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But many trans women have no hormonal or surgical interventions at all. Are you implying that cis lesbians are not attracted to them?

Indeed. It's hard to believe that until relatively recently people thought that sexual attraction was fundamentally based in biology rather than identity.

Depends how desperate for a smoke the other person is.

Nice description! For project of this type that has been going for 20 years, and covers many different paint sets, see https://zsolt-kovacs.unibs.it/colormixingtools

I was a visiting professor there in 1989, and sat in on the course, which was on math proofs. We had weekly homework, which I did. In one class, I told Dijkstra that his proof was …

In a similar but visual vein, here’s a Mad Magazine style treatment of the great man’s song Ballad of a Thin Man: https://paulpritchard.github.io/Ballad_of_a_Thin_Man/

A “higher order prime sieve” indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Pritchard

Speculating on crypto is like gambling where the house takes a 50% cut.

From the article: Dennett models the mind on the idea of the computer. But computers are the products of human designers. Hence it makes no sense to try to explain the mind in term…

Very nice indeed to see a simple algorithm in an area recently dominated by complex beasts. Gives me those great 70s vibes. Seems like a major result. Would love to hear from an ex…

In section III B (p.8) the paper states that “in 1982…Gries[24] devised another linear algorithm” for the maximum subarray problem. I remember that. Jon Bentley visited Cornell, an…

This was used to flip votes in Dominion machines from our greatest president Trump to China Joe, and the stupid Dems forgot to turn it off. Otherwise Trump wins CA easy. Wait till …

Having just completed a drawing unit in art school, for which a major assessment task was a self-portrait in graphite pencil, I can say with some confidence that this is an unusual…

I'll add my voice to the chorus that says this is a symptom of a more fundamental issue: aphantasia. As a card-carrying aphantasiac, I'm skeptical of the ability of most people to …

Wow. Maynard FTW yet again. A Fields medal down the track would be no surprise at this rate. He has several more years to qualify.

My fave song about petrichor is by Paul Kelly: https://youtu.be/A9_qkTeMlGk

It’s helpful, but if the task is to draw the imagined bicycle, then you would presumably add details as far as possible. But for most people the result is very far from what they w…

Then the “images” most people say they can imagine in their “mind’s eye” might be little different from what an aphantasiac like me would produce if asked to draw them. Perhaps I a…

Most people could draw a bicycle well enough while looking at it. But most people are hopeless when asked to draw a bicycle from their imagination. But most people don’t have aphan…