#Complexity

Honestly one of the most touching tributes for John Conway - and of course it's by xkcdhttps://xkcd.com/2293/  There are two beautiful details - when the Glider went towards the edge,
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Taking just a couple more commission slots! Est. date of completion would be more towards the end of the month!Please check out the links in the comments below if
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Giving more thought to the *visibility of grief* in our society and media. What is socially “acceptable”, comfortable, what is not, who is allowed to grieve and how. Grief is
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What are the deep reasons for India not producing great Programmers/Software Engineers in large scale?1. The foremost problem of not studying in one's mother tongue is a true and real
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Hi all, friendly neighborhood biologist here again. Going to repost this thread as a reminder that the science of human sex is incredibly complex. We the people must understand this
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OK, I promise this is my last post about NATO history today (I do have a life outside reading documents!) But I just have to write about this because of
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The modern pro-life movement was founded by people who definitely had paid for abortions or would approve of their use to secure the positions and reputations of their peers.Its purpose
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Apparently May is #BPD awareness month? Really??! Has this always been a thing? I am acutely aware of BPD. Those f*cking criteria are burned into my brain. I second guess
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On a solution for Twitter vis a vis Trump: a modest proposal. Caveat: in general, it's bad form to swoop in and declare you have a "simple solution." But I'm just
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The greatest teacher remains a student forever. They learn more from each cohort of students than the students learn from them. True learning is a collaborative effort with teachers as
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To take a break from Wiley for a moment, this is hugely disturbing. An executive that regards judicial scrutiny of the lawfulness of its actions as an inconvenience that needs
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The amount of cutesy, aesthetic selfies and posts from MINORS calling their ears and tails #petplay as if it’s a fashion and a nonsexual one at that is so fucking
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Daimler becomes the latest company to kill its hydrogen fuel cell car programme because the economics and poor efficiency will simply never make sense. #H2FC https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/daimler-ends-hydrogen-car-development-because-its-too-costly/
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Billie Eilish stanning Arabic music should get more attention. It's wild how American pop music has borrowed from almost every other musical tradition and (with the exception of Jay-Z!) ignored
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A short thread about this statement from the Broadway League: “We are thrilled that Governor Cuomo clearly recognizes the impact of Broadway’s return on the city and state’s economy and
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1) In 2008 I observed something extraordinary, which totally changed my perception of all life. I observed hoverflies carefully and deliberately opening up the anthers of a flower and scooping
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