Right. But we can study things we want to make progress on, and the comment I responded to was about why we’d made progress in technology and not in empathy.

Engineering and Physics get tons of funding; Humanities and Social Sciences, not so much.

Perhaps his hairline will recede....

How big is your house? Would you consider just renting out a room? Because, although that might be a “problem” zoning-wise depending on your neighborhood, it might help you stay in your home, which is probably better in the long run, right?

No. The world needs laughter.

You don’t have to have those puppies if you choose not to, ladies.

2000 lbs of centaur submariners? Just wait ‘til the top brass gets a load of that. They’ll be whaling, I tell you.

Only tangentially related, but WNYC is being sponsored right now by a new Showcase documentary series about another man’s sexual indiscretions.

I really wish there were a “BCC all” feature in Gmail. So many times I get things sent to me that were also sent to a bunch of people I don’t know. I don’t need them to be able to hit me with their replies; I also don’t want the vulnerability if they get hacked.

You can adjust the spacing after periods to automatically look a little bigger. You don’t need to press the space bar twice!

Thanks!

I love this. Can you tell me what some of the patterns you used for the origami here are? I would love to be able to give something like this to my wife, who loves flowers, and still protect my cat, who likes to eat plants and would be poisoned by most of them.

As far as I know it’s not a neural network, but rather predictive text based on some number of n-grams. Similar idea but architecturally quite different.

Watch out folks: some people react to tea tree oil the same way they react to poison ivy. It’s unpleasant, from first-hand knowledge.....

So I’ve had a problem with spam calls and texts on my android phone for the last year or so, and the way that I’ve handled it is kind of a kludge, but worth sharing.

Sometimes you can think of citations in academia as being kind of like import statements in programming: you cite things so that you can make use of their arguments in some way (either building your argument on top of theirs, or arguing against them). So usually it goes like “Based on the work of X, Y and Z, who found…

Or none of them will tell you that they regret having their children, because saying something like that is a huge social risk.

parchment paper, at least the stuff I buy, is only rated safe to 400 degrees. Your grill may be getting hotter. At 450, bits without food on it will definitely turn brown and flake off; at 500 or higher I imagine it would be burnt.

I would argue that you just shouldn’t explain the rules all at once, but rather, tell the n00bs what the over all goal of the game is, explain what you need to do to start off, practice that, and then move on to the next set of rules.

New York!