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I know a lot of you are wondering what the heck is going on in Canada with the release of one of the individuals in the Toronto 18 terrorist plot
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A perspective on “quant funds” in the Indian context, a space that is in my view, a little misunderstood! Quant funds in India are bizarrely classified as sector funds. Quant
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Education (and I don't mean just the formal education that we acquire in school and college - but what we learn over our lifetime) has two contents. Spread and Depth.
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Goodhart's Law states that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Goodhart's law applied to political power gives us a corollary: Any useful concept
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[[OOC :As a coda to this discussion, I would like to offer an example of Han script being used to write my ancestral language, using Hokkien phonetics. It really illustrates
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In #Sweden the lax herd immunity strategy was based on a series of loose ”brain storming” e-mails between officials and un-official advisors. Most of these e-mails are available to the
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Quality Street is trending, as people lament the decreasing size of the tins.However: no one is talking about the tins' designs. And that's a problem.Please join us on a trip
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When I was a Planned Parenthood nurse, a Christian radio station rented out the commercial space next door and would broadcast when we arrived and left work, our license plate
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0. i am seeing quite a few people in the replies to this (and also in various quote tweets) decrying this usage as somehow transphobic and/or sexist and/or "bioessentialist". it
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With Sergio Agüero now approaching his twilight years and being plagued by injuries, City will be looking to replace him with a consistent, reliable and clinical CF that can replicate
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I have good #news to share with #Canadians, the #NDP, and its #supporters.The @NDP was only 1 of 2 parties that increased its #donations in the second quarter of 2020,
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Excited to share this! We show that dogmatic beliefs are predicted by how people use their confidence to guide their search for information - out in @PNASNews w/ @M_Rollwage, Ray
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Mexico, India and Pakistan. Texas, Florida and California.These places have seen record numbers of new cases as lockdown restrictions were eased. Should that mean a return to harsh lockdowns?https://trib.al/Racx587  Let’s
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A thread on the Tristan da Cunha announcement today This is the real mic drop moment for Tristan and a huge step forward for marine conservation, with Tristan da Cunha
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Hi, it's Ken, your friendly area guy who gets offputtingly agitated when you don't display the same obsessive grasp of legal history and terminology that he has amassed at the
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No exaggeration to say that Erasmus changed my life. Here’s why. I had *never* been to mainland Europe prior to applying for the programme. I did a Law and French
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