My Chinese linguistics grad student friend just told me he's starting to learn some Polish. Thanks for not deleting this thread

If global trends hold, soon Fujimori will call to concede to the winner, Pedro Inca, who will promise to further integrate Peru into Mercosur.

I'm loving (e^i)^0 = (2 * pi / tau)^1

The same is true of e.g. English "young" and Sanskrit "yúvan युव॑न्", which sound similar to each other and come from the same PIE root as the aforementioned Italian and Persian words.

The words for "young" in Italian ("giovane") and Persian ("javān جوان") are pronounced very similarly. This is not just a coincidence; it is a result of the fact that Italian and Persian were once the same language, 6,000 years ago (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-I...)

So this happened
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Currently waiting in the lobby to interview at a Silicon Valley company. The fire alarm panel is beeping incessantly; I overheard the receptionist state that it goes off at exactly 10:42 AM every day! (And beeps until someone with the right technical knowledge comes to turn it off)

A square color display and a dot matrix display on the ceiling of a passenger train car. Both are turned off.

That's just the exterior of the train. The screens on the interior helpfully displayed a... black void

I noticed that neither the train number nor terminus was displayed anywhere on any sign or the train itself. We distinguished north and southbound trains via the advanced technology of "a guy telling us which one's which"

Deaf? Non-English speaking tourist? Had your headphones in? Sucks to be you!

The big clock at Union Depot in Centralia, WA is slow by ~13 minutes

Technically, you should have to make the case that free trade has improved conditions relative to the counterfactual, not relative to the past. (Depending on what you believe the counterfactual to look like, this could be easier/harder to show)

OTOH, people are often less than logical, I suppose.

To be fair the "meme warfare" in Snow Crash is a literal computer code that auto-executes in the brains of programmers, rendering them quasi-braindead. Not exactly the reality of today

What's going on here? Is this person stealing the pavers?

An illuminating post! I think you meant to say "calling" instead of "causing".

Diagram of 64-bit floating point number in memory; showing 1 bit to the sign, 11 bits dedicated to the exponent, and 52 bits to the fraction

In general-purpose programming, we specify whether we are using a 32-bit (`float`) or a 64-bit (`double`) floating point number, but we p much never specify the share of bits allocated to significand vs exponent

11 bits for exponent is not the best choice for all cases but we just sorta go with it

I believe the script was by Alex Garland

Transit priorities in this country are:
1. Jobs program
2. Social services program
3. Freeway congestion relief program
...
821. Transportation program

I just hope that one day AI will advance to the point that it can finally tell me the name of that song that goes "doo-doo-doo doo-dat doo-dat doo, doo-dat doo"

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This appears to be the website of the company that cloned Javier Milei's dog

TIL in Japan hairpins are called "American pins" (amerikapin アメリカピン)

I'd be hesitant to write an article for your (otherwise excellent) publication, knowing that a potential employer, client, etc. could Google my name and–from quickly skimming the article–mistakenly think that *I'm* the one who perpetrated some scientific misconduct.

Screenshot of RW article "Lancet flags long-scrutinizied report of infant poisoned by opioids in breast milk"

Screenshot of article showing perpetrator Gideon Koren

Compare this to your article from a few days ago about the bogus breast milk contamination study. Here, the depicted person is the *perpetrator* of the misconduct, not the sleuth who uncovered it, nor the author of the Retraction Watch post.

Screenshot of the linked Retraction Watch article

Screenshot of RW article showing a portrait photo of Arthur L. Caplan

Screenshot of RW article showing portrait photo of Jonathan D. Moreno

I appreciate that RW includes portrait photos of people in its articles, but it's impossible to tell at a glance whether the depicted people are the perpetrators of the misconduct mentioned in the article, or (as is the case here) the authors of the article *about* the misconduct.

TIL that Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui both died in the same year, 2003. Unrelatedly, SARS was happening. Brutal year for Hong Kong.

Lancet flags long-scrutinized report of infant poisoned by opioids in breast milk The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto The Lancet has put an expression of concern on a 2006 case report of a baby’s death purportedly from morphine poisoning through breast milk. The decision c…

The Lancet has put an expression of concern on a 2006 case report of a baby’s death purportedly from morphine poisoning through breast milk. The decision comes just days after the New Yorker published a year-long investigation into the death and the controversies that have surrounded it.

Personally I prefer the music of Cuj Dźen

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

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