dav_Oz

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by dav_Oz 8d ago
To keep it simple: For one it's just competition. If you have regular contact to a diverse set of microorganisms chances are higher that they will keep each other populations in check. The dose makes the poison applies here too in some
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by dav_Oz 2mo ago
This article is a weird mash-up of an actually very interesting paper [0] with random personal slop like i've asked my rabbi, consulted my kabbalah-initiated friends and for the fun mixed it up with some fashionable ancient text (Mahab
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by dav_Oz 3mo ago
You are probably right it was timed deliberately this way, this is why the Iranians also didn't rush it ... > Iran waited until the clock passed midnight local time to finalize the agreement, because it did not want the momentous oc
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by dav_Oz 4mo ago
For context the Cell paper published several weeks before [0][1] provides a more bird's eye view (multi-omics etc.) the Nature paper here is very hands on providing x-ray crystal structures etc. So both complement each other well. [0]
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by dav_Oz 4mo ago
It is unfortunate that at some point in midst of numerous renaming itself after a brief stint in mass media around 2014 the programming on both side was so successful that the latin string of "isis" to this day is basically reduce
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by dav_Oz 4mo ago
Thanks, the article written in 2020 (?) is essentially a 1 to 1 copy of the vox clip "How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music" from 2017. (If the chronology is right) kind of useless if the well produced vid delivers
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by dav_Oz 5mo ago
I stand corrected you are right there is no isolated use of [ɬ] in nahuatl as a phoneme it is used only in the context of an affricative /t͡ɬ/ I got ahead of myself in trying to isolate the sound [ɬ] for untrained ears. To get bac
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by dav_Oz 5mo ago
Well, actually I suppose the hardest part is to pronounce the other consonant hispanicized as -tl at the end (a soft lisp) [ɬ] voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [0] in a sufficient fluent manner (except you happen to speak e.g. Welsh
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by dav_Oz 9mo ago
Ironically the "drama" narrative which was constructed much later making for a good story to tell could have been avoided right from the start. Just three weeks after the publications in Nature (April 1953), a Time journalis
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by dav_Oz 10mo ago
While at some point in the optimization game Goodhart’s Law will also apply here, before that happens I thoroughly enjoyed the insights from reading it and will try implementing some version of it to gauge my productivity before jumping to
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by dav_Oz 10mo ago
What would the people who sealed the grave do when they accidentally unearthed a sophisticated burial site from the middle bronze age? Leave it alone? Maybe. I'm not sure, humans are curious. Well the effort and care put into the grave
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by dav_Oz 1y ago
> It's amazing when people flag this as a bad thing when it's undoubtedly a key component of getting places to prosperity in the first place. Got to get people away from being starvation-limited. Exponentially falling fertility
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by dav_Oz 1y ago
For me largley shaped by the westering old Europe creaking and breaking (after 2 WWs) under its heavy load of philosophical/metaphysical inheritance (which at this point in time can be considered effectively americanized). It is stil
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by dav_Oz 1y ago
An interesting read on that topic an nyt-article from 2002 "killer songs" https://archive.ph/fy9SC
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by dav_Oz 1y ago
Regarding Corbin Bleu the english wikipedia article itself mentions this oddity [0] apparently some great fan from Saudi Arabia [1](the article in Arabic itself is also unusually verbose [2]) put in the effort. The number (212) essentially
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by dav_Oz 1y ago
Without the proper philosophical/historical context[0] the final part of Hilbert's speech and its end slogan ( Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen. ) cannot be fully appreciated. The "simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous&quot
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by dav_Oz 1y ago
I think the underlying assumption is that we all suffer i.e. challenges and struggles in life. Say first time heart-broken, some people really lean into it, and some of those people decide to do a deep dive into their chaotic feelings in or
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
Going through a lot of iterations until one band name "stuck", true to his obsessive working ethos in finding the "right" sound for his music. > L: Where did the name Nine Inch Nails come from? T: I don't know i
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
Looking at extreme examples of historical spelling (e.g. Tibetan) English isn't particularly bad, even in the context of Great Britain, e.g Manx [0] is way more off. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_langua
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
You are likely referring to ignorance: not knowing what you don't know thus resulting in a possible false confidence. The article is about "feeling stupid" in hindsight. Because you cannot unsee it anymore. Which makes you wo
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
GenZ are mostly aware[0] but feel powerless about it so they don't act accordingly which may seem that they are oblivious. From personal experience in a controlled setting (tutoring) if I'm strict about the form: no phone and all
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
Surprisingly it is obvious for Gen Z that social media in its current form is highly addictive and destabilizing in terms of well-being because (usually framed as "mental health"). Since I'm older I had a more of a choice
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
Interestingly, the most toxic thing about the Revigator wasn't its added "radioactivity" through Radon to the water but its leaden spout combined with the impurities leaked considerable amount of arsenic, lead and vanadium
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
> Landa and Councell evaluated the leaching of uranium into different solutions over a 24 hour period. The glassware they used was designed to hold liquids (e.g., drinking glasses). They determined that the average resulting concentratio
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
Never heard of the "learning zones" as a concept but from my own teaching experience after a while I was aware if I made my lecture too accessible and easy to follow through my students got overconfident and didn't fully enga
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
Except for Mercury (eccentricity[0]: 0.2056) and the displayed transneptunian objects Eris (0.4407(!)), Pluto (0.2488), Haumea (0.1887) and Makemake (0.1559) all other planets (including the dwarf planet Ceres (0.0758)) are pretty accurate.
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
> The sacred fire at Udvada Atash Behram, for example, kindled in 721 CE in Sanjan, burns continually to this day, now in Udvada since 1741, and housed in a magnificent Persian style temple building since 1742. That it some impressive c
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
> On her seventh ED visit, the patient presented with slurred speech, alcohol odour on her breath, and an elevated ethanol level of 62 mmol/L. About 0.285% or 2.85‰ (!). For a 200lbs (90kg) person about 14 drinks[0] for a 120lbs (5
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by dav_Oz 2y ago
Well, it's not that he is the dark lord but rather that he is so far ahead of the curve in the craft of mathematical modeling in physics (he won the Fields Medal) that he can easily solve a lot of actual mundane problems but he cho
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Thanks for the correction, I remembered it wrong. From his blog: >[...] Eine ganz besondere Zugfahrt zum nördlichsten Bahnhof Europas, Narvik. > A very special train journey to the northernmost railroad station in Europe, Narvik. [0

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