astrieanna

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leah.a.hanson at gmail. blog.leahhanson.us

Recurse Center alum. (Winter 2013 batch) Currently at Stripe; previously at Google.

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Comment · 4 years ago
I think we do know a little of it. They used limestone and an acid -- so the touching surfaces of the rock were softened, which is how they conformed so closely and precisely to each other.
Comment · 6 years ago
Have you tried taking classes or otherwise getting 1:1 coaching?
Comment · 10 years ago
Too high or too low?
Comment · 10 years ago
Having one vector file per size would involve each file being close to constant size. Adding one resized shape only adds twenty-some bytes (a few headers/indexes, plus the transformation matrix); this is a lot less than a whole new file.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
td;lr there's very weak evidence either way.

If the long list of evidence is too long for you, then it's totally worth clicking the "click here" link to jump to the author's summary at the end. The summary is readable and useful by itself -- and it is what you're looking for if you really just wanted him to summarize the research for you instead of telling you about all the relevant studies, one by one.

Comment · 12 years ago
I think they go into the basement, as they do when raising buildings today. I don't know what they'd do for buildings without basements.
Comment · 12 years ago
Looking at there websites, this one claims to absorb 6 teaspoons; Dear Kate's claims to absorb 3 teaspoons. That's the only difference I can see, beyond the partnership.
Comment · 12 years ago
From the FAQ on Mirabai Knight's website: http://stenoknight.com/FAQ.html#cartspeech

"Automatic speech recognition is not currently a substitute for human transcription, because computers are unable to use context or meaning to distinguish between similar words and phrases and are not able to recognize or correct errors, leading to faulty output. The best automatic speech recognition boasts that it's 80% to 90% accurate, but that means that, at best, one out of ten words will be wrong or missing, which results in a semantic accuracy rate that's often far lower than 90%, depending on which word it is."

(this is a subset of the answer to "Will speech recognition make CART obsolete?")

Comment · 12 years ago
I would expect the "snowball effect" to be pretty strong, especially for social interactions. Given a day where you tend to seek social interaction vs. a day when you tend to shy away from it, you can get a very different number of (practice) interactions.

There's a lot that can be learned by paying attention to other people and trying to understand what they're thinking. The earlier that someone who's not naturally adept at it realizes that this is important to pay attention to, the earlier they get better at social skills. Some of that can be highlighted for little kids while reading (story) books; paying attention to and asking questions about why the characters do the things in their interactions highlights the idea that other people do things for reasons, and that you can guess what they are (the guessing well is a skill).

Comment · 12 years ago
On the mobile version, zooming out (a couple of time, to some magic level) will suddenly make traffic appear (on the route and everywhere else), even while following the directions. I have not tried this on the desktop version.
Comment · 12 years ago
Considering that the 4 patients were teenage girls born without vaginas, it seems unlikely that they'd be able to tell how it compares to non-artificial one. Maybe that would be included in another study, on using it as a replacement (after injury/cancer).

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