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blog.cloudflare.com 4y ago

LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details (2017)

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www.wsj.com 4y ago

Startup Cerebral Soared on Easy Adderall Prescriptions. That Was Its Undoing

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www.thelancet.com 5y ago

What reinfections mean for Covid-19

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www.cnn.com 6y ago

Probiotics don't do much for most people's gut health despite the hype – review

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www.wsj.com 6y ago

Apple, Google Pull Hong Kong Protest Apps After China Uproar

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www.droid-life.com 6y ago

Google Is Killing Another Messaging App Feature Something You Never Used

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www.thehindu.com 7y ago

PepsiCo sues 4 Indian farmers for growing potato variety used in its Lays chips

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www.reddit.com 7y ago

Cal Newport's AMA on 'Digital Minimalism'

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www.nola.com 7y ago

Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us

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www.washingtonpost.com 7y ago

Heart failure stem cell trial to be paused after calls for retractions

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www.weforum.org 8y ago

Walmart has patented autonomous robot bees

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

OCR Basics: “Reading and Sorting Mail Automatically” 1970 US Postal Service

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

Blue Apron Slashes IPO Price 34% as Amazon-Whole Foods Looms

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www.independent.co.uk 9y ago

Washington nuclear tunnel collapse: Workers 'take cover' at Hanford plant

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www.thehindubusinessline.com 9y ago

1 GW ultra mega solar park in India to be fully operational by next month

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Microsoft is closing the social network you forgot it ever launched

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www.engadget.com 9y ago

How a joke tweet brought 911 to its knees

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www.eff.org 9y ago

IBM Patents Out-Of-Office Email

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www.bbc.com 9y ago

How East and West Think in Profoundly Different Ways

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www.msn.com 9y ago

Competing with SV, aerospace firms start recruitment in pre-kindergarten

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nautil.us 9y ago

This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something

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I checked if Algophilia is a thing. Algophilia. noun. - sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain

In a professional context, I use it to help a client (chemicals company) optimize their deliveries to customers. They have > 100 production sites and thousands of customers, so LP is used to allocate customers to production sites based on the product-cost and availability at supply site and trucking costs. We have evaluated multiple solvers (Gurobi/ Llamasoft/ GAMS/ LocalSolver etc) for optimizing deliveries, as well as evaluating the cost impact of changes to the delivery network.

IMHO a HS student learning Calculus should first learn the subject with pen and paper for a while before programming. It is important to work through the problems and think about the fundamental concepts involved, rather than thinking about the syntax involved in coding their solutions. Practising with pen and paper helps to internalize the subject matter better.

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

This is how I have learnt various languages - by speaking while learning. However, Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis expounds that language acquisition occurs only during exposure to new language and not while speaking. Do people who give up learning a language still understand what is being spoken by the other person in that lang, even if they themselves may not be able to construct a sentence?

I think Netflix has lost touch with their consumer base, with most changes such as removal of the rating system being universally criticized. I cancelled my subscription recently as I realized that while Netflix has a lot of shows, there is a dearth of quality content and the search function is not useful. With shows like Friends and Office leaving, there is not much to draw people who like leaving it on in the background. Also, the auto-playing of trailers at full volume is super-annoying.

That would still be quantifying values against the tangible axes of time and/or money. There are still various other intangible factors such as happiness, goodwill etc which are immeasurable, yet contribute to the overall picture.