A mathematician volunteers to teach a class at a women’s prison and learns an unexpected lesson. Told live at our Man Behind the Curtain Show on June 16, 2018 at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC.

via: https://geometrynyc.wixsite.com/home/combinatorics-reu

Hypothesis:

Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.

Thus making prices go up by forcing teams to scale up their operations and take up more space. The United States is capable of restaurants where quantity of sales, rather than quality, makes a business profitable—see the automat and the diner—but this kind of business has faded away in recent years.

Are the youth succumbing to a “negativity bias” where they see the past through “rose-colored glasses”? Are the economists looking at some ivory tower High Modernist metric that fails to capture real life? Or is there something more complicated going on?

As per usual in economics, the answer is “it’s complicated.”

But wanting to be a good person might be your most dangerous motivation.

If our movement is successful, it will be because of tens of thousands of people who all tried different things.”

I am not part of animal advocacy, but these are good rules to live by, nonetheless.

To his followers, this has always been the promise of Trump. Whatever bitterness you harbor in the recesses of your heart, you can hold it forward and be embraced. But these days it’s more than just social acceptance. You can enact vengeance on your chosen enemies in the real world. There’s an audience for your fearmongering and a protectorate for your prejudice.

I finally finished it omg

via: https://izzypaw.tumblr.com/post/805789399408427008

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

Actually cooked.

South Park S18E02.

Are we in hell yet?

see: https://realfood.gov/

On the whole, LLVM has a well-designed intermediate representation (IR), which is specified in the language reference. However, there are a number of areas where design mistakes have been made. And while the LLVM project is generally open to addressing such issues, mistakes in core IR design tend to be firmly embedded in the code base, making them hard to fix in practice. This blog post discusses some of the problems.

The blogosphere is not all sunshine and rainbows.

These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.

Absurd.

via: https://www.tumblr.com/ot3/801700640730611712

In this tutorial, I’ll be explaining the common technique that most people use for dispersion in custom glass shaders, why it’s bad, and how to make it good. We’ll explore stochastic sampling with a white noise texture, how to debug shaders when unexpected issues arise, and some basic concepts that will later be relevant to spectral rendering ;3

at this point my reasons for wanting to kill myself are less personal and more just that’s the only way to avoid being surveilled or marketed to constantly. this is the only opt out button we have left

This is easily the most raw thing I’ve ever read on LessWrong. I see a lot of similarities between myself and this person, and I think I don’t really want to be like them?? I dunno. The commends on this post are also quite fascinating.

Intelligence does not make you a feminist.

The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

Say their motherfucking names.

So much for Black Lives Matter.

Since our last blog post about CatColab, we’ve had two releases, meaning we’re now at v0.4: Robin. This brings a few major new features, including compositional notebooks and novel analyses for Petri nets.