- Sep 2018
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rampages.us rampages.us
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All the early writers of fairy tales borrowedfrom other literary and oral tales, and thus their narratives can be regardedas rctellings that aclapt the rnotifs, themes, and characters to fit their tastesand the expcctations of the audiences for which they were writing.
If every fairy tale is based on some other tale then I wonder how the very first tale came to be? Maybe it was based on observations in nature? The author is keen on using a biological analogy in the beginning, what was the first single-celled organism of fairy tales,
maybe the first tales were based on actual real stories? Maybe it was very journalistic at first, and later abstractions were added to make things interesting.
Maybe the first fairy tale was actually a lie that someone told.
Maybe someone was lying about something that happened to them and exaggerated it, everyone knew that the storyteller was lying but decided that it was a cool story anyways and passed it on to their children.
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rampages.us rampages.us
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Hood
I thought it was interesting how it's brought up the differences in tales; between the originals and the way its told now. It goes to show the differences in cultures, as well as how society has gone from warning it's children to coddling them.
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- Jul 2018
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www.wordflow.info www.wordflow.info
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This is an observation.
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- Apr 2018
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neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
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Where does the "softmax" name come from
This one's quite interesting. The output of the maximum function would look something like [0, 0,...,1, 0..., 0] (1 for the maximum value). That's why the name softmax when c = 1.
Another interesting article explaining why to use softmax over simple normalization.
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- Feb 2018
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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My daughter will be brought up to understand her true value. That’s a promise. As for all the little girls to be born around the world, the creation of these ads is an effort to show how imagination can change the conversation around their lives.
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- Dec 2017
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crumplab.github.io crumplab.github.io
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To demonstrate this problem, he asked participants to rate two numbers on how large they were on a scale of 1-to-10 where 1 was “very very small” and 10 was “very very large”. One group of participants were asked to rate the number 9 and another group was asked to rate the number 221 (Birnbaum 1999). Participants in this between-subjects design gave the number 9 a mean rating of 5.13 and the number 221 a mean rating of 3.10. In other words, they rated 9 as larger than 221! According to Birnbaum, this difference is because participants spontaneously compared 9 with other one-digit numbers (in which case it is relatively large) and compared 221 with other three-digit numbers (in which case it is relatively small).
This example to give us an idea of the concept was intriguing and enjoyable to read. It wasn't a boring experiment, and I was actually quite interested while reading it.
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crumplab.github.io crumplab.github.io
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What Is Non-experimental Research
interesting
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crumplab.github.io crumplab.github.io
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It is an understatement to say that people believe all sorts of crazy things. Note, this is a claim that I just made. Should you believe it? What do you need to know to determine whether or not you should believe this claim or any other claim?
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- Oct 2017
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How library collections budgets work By Library Loon 27 October 2017 Library as organization, Scholarly communication 3 Comments “Why can’t open-access initiatives get some of that sweet, sweet library budget money?” the Loon was asked (well, entitledly whinged at, but it comes to much the same thing). Short answer: The librarians in charge of allocating collections money have no incentive to support open access, and the librarians (supposedly) in charge of changing scholarly communication have either zero budget or strictly-earmarked budgets that do not permit this use. QED.
This is a great article on the structure of library budgets. I think one of the most interesting reflections is that the creation of buying consortia is a response to the structure of scholarly publishing, so the two kind of fit hand in glove. Moving away from that structure is going to be very challenging.
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www.utdallas.edu www.utdallas.edu
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Dr. Wendy Bui was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Andres Buonanno, Chief of Molecular Developmental Neurobiology, NICHD; she has left science for life in a monastery.
would be interesting to find and talk to her. Left a NIH postdoctoral position for a life in a monastery
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www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com
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A computer simulation of refugees’ journeys as they flee major conflicts can correctly predict more than 75 percent of their destinations, and may become a vital tool for governments and NGOs to help better allocate humanitarian resources.
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authorcafe.com authorcafe.com
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Organize your research. Find experts to perfect your projects.
another full service scholarly writing service. Interesting that they integrate copy editing services.
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www.gdeltproject.org www.gdeltproject.org
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A Global Database of Society
interesting
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dataversioncontrol.com dataversioncontrol.com
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DVC makes your data science projects reproducible by automatically building data dependency graph (DAG). Your code and the dependencies could be easily shared by Git, and data - through cloud storage (AWS S3, GCP) in a single DVC environment.
software and data dependency graphs, nice!
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- Sep 2017
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chrisbourg.wordpress.com chrisbourg.wordpress.com
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connections
Connections is the key thing, in a world of information abundance. How do we trust those connections, understand them, and act on them?
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civilservant.io civilservant.io
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Do you have questions about how best to moderate your online community? CivilServant, software created at the MIT Center for Civic Media, helps online communities do your own A/B tests of moderation practices.
This is an interesting SaaS system for exploring how to create good moderation systems.
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khinsen.net khinsen.net
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Researcher with an interest in reproducibility.
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- Jun 2017
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www.swamirara.com www.swamirara.com
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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It was August 2011 and “The Most Interesting Man in the World,” the absurdly debonair character I played on the Dos Equis beer commercials, had become an international cultural phenomenon.
Loved him!
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- Apr 2017
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methods-sagepub-com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu methods-sagepub-com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu
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the focal variable is the actor's group membership expressed as an unobserved, latent variable whose value is the result of the observed ties among actors
Ahhhh... This makes sense. I asked about this in the previous chapter.
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- Jan 2017
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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criminalizing adultery
for many people they believe that polygamy is criminal like but for others it is a huge part of their culture and normal. This is an interesting balance
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- Oct 2016
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savageminds.org savageminds.org
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OUP is its own sort of beast. I think of it less as a university press and more as the last remaining political institution of the British Empire. In fact I think of it as that empire.
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There’s a big difference between, say, McGill-Queens University Press and Elsevier. One of them is a small press which really is in it for the love of publishing good books. The other is part of a massive corporation whose idea of demonstrating corporate responsibility is cutting its connections to the weapons industry.
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leiterreports.typepad.com leiterreports.typepad.com
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Just as the professionalization of philosophy--and the endless need for doctoral students to find new topics--has brought us a large volume of scholarship on obscure figures of dubious philosophical merit associated with, e.g., 19th-century German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, so too it is hard to imagine that there won't be for a long time scholarship on the central figures of 20th-century analytical philosophy, like Russell, Carnap, Quine, and Kripke.
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- Sep 2016
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proceedings.esri.com proceedings.esri.com
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CHIS survey food insecurity variable was correlated to socio-economic data provided by ESRI tapestry data.
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proceedings.esri.com proceedings.esri.com
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Web map development using EPIC health data presented by Loma Linda University.
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proceedings.esri.com proceedings.esri.com
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Batch geocoding of EPIC patient records to assign lat/lon and census tract identifier, joined to data in Data Warehouse. Run nightly as python scripts.
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proceedings.esri.com proceedings.esri.com
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Correlation analysis between Alcohol related discharges and socio-economic variables in San Diego County.
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proceedings.esri.com proceedings.esri.com
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ESRI Tapestry data used to rank communities on health/unhealthy behavior in San Diego county.
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- Jul 2016
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www.ucreative.com www.ucreative.com
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So now that you know what you can’t edit, that means everything else is free game, right? Almost. All the remaining modules are grouped into sections of 8 modules. These groups (which I will call “bytes” from now on) fit together in the gray area like a jigsaw puzzle:
Where the actual code is
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The three large squares highlighted in red are the position markers. These tell the scanner where the edges of the code are. The smaller red square is an alignment marker. This acts as a reference point for the scanner, making sure everything lines up properly. In bigger codes, there are several of these squares. The red strips of alternating black and white modules are called timing patterns. They define the positioning of the rows and columns. The green sections determine the format. This tells the scanner whether it’s a website, text message, Chinese symbols, numbers, or any combination of these. The modules highlighted in blue represent the version number. Basically, the more modules in the code, the higher the version (up to v40, which is 177×177 modules). If the code is version 6 or smaller, the version does not need to be defined here because the scanner can literally count the modules and determine the version on its own.
The key parts of the code
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- Dec 2015
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www.uassistme.co www.uassistme.co
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Personal assistance
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- Oct 2015
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newclasses.nyu.edu newclasses.nyu.edu
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After a long pause, during which Barbara-lee continued to trace the line on the picture while she searched for the word she wanted, Maria proffered, incorrectly, “radius
Interesting that she traces the line with her finger repeatedly, possibly calling for her embodied knowledge to assist in remembering the vocabulary
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- Sep 2015
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cristal.inria.fr cristal.inria.fr
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THE INTERFACE CULTURE
"The Interface Culture" section of "In the begining was the command line" stands on it's own as an insightful essay on contemporary global culutre.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Before I leave the building I pass Gang Lu in the hallway and say hello. He has a letter in his hand and he’s wearing his coat. He doesn’t answer, and I don’t expect him to. At the end of the hallway are the double doors leading to the rest of my life. I push them open and walk through.
This was a very interesting paragraph. No one realizes what is going to happen next. As the reader you do not even realize that she had this decision to leave and he is making the decision to kill people and himself. This made me go back and remember that she said something to him and that the rest of her life is really changed once she leaves those doors.
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- Aug 2015
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johnmiedema.com johnmiedema.com
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Imprint a primer for machine life
Begins January 2016
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- Jul 2015
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www.dariopiga.com www.dariopiga.com
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Forexample, in a 2–MW wind turbine, the weight of the rotorand the tower is typically about 250 tons [10]. As reportedbelow, a kite generator of the same rated power can beobtained using a 500–m2kite and cables 1000–m long, witha total weight of about 2 tons only.
Is this a reasonable claim?
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