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5 votes
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New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt
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Effects of drinking water on weight loss outcomes
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LinkedIn’s alternate universe - How the professional platform makes networking weird
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The Tildes' Make Something Month (Timasomo) 2020 Showcase Thread
Timasomo is Tildes' Make Something Month: a creative community challenge that takes place in the month of November, where participants from our community self-select creative goals to achieve....
Timasomo is Tildes' Make Something Month: a creative community challenge that takes place in the month of November, where participants from our community self-select creative goals to achieve.
Timasomo 2020 is now officially complete! Participants will be posting their creations and efforts in this thread as a showcase! Comments and feedback from the wider community are both welcome and encouraged! Let these creators know what an awesome job they've done!
Creators: In posting your showcase:
- Give your project a title, and use the
#
markdown to make it stand out in the showcase thread! - Link to your project in whatever way works best for your project.
- Give a "creator statement" that contextualizes what your project is.
- Add anything else you consider relevant! The showcase is yours!
Community:
- Treat this thread like a walk through an art gallery or a museum where you get to see different works on display.
- Comments do NOT have to be in-depth -- it is okay to just affirm that you like/love/appreciate something! (In other threads these might be considered noise, but here they are directly validating the sustained creative efforts of another community member!).
- Make sure any feedback you give is constructive.
35 votes - Give your project a title, and use the
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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How Distributed Systems Fail
4 votes -
The Stable Marriage Problem
12 votes -
The Danish climate minister closing down the oil industry – Dan Jørgensen has agreed the world's most ambitious climate goal with a promise to cut 70% of emissions by 2030
8 votes -
'Natural immunity' from Covid is not safer than a vaccine
7 votes -
Japan’s Hayabusa2 capsule carrying asteroid samples from 162173 Ryugu recovered in South Australian outback
13 votes -
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.
19 votes -
Day 6: Custom Customs
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/6 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/6
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
730956-de85ce0c
.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
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Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials
7 votes -
Aston Martin in row over 'sock puppet PR firm' pushing anti-electric vehicle study. Report disputing green benefits of EVs attributed to company registered to wife of carmaker’s director.
7 votes -
Astronauts harvest first radish crop on International Space Station
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[SOLVED] Looking for the name of a specific board game, recommended on tildes
As the title suggests, I am lookimg for the name of an existing boardgame. Some time ago (months), there was a discussion about boardgame recommendations. One person described a very interesting...
As the title suggests, I am lookimg for the name of an existing boardgame.
Some time ago (months), there was a discussion about boardgame recommendations. One person described a very interesting boardgame, which I wanted to gift my family for christmas, but I sadly closed the tab with it and I can't find the original post anymore.The game goes as follows:
One player builds a construct with different shapes and colours according to certain guidelines. The other players now have to find the rules, which the presentated construct follows, by building their own construct and getting feedback from the gamemaster, if it fulfills their guidelines.According to the poster, this game was originally a game a group of friends played in college, it became so popular that they created a sellable version. Recently they revamped it.
P.S. I am not really familiar with this kind of post, so if I did anything wrong, some feedback would be nice.
P.P.S. Is there some kind of function (maybe through tags?) to mark this post as solved, if hopefully someone managed to recognise the game?
8 votes -
Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker | Epic Rap Battles Of History
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A charity that pays off medical debts
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Hummingbirds get noticeably fatter when they feed
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Moscow begins distributing the Sputnik V Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine to the most exposed groups via seventy clinics
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Most conservatives don't understand purpose of journalism, says founder of website on media bias
18 votes -
The erosion of deep literacy
8 votes -
Game UI Database
9 votes -
Steam Captain Carter - Party Like It Is 1859 (2020)
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China has accused Danish politicians of violating 'the basic norms governing international relations' in a dispute over Hong Kong opposition activist Ted Hui
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Donald Trump heads for Georgia but claims of fraud may damage Senate Republicans
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Faroe Islands are set to open an under-sea roundabout – the underwater tunnels connect the islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy in a network some 11km long
13 votes -
The more boneless, skinless chicken breasts I sell, the worse I feel
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Neneh Cherry and The Thing - Dirt (2012)
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Share a link to a song that tells a story
This time the "iron chef" ingredient is storytelling. What's a song you know that tells a good story? Ground rules: One song per comment, so we can vote for them individually. One top-level...
This time the "iron chef" ingredient is storytelling. What's a song you know that tells a good story?
Ground rules:
- One song per comment, so we can vote for them individually.
- One top-level comment per user, so pick your favorite song.
- If you want to post more than one song, reply to yourself to add more comments.
Previously in this series:
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Day 5: Binary Boarding
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/5 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/5
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
730956-de85ce0c
.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
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IRC, anyone?
I've created a room on Freenode called #tildes-aoc. It could be fun to jump in and hang out while we work on these problems.
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Cheap rejection as a mental model feature
I’m increasingly convinced that worldviews / mental models are not simply modeling devices, but information rejection tools. Borrowing from Clay Shirkey's "It's not information overload, it's...
I’m increasingly convinced that worldviews / mental models are not simply modeling devices, but information rejection tools. Borrowing from Clay Shirkey's "It's not information overload, it's filter failure", the world is a surprisingly information-rich space, and humans (or any other information-processing system, biological or otherwise) simply aren't equipped to deal with more than a minuscule fraction of it.
We aim for a useful fraction. It paints an incomplete, but useful picture.
Even a bad model has utility if it rejects information cheaply: without conscious effort, without physical effort, and without lingering concerns or apprehensions. It's a no-FOMO mechanism.
Usually, what happens is that we apply our bad models to a given scenario, act, process the new resulting scenario, and notice that that is obviously not favourable, and take appropriate actions to correct the new circumstance. Net loss: one round of interaction. Net gain: not succumbing to analysis paralysis or having to hunt for a new and improved worldview (especially: a new concensus worldview shared with numerous others, creating a large coordination problem).
Sometimes that doesn't work out and people (or companies, or governments, or cultures) get stuck in a nonproductive rut, often characterised by "doing the one thing we know how to do, only harder".
The big problem comes when there's a recognition that a former large-scale world model no longer applies. I'm leaning strongly to the notion that this is behind many psychological conditions: Grief, denial, meloncholia, depression, PTSD. Possibly burnout and ADHD.[1]
Classic grief is triggered by the loss of a loved one, or in the "five stages of grief" study, news of the subject's own impending mortality (a fatal disease prognosis). That is, an invalidation of a previously-defining mental model. This triggers denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and eventually, for some, acceptance of a new world view.
It's a pattern once recognised that one sees repeated across numerous scenarios, and scales, from individuals to groups to entire countries --- almost any disaster, epidemics, global catastrophic risks, wartime attacks, business failures, relationship breakups, and on. The phenomenon intersects with the problem-solving success (or failure) chain.
What's curious to me is what the threshold for grief or denial is. There are some surprises which don't elicit this response: almost all humour is based on the principle of surprise, and horror films and thrill rides are based on the premise of surprise or extreme experience, but rarely result in a traumatic response. We go through our daily lives experiencing small and medium-sized suprises and disappointments all the time. The grief/denial response seems to be triggered only above a magnitude or repetition threshold, though that can differ markedly between individuals.
Notes:
- I'm not claiming that all PTSD, burnout, and ADHD are grief responses, but rather that there are at least strong similarities. Early psychologists linked grief and melancholia (itself then considered a much stronger longing, to the point of mental illness). The mechanisms for overload might be internal --- chemical, physical, illness, injury, or genetic in origin --- or external. But there's a common thread that seems to run through these conditions, ultimately an inability to cope with a level of change.
(Adapted from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22208255.)
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Ethics in strategy gaming, part 2: Colonization
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Are there any other dog trainers here?
I spent a lot of my youth training my dog for obedience and agility. I sorta-kinda got back into it about eight years ago when I got my first dog while living on my own. My trainer at the time...
I spent a lot of my youth training my dog for obedience and agility. I sorta-kinda got back into it about eight years ago when I got my first dog while living on my own. My trainer at the time stopped offering classes a few years ago. This was shortly after my dog and I competed in our first USDAA trial (which was a disaster, but that's to be expected).
I finally got around to ordering some new equipment (four jumps, a tunnel, and a set of weave poles), and I was reminded of how much fun it is! My dog (Loki, a 7 y/o Australian Shepherd) picked up right where we left off when I set up a super small course in the back yard at lunch today.
Does anybody else on Tildes compete or do any dog sports for fun? I'd love to hear what you're doing or any other stories about dog training people have. :)
10 votes -
The HU - Sad But True (2020)
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Jreg (Greg Guevara) has recently "toured" his apartment and people are genuinely getting concerned about his mental health and wellbeing
Admittedly the forcibly neutral headline should probably be changed. The video has been unlisted but this is the link. One important thing to note is that he recently made a video satirizing how...
Admittedly the forcibly neutral headline should probably be changed.
The video has been unlisted but this is the link. One important thing to note is that he recently made a video satirizing how people pretend your life condition doesn't affect your mental health implies that wasn't satire, which is incredibly concerning.
He deleted the comment where he talks about his landlord but it has been screenshotted here. It's also proof that's actually where he lives.
Someone has unironically compiled how that house violates Canadian/Ontarian legislation
r/jreg is in some mix of meme-ing and genuine concern.
9 votes -
Football's forgotten tragedy: In 1971, an Old Firm derby at Ibrox ended with the death of sixty-six fans as they celebrated a late goal
5 votes -
Verdigris: The color of oxidation, statues, and impermanence
5 votes -
How Joe Biden can ensure federal agencies fight climate change
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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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Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic review – footie, Thor and Scandi noir
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The Scottish village where the children design the Christmas lights
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Atheists are sometimes more religious than Christians
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What did you do this week?
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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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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Freemasons say they're needed now more than ever. So why are their ranks dwindling?
8 votes -
Denmark to end new oil and gas exploration in North Sea – decision is part of a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction by 2050
6 votes -
Cellar Darling - Freeze (2019)
5 votes