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Interestingly enough, I was able to do my plyometrics workout this morning, which consists of a lot of jumping and squats. The muscle mechanics of jumping up and down do not seem to both the particular location in the calf that is injured, but running does. It's like pushing off my foot vertically ...

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Teachers in my district have voted to "work-to-rule" until they all get vaccinated. Which means, they will only work during contracted hours, not beyond to amp up some pressure on administration. It has been really disappointing how little mind is being paid toward teachers and all on how ...

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I will shift quickly to a much simpler argument. Loan burdens are disproportionately on people of color population because they do not have inheritance that white people commonly have. Forgiving the loan will give a lot of people of color some considerable newfound improvements to their wellbeing, a...

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What budget shortfall? Nobody's talking about whether we can afford to spend on defense budget or bailing out corporations. But when it's people, bollocks to the sheets.

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And that's what I think is lost in conversations here.

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But can Trump's actions fit the legal definition of incitement? And if the case isn't ironclad against him, what does that do 4-8 years from now? Are we destined to just keep litigating past Presidents? I'm personally stuck between "Do consequences for Trump merit the costs in precedent?"...

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it has been absolutely a cluster in MD. Two things going on at the same time: Federal agencies are telling people to go out in the state and get vaccinated, and state is basically telling people to ask federal agencies to get vaccinated through Continuity of Operations Planning. So lots of confusion...

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I learned that moose's natural predator is orca whales.

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Definitely tax high frequency trading. Unclear there's a point in high frequency trading other than trying to corner the market so quickly that nobody could react easily.

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Though, hedge fund was on hook for massive loss, but somehow through pulling of strings, less worse off. I think it really exposed the problems with stock market, and how in a sense, it's for rich people to make money off us instead of truly benefitting the community. Everytime someone tries to expl...

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Snoring. Less interruptions overnight. Own mattress, own comfort.

I get up at 4:30 AM these days, my wife goes to bed at 1 AM. Because of pandemic-induced screwy schedule. So makes sense to have own bedroom, and we get better quality sleep that way.

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Regardless, two groups where the puzzles should be easier are students and yew labs. Can't guarantee that they all are doable, but there are tons of interesting stuff in there.

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Mike, had no idea you signed up.

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you miiiiiight be able to see the puzzles here: https://perpendicular.institute/ just to see the sheer magnitude of the puzzle hunt.

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That's normal. Yesterday or today is one of the rare safe spaces that actually allowed us to start processing exactly what had happened. It's very much like leaving an abusive relationship. So what you are experiencing is a normal reaction. You start to unclench your ass and your teeth and bam, all ...

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Biden just became 46th president. Let's see how long this thread goes on... (My guess, not very.)

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Fuck. The abuses we have endured. Many didn't endured this abuse.

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One of the easier puzzles I have solved "Express yourself" Which contained only a picture of text exchanges, with 22 messages, and 4 "typing". Each message is something like "I filed my teeth so they fit diagonally with one other". I absolutely loved this, because as a ...

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Our team of about 30 finished in top 41 out of 340 something (for solving at least 1 main round meta. We solved 3 collectively.), by the way, with 138 + infinite number of puzzles solved.

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Just having had an experience of my first ever MIT puzzle hunt, and hoo boy, having no real prior experience of puzzle hunt in the past, this is equivalent of diving into the deep end! Fortunately, I was on a great team ~30 active participants, with a whole shebang of set up that made this much more...

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B. Some GOP House members reported that they wouldn't vote for impeachment because of the sheer volume of death threats aimed at them and their families coming from the same whackjob MAGA-heads that threaten local health officials for accurately reporting numbers or who have sent this same heinous ...

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*punching your face* We must...*pow* unify *pow* or else! *pow!*

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There may be enough votes to impeach *and* convict.

EDIT: there's some cynical side to me is that GOP is going to try to move that they can move past Trump, and also, to prevent Trump from trying for 2024 run, clearing the space for others to run.

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however, the problem doesn't end there -- we need to compute expectation as well, now that we have probability distribution.

Thankfully, terms cancel out nicely to get us that summation exactly.

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Yep, came baxk to say you were correct in the first place after thinking overnight. When I have so many different tools, I get a bit flustered at times. Probability distribution isn't important, but rather, it can be projected as a random distribution between 0 and 1. Other way of viewing. Number of...

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my monte carlo simulation shows me that we're wrong. The answer is approximately e. Discussion: I figured out that it's best to select a point along the line of radius, and project it around the circle. So, effectively, sqrt(random) where random is (0,1), to generate a distribution that is more akin...

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Phew, If you ask me, the example is really really really terrible leading on. Removing the example seems to improve the puzzle significantly.

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I was going by the area. The expectation is half the area each shot. Then the expectation of the next half, but I think that's wrong.

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I think the flaw with that the assumption is that the probability is not distributed uniformly across the distance from the center. When I say that and seeing your work, I think I have a new idea. Going to be tricky to work it out.

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So it's just 2, 3, 5.

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But I suppose you could just cut everything at once, which is another question.

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See, not once in the question it says you could combine. By the header of the question, you get an impression that you only can generate square from squares by cutting it. In order to get to 6, you have to make rectangles somewhere in the process, so that was what caused me to rule it out.

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I want to recheck my assumptions, but it looks like infinite sum of k/2^k. Which is neat on own. However, that is assuming that the expectation is that the area would be halved with each shot. I am not convinced on that front. The ratio of radius is something like square root of 2. I just need to th...

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Okay. That just means to me that the question is just badly written because there's nothing that really suggested that. Slice was never defined.

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Have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

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Solution with explanation. I hated how this puzzle was written because it did two fourths in a row. Should have done one fourth then one ninth. Took me longer to understand the question than to work it out. Which brings me to the point about communication is extremely important in math. Anyway, my s...

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Oh. I see the problem. I could get 9 squares. Yeah, that question needed more examples.

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I re-read. I still have no idea what the puzzler is asking.

It seems like each time you divide a square, you lose the original square, and gain 4 squares. So you have a sequence that is basically add 3 squares, no?

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I don't really understand what the puzzle is asking

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Akiva wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:37 am I love the Twitter takes from a lot of right-wing guys (including Kevin Sorbo):
(1) We're going to storm the Capitol! Listen to the president!
(2) Yeah, we're doing it!
(3) Hey guys, maybe not so much violence.
(4) It was Antifa!

Lucy Lawless called out Sorbo.

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No. Don't make my birthday great again! Build our birthdays stronger and better, y'all!

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seditious.

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That should be the first thing. Along with putting two justices on supreme court, and replacing Souter.

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This is like weather forecasting. You set expectations based on available information. When weather event, weather forecasters should explain where things are going off the expectations so people can adjust accordingly. Same with pollsters. If something is wrong with polls, then pollsters should be ...

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Actually, in Georgia, two things happened. First, helluva of community effort to make the votes happen. And second, demographic shift.

And the psychological effect of feeling like votes matter for once is huge. Do not write off Dems in Georgia in the long run...they are only getting started.

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Just remember that it has been a horrible year, and I think taking a gap year wouldn't be a bad idea...we all need to recover and reorient ourselves in some ways.

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