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It worked well for me. I put in three podcasts that I listen to, and the first two results are two more podcasts that I listen to. There were a lot of my favourites in the whole list. Maybe I'm predictable?

The wikipedia page says "transient populations", actually.

From the article itself

"Due to its status as de jure unclaimed territory, a number of individuals and organizations have attempted to claim Bir Tawil as a micronation. However, none have been taken seriously by the international community, and due to the remoteness and hostile climate of the region, the vast majority of these claims have been by declarations posted online from other locations."

Covid happened worldwide.

The meaning of critical in complex systems is accessible only if you studied physics or theoretical neuroscience or something related. I'm pretty sure correlations are familiar to most people in STEM, such as the average reader of HN

If you had a well-documented position on why that's not (one of) the answer(s), we would be happy to hear it. If this is all what Leavers have to say, on the other hand, yours will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The desktop app shuffles things around while you're using it. Move to full screen? Everything is now in a different place. Someone starts sharing their screen? Your carefully placed chat and participant windows are now everywhere but. Sharing your own screen? Nope, you can't see the other participants full size, even if you have two screens, you have to have the tiny icons. A disaster.

Slightly related: a family friend who was a pilot once told us that the security at an UK airport once very thoroughly inspected him before his flight. Puzzled, he asked: what are you looking for? Because I have a literal axe in the cockpit - and I can also crash the plane. How could I possibly be carrying more dangerous stuff? The security people didn't like it.

> gave us tips

the irony!

However, drink 'spiking' for the same purpose is a thing, and people have been jailed for it.

> While it is not expected,

That's the key point.

There's one thing I couldn't find in your post: do you WANT to finish this PhD?

Also, have you talked to your advisor about this procrastination problem, your fears, and the possibility of quitting? He sounds like an approachable person.

... which contradicts the hypothesis that k is the minimum. Therefore, K is empty.

This is a very frustrating answer. It basically sounds like "suck it up, mate", which is not what education should be about.

> I think that is one of the goals of high-level schooling.

But it really shouldn't be, except after every effort to accompany people who struggle more has been made

The system is unfortunately unfair to everyone, in the sense that it's an unfair expectation for people to love and be good simultaneously at teaching and research. I met many people that want to do research (because of passion or because that's what gets you a career) and are bothered by teaching; I've also met people, including myself, who prefer teaching to research, and it's unfair that neither of these groups can express their skill properly.

I predict that in the future there will be more of a separation of careers, especially at the bachelor level, where having an instructor that knows the state of the art of research is not so necessary (although I'd argue that they should have a PhD). This is already happening a bit, say, in the UK, especially in fields like CS where courses are required also in other degrees curricula.

> It's hard to come to the idea of inalienable rights without believing in a creator.

This is nonsense. Humanism is exactly about that.

What I find interesting is that it seems, in the US, that the same people who reject the control of the government in things like guns, taxes, state-level decisions, etc., are the same that want to impose control of the government on things like marriage, sex, etc.

"Degeneration" is a meaningless word. There is no total order relation [1] defined on the set of societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order

Recording of the ATC conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N1gDSZJ5s0

I cannot find the video right now, but there was a widely watched one exactly as you describe, where the controller issued a 'cletala' several times, and it was a very American controller, I believe in California. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picf7sPEhi8

Pytorch can be used in a very general purpose way. It's essentially numpy + automatic differentiation + GPU support. All the 'linalg-like layers' are entirely optional. If you write y = A*x+b in pytorch, that works, and is differentiable.

Various things explained without words in the same style as IKEA mounting instructions. Here is public key cryptography: https://idea-instructions.com/public-key/ and quicksort (KVICK SÖRT) https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/

Yes, the problem is in the "until my life circumstances improved". In your case they either improved on their own, or you don't talk about the possibly large amount of work you did to improve them. In my understanding (but it's not my field) the criticism is precisely of when antidepressants are used without a proper plan on that side.

Yes, in this sense I agree.

Fair point, but in defence of the author, I think there's a huge difference between having some women in positions of power and the attitude that people have towards women in daily life. I can totally imagine a society in which certain women from privileged background can rise to power (if, regarding north korea, you're talking about Kim Jong Un's sister, that's a great example), and yet the assumption most people have when they meet a woman is definitely not that she is someone powerful or to be wary of.

Also, what spies have is not 'power'. I wonder for example how many women there are in the high ranks of the army, even for the countries you listed and many others.

"it is difficult" and "it is not allowed" are two different things.

How do you know what the rules are? How do you know what the teenagers in questions were like? I find these comments astonishing. We literally know nothing about them, the family, "Rebecca" herself, her job, the rules behind it; how can anyone speak with such confidence and think they know better than her and her bosses?

> I was unable to find where this was answered in the article.

For example here it makes an explicit point:

"The UK’s main adversaries today — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — are repressive societies with few women in positions of power. For the female spy, this weakness in the enemy is exploitable. Precisely because they are so likely to be overlooked, women have the potential to be the best spies of all."

> pretending that women where not allowed to be spies is a disservice to women.

Where does it say they were not allowed? Mata Hari is explicitly discussed in the article. A lot of examples in MI6 itself are made, but the article talks at length about how their careers were more difficult.

> It also reads like the author relied mostly on novels, movies, and such instead on a the interview.

I think the article is amazing. It literally interviewed three of the top british spies. How can you say that? And the last paragraph is all about all the things that the author could not cover.

That's because the periodic table is essentially about chemistry (i.e. about electron orbitals), not about nuclear physics (i.e. the atom's nucleus). For example it doesn't talk much about isotopes, aside from usually reporting the average atomic mass.