Entries tagged with logic

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Interesting Links for 25-09-2021

Spain to ban sale of fruit and vegetables in plastic wrapping from 2023: (tags:plastic Spain food )
The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous: (tags:CIA security advertising adblock )
UK ministers backing plans for another new nuclear power plant to help reduce carbon footprint: (tags:UK nuclearpower co2 )
England set to eradicate HIV by 2030: (tags:England HIV GoodNews )
China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal: (tags:bitcoin China Doom )
Fossilized Footprints Reveal Human Habitation of North America 23,000 Years Ago: (tags:humans paleontology prehistory USA America )
Minority voices filtered out of Google Natural Language Processing models: (tags:Google racism LGBT language )
"The most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I've ever seen": (tags:language computers games )
Is this the religious sexual equivalent of Sovereign Citizen thought processes?: (tags:logic sex mormons religion wtf )

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Interesting Links for 26-10-2020

"Providence Was Really Exhausting. Finishing It Felt Like Finishing College": An Interview With Jacen Burrows: (tags:comics alanmoore GarthEnnis WarrenEllis art interview )
Bayesian epistemology cannot be done by humans. Do not trust any human who talks like it can.: (tags:statistics fail )
Government reduces minimum salary for migrants to settle in UK (by 30%): (tags:immigration UK GoodNews )
Boots to offer 12-minute Covid nasal swab test (only if you don't have symptoms, costs £120): (tags:pandemic virus testing )
'Culture wars' are fought by tiny minority (in the UK): (tags:society UK politics )
Religions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies, 2) Heresies are separatist movements, often ethnic, and have little to do with religious doctrine: (tags:religion society )
Logic gate pumpkins: (tags:Halloween logic funny visualisation )

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Interesting Links for 12-05-2020

Are There Problems That Computers Can't Solve?: (tags:computers logic video )
Could the porn industry offer a model for reopening amid Covid-19?: (tags:porn disease pandemic viaSwampers )
I finally tracked down my all-time favourite Disney mashup: (tags:Disney video mashup )
A stunning collection of Black and White dance scenes, set to Uptown Funk: Mostly because I just spent twenty minutes looking for it and don't want to lose it again!
(tags:music dancing history video mashup )
Nike Edinburgh conference was Ground Zero for COVID-19 outbreak in Scotland: (tags:pandemic Scotland )
Station ticket office worker dies with Covid-19 after being spat at: (tags:pandemic assault UK OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 31-07-2019

Grand Theft Auto maker has paid no UK corporation tax in 10 years: (tags:UK tax games gta OhForFucksSake )
Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change: (tags:trees ethiopia )
There are now scams about the victim being assassinated!: (tags:crime extortion fraud murder email )
This is just the saddest thing - a couple with dementia basically abandoned by the system. I am ashamed of the UK.: (tags:dementia UK care OhForFucksSake )
I am absolutely in love with this headline (which seems to be actual real science): (tags:health aging headline )
Apparently racist white people don't think Trump is racist: (tags:racism politics usa )
Turing Tumble looks like about amazing way to teach kids about computers/logic.: (tags:computers games logic )
Here's The Canary being horribly racist: (tags:racism media uk )
Leo Varadkar looks like an adult because the UK is acting like a spoilt toddler: (tags:politics ireland uk europe OhForFucksSake )
Court upholds ruling BT discriminated against man with autism: (tags:autism work disability )

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Interesting Links for 25-02-2019

Wikipedia's top editor is this mild-mannered Virginian: (tags:wikipedia )
I am Steven Pruitt, the Wikipedian with over 3 million edits. Ask me anything!: (tags:wikipedia )
The magical thinking of guys who love logic.: (tags:logic viaFanf Internet discussion fail society )
Levenshtein Distance Between Cocktails: (tags:visualisation cocktails alcohol )
Microsoft's HoloLens 2: a $3500 mixed reality headset for the factory: (tags:augmentedreality microsoft )
We've got our first glimpse of BBC's His Dark Materials and it looks glorious: (tags:PhilipPullman books tv fantasy )
Brexit could be delayed until 2021, EU sources reveal: (tags:UK europe headdesk )
22 Things People Do Because They Experienced Emotional Abuse as a Child: (tags:abuse children behavior )
On the world being built around men and the dismissal of women's pain: (tags:pain women society menstruation OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 13-11-2018

Every Brexit headline for the last six months: (tags: UK europe doom )
Art of SFF: Charles Vess on Working with Ursula Le Guin on The Books of Earthsea: (tags: art UrsulaKLegGuin fantasy )
Cost of wind and solar fall below cost of coal and gas: (tags: solarpower windpower renewables GoodNews gas coal usa )
Samsung’s foldable smartphone reportedly costs $1,770. I'll take two!: (tags: phones design samsung android )
Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Focus On Strengthening Democracy At Home: (tags: democracy usa democrats )
Israel-Gaza violence erupts after covert op killings: (tags: israel palestine )
'No completion date' for new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh: (tags: Edinburgh hospital fail construction )
Stan Lee Dead: Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero Was 95: (tags: obituary comics marvel )
Children with autism thrive in mainstream pre-schools: (tags: autism children )
Voters in most vulnerable Tory seats back fresh Brexit referendum: (tags: UK europe referendum Conservatives )
Nearly entire class throws Nazi salute for photo. FFS: (tags: OhForFucksSake nazis school usa )
Female prisoners in England left to give birth alone in their cells: (tags: prison women birth OhForFucksSake )
"Detective Pikachu” looks delightfully weird: (tags: movies games pokemon trailer )
London women tell UN poverty envoy about impact of welfare cuts: (tags: austerity UK OhForFucksSake )
Minister responsible for getting a Brexit deal is pushing for no deal.: (tags: UK europe doom )
Jony Ive's latest design is the ultimate diamond ring – made only of diamond.: (tags: diamonds apple charity design )
People are “consistently inconsistent” in how they reason about controversial scientific topics: (tags: logic thinking science rationality psychology )
Aardman Animation is Giving The Company to Their Employees: (tags: animation business employment ownership )

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Interesting Links for 26-09-2018

"Think of Sweeper like a self-driving car, only with a saw on its face and a hunger for peppers.": (tags: automation vegetables farming )
Possibly the best argument on Twitter: (tags: logic argument funny )
Fruit has evolved different colours to attract different animal species: (tags: fruit colour food evolution animals )
Parasites, serotonin, dopamine, and social media: I don't actually recommend you dump social media. Frankly, socialising is good.
(tags: Parasites socialmedia )
Reality Check: What is Labour's Brexit plan?: (tags: labour uk europe )
The U.S. Army admits that they're dependent on recruiting people from poverty: (tags: poverty military usa viaSwampers )
How does Shazam work?: (tags: music computers mathematics )
Scotland confronts homophobes and transphobes in amazing new billboard campaign: (tags: lgbt homophobia transgender scotland )
Although many thought Koko the ape used sign language, there's really no evidence: (tags: sign language ape )
Making government as a platform real: (tags: government internet )
Labour's Brexit plan: to have an illusion of a plan, not an actual plan: (tags: uk europe Labour OhForFucksSake )
Disgusting: [NERD PROPERTY] Fans Are Boycotting Because It Features Some [MARGINALIZED PEOPLE] *TEMPLATE*: (tags: satire true games bigotry abuse )
The contexts of Thatcher’s Bruges speech of 1988: (tags: margaretthatcher Europe history conservatives politics uk )

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Interesting Links for 20-03-2018

How different languages agree and disagree, and why Latin didn't have a "yes" or "no": (tags: language )
'I forget my PE kit deliberately' - the boys who hate sport. (This was me. It put me off exercise for decades): (tags: sports school )
Bulk Resize Photos is an awesome tool: (tags: web photography size )
DirectX Raytracing is the first step toward a graphics revolution: (tags: graphics Technology )
Although they can’t tell us about it, infants can reason: (tags: babies logic thinking )
We can read each other's emotions from surprisingly tiny changes in facial colour: (tags: colour faces emotion )
Say Her Name: Marielle Franco, a Brazilian Politician Who Fought for Women and the Poor, Was Killed. Her Death Sparked Protests Across Brazil: (tags: murder racism brazil poverty police )
Dimethandrolone undecanoate shows promise as a male birth control pill: (tags: contraception hormones men )
Scrap 'highly regressive' council tax: (tags: tax uk )
MPs call for 12 weeks of paternity leave to address gender pay gap: (tags: men children gender inequality )
Police chief: Uber self-driving car likely not at fault in fatal crash: (tags: cars automation death )
Pregnant women and new moms still hesitant to introduce peanut products: (tags: babies allergies peanuts )
U.K., Land of ‘Brexit,’ Quietly Outsources Some Surgeries to France: (tags: France NHS OhForFucksSake UK austerity )
The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, aged 45: (tags: rhino extinction )
Watch Cambridge Analytica’s CEO Offer to Entrap Political Opponents With Sex Workers: (tags: sexwork crime OhForFucksSake corruption )
Project Pica Pica shows off new real-time ray-tracing tech: (tags: graphics Technology games )

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Interesting Links for 31-10-2017

Google 'drop everything' to fix burger emoji: (tags: google food funny )
Extract from Plato’s Republic: On That Which is Correct Politically: (tags: philosophy funny satire viaSwampers )
These books are how I work: (tags: programming funny viaSwampers )
That's nine dead Russia officials/diplomats since elections...: (tags: Russia death )
We Are Breeding a World Full of Creatures That Cannot Survive: (tags: evolution fail )
What people really don't like about the New Atheists: I think they're actually doing remarkably well. The number of people who identify themselves as religious has dropped significantly, and a lot of people who would say "Christian" when they never actually went to church (outside of funerals and weddings) have stopped doing so. Providing a public identity and face for "Not believing any religion is true" and giving a rallying point for people who are fed up with being told that they live in a "Christian country" is going staggeringly well for them.
(tags: atheism religion )
How a Facebook experimented affected news in Cambodia: (tags: Cambodia news facebook )
Math’s Beautiful Monsters: (tags: mathematics )
A Lady Logician (a tale of triumph over horrific prejudice): (tags: mathematics logic history women academia )
"Rehab" in the USA is apparently "Forced labour camps": (tags: slavery usa crime )
To achieve your goals, don't exercise willpower, avoid temptation: (tags: behaviour psychology productivity self-control )
Average UK debt at £8,000 per person (not including the mortgage): You wait until interest rates go up...
(tags: debt uk )

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Interesting Links for 28-07-2017

Perfectionism as a risk factor for suicide: (tags: perfectionism suicide psychology )
The Twitter Joke Trial, as remembered by one of the lawyers: (tags: law freespeech twitter uk )
Why IBM has special permission to use software for evil: (tags: evil ibm software funny video )
European commission to crack down on offshore tax avoidance: (tags: tax europe )
How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover: (tags: fantasy funny art viaJamesNicoll )
The theocratic democracies of Iran and the UK: (tags: religion politics uk iran )
On The 50th Anniversary Of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, Look How Far We've Come: (tags: lgbt history )
Capitol Police Forced Journos to Delete Footage of AHCA Protesters.: (tags: police freespeech journalism usa )
Genetic evidence suggests the Canaanites weren’t destroyed after all: (tags: history middle_east )
Scotland receive £4,000 fine from Fifa for booing God Save the Queen: (tags: Scotland UK politics royalty )
Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat: (tags: advice chat im viaSwampers )
Religious people believe because emotional resonance overrides logic: Which doesn't surprise me. Most people at least start off believing things because they lead to a conclusion that they like. Starting at axioms and working your way forward to whatever they lead to is distinctly uncomfortable at times
(tags: belief logic religion psychology )
'Eureka' moment pinpointed in the brain: (tags: brain learning psychology )
Regret improves children's decision-making: I've had a few. And sometimes they've helped me avoid doing the stupid thing again.
(tags: psychology learning behaviour )
Ketamine for depression encouraging, but questions remain around long-term use: (tags: depression psychology )

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Interesting Links for 14-02-2017

German vocational training scheme for Africa 'part of new Marshall Plan' for regional investment: (tags: africa Germany europe jobs investment )
The Spy Revolt Against Donald Trump Begins: (tags: spying usa OhForFucksSake )
The Biggest Mistakes In World War 2: (tags: wwii fail )
On breaking promises and electoral reform - a letter to Justin Trudeau: (tags: reform voting fail canada )
Every Social Media Thread On Heterosexual Online Dating Ever: (tags: dating internet comments funny )
"Azhdarchids were giraffe-sized, quadrupedal Panzer-storks": (tags: dinosaurs prehistory awesome )
You get amazing photos if you fly over an active volcano: (tags: volcano photos )
Non-Partisan Congressional Tax Report Debunks Core Conservative Economic Theory-GOP Suppresses Study: From 2012. But this kind of thing really gets to me, no matter which side does it, or when it happens.
(tags: politics usa economics )
New 'automatic online conviction procedure' to be set up by the UK government: (tags: uk law internet )
Draconian changes proposed to Official Secrets Act: (tags: secrecy uk censorship )
Four Kinds of Dystopia: (tags: dystopia )
The State of Traditional TV: Updated With Q3 2016 Data: (tags: tv analysis )
Becoming a parent rewires the parents’ brain.: (tags: parenting )
Yes-no questions in mathematics and in Chinese: (tags: china linguistics language questions logic )

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Interesting Links for 05-08-2016

What it's like to be a midwife: (tags: babies childbirth work healthcare viaSwampers )
The beauty of bitwise AND: (tags: logic computing mathematics )
OneCore to rule them all: How Microsoft finally got the same operating system running on all of its platforms: (tags: microsoft windows Technology computers history )
Columbia Researchers Find Biological Explanation for Wheat Sensitivity: (tags: wheat food immune_system )
"I’ll take a united Ireland seriously when I hear Irish politicians tell us what they’ll concede.": (tags: ireland NorthernIreland politics viaNWhyte )
Glasgow shopping centre introduces express lanes... for Pokemon Go players: (tags: games scotland viaSwampers )
Putin's 'Human Rights Council' Accidentally Posts Real Crimean Election Results: (tags: ukraine russia fraud voting )
Norway Proves That Treating Prison Inmates As Human Beings Actually Works: (tags: norway prison success )
What it's like when a fan dies: (tags: sad death comic fandom )
Journey: The videogame so good that many people only play it once: (tags: games art )
Humpback whales seem to be at war with killer whales: (tags: ocean animals behavior )
What are antibubbles?: (tags: video physics )
How to Listen When You Disagree: A Lesson from the Republican National Convention: (tags: communication )
From Suicide Squad to Batman v Superman, why are DC’s films so bad?: (tags: movies dc comics )
Survey reveals highly educated audiences enjoy 'trash films': (tags: quality movies Intelligence )
What would a progressive political alliance look like?: (tags: politics uk )
UK public sector can now buy blockchain-as-a-service (I'm still not sure of the advantages): (tags: Technology government computers data uk )
How does Denmark make its income inequality so much lower?: (tags: inequality tax denmark government )

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Interesting Links for 04-07-2016

Different stories resonate with different people: A repost, but deservedly so
(tags: stories writing )
At Profiles Theatre the drama—and abuse—is real: (tags: abuse acting theatre )
Link between family socioeconomic status and children’s educational achievement estimated from genes: (tags: society Education Intelligence genes )
A legal challenge on Article 50: (tags: europe law uk government )
When we stop admiring how much the pie has grown, we start fighting each other for a larger slice: (tags: economics society inequality )
When journalists accuse politicians of "Comparing" they are implying that they are "equating": (tags: politics journalism )
Even a four-year-old can tell when you're contradicting yourself (and now they won't trust you): (tags: children language logic )
Dear grammar pedants, try not get into an argument with the fucking dictionary.: (tags: language OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 16-10-2015

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Interesting Links for 03-09-2015

Tougher penalties on the way for companies that do not pay UK minimum wage
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People with ADHD do not grow out of the disorder
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Group of student legal volunteers overturn 95% of DWP 'fit to work' decisions they take on
- (tags: welfare disabilities law )
New poll shows majority backing for Scottish independence
- (tags: Scotland independence )
To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved
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How to Onboard Software Engineers
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At-a-glance: Scottish legislative programme 2015-16
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Kickstarter Math is Weird (The absolute best piece I've seen on running a crowdfunding campaign)
- (tags: kickstarter CrowdFunding advice business spreadsheet viaDanieldDWilliam )
The Cartographer Who's Transforming Map Design
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The X-Files theme in a major key sounds remarkably calming
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Everyone go fill in the xkcd survey!
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UN investigating British Government over human rights abuses caused by welfare reforms
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Benefit Cuts Don't Encourage The Unemployed Into Work
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FactCheck: what has the SNP failed to deliver?
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Why You Should Never Write Action Scenes For Your Blockbuster Movie
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16 Totally Honest Love Cards For Couples With A Good Sense Of Humor
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The limits of language (Wittgenstein explains the problems of translation, computer science, and artificial intelligence)
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Guy compares effects of booze vs LSD on everyday tasks
- (tags: lsd alcohol video funny )
The Marvel Creative Committee Is Over - the Marvel Cinematic Universe may never be the same
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What would happen if you lost 1% of your electrons?
- (tags: electrons electricity physics )
Relationships and and living arrangements come in a vast number of different shapes
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The number of trees on the planet has halved since humans turned up
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Neuron responsible for alcoholism found
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78-Year-Old Celibate Man Forgives Women He’s Never Met
- (tags: abortion catholicism pope religion satire funny )
Royal Jelly Isn't What Makes a Queen Bee a Queen Bee
- (tags: bees viaTheFerrett )
It’s Time to Talk About Black Tudors
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Stirling screening marks Braveheart film 20th anniversary
- (tags: Scotland movies history viaSwampers )
Staylittle: The village that is cut off from the UK
- (tags: phones communication wales technology fail )
Employment tribunal fees to be abolished in Scotland
- (tags: Scotland employment law )
Everyone sad because of photo of thing that’s been happening for months
- (tags: satire society media )

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Interesting Links for 17-05-2015

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2015

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Interesting Links for 06-01-2015