whymauri

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by whymauri 7y ago
Reading through some archived curricula, it was in a 1993 practice exam, at least. [0] I'm pretty surprised as well. [0] http://www.csun.edu/science/biology/AP_biology/text%20files/...
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by whymauri 7y ago
Yeah, the Dropbox example doesn't make sense. Dropbox is hard to build because it needs to work at scale and for general enterprise purposes. Similarly, regional/state-sponsored testing is hard because it needs to work at scale an
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by whymauri 7y ago
One of my best friends was a long-term undergrad assistant on this project. It was always an eyebrow-raiser (and conversation starter!) when she declared that her research was developing "mouse VR." Very cool to see it spotlighted
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by whymauri 7y ago
Yeah, there's definitely a sort of implied (or attempted) transition in several scenes. From leaving the forest to reaching the cherry bushes, for example. The camerawork changes a bit and they subtlely crest a hill into the cherry bus
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by whymauri 7y ago
>For reference, the current rate in France has an 8 handle. I'm no expert here, but weren't the French literally rioting a few months ago..? And beyond the markets: you keep downplaying this and 2008 as not "being serious.
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by whymauri 7y ago
For accuracy and transparency (since I can't edit the original): all exams and homework in the CS department are postponed until after Spring Break as of five minutes ago (March 28th).
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by whymauri 7y ago
After some reading, I've become slightly more sympathetic to the theory that flattening the curve via early dispersion is a good idea since students would have to travel anyways in May. That said, I really do believe there could be sev
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by whymauri 7y ago
I'm by no means an expert, but... Is it a good idea to send a campus of young potential carriers from an emergency zone [0] to the rest of the nation, if not the world? MIT and Harvard may be setting a precedent in the world's lar
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by whymauri 7y ago
This is not misinformation. The methods and procedures for appealing are not clear yet (we leave in seven days!) and there are students who are moving into local houses with friends. If you think MIT won't "just toss students to t
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by whymauri 7y ago
Flights may be reimbursed to go home for low-income students, but not all students have a safe home to go back to. A common issue could be homophobia or transphobia. Some students are also highly reliant on on-campus jobs for income that ma
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by whymauri 7y ago
There are students at MIT/Harvard that will temporarily be rendered homeless. Some are depending on the generosity of local friends/classmates to find temporary lodging. It's getting kinda wild.
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by whymauri 7y ago
I've been told there are currently meetings to discuss the process for partially reimbursing room and board.
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by whymauri 7y ago
A close friend of mine's wife paid their health insurance for decades, without fail. Their employer changed the insurance provider without notification, but somehow they continued paying the wrong provider. She recently got breast canc
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by whymauri 7y ago
I just can't imagine it translating well to non-English speakers.
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by whymauri 7y ago
>That’s rich coming from the guy who turned Reddit into the Dark Lord of Dark Patterns. God bless old.reddit.com (which I use on mobile, as well).
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by whymauri 7y ago
The impact that virtual privacy can have on lives is quickly approaching the impact that physical privacy can have. Further, part of the attack surface on physical privacy is virtual privacy, anyways.
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by whymauri 7y ago
I don't believe Derek is denying the role of amyloid formation in Alzheimer's here. Just questioning the efficacy of this particular therapeutic hypothesis. Note that the therapeutic hypothesis and mechanistic hypothesis can co-ex
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by whymauri 7y ago
Anticholinergic OTCs like Benadryl can cause both acute and chronic psychosis when abused.
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by whymauri 7y ago
When I was a junior in high school, I worked Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as a lab research assistant. I got out early and made it home for dinner, but my mentor/supervisor spent the night at lab running experiments and monitoring a
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by whymauri 7y ago
Other examples from Florida, where Miami spends millions to replenish its beaches: https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/floridas-sand-gone-with-... And there are some interesting legal ramifications w.r.t impo
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by whymauri 7y ago
I'm not surprised. The Ryzen line is the best line of consumer CPUs I've seen since Sandy Bridge.
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by whymauri 7y ago
There's an adrenaline rush from going to somewhere where travel is explicitly prohibited, and it's not that expensive to boot. I've seriously considered going on my non-American passport but have decided not to for two reason
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by whymauri 7y ago
I suppose the only viable, non-editorialized title would be: * "Yet Another Collaboration Tool" or * "fibery.io/anxiety" But that really doesn't convey the content very well.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Half Life is still absolutely legendary for Gen Z, mostly because of the meme status. Also the fact that it's so inexpensive to pick up on Steam Sales means most Steam users I know have given it a shot or know the gist of the game.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Further signal: claiming general intelligence.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Confused by downvotes. It is a historical fact that there were assassinations plots during the Cold War. It was investigated and declassified by Congress. For starters, look at the Church Committee, a U.S. Senate Committee from 1975, that i
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by whymauri 7y ago
Just to clarify, you're saying that the US is not currently in the business of assassinating high-visibility targets. Just clarifying, because there's a history of state-sanctioned assassination attempts and plots during the Col
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by whymauri 7y ago
This is generally fine, at least in Google Cambridge. It's just for tax purposes, as has been made abundantly clear in this thread.
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by whymauri 7y ago
I was taught that the quantum theory of memory and cognition generally falls under Eric Schwartz's "neuro-bagging" fallacy [0]. That is: >You assert that an area of physics or mathematics familiar to few neuroscientists so
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by whymauri 7y ago
I'm generally inclined to agree with your first statement, but not very sure what's the point of your second statement. There was a 50/50 chance 100 years ago that discoveries in chemistry or physics were immediately weaponiz

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