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This paper is what got me interested in mathematics. I happened to read it when I was 14 in geometry class, and it fundamentally reshaped math from something that I happened to be …

The page specifically says it's okay for bots to scrape from Anna's Archive, she just asks they do it in bulk to not overload the servers: """ > We are a non-profit project with tw…

> According to critics, it benefits AI companies to keep you fixated on apocalypse because it distracts from the very real damage they're already doing to the world. Am I not allow…

I used to work for the YMCA as a camp counselor, and also volunteered a few weeks of my time before every summer to get the camp ready. Every volunteer I met was either an employee…

FYI, The Body Keeps The Score is full of misinformation, and is alternately ignored and criticized by other psychiatrists > The most consequential problem with BKS is its promotion…

I would have agreed, but the reporter shares multiple anecdotes where that's not the case. Most crazily, the person she was meant to be interviewing sent an AI note taker in his pl…

I completely understand sending a note taker to a bloated meeting where no participation is really expected of you anyways, but the anecdotes about AIs being sent to small meetings…

Yet until 1996, any worker who payed into social security (which includes many undocumented immigrants) was entitled to its benefits. The source the author linked makes this clear.…

This is really cool! I might use this to help plan some of my 2025 vacations Some suggestions for useful features: - Ability to customize the work week. I only work Mon-Thurs, whic…

The biggest issue with giving and receiving feedback I consistently find is that it's not just an individual issue. It's not even just an issue between the feedback giver and recei…

"Savant" is an iffy word choice I'd agree, but lots of programmers tend to take instructions very literally. Strict logical thinking is part of the job, and most low and mid level …

I think the author means gasoline/petrol for cars, not natural gas

I think there are two things that lead people to think like that 1) Modesty/nudity-taboo culture. I can only speak to the US-American perspective here, but I'd guess it's similar i…

Check out Unitarian Universalism if you're looking for a more liberal church community. If you follow a specific religion and care that the services talk about that it may not be f…

A couple reasons: 1) Recency bias, you probably remember more of these cases from Texas right now because that's the subject of this article. 2) The district and appelate courts in…

> The easiest way to avoid the chop is to get out in front and stay there. While that's technically true, the drafting effect actually means that being a bit more than a body lengt…

Sorry I did mean in the EU, specifically Germany. It's available for children, but for adults it's considered "off label" so it's hard to convince a doctor to prescribe it, usually…

I took caffeine pills to self-medicate before I got diagnosed. It was better than nothing, but nothing compared to proper medication. Taking enough caffeine to concentrate properly…

Likely guanfacine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanfacine Looks really promising for people who don't like stimulants or can't take them for other reasons, slowly gaining popular…

I live in an area like this and it's great. Off the top of my head, within half a kilometer of my apartment there's: - 4 grocery stores, including a small turkish one - a café - 2 …

The apartment building I live in was built in 2019 and is solid concrete. I only ever hear my neighbors when they're drilling or something. In my city it's housing built post WWII …

But you also need students to be interested to do the practice in the first place. A big problem with modern schooling is they don't usually make a serious effort to convince stude…

The best professor I ever had combined the two approaches. She would lecture at extremely fast pace for a few minutes, then select a student to do a related problem on the board. I…

> a lens is a Fourier transformer. Of a sort. Can you expand on that? Or have some reading for that? I guess it makes sense, light is a wave and anything even vaguely to do with wa…