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Greg Egan as great! Two other Australians you might try are: Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman, about what it's like to be colonized. Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen, …

I asked "what well known pieces of American minimalism feature the marimba" Claude answered with several well-known works, but also included "Marimba Lumina" (1986) by Philip Glass…

I wonder how Alex and Alex's boss would tell this story? [edited below - because threaded comments can come across wrong] I wonder if how Alex's boss would tell this story is - my …

Old enough to remember when Alta Vista was obviously going to win because it came from DEC.

NPSM33 is cited as the requirement guiding the section to require preregistration to use the WiFi network. But skimming NPSM33, it seems to be mostly about research security and di…

Remarkable that a venture-backed company can loan $10B to the founder's hedge fund without running into some sort of board/corporate sign-off that's required to literally execute t…

The author of the original post (Andy Baio) found exactly where the line was. He released a (great) chip tune version of the jazz classic Kind of Blue (named Kind of Bloop), fully …

Because it's a programming language, where they learn to program, and then make programs.

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For folks who dislike p-value reporting (and I'm one of them), we can focus on the effect sizes for speed of processing training in ACTIVE: [1] 0.36 in slowing decline in functiona…

>> Examples include the ACTIVE trial, commercial brain-training games (e.g., Neuroracer, Lumosity, and BrainHQ), and multidomain training programs (Binder et al., 2016; Buitenweg e…

A lot of discussion here about the limitations of Scratch as a programming language. But the magic of Scratch is the community. My daughter learned Scratch, and she joined multiple…

I certainly don't mean to endorse DUIs! And if a company has the viewpoint that a DUI indicates that a person shouldn't be employed in a specific role, then background checks are a…

My company did adopt background checks, as part of our SOC-2 requirements and because my company works with health insurers (which generally impose this requirement via contract, r…

I listened to this album constantly as a teenager…

If you are short on money, the generate one. Then read a few that are similar to your space. Then edit the generated one to better describe your actual practices. When you have mon…

Excellent use of adaptive learning, zone of proximal development, etc.

In principle, a company’s security policy could be to enforce security settings on employee computers with an agent like Drata, and contractually guarantee those same settings for …

Great museum and a great exhibit! Really compelling description of folks remedies in a way that respects the construction of knowledge. Unfortunately the museum is still closed due…

Thanks for pointing that out - great to see someone is working on this.

"just tossing out all the ex-cons is an easy call" - it might be an easy call, but it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.