#Strange

Today Saffiya Shaikh, a 36-year-old jihadist convert, was sentenced to life for trying to blow up St. Paul's Cathedral.Last year I came across her YouTube profile.So what do her browsing
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One technique that I employ that has been very insightful for some students is to sprinkle the course homeworks with undecidable problems. The syllabus warns you that they exist (you-know-why
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Because I get asked a lot, here is a thread of some websites I use to stay informed with ML research and resources.I will explain a bit about how I
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This is a quick thread about one of my favorite songwriters and singers of all time, Nanci Griffith. Born in 1953 in Seguin and raised in Austin, Texas — like
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Happy Birthday Harsha BhogleThread on Some of his best Comments in Comm BoxIn one of the T20 games in Australia, wickets started to fall like a pack of cards.
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Tonight in the senate @jordonsteele said so much of what we are feeling. We are so grateful for these words, and proud to see a young person, a disabled person,
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Lots of journalists are now (finally) waking up to the Great Procurement Scandal.We have been covering this subject for months, and if you've been shocked by the stories of the
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can describe my experience working at amazon.Will start by saying I was a relatively young fit guy, and maybe more importantly low maintenance (have literally never missed a day of
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Though I am probably preaching to the choir, New Orleans friends, there is a very confusing proposition -- Prop 2 -- on the ballot in Saturday's runoff election. In short,
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2020 has been a long, challenging year and filled with sadness and rage and strains. It has also been a year filled for me with reading. I read 36 books
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Whatever one believes about the situation in Xinjiang, either those who believe there's a "genocide" taking place and those who don't, we should be honest and acknowledge that there ARE
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1/ A really odd hatchet job on employment tribunals in today's Times. Its purpose is unclear though I worry it might be part of the "we should reintroduce employment tribunal
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33 years ago, I visited Chottanikkara temple in Kerala in the evening. This was my first visit to the temple. There are two temples - the upper and the lower, knows as
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YODS IN ASTROLOGY: THE KARMIC LIFE WE'VE ALREADY LIVED FIRSTLY one of the most simplistic and easy ways to identify if you HAVE a yod in your chart is to
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What are Secret police? What makes a security for secret, and separate from normal police, is chiefly the lack of identity. These actors wear masks, carry no identification, will not
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A largely unacknowledged context for the mid-2020 COVID passion play on the liberal left was that all the energy formerly invested in open borders/global citizen sentiment had to go somewhere
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