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Read the article. Robert Roberson has not been executed yet.

All sorts of fun ones here. I like this one of a NYC subway line’s stops: https://oeis.org/A000054

This was posted yesterday, seems related:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4

edit: direct dataset available through here https://medialab.github.io/bhht-datascape/

https://archive.is/CFM7d

The link was changed after submission - previously linked to a "googelblog" April Fools joke https://googelblog.com/products/registry/execute-your-best-i....

Why was this changed? Ruins the April Fools nature of it...

It would be nice to see at least one sample question on the landing page or a screenshot of what the interface is like without having to create an account.

https://archive.ph/rojZk

Usually known as decimal time[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

The Audm app has a fantastic narration of this that I've returned to a couple times in the past years for a laugh.

Even on short plane trips, every passenger is offered the kindergartner’s communion of juice and cookies, as if a majority of adults are incapable of going 90 minutes without such provisions. On trains, passengers are treated as individuals even more powerful than adults: independent teenagers who just want to smoke. Amtrak knows you want to smoke. Amtrak knows you love to smoke. But while you’re living under Amtrak’s roof, you have to follow the rules, of which there is only one, and that is: Don’t smoke inside.

The author Caity Weaver also wrote a fun autoethnography on #VanLife[0].

[0] https://archive.ph/1OKC6

This could be an expanded version of the Good Samaritan Laws[0] with similar intent. The theory is that bystander of an overdose, likely fellow users, will be less wary to call emergency services if they know there is no possibility of catching their own possession charge. This isn't explicit in the article but has been discussed related to American harm reduction policy recommendations.

[0] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-248

I too use this Sheldon Brown style but, because my main NYC commute bicycle has quick release front and back, I pop off my front wheel and position it adjacent to the rear one so the u-lock can go around both as well as the the stand (which is more than likely a parking sign post). Takes 5 seconds, saves me carrying a second lock, and no wheels stolen in 15 years of Manhattan and Brooklyn cycling!

The NYT review[0] of the tools included this funny bit:

The process was then so unforgiving that I destroyed my iPhone screen in a split second with an irreversible error

Which translates to "I forgot to remove the screws holding in the screen before I tried to pry off the glass".

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/personaltech/a...

Currently front page of NYTimes, CNN, WaPo, Fox, WSJ edit: (and Hacker News)

Twice on the Pampanito, probably elementary school and 6th grade. I vividly remember watching Down Periscope in a rec room with the rest of my cub scouts group and staying up much past my bedtime. Loved exploring it and hope that this continues.

I had no idea this history! My Bb copy for trumpet must have been from the first year of legitimate production. Always enjoyed reading this handmade comic-sans-y notation and have fond memories of my high school trio playing extended version of Red Clay.

I only have anecdotal evidence. Long time depressive, combination of several SSRI and atypical antidepressants with cyclical efficacy, about 1 decade of varying treatment approaches. One weekend in summer 2016 was the changing point between "old very depressive me" and "new just regular depressive me" - involved intercontinental travel, zero sleep for somewhere 48+ hours, and some socialization and 'partying' in a culture new to me. My first response to feeling this change a couple days later after I had returned to my home country was too look up research on sleep deprivation's use in depression treatment. Was pleasantly surprised when there seems to be some marginal evidence for its efficacy. That being said, staying awake for that long was a misery in itself and I'm not looking to repeat that in the future so I'll stick to the couple pills I take in the morning to tame everything for now.

I enjoyed the NYTimes take on these clickbait quizzes without having to guess just a face: "Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?"[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/27/upshot/biden-...

This author has also proposed that the solar system has already been visited:

"‘Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization."[0] The rest of the paper covers the possibility that the ‘Oumuamua object was sent unintentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf

I recommend Dyson's Maker of Patterns[0] autobiography told primarily through his letters to his family throughout his life. Includes great stories about Feynman, Oppenheimer, other heavy-hitters of mid-century physics. The format was surprisingly narrative, makes me wish I wrote as many personal longer-form letters with family and friends. Also Siobhan Roberts' biography of Conway, Genius at Play[1], told another great story. Low on math content but Conway's personality and the narrators attempts to corral it were quick fun.

Both are recommended. Does anyone have recommendation for a popular-science level book on Graham? I'm only familiar with him from the Numberphile video series.

[0] https://www.harvard.com/book/maker_of_patterns_an_autobiogra...

[1] short snippet from it https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/roberts-john-horton-conway

I recommend Dyson's Maker of Patterns[0] autobiography told primarily through his letters to his family throughout his life. Includes great stories about Feynman, Oppenheimer, other heavy-hitters of mid-century physics. The format was surprisingly narrative, makes me wish I wrote as many personal longer-form letters with family and friends.

Also Siobhan Roberts' biography of Conway, Genius at Play[1], told another great story. Low on math content but Conway's personality and the narrators attempts to corral it were quick fun.

Both are recommended. Does anyone have recommendation for a popular-science level book on Graham? I'm only familiar with him from the Numberphile video series.

[0] https://www.harvard.com/book/maker_of_patterns_an_autobiogra...

[1] short snippet from it https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/roberts-john-horton-conway

This was my most listened to record of 2009 and it always brings me immediately back to that time. I still love it. Real sad.