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Winchester Mystery House(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pchangr 28d ago|0 comments
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by pchangr 1mo ago
I would speculate that it’s more about Israel interests. Iran produces 5% of the global oil but more importantly, it represents 20% of their gov income and the major engine of economic growth in the country. So .. you control their oil, you
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by pchangr 2mo ago
I should have clarified that I was defining selectivity as the ratio between applicants and accepted candidates. Getting in this school requires someone to be among the top 250k takers of a specific exam (JEE main) typically, it’d be taken
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by pchangr 2mo ago
I think it’s good for people outside of India (myself included) to know how competitive life is over there. Indian research institutes seem to be truly top notch and they deserve due respect. That was my reason to share.
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by pchangr 2mo ago
Oh, I could find just the founding statement of the project stating it was funded by the “Principal Scientific Advisor” of the government of India https://acr.iitm.ac.in/iitm_in_news/iit-madras-launches-sudh... did you
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by pchangr 2mo ago
I just thought it was a cool fact :)
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by pchangr 2mo ago
Hey, I’m sorry for the delay, had to take a train yesterday (how fitting). I think you have a point. I got the German statistics from the official site https://zbir.deutschebahn.com/2025/en/interim-group-manageme
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by pchangr 2mo ago
I believe this is how most publicly funded research and some private research institutes work. This research was conducted by a public Indian university (IIT Madras). Which, by the way is literally more selective than IVY league universiti
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by pchangr 2mo ago
my understanding is that they took 3 specimens, aged 25 gestational weeks, 9 and 54 years old.. did “800 serial histological sections” and manually tagged them. But you can check out the information yourself here: https://anchor.
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by pchangr 2mo ago
I’d argue that most residents would likely have access to better offers locally. As for the age limit, I think it just lets you get a cheaper inter-rail, which is subsidized by the DiscoverEU. AFAIK, you can always buy a full interrail pas
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by pchangr 2mo ago
I guess it depends on what you expect. If you expect the train to be on time .. yes, India is much better than Germany. ~80% trains delayed 15 min or less vs Germany 36% trains delayed 15 min or less. It can get pretty bad when your train
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by pchangr 2mo ago
Interrail is sometimes cheaper, specially as a student. Otherwise it’s usually still cheaper if you want to go to multiple stops
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by pchangr 2mo ago
OMG.. are we really doing this? T_T It’s just the marketing term…. “Interrail One Country Pass allows unlimited rail travel within one participating country, excluding the holder’s country of residence.” It’s a way of reinforcing eu identit
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by pchangr 2mo ago
Not all countries have a rail pass and not all countries offer a 100% discount pass. And even less offer a 100% discount on all trains and for non residents
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by pchangr 3mo ago
TIL mm:hh is a thing o_O
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by pchangr 3mo ago
I remember a professor once told us “democracy might not be the best kind of government. It’s just the best we have found to organize a peaceful power transition”. And .. to this date .. I agree .. it’s not about making the best decision..
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by pchangr 5mo ago
From my understanding, the state or community owning the means of production (in this case, ai labs) is one of the central thesis of communism.
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by pchangr 7mo ago
This is an experimental feature. Not part of the standard yet .. imho.. shouldn’t be included (yet)
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by pchangr 9mo ago
The steam engine, for example
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by pchangr 9mo ago
Correct, and I am saying the Luddites were a group of people that suffered mass unemployment following a technological change. Specifically, the luddites were a group of 19th century textile workers that were left out of work due to the int
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by pchangr 9mo ago
It has happened. There is a related term we use which is related to a historical fact .. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
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by pchangr 1y ago
If you find the list of projections interesting, check out also the wiki page of the map projections topic itself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection It’s a fascinating rabbit hole ^^ Inspired by This ma
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by pchangr 1y ago
You should totally check this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections For a list of alternative projections And also this one for a whole deep dive in the topic https://en.wikipedia
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Alternative World Map Projections(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pchangr 1y ago|1 comments
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by pchangr 1y ago
I remember when I was studying for an MBA.. a professor was talking about the intangible value of a brand .. and finance.. and how they would reflect on each other .. At some point we were decomposing the parts of a balance sheet and they a
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by pchangr 1y ago
I think you forget to take into account how centralized Japan is. Tokyo is not only the biggest city in the world. It’s also extremely centralized in terms of its infrastructure and as much as other Asian cities have developed similarly, th
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by pchangr 1y ago
It still happens from time to time Claude found me this examples : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Luogeng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by pchangr 1y ago
I believe this refers to the fact that, before Jupiter, the most powerful computer in Europe was HPC6, which is owned by Eni S.p.A, a private company, and the following most powerful computer was the Alps system, located in Switzerland. S
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by pchangr 1y ago
Agreed, it got me for a few seconds
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by pchangr 1y ago
It was net positive in all the studies I found. Here’s some for Germany https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/topics/latest-news/20... https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/306683

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