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Cost of Living Index by Country 2024 – Numbeo

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1 in 700B Year Event? [video]

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We Found the Remains of Another Planet Inside Earth [video]

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How to Simulate Fear in Starfield [video]

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AI could be smarter than people in 20 years, says 'godfather of AI'[video]

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A Volcano Triggered the French Revolution[video]

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Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus Thompson, 1914 [pdf]

gutenberg.org
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Bushism

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Lebombo Bone

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Shebelle River

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Architect cake-maker's geometric 3D-printed cakes (2017)

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Whistler Waves (Radio)

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Ashen Light

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Forbush Decrease

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Blue Lagoon

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Australian Antarctic Territory

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Metsovo Lung

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Kilonova

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Everything you know about Roman Roads is Wrong[video]

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AST SpaceMobile (redirected from Bluewalker 3)

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ed_westin
·2 anni fa·discuss
To link back to a previous post from 7 months ago: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-mathematical-neurons-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234758
ed_westin
·2 anni fa·discuss
Sources/Citations: [1] Ward, J., Nowacki, A., & Rost, S. (2020). Lateral velocity gradients in the African lower mantle inferred from slowness space observations of multipathing. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009025. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009025, CC BY 4.0. [2] Bono, Richard & Tarduno, John & Bunge, Hans-peter. (2019). Hotspot motion caused the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend and LLSVPs are not fixed. Nature Communications. 10. 10.1038/s41467-019-11314-6. CC BY 4.0. [3] Yuan, Q., Li, M., Desch, S. J., and Ko, B., “Giant Impact Origin for the Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces”, vol. 2020, 2020. [4] Andersen, J., Göğüş, O.H., Pysklywec, R.N. et al. Symptomatic lithospheric drips triggering fast topographic rise and crustal deformation in the Central Andes. Commun Earth Environ 3, 150 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00..., CC BY 4.0 [5] Yuan, Q., Li, M., "Dynamics in Earth’s Mantle: Constraints from Planetary Scale to Nanoscale", Thesis, 2022, Arizona State University [6] U.S. Geological Survey
ed_westin
·2 anni fa·discuss
The video is an in-person discussion with Geoffrey Hinton, and the chip on your shoulder may be coloring your impression of reliability since the news agency and the person being interviewed stand rather apart to any reasonable person. Also, you are quibbling over the word 'smarter' and it doesn't seem like you are interested in opening the conversation further than to make your point of contention known. And, I have to ask whether you've seen the interview to begin with. Rude.
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
This reference appears in William Spaniel's latest applied war and game theory analysis video. For the interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_TgA_l58U
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
1. chewing gum (studies show alertness promoted, or use as placebo)

2. morning light on a timer (regulates circadian rhythm)

3. hydrate (water but also coffee and coffee-as-tea when brewed twice)
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816 "0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt (blog.google)"
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
Also relevant is citizenlab article "Ahmed Eltantawy Targeted with Predator Spyware After Announcing Presidential Ambitions"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614687

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/predator-in-the-wires-ahmed-el...
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
[-8h] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37534251 [-5d] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469496 [-6d] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37459470
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
Adding some links to his publications and field ranking:

[] https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Albert...

[] https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/alberto-pascual-...
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
People forget history, but also revise and sanitize historical narratives. One quiet part is that Einstein was an unrepentant Soviet sympathizer in full awareness of the atrocities that were committed. Politics makes people dumb.
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
My comment has to do with the last line of the article, "nature doesn't forget." Obsolete symbiotic relations persist in the survived fossil species. The anachronic persistence of literally out-dated adaptations can be metaphorically extended to and within cults of worship that are based on the person-deity concept. Many pagan cult rituals persist in newer religions. Religion itself is anachronic to the modern ethos.
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
>According to Bill Sammon's book Fighting Back, Bush's gaze flitted about the room—the children, the press, the floor, his staff—while his mind raced about everything he did not yet know.
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
The article is from 2016. Recent data from 2023 studies are showing that while Gen Z and Millenials are fewer to marry and want children [1], they are also rewriting the rules of dating [2]. Digital forums like TikTok are giving younger generations a safe place to destigmatize what are deeply personal choices.[3]

But not all persons should marry and not all parents have the patience and attention to be good parents. It's a difficult road and who can blame any person for choosing otherwise?

[1] https://thrivingcenterofpsych.com/blog/millennials-gen-z-mar... [2] https://www.tinderpressroom.com/2023-05-22-WELCOME-TO-A-RENA... [3] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230208-the-adults-cel...
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
Purity can play an outsized part for some identities and moral worldviews. The truth is messier than myth.
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
As is the modern invention of ancient white marble statues: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/7/spotlig...
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
Heinz invented beans on toast in 1927 https://www.internationelle.org/beans-on-toast/
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
From a Newsweek article, sliced bread was invented in 1928. French fries and baguettes in the 1920s. https://www.newsweek.com/food-invented-last-100-years-164336...
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
The human era is geologically recorded with plastics and radioactive isotopes in our bones. The CO2-CH4 concentration spike is the cherry on top. Meanwhile, the cults continue to incantate to the god(s) as in the neolithic era. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_anachronism
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
"According to the study, in principle, cortex-wide organizational structures might be by-products of development or evolution that serve no computational function; but the fact that the same organizational structures can be observed for several species and across most cortical areas suggests that the lognormal distribution serves some purpose."
ed_westin
·3 anni fa·discuss
The largest discrepancies were recorded on flights prior to 2005. The later satellites recorded near zero discrepancies. MICROSCOPE found nothing anomalous. "The equivalence principle was measured to hold true within a precision of 10−15"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICROSCOPE