valarauko 3y ago
Frequentist vs Bayesian
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by valarauko 3y ago
The assistant's job would be to take low-hanging fruit non-research administrative tasks off his hands - pretty much like the tasks here.
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by valarauko 3y ago
This is something bought up every time science is mentioned in the context of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, but it's more nuanced than that. Every civilization goes through cultural trends, and Luddites are universal. It's
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by valarauko 4y ago
Boabs are baobabs. Baobabs are a genus, with most of the 8 known species native to Madagascar and mainland Africa. Boabs is the Australian nickname for baobabs, applied to the one native Australian baobab.
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by valarauko 4y ago
I was half expecting this to be a Unix epoch coding error
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by valarauko 4y ago
> Tesla is neither a private company, nor a startup. The parent implies 'private' in the sense of non-governmental entity (the Indian terminology), and by that metric both Tesla and Paytm are 'private' (and publicly t
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by valarauko 4y ago
There's some truth to this - I was talking to a friend about potentially moving to an apartment at [X] Street. They were aghast, hoping that I wasn't talking about [X] Street and [Y] Avenue, since its pretty bad at night. When I t
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by valarauko 4y ago
I like the idea of Polars, and it's on my list of things to try. Unfortunately, my current codebase in heavily tied to Pandas (bioinformatics tools that use Pandas as a dependency). I also deal mostly in sparse matrices, which I'm
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by valarauko 4y ago
As someone who loathes the Pandas syntax and lusts for the relatively cleaner tidyverse code of my colleagues, the Polar syntax just feels ... off (from the link): df.with_columns( pl.when(pl.col("c") == 2) .then(pl.col(&q
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by valarauko 4y ago
I find these notifications so confusing - at first glance they look like DMs or mentions to me. I don't follow these people, nor were they RT by anybody I know.
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by valarauko 4y ago
> Compared to who - Garcia? Sure, but that's not surprising. Nope, Adams's closest competitor in the Bronx was Wiley, but he still did about twice as well as she did in the first round. Adams was the first choice candidate for
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by valarauko 4y ago
The Prime Minister makes the speech. Plus nobody would regard the Red Fort as the nominal seat of Indian Power. The vast majority of Indians would only think of the fort as the site of the Prime Minister's speech, if at all.
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by valarauko 4y ago
tbf to Adams, he did really well in the primary in some areas, driven at least partly by his hard on crime image. His success in Brooklyn could possibly be attributed to his connection to the borough, but the Bronx? Adams was the overwhelmi
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by valarauko 4y ago
Hoffmann measured this with a pressure sensor modded aeropress - most typical brews would not exceed half a bar.
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by valarauko 4y ago
James Hoffmann answered this with a modded aeropress with a pressure sensor: a typical aeropress brew is in the range of half a bar. The max he could achieve was 1.5 bars, but like he says, no one brews like that. He also found anything pas
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by valarauko 4y ago
Context of the comment was in modding machines. Are modders more likely to be American or Italian?
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by valarauko 4y ago
I've spent a fair bit of time on the site, but only on the reviews. Sounds like the forums were where the real action is/was.
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by valarauko 4y ago
I mean, I kind of get it. Back when I was looking to buy a camera, I was on the site quite a bit. For me, the equivalent place to hang out, read reviews or discuss techniques were the forums of home-barista.com in the late 2010s. Lots of co
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by valarauko 4y ago
Lots of people here saying they used to visit this site regularly. I'm curious as to what they got out of it (some people say they used to visit the site daily). I can see the value when you're looking to buy a camera, and reading
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by valarauko 4y ago
I have a friend who's written Netflix original shows, and I'll say it's the opposite - Netflix has very specific instructions for how scripts must be structured based on viewership data. Netflix knows where people tend to pau
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by valarauko 4y ago
A friend who's written Netflix original shows says that Netflix has a lot of data regarding user watch behavior, and provide specific directions for how shows should be structured to maximize viewer retention. As a theoretical example,
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by valarauko 4y ago
Huh. In NYC I've had issues with routes designed around scheduled buses that were subsequently cancelled, but I feel I've only had that happen on Transit and not CityMapper. Live bus location on the map for a bus that isn't r
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by valarauko 4y ago
> I was actually referring to trains being re-routed by the MTA -- like when the F was running on the E line in Manhattan a few weekends ago. Ah. To be fair, I think all the apps do this now, including Google and Apple Maps. Regarding a
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by valarauko 4y ago
I think all the big apps use live transit info now. That said, Citymapper actively surfaces that it's rerouting because of cancellations on XYZ train, which is very helpful information. I don't see Google or Apple Maps suggesting

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