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I had a giant Claude victory last week. I need to find new health insurance. I went on the Pennsylvania exchange and ...
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The wisteria in the back yard, which is only about a year old, has put out a flower! In August! (Edit: a reader has g...
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▲ 0 · Jul 19
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Wow, here's a sentence I was not prepared for. “Their qualities of risibility-rousing are as axiomatic and as wel...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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“Everybody wants the colon.” (Larry Wall)
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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The patron saint of computer programmers is St. Isidore of Seville,who “helped to standardise the use of the full sto...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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“I can never remember if it was Sun Tzu or Clausewitz who cautioned not to back your enemy into a corner from which t...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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The ribosome doesn't build the protein literally one atom at a time, but it's close. Amino acids contain betw...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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Are you looking forward to nanotechnology? The ribosome is literally nanotechnology. The nucleus of every one of your...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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I'm going to repeat this quote because it's worth repeating: “Imagine a flashy spaceship lands in your backya...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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Content warning: Photo of many ants in a decaying acorn Last night I had a dream about wonderful ants that lived in a...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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The motto of biology should be “Yes, but it is vastly more complicated than that”.
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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Content warning: Photo of many ants in a decaying acorn I had a dream about these wonderful ants that lived in hollow...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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My kid asks: “My phone had a software update 2 days ago and got stuck in a loop of restarting over and over. Between ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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“We report the unexpected discovery that octopuses possess structurally unique ribosomes that enhance the accuracy of...
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▲ 0 · Jul 18
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Attention, please. The role of Polyphemus was played by Mr. Noodle. That is all.
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▲ 0 · Jul 17
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“I saw in [the United States Congress] the wheels that move the meanest perversion of virtuous Political Machinery th...
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▲ 0 · Jul 17
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Maybe the solution to this is to turn it into ten small articles instead of one big one.
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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I just sat down to write a blog article and realized I wasn't sure where I was going, so I started writing an out...
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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A few days ago I played a word game where I was presented with a set of letters that I had to arrange into a word in ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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I just discovered that my Overwatch handle, Thyssen-Krupp, which I chose completely at random and knew only as a manu...
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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(3/6) ... there is a *formal space* of functions ℕ → 𝑋. This space has as its points the functions ℕ → 𝑋, whatever ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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“Men like Lindsey Graham have taught me how to hate, and I’m worried it can’t be unlearned. Ten years after I transit...
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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(2/6) On first sight, the definition of streamlessness looks like a clean ∀∃ condition. No pesky negations in sight, ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 15
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When my half-and-half has turned, the first thing I always notice is that my coffee has acquired a flowery taste. Is ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 14
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(1/6) Here is an example of how recent mathematical technology (2019) helped solve a decades-old (1993) problem in co...
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▲ 0 · Jul 14
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“In 2025 China added 434 GW of wind and solar. The United States added 53 gigawatts of new utility-scale generation a...
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▲ 0 · Jul 14
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The level I'm currently playing exceeds the capabilities of my old laptop. So I rented the best gaming rig my hos...
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▲ 0 · Jul 13
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Poor folks, first they were chased out of Medina and now this.
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▲ 0 · Jul 12
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Yesterday there was a sudden and violent thunderstorm in Philadelphia with high winds. Many streets were blocked by f...
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▲ 0 · Jul 12
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Attached is a portion of a knitting pattern Ms. 22 is working on. The blank squares are one sort of stitch and the do...
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▲ 0 · Jul 12