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If someone can post instructions, I’d be happy to follow them and make a copy as well.

For what it's worth, my own procedure:

1. Create a GCS bucket

2. Open https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?ws=!1m4!1m3!3m2!1s...

3. For each table under google_political_ads, run the following query: SELECT * FROM `bigquery-public-data.google_political_ads.<TABLE>` FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 6 DAY) GROUP BY country;

3. Export as CSV in GCS

Another procedure that is probably better but requires BigTable is:

1. Open https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?ws=!1m4!1m3!3m2!1s...

2. For each table, click Snapshot and set Snapshot time to Sep 23 (Sep 24 works as well)


More things should be like the Interstate System when federal money is involved: locally budget, appropriate, source, build/implement, and when it meets federal guidelines, you get reimbursed.

And now I have come around to the opinion that using this method to confuse the LLM bots is not only acceptable, but is to be encouraged.

CTE: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurological disorder observed in people with repeated brain trauma.[1]

I felt like a quick context assist would be helpful.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...


I don't disagree by at this point NFL and CTE are basically synonyms.

This was a high school player.

Would high school football be played at a level that causes CTE in its players if the NFL didn't exist?

Surely not, but it still seems wrong to blame the NFL for something they objectively had no involvement in.

I am glad we're learning more about this and I do think changes are needed, but let's not forget that medical progress takes time. If the NFL was trying to ignore it then I'd be for grabbing the pitchforks, but they are not doing that. We can't reasonably retroactively crucify them for something nobody knew at the time


The NFL did more than just ignore it, they actively tried to discredit the entire concept and destroy the reputation of the doctor who discovered it!

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/league-of-de...

https://www.ucs.org/resources/nfl-tried-intimidate-scientist...


Showing that our concept of mathematics is slightly erroneous

> … Most undergraduate students do not go to office hours, try to get to know their instructors, ask follow-up questions

This was actively discouraged by the instructors in the school I attended. Not by policy, but by behavior - passive-aggressively belittling students for not “getting” the subject matter, showing a complete lack of interest in reciprocating any amount of getting to know the instructor.

> … ask follow-up questions, pursue independent research, or do anything approaching "apprenticeship". Most American students matriculate into college/uni not even having ingrained behaviors that make any of these things obvious or approachable …

A failure of secondary education and students’ families.


I was talking with a professor yesterday who claimed his students don't ask questions any more on Piazza. They used to, but now they go to ChatGPT which is always perky and ready to answer. Plus, there's no shame in asking a dumb question as there can be in class or on Piazza.

He says it's only a matter of time before the students realize they don't need him. Or need to pay tuition.


We're already there with the "do my own research" crowd.

Im not a huge defender of college and lean towards it being mostly a waste, but the other extreme is problematic.


Most people don’t go to the university to learn, they go to get a diploma. If you don’t pay tuition they will not give you a diploma.

And we’ve all been sold a bill of goods on the necessity of diplomas and degrees. Because businesses have been sold a bill of goods on the quality of employees with diplomas and degrees.

Within at least the last 15 years, the paper provided by a school is no guarantee of better pay - but that’s how high schoolers are convinced to go into excessive debt for attending post-secondary schools.


> the paper provided by a school is no guarantee of better pay

Perhaps not, but the lack of that paper IS a guarantee of worse pay.


> … world-class researchers …

These people can’t possibly be at every university, let alone colleges, community colleges, or technical schools.

> … rote memorization and bad classes …

Not every school will be good. There are at least three post-secondary schools within driving of me that take the minimum required curricula as a script and offer nothing more than the bare minimum required to get certification, accreditation, and receive that sweet state and federal budget money.

I can’t imagine how someone with a good or great post-secondary education is confused that this would be the situation for millions of students.


Is it “disparagement” if it’s a list of facts? I’m not saying hers is a list of facts, I’m only asking the question.

I feel like the “bending ice makes electricity” bit is years, if not decades, old. Now I’m off to explore the rabbit holes and understand my own memory.

I searched as much as I could but couldn't find anything. Please let me know, I feel like my memory is faulty.

Poking at this dissertation (Continuum and Computational Modeling of Flexoelectricity by Sheng Mao):

https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3bc2...

> Flexoelectricity, ever since its discovery, has been regarded as an alternative of piezoelectricity at small scales. In fact, as early as the 1960s, Koehler et al. (1962), Turch´anyi, G. et al. (1973), Whitworth (1975) found that edge dislocations in centrosymmetric materials, such as sodium chloride, carry charge. Later, Perenko & Whitworth (1983) extended the observation to another kind of centrosymmetric material, ice. Piezoelectricity vanishes in these materials, therefore cannot be the source. Instead, a “pseudo-piezoelectric” effect was postulated by Evtushenko et al. (1987) for an explanation, which was later shown to be a result of flexoelectricity Mao & Purohit (2015).

Emphasis added.

So I think this was known but not fully understood by the time Perenko & Whitworth published Electric currents associated with dislocation motion in ice in 1983?

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=69134483967663101...

> In this paper we describe [an] experiment in which a small current is observed due to the movement of dislocations during plastic deformation [of ice].

The same authors of the paper TFA discusses published a preprint in 2022, which could also be what you're thinking of: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00323


The important part about applying ROT13 is the number of iterative applications. The security of even-numbered applications is undeniable. Odd-numbered is even better than that.

I’m currently building an implementation with fractional rotation. Of course I will post a Show HN when it’s ready.


oh so that's where æ comes from!

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