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My money's on this being unconstitutional.
North Carolina could ban face masks for medical reasons in public | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4666792-north-carolina-could-ban-face-ma…

North Carolina could ban face masks for medical reasons in public
The North Carolina state Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public, even for health reasons. Republican supporters of the ban said it would help law enforcement crackdown on protesters who wear masks. They say demonstrators are abusing COVID-19 pandemic-era practices to hide their identities following a wave of…

A team of physical oceanographic scientists on the South Africa research #icebreaker S.A. Agulhas-II used stereo-cameras to directly measure self-amplification of wind #waves in the Southern Ocean, which can produce rogue waves.

Rogue waves in the ocean are much more common than anyone suspected, says new study
Maritime folklore is awash with tall tales of monstrous waves. A new study gets closer to understanding where they come from and how to predict them.

I’m old enough to remember when these jurists worried about their credibility.
”The Court could still restore the First Amendment right to protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in a future case.
“For the time being, however, the Fifth Circuit’s Mckesson decision remains good law in those three states. And that means that anyone who organizes a political protest within the Fifth Circuit risks catastrophic financial liability.”

The Supreme Court abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

Anyone else kinda like the idea of a game which just plays it's self, kinda like Conway's game of life but more dimensions and the characters are somewhat intelligent.
Seems like a nice idea to just watch stuff evolve and come up with cool stuff.
Note: by intelligence I do mean AI but not hype stuff.. just to have a game that plays itself that's not too easy to predict what's gonna happen. If anyone makes this, don't just ai hype it... Actually make a good ga…

Without intentional synthesis, "data driven" always means validating the biases baked into your semantic environment.
Data points that don't fit an org's established assumptions are easily swept under the rug.
Anyone interested in real insights needs to go data gathering and adopt a synthesis process that allows them to holistically inhabit that data, and intentionally curate a receptive semantic environment.

Don’t make “data-driven product decisions” — build a data-driven semantic environment
Like “growth mindset” or “agile development,” data-driven decision making has snuck its way into the way almost every product org describes itself. The trouble is that it doesn’t mean anything —…

Scalable and Flexible Causal Discovery with an Efficient Test for Adjacency
Alan Nawzad Amin, Andrew Gordon Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09177 https:/…

Scalable and Flexible Causal Discovery with an Efficient Test for Adjacency
To make accurate predictions, understand mechanisms, and design interventions in systems of many variables, we wish to learn causal graphs from large scale data. Unfortunately the space of all possible causal graphs is enormous so scalably and accurately searching for the best fit to the data is a challenge. In principle we could substantially decrease the search space, or learn the graph entirely, by testing the conditional independence of variables. However, deciding if two variables are adja…

Without intentional synthesis, "data driven" always means validating the biases baked into your semantic environment.
Data points that don't fit an org's established assumptions are easily swept under the rug.
Anyone interested in real insights needs to go data gathering and adopt a synthesis process that allows them to holistically inhabit that data, and intentionally curate a receptive semantic environment.

Don’t make “data-driven product decisions” — build a data-driven semantic environment
Like “growth mindset” or “agile development,” data-driven decision making has snuck its way into the way almost every product org describes itself. The trouble is that it doesn’t mean anything —…

Does anyone have a spare head of lettuce for comparison purposes?
Narendra Modi faces first coalition test as allied parties demand cabinet seats https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/…

'The Kremlin has a particular hatred of Protestants and evangelical Christians and Moscow sees anyone affiliated with US churches as "foreign agents."'
Why Russians Called Exorcist for Ukrainian POW Who Was an Evangelical Christian
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Why Russians called exorcist for Ukrainian POW who was an evangelical Christian
Viktor Cherniiavskyi said he was tortured by Russian separatists in 2104 and forced to undergo an exorcism.