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6 votes
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
8 votes -
Building an electric guitar from scratch with the pros
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Bambi to become 'a vicious killing machine' in new horror movie Bambi: The Reckoning
5 votes -
ooh! Directory
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‘Strange World’ is a historic bomb for Disney on a weak Thanksgiving box office weekend
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Irene Cara, ‘Fame’ and ‘Flashdance’ singer, dies at 63
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Zizipho Poswa’s new ceramics and photography explore hair as a medium for sculpture
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Can you live with a Citroën Ami? We put the dinky EV to the test.
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Design collective Andra Formen has created furniture from electric scooters fished out of the canals of Malmö
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Mozilla bundles its VPN and email/phone Relay services for $7 per month
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The toxic history of color
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other youth activists to file a lawsuit against the Swedish government over its alleged inaction on climate change
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Can anyone recommend a specific type of statistics course?
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual...
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual statistical probability vs humans' intuitive sense of risk.
I recall a quote, which The Interwebs informs me right now, came from Albert A. Bartlett ... "The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race Is Man’s Inability To Understand the Exponential Function".
Alternately, Mark Twain popularized (but did not originate) the saying "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics".
That's the kind of course I'm looking for, that focuses on questions like how much should we actually worry about supervolcanoes, asteroid strikes, Covid 2.0, WWIII, Trump getting re-elected, etc.
There are two parts to this. One, people often (naturally, human nature, how our brains are wired to handle Risk) obsess about a short list of risks in life that are overblown, or appear to be more of a concern than they actually are.
The other part is, some things have a very small risk of actually happening, but when considered in conjunction with the potential consequences (asteroid strikes, WWIII, global pandemic), are still worthy of aggressive efforts to prevent ... and people often focus on the first element (statistically unlikely) and dismiss or overlook the second piece (devastating consequences).
Anyway, stuff like that ... ideally an actual, hands-on MOOC-type Statistics course, but even a good youtube video or blog article would suffice.
As usual, thanks in advance.
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The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up
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The best Twitter alternatives
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Re-Nav: a WebExtension to create custom redirects for any website
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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An mRNA–lipid nanoparticle vaccine protects animals from twenty influenza lineages
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Most Amazon search results are ads
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Inside | Official trailer
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An egg drop from space - and the failures along the way
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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‘China’s hottest woman’: The driving force behind crunchy chilli sensation Lao Gan Ma
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James Cameron breaks down his most iconic films
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This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
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The vegan holiday feast even meat eaters will love
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Wildcat | Official trailer
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Gunman kills five in Colorado LGBTQ nightclub before he is stopped by patrons
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Nothing works: Why is it so hard to find things that work well?
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How to speak honeybee
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Congress passes law banning non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases
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The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Avatar: The Way of Water | Final trailer
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The insane world of Chinese shlockbusters. Movies don't have to be good to be fun.
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FDA approves most expensive drug ever, a $3.5 million-per-dose gene therapy for hemophilia B
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When life doesn't give you lemons (three sour Costa Rican citruses) | Weird Fruit Explorer
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Supreme court rules against Scottish parliament holding new independence referendum
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With bi-directional charging, the Volvo EX90 basically works as a power bank, allowing the battery to store electricity that can later be transferred back into an owner's home
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US Navy forced to pay software company for piracy
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The secret skills of US Coast Guard rescue swimmers
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
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'Dune' prequel series 'The Sisterhood' begins filming
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The nine best Thanksgiving songs I definitely didn’t just make up
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Nancy Pelosi embodied America's gerontocracy problem
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US Congress to hold hearing after Ticketmaster-Taylor Swift fiasco
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
3 votes