Surf Legend Laird Hamilton Reveals the Workout and Diet Secrets Keeping Him Ripped at 57
"There's no such thing as 100 percent. It's your ability to operate in discomfort."
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The Real Ghostbusters: The Rise And Fall of The Coolest Cartoon Of the 1980s
The Real Ghostbusters was one of the coolest cartoons of its generation, and we have the inside story from the folks who made it happen.
How did 30,000 Haitians get to Texas?
After the assassination of Haiti’s president and a significant earthquake in Haiti’s southern peninsula, the logical next step seemed to be thousands of Haitians trying to enter the U.S. Haiti is in shambles; of course people want to escape. So not very many people were surprised when 30,000 Haitians arrived in Del Rio, Texas. But they should be surprsied! This is clear from the weirdest part of it: it happened in Texas!!
A Woman of Color Cannot Save Your Workplace Culture
Some managers view hiring as the solution to their 'diversity problem,' which is a problem they created by not hiring inclusively to begin with
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How to Build a Society for All to Enjoy - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
Structuresstructure (noun): the arrangement of or relation between the parts of something complex; the organization of interrelated…
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The Rise of RNA Therapeutics - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
Most American newborns will arrive home from the hospital and start hitting their developmental milestones, to their parents’ delight.…
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Guidelines for choosing a Node.js framework
With lots of frameworks, and lots of strong opinions about which is "best", it's easy to feel a little lost.
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Films of 2021:Q3 - TheMoneyIllusion
Here's my latest dump of movie reviews: Newer Films: A Sun (Taiwan) 3.7 I found the first half to be a bit slow and predictable, but the second half is really good. Netflix has an excellent 4k print. The director was also producer for The Great Buddha, and you can see some similarities in style. Annette (US) 3.7 Leos Carax's new film is
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Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
“Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL"…
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An Ex-Drinker’s Search for a Sober Buzz | The New Yorker
Content Just inside the Athletic Brewing Company’s headquarters, in Stratford, Connecticut, there is a long wooden bar with a selection of non-alcoholic craft…
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Ian and the Limits of Rationality - Issue 107: The Edge - Nautilus
Setting: Chesterfield High, an unusual school in the suburbs of Ohio.The teacher writes on the board:2, 3, 5, 7, ...How, he asks,…
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Implementing Code Review Feedback: To Squash or Not to Squash?
Should code review feedback be addressed by appending commits or rebasing changes? Combine both approaches with fixup commits!
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Mathematician Answers Chess Problem About Attacking Queens | Quanta Magazine
The n-queens problem is about finding how many different ways queens can be placed on a chessboard so that none attack each other. A mathematician has now all but solved it.
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The Secrets of The World’s Greatest Freediver
1. Rhapsody in Blue For all the complex techniques required to succeed, the objective is remarkably simple: Go as deep as you can go on one breath and return to…
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How truthful is GPT-3? A benchmark for language models - AI Alignment Forum
This is an edited excerpt of a new ML paper (pdf, code) by Stephanie Lin (FHI Oxford), Jacob Hilton (OpenAI) and Owain Evans (FHI Oxford). The paper is under review at NeurIPS. TITLE: TRUTHFULQA: MEASURING HOW MODELS MIMIC HUMAN FALSEHOODS ABSTRACT We propose a benchmark to measure whether a language model is truthful in generating answers to questions. The benchmark comprises 817 questions that span 38 categories, including health, law, finance and politics (see Figure 1). We crafted questio...
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Unmatched: Repairing the U.S. Medical Residency Pipeline
The U.S. medical residency pipeline is broken and in dire need of reform.
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The Myth of the Productive Commute
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. When you search Getty Images for “commute,” you find a lot of pictures like this one: a well-dressed, totally put-together business person just
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Why Wokeism Will Rule the World
Technology & Ideas The woke movement could be the next great U.S. cultural export — and it is going to do many other countries some real good. By 19 September…
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Lumber price falls to $399—down from $1,515 this spring
For the 12th consecutive week, the price of framing lumber is down.
