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‘Er zijn te weinig artrokinesiologen en zij hebben lange wachttijden. Dus ik ga nog even door’, beloofde fysiotherapeut/manueel therapeut Jan Kloosterman begin april in een interview met het Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (NvN). Jan Kloostermans ‘artrokinesioloog’- titel is nep - Vereniging tegen de Kwa

Financial status: This is independent research. I welcome financial support to make further posts like this possible. Epistemic status: I have been thinking about this post for years but still have not clarified it to my satisfaction. Agency in Conway’s Game of Life - LessWrong

Lois Lew operated the improbable, ill-fated machine with aplomb in presentations from Manhattan to Shanghai. 70-plus years later, she’s telling her story. long ReadI had seen this woman before. Many times now. I was certain of it. How Lois Lew mastered IBM’s 1940s Chinese typewriter

Since WHO declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic,1 2 healthcare systems all over the world have focused their efforts on limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and despite the ceaseless development of strategies to struggle with the impact of COVID-19, there is no sign of let-up. Misleading clinical evidence and systematic reviews on ivermectin for COVID

Falling from a great height, naked public speaking and simultaneously losing all your teeth. The content of our dreams is often quite weird. The Weirdness of Our Dreams Could Explain Their Function, Suggests New Theo

By conferring systemic protection and durable benefits, cancer immunotherapies are emerging as long-term solutions for cancer treatment. Adjuvant oncolytic virotherapy for personalized anti-cancer vaccination | N

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the United States. River Runner

Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive algorithms coordinated via complex, hierarchical workflows that last anywhere from minutes to years. The Netflix Cosmos Platform. Orchestrated Functions as a… | by Netflix Tech

Below are the slides of the A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD’s mitigations talk given at the 36c3 the 29th of December 2019. Is OpenBSD secure?

Worshiping the False Idols of Wellness - The New York Times

In my 15+ years of web development, there are very few things I can say are unequivocally a good idea. It almost always does depend. Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say it doesn’t really depend all that much. You might as well timestamp it |> Changelog

Unless you’ve been on a silent retreat for the past year, you will have almost certainly heard the rumours – that the pandemic is an elaborate hoax, or that the virus was created as a Chinese weapon, or that dangerous elites are trying to kill off the elderly and to establish a new world order, It's only fake-believe: how to deal with a conspiracy theorist | Society |

In the Palatine museum in Rome there is a collection of ancient graffiti etched on slabs of marble and limestone that once defaced the walls of palaces and public buildings across the Roman Empire. Among these is one that historians call “Alexamenos graffito”. The Earliest Depiction of Jesus Was a Mocking Tribute to Christianity | Amu

Taps-Aff (Scots Vernacular) Literally "tops off." The removing of one's shirt in the event of warm weather, a phenomenon rarely seen in Glasgow. Now an expression describing good times being had.1 Antonym: Taps-Oan, "tops on". Current Weather: Awright (Mostly Cloudy) Temperature: 7°C (45°F) Glasgow, Taps-Aff or Taps-Oan?

Back in those days, the Vietnam war is on the forefront of the news, TCP/IP didn’t exist yet, Jimmy Hendrix died 6 months ago, telnet was the new cool kid and some of the most influential rock n roll artists were about to release masterpieces while FTP was using a network protocol called NCP. FTP is 50 years old

Rachel Levin is a San Francisco–based journalist who has written for , , , and , where she was the first San Francisco restaurant critic. She is the author of , , and . Spun-out Teslas on snowy roads. Cabins bought for cash, sight unseen. A shoveling disaster. When the Techies Took Over Tahoe | Outside Online

China released its 14th Five-Year plan for economic development last month, including its intended next steps in technology. China’s Dystopian “New IP" Plan Shows Need for Renewed US Commitment to Int

Vader: „Hoe krijg ik mijn 13- jarige en 17-jarige dochter aan het lezen? De oudste leest momenteel een boek maar daar doet ze al zeker een paar weken over. Ze leest weinig en onregelmatig. De jongste heb ik al maanden geen boek meer zien lezen. Hoe krijg ik mijn dochters aan het lezen? - NRC

Here’s the thing about us Finns: we haven’t traditionally been very good at branding. In fact, seeing the brand-led global success stories originating from Sweden (IKEA, H&M, Spotify, Skype, Absolut Vodka, ABBA, Stieg Larsson, etc.), we’ve been overcome with jealousy. The Paris Review - How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country - The

Sixty years ago, a man went into space for the very first time. For the USSR, Yuri Gagarin’s single orbit of the Earth was a huge achievement and propaganda coup. There will be celebrations across Russia to mark the anniversary. Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space - BBC News

Writer at Neural by TNW — Thomas covers AI in all its iterations. Likes Werner Herzog films and Arsenal FC. A wireless brain-computer interface has been successfully tested on humans

I used to be a Google engineer. That often feels like the defining fact about my life. When I joined the company after college in 2015, it was at the start of a multiyear reign atop Forbes’s list of best workplaces. I bought into the Google dream completely. Opinion | After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again -

The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound questions and concepts in mathematics. Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. The Busy Beaver Game Illuminates the Fundamental Limits of Math | Quanta Ma

Lol, just kidding, we're about a third of the way. Keep scrolling though, there's more to see. Even the fortunes of very rich people are dwarfed by the incomprehensible wealth of the 0.0001%. Wealth, shown to scale

Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do terrorism and nuclear proliferation. The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands

They may have evolved by playing fast and free with genetic code. In 2008 the staff at Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany, had a mystery on their hands. Two mornings in a row, they had arrived at work to find the aquarium eerily silent: the entire electrical system had shorted out. How the octopus got its smarts - Cosmos Magazine

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Most new parents begin their parenting journey with some idea of how they want to discipline their children. Surely you would never let your three-year-old throw a fit in Target. Your kid won’t talk back to you because, of course, you are going to raise your children to be respectful. An Age-By-Age Guide to Disciplining Your Kid

On Wednesday, Bastien Nocera, the maintainer of a software library called shared-mime-info, informed Daniel Mendler, maintainer of a Ruby library called mimemagic, which incorporates Nocera's code, that he was shipping mimemagic under an incompatible software license. Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos

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How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects The Dictator A Product Manager that rejects any idea that did not come from them. The Sales Liaison A Product Manager who is only concerned with meeting the demands of the sales team, giving no thought to a holistic product vision. How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects

14 min read This guide will show you a reliable system for overcoming procrastination and achieving more. Note: This is a 3000+ word guide with theory, actionable advice, exercises, and videos. Sign up below to get a free PDF version so you can always refer to it. Procrastination Guide: Go From Procrastinate Hero To Procrastinate Zero

Je hoeft geen vegetariër te zijn om af en toe een vegaburger te eten. Felix de Boer (15), Liv ten Thije (15) en Noor van Weerdenburg (15, dochter van de redacteur) eten vlees als zij het voor het kiezen hebben en vegetarisch als hun ouders hun dat voorzetten. Ook prima. Een panel van pubers beoordeelt vegaburgers: ‘Kunnen we stoppen?’ - NRC

When you buy a USB charger, how do you know if you're getting a safe, high-quality charger for your money? You can't tell from the outside if a charger provides silky-smooth power or if it is a dangerous charger that emits noisy power that cause touchscreen malfunctions[1] and could self-destruct. A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best

By harnessing randomness, a new algorithm achieves a fundamentally novel — and faster — way of performing one of the most basic computations in math and computer science. Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. New Algorithm Breaks Speed Limit for Solving Linear Equations | Quanta Maga

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The text accompanying this page will hopefully get some updates in the future, but I wanted to get around to uploading this so people could play with it. Real-Time Wave Tracing

Wil je minder coronapatiënten op de intensive care? „Vaccineer dan eerst de dikke mannen van 50-plus”, zei Peter van der Voort, hoofd intensive care van het UMC Groningen, vorige maand in een interview in NRC. Evolutionair gezien zit het de dikke man niet mee - NRC

Twenty-one years after the last Spirit was delivered, the Air Force is working out how to build the exotic spare parts the bomber requires. The Air Force Is Having To Reverse Engineer Parts Of Its Own Stealth Bomber

At one point in her new book, the NPR journalist Michaeleen Doucleff suggests that parents consider throwing out most of the toys they’ve bought for their kids. ‘Hunt, Gather, Parent’: Timeless Advice for Parents - The Atlantic

Cloudflare Workers (CFW) (or Workers) have very much become part of my workflow when it comes to examining and ultimately improving frontend web performance (hopefully!). I use them both for work and personal projects. Cloudflare Worker recipes for frontend performance testing - Matt Hobbs

Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there's more going on in their strange little brains than we knew. A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children

JavaScript is a dynamic programming language that is mainly used to add interactivity to websites and applications. It’s a very flexible programming language used in frontend development, backend development, and game development, among many other uses. Comparing the best new JavaScript frameworks to React - LogRocket Blog

Even as more people are logging onto popular video chat platforms to connect with colleagues, family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford researchers have a warning for you: Those video calls are likely tiring you out. Four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their solutions | Stanford News

Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have invented a promising new blueprint for one — with properties akin to the novel RNA-based vaccine for COVID-19. First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven R

Algoritmes beïnvloeden steeds meer ons leven en onze relatie met de overheid. Als burger is het belangijk de controle te houden en de algoritmes die je gebruikt aan te passen aan de eigen situatie. Als de broncode beschikbaar is, kan dat. Broncode

How do urban planners and building developers cope as more and more people move to cities? There are a few things they might do. To begin with, they could physically make the city larger, widening its borders to cover surrounding land so as to accommodate more houses. Moore's Law Is Reaching Its Limits. Could Graphene Help? | Digital Trends

We’re used to medical chatbots giving dangerous advice, but one based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 took it much further. If you’ve been living under a rock, GPT-3 is essentially a very clever text generator that’s been making various headlines in recent months. Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. ‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos