#Calculus

The world loves to attribute greatness to a long line of European mathematicians beginning with the Greeks/Romans without realizing that much of this 'history' was conjured up from thin air
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"Re-opening" isn't about saving ordinary workers and earners. You can't save someone by infecting them with a deadly disease. In a world without contact-tracing, therapeutics, tests, PPE, santizing products, etc,
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In Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age, one of the near-future cultures is Neo-Victorian, and it is rooted in a mix of ironic-but-not-really theater and a self-aware embrace of hypocrisy as a
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Since 2011, I've noticed two main trends in my conversations with #Syria's Alawis:1) Levels of frustration/resentment among loyalists have grown exponentially2) Past dissidents, including those who served long, torturous sentences
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One of the things that kept me going, despite numerous roadblocks, is that I wanted to grow up just like Lewis from Meet The Robinsons. Science and history were my
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3 months of pre-draft research. 3 weeks post-draft researchRonald Jones is the guy in Tampa and you're drafting his backup over him because of hype. Play with fire, you're gonna
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It's a quarter past one in the am, so time to do a little thread about Cedar Rapids. CR is just up the street from me but had mostly been
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Skk au where dazai is a notorious fuck boy and chuuya is member of one of the most prestigious families in Japan and Dazai’s group of friends and gf dare
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There's a part of the publishing process that I rarely hear talked about - getting blurbs. Might cover it on the podcast but thought I'd do a little thread as
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Dear Martha: Were in our third day of self quarantine and already the Internet service provider is throttling our bandwidth for overuse. Netflix nigh impossible to watch and the children
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[THREAD] I wanna show you an example of what presuming competence with nonspeaking autistic children means. This is a lesson on fractals, prepared by Vicky Oettle, a teacher at a
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Let's go! My @threadapalooza on Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), phenomenologist of perception and embodiment, whose work has influenced everyone from cognitive scientists to feminists to theologians to AI engineers. MMP was
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I have been in DC for more than a year now and I'm struck by the soul searching going on in the US expert community regarding what to do in
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On Mar 24, we had ~800 #COVID deaths in the US. On Apr 4, when the count was at ~8,000, I predicted ~20,000 deaths by Easter Sunday, Apr 12.My prediction
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1. A few quotes from https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/covid-vaccines-necessity-efficacy-and-safety-b1d8bfbc9d2'Abstract: COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have been exempted from legal liability for vaccine-induced harm. It is theref
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1. So the youtube/economist poll is an online survey, which means its technically not a random prob sample (like the other onlines). These onlines (morning consult is another) make up
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