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‘It’s food for thought – or rather mind wine’
“ A slight twist of lime rhyme be chasing down your primetime It’s food for thought or rather mind wine” Nas’ It Was Written dropped in 1996. It was the follow-up album to his seminal and...
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Johann Sebastian Bot
When I play piano in my spare time, I usually find myself playing some jazzy chords and improvising a melody to go along with them. Recently, I wondered how it is that I know what notes to play next. I...
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Features and weights: how computers learn
We want to come up with a way to predict how much a house costs. Let’s use three measurements in our prediction: number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, and number of floors. Here’s a simple...
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I’m going to propose a bit of a transition. We’ve been utilizing Yuppity over the past year or so as a place for our group of friends to post longform articles that we’ve written from time to time. For...
View ArticleThe Fermi Paradox #waitbutwhy
Here is a great article I found a few months back on waitbutwhy. http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html Here’s a few juicy quotes to get you started (but really, just read it). As many stars...
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JSB 2.0 or Computer-generated music using simple Python code
Computer-generated music is starting to pop up more and more. People have figured out what makes music sound good, and they’ve been able to codify those things in software. On top of that, people have...
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Coase, firms, and governments: two important takeaways
I’ve been thinking about a couple classic papers by Ronald Coase (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1991) lately. Here are some ideas that I think are important. *** There are transaction costs associated...
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Gender Identity in Youth: A (Scathing) Rebuttal
There has been an astounding amount of attention on social media (and I cringe as I accept this platform as a medium for discourse) about an article regarding gender identity in childhood and...
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Supply Management: How Dairy Farmers Milk Consumers
My neighbour is a dairy farmer. He sells milk to the local grocery store for $1 per litre. I have a farm too, and I think I can produce milk cheaper (for whatever reason: I have access to better feed,...
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Our Health Is Socially Determined
In nursing school I learned about the social determinants of health. I read countless pages, wrote lengthy papers and sat in many lectures all dedicated to the topic. But despite this ‘knowledge’ I...
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