#Fields

Researchers make terrible futurists. Really. Why? Several reasons:(1) Because they spend their days trying to solve really hard problems. They experience 99.9% "hard" and "it doesn't work yet". This induces
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Private Keys, Public Keys, and Digital SignaturesWhat do all these terms mean?Here's a high level overview of the basics, and how they help us do cool things especially in bitcoin
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Every couple months (or less) there's a story about some influential Christian leader who turns out to be a predator, or an abuser, or something like that. Cue all the
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The sharp-eyed among you may notice in the quote-tweeted photo that the hoppers behind the loco are not your iron ore hoppers (see image). They are, instead, coal hoppers! There's
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Random thought: there seems to be "hidden curriculum" stuff in many lines of work. Academia, of course, but also: how to schmooze your way into a tech internship/offer, how to
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D+2, Normandy, France, June 1944. Elements of 6 British Airborne hold a key small farmstead IVO river crossing on a small tributary of the Orne River. 21st Pz Div forces
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After my first reading of the draft EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement, here is a short thread with some initial thoughts: 1) this is a massive and complex document, covering
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What was the big news you missed yesterday?@Equinor is going to net-zero in 2050...There are a range of measures. The system boundary is expanded to include Scope 3 (use of
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I'm really quite fascinated by the "R number" or (sorry) "R rate" terminology tweets. It's something worth studying post pandemic as a math bio communication case study with a huuuuuuge
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Don't know how many tweets this 'thread' could turn into, but a serious discussion on site security. The problem with real-time assistance is here and it is very, very serious.
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Fun fact: in 2014, economists in the UK analyzed illegal markets and found that drugs contributed about $7.4B a year to their GDP - roughly as big as their advertising
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THREAD: gonna get up on my soap box for a seci was on a mentoring call with a student about to graduate college and she told me that a
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The Magna Carta was the first ever document in human history that granted individual sovereignty to non royal or nobility members. It was a Royal Charter that was signed in
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How to do a "make vs buy" decision when you have zero data.aka "What running professional paintball tournaments at Disney World taught me".A thread. So back in the mid 2000's,
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I've spent months researching, discussing and dissecting the @SCHSL's return to play, and after having some extremely delicate conversations in the last few days, I've come up with what I
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It’s been a big two weeks in the field of multigenerational effects in C. elegans with four different papers published or up on bioRxiv in a two-week window! Still reading
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