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"Life and fitness used to be deeply intertwined. You could not live without fitness. Now they are separate" Say that to a Vizier in 700 AD. He was very flabby, no doubt.

I wanted RTL support (e.g. Arabic) with the new update and got this instead :(

Isn't modeling turbulence in two-dimensional completely different phenomena from (real-life) three-dimensional turbulence? I thought this is why it's impossible to simplify turbule…

This 'article' is a joke, just baseless fearmongering.

I don't think reading one book is enough to learn linear algebra given its breadth and applicability. However the approach used in that one is very helpful if you want to learn fun…

A machine gun on wheels, really? Hope it doesn't accidently shoot one of those amazing super-charged engineers and creatives.

Actually medical students have the most loans, so unless you think that medical professionals are useless or that medicine should only be practiced by the rich, you should reconsid…

Well, you just learnt something about yourself from a HN article which pushed you towards a new resolution so it can't be a waste after all..

This is one of the first books I read when learning how to code :)

This narrative, i.e that the global plastic pollution in the ocean is primarily caused by a handful of Asian countries is misleading. It ignores the role of countries in the global…

You can see the change only at the boundaries of the grid. Away from the boundary it is just like regular game of life but at the boundaries the definition of 'neighbour cell' chan…

The scale of the phenomenon is very much a modern thing

very wholesome post

Slavery existed in every region of the world. This does not negate the destructive affects the Atlantic slave trade had on the continent, its kingdoms and resources. The article di…

Good.

That's not nessecarily true. Bigger (cardinality?) doesn't mean more or less inner structures. If anything, it's the assumptions you choose to make that determine how much you can …

Great paper, thanks for your effort!

Nice! It work reminds me of this artwork from Dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel - https://harm.work/work/deli-near-info Unfortunately the actual web app doesn't seem to work anymore…

Why even bother "trying to live a good life" if "a good life" is just a human construct and there is no judgement on that in the afterlife? By your assumptions, every atheist shoul…

I don't understand this comment. How is it exactly religious?

pseudo-mathematics as well, "The Hamiltonian of your world sheet space"..