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From Ada Palmer’s guest post on John Scalzi’s blog (promoting her new book): more
> With support from a generous grant from the Atwoods, we’re aiming to send… more
> This bias-variance decomposition is always true for the squared loss. It’s… more
> When Duke Cosimo wanted to build his elevated private commuter tunnel, those… more
> Historically, about 60% to 70% of Rossmoor homes have typically sold for… more
> The way to understand these coins is this: these societies had already been… more
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> [....[ we now estimate that GiveDirectly’s flagship cash program is 3 to 4… more
> The short answer is that it is clear from studies and from what we see with… more
I linked to the table of contents for this series of blog posts by Ben Recht, a… more
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> The furthest galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, is seen as it was around 300 million… more
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> In the rest of Hong Kong, the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is… more
> Articles about Artemis often give the program’s tangled backstory. But I want… more
> The monarch earned a one-time fee from the original minting of the coin. More… more
> Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary… more
> Prior to Hubble’s launch in 1990, observations from ground-based telescopes… more
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> […] when we look at history’s major censorious regimes, all of them—I want to… more
> A few months ago, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which is building… more
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> A mysterious “cyber incident” at a National Science Foundation (NSF) center… more
This blog post describes how attitudes towards money affect personal… more
> Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Is it fragile? Is it possible? Is it a… more
Yesterday Google announced that you can use passkeys to log into your Google… more
> [...] fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the… more
> There is one place above all that should be seen as the centre of this urban… more
> Many in the 18th [century] who thought democracy was absurd rejected it… more
> [...] “cuevas” (the word for “cave” in Spanish) [...] are a crucial part of… more
> Importantly: SWIFT is not actually co-extensive with international money… more
This article is interesting if you ever wondered why people people buy and sell… more
> As Lunar went quarter negative, Thorsen went to her bank to replenish her… more