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Yeah check out https://plutojl.org/

It's rather naive to think that newspapers ought to be neutral (or fair) in everything they produce. What kinds of neutral is desirable? There's neutral tone or neutral political bias -- there are many different ways for a newspaper to be or not be neutral.

Assuming neutrality isn't something that we should expect newspapers to value, then I think transparency is an good alternative. A presidential endorsement can be a good thing in that the newspaper staff are being openly transparent about their political bias.

A disclaimer is that I haven't read "Why We Sleep". Nonetheless I recommend the book "Sync" by Steven Strogatz (2003) -- particularly chapter 3 on sleep -- which describes a neat coupling of when we sleep / when we wake up to our body temperature which oscillates with a period of roughly 24 hours. (See figures on pgs 81 and 83.) Much of this discussion on sleep is derived from "isolation" research in the mid 1970's by Elliot Weitzman and Charles Czeisler, experiments in which subjects were isolated from all sense of time including daylight, clocks, and the news, to study their sleep cycles in the absence of external information telling them the time of day.

I'm wondering, does anyone know what are the chances for returning to neurosurgery after an extended hiatus? Person in the video practiced for a decade (edit: nearly a decade of practice, and two decades total including training), I'm sure burnout is common in the field, but I wonder if people that left ever make their way back.

The first time I watched this video I folded a strip of paper into a pentagon as demonstrated. What a surprise! The pentagon looked perfect. With a bit more effort, I next folded a heptagon that looked nearly as good. Haven’t gotten the Miura fold to work yet.

I’d like to know if the following are relevant to the discussion. Here is the fertility rate by state: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/fertility_rate/fer...

Here is the cost of living by state: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/states-with-lowes...

Some interesting states are West Virginia.

Cost of living is hard to calculate and I don’t know the best source. This one might be better: https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/budget-map/

Idk if the fertility rate is factored into the cost of living calculator … if it is then I guess the measure isn’t relevant.

For people who are looking for a book to read and also interested in learning about the immigrant life in Japan, I can highly recommend the historical fiction novel “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee. It follows the story of multiple generations of a Korean family that moves to Japan sometime after the Japanese annexation of Korea. It describes in detail the struggles mentioned in the above comment across multiple generations of Japanese who don’t have a home in either Korea or Japan. (Another example of such are immigrants from Pyongyang, and returning after the Korean War would mean going back to North Korea.)

Princeton Companion to Mathematics has a section (part) on mathematicians

We probably think fluently of these mathematical structures in tangible, real world terms. Still it requires some practice translating to the mathematical abstractions, and still further practice thinking in terms of the abstractions altogether. I don’t know how relevant it is that the textbook content can be covered in a single semester.

I agree with you, which is why I’ve found nand2tetris to be a joy to read and work through.

I find it intuitive to think of such “ordered” distributions as having a higher compression ratio. (Ie compare the file sizes of zipping a file with just ones or just zeros vs zipping a file with a uniform, random mixture of ones and zeros.)

Can you clarify what you mean by development? As far as the apartments themselves, they can range from newly developed, to newly renovated, to very old and needing renovations. I figured the apartments along the coasts, and in particular the Manhattan area are quite old.

I do think that development on a global scale has given people the ability to move to places like Manhattan, and so development outside, as well as within could create the demand for higher rent.

Affordable apartments may not be developing at high enough rate to keep up with demand - but in a place like Manhattan, surely it is difficult to develop affordable housing.

Is a week long enough to experience such changes? Probably for a change in perceived well-being, but for a change in depression or anxiety it seems too short. Anti-depressants and therapy work on a timescale of months. I don’t know, maybe social media has a profoundly negative effect on mental health and its removal for even a week can cause immediate benefit.