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There isn't a lot of good evidence behind this popular conception.

If anything, the evidence is that it isn't true, see https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Any apparent causality of age of acquisition seems to be a proxy of hours of exposure. It may well be that it is easier for young people to rack up a lot of exposure to a second language, but not much evidence that age plays much of a factor for people of different ages who had the same degree of exposure.

Ansel 3 years ago

It was in Playboy (May 1983)

https://petapixel.com/2022/07/30/ansel-adamss-interview-with...

“There’s no end in sight. Electronic photography will soon be superior to anything we have now. The first advance will be the exploration of existing negatives. I believe the electronic process will enhance them. I could get superior prints from my negatives using electronics.

“Then the time will come when you will be able to make the entire photograph electronically. With the extremely high resolution and enormous control you can get from electronics, the results will be fantastic. I wish I were young again!”

What user need does encoding area in the number serve? What’s wrong with a random 8-10 digit number?

I can understand the inverse, so that you don’t have similar numbers nearby (as in RingGo).

Diseases like this typically internally spread out along the ophthalmic division of the fifth (trigeminal) cranial nerve, having breached the blood-barrier rather than the blood-ocular barrier.

To have it show up in the eye repeatedly may simply indicate it’s travelled back down the nerve.

The pathway is not even rare, so I wonder what is newsworthy here. e.g. 500k Americans live with herpes simplex keratitis (or “eye herpes”) though many don’t realise, and you don’t see that on HN frontpage.

- The vlogger and his wife overheard a secret meeting between Chinese government officials and a Micronesian governor discussing help for China in an upcoming war over Taiwan.

- The meeting took place on the island of Kosrae in Micronesia.

- Recently, the president of Micronesia wrote a letter denouncing Chinese interference and recommending supporting Taiwan instead.

- Losing control of Micronesia would weaken US supply routes in Asia and force a bottleneck in supporting bases in countries like South Korea and Japan.

- The Chinese officials tried deflecting the conversation away from the recent anti-China letter.

- Local residents said China had been bribing politicians and threatening leaders who didn't cooperate.

- Other countries like Fiji and the Solomon Islands have been shifting towards China, making Micronesia's alignment more important for the US.

- The vlogger decided to share what he witnessed with Micronesian government contacts, though the outcome of that was unclear.

- The video argues that a "cold war" is happening in the Pacific as spheres of influence are reshaped.

- Micronesia's strategic location and political alignment will impact stability in the region.

Claude 2.1 3 years ago

I applied a few months ago. Last week I received an email:

“We’re pleased to let you know that we’re expanding access to the Claude API.

As the next step in considering your application, we’ll need some further information from you. Please fill out our onboarding form.”

The form seems to be the same form I filled in months before. I’ve not heard back in the 7 days since.

It’s a shame to see such important data, much submitted by the public to this charity, somewhat locked away. No API or downloadable dataset but to their credit you can apply for access: “The Ancient Tree Inventory dataset is available upon request. If you would like to access the data please get in touch.” I can imagine all sorts of great visualisation and insight within the data.

I care about both.

The existence of major transgressors of laws/regulations/norms/ethics shouldn’t factor into our care for reducing the prevalence of minor transgressors.

FWIW, the scope 3 GHG emissions of Alphabet seem to be similar to a major airport like London Heathrow.

Due to a mathematical actuarial assessment of the risk of the individual circumstances: driver risk- age, driving history, speeding history, gender, claim history, post(zip)code for theft prevalence, car storage location (street); vehicle risk- cost, claim history, etc. then add a premium to make the insurer its profit.

My bet is that the quote wasn’t an error or a deliberate tilt against EVs but instead a real assessment based on modelled risk.

Kagi Search Stats 3 years ago

I am not a fan of the text for the $5 plan, 300 searches per month, saying “Includes enough searches for 99% of internet users” when the average user who signs up for their service seems to be using 600 searches per month.

I found myself mildly annoyed that the author calls QWERTY the “first row” of letters not the “top row”. If there was a “first”, I might nominate ZXCVBNM. Is QWERTY commonly known as the “first row”?