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But he had not been an apprentice before making this, he started the apprenticeship that year, and this is supposed to be the first thing he ever painted.

> Michelangelo's biographers—Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) and Ascanio Condivi (1525–1574)—tell us that, aside from some drawings, his first work was a painted copy after a well-known engraving by Martin Schongauer (1448–1491) showing Saint Anthony tormented by demons. Made about 1487–88 under the guidance of his friend and fellow pupil Francesco Granacci, Michelangelo's painting was much admired; it was even said to have incited Ghirlandaio's envy. [https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/michelan...]


I can’t respond much too this being Michelangelo’ painting, but if he was an apprentice under his fellow pupil it’s possible that he just did minor things or filled in. It was how you learned. You did final retouching and such.

The idea is that e.g. the government would give you an app that lives on your phone. When you apply for the app you provide some documents to prove your age, but you don't say anything about what sites you plan to visit. When you want to visit an age-restricted site you use the app to generate a proof that you have it, but the site doesn't learn anything more than that, and the government doesn't learn that you used the app.


> the government would give you an app that lives on your phone

And you don’t see a problem with this part?


Yeah, that sounds very unlikely. The full paper dismisses the possibility:

> Another possible explanation to consider is that the current indings were caused by cross-cueing (one hemisphere informing the other hemisphere with behavioural tricks, such as touching the left hand with the right hand). We deem this explanation implausible for four reasons. First, cross-cueing is thought to only allow the transfer of one bit of information (Baynes et al., 1995). Yet, both patients could localize stimuli throughout the entire visual field irrespective of response mode (Experiments 1 and 5), and localizing a stimulus requires more than one bit of information. Second, [...]

I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness. But they also mention this possiblity, which seems more plausible to me:

> Finally, a possibility is that we observed the current results because we tested these patients well after their surgical removal of the corpus callosum (Patient DDC and Patient DDV were operated on at ages 19 and 22 years, and were tested 10–16 and 17–23 years after the operation, respectively). This would raise the interesting possibility that the original split brain phenomenon is transient, and that patients somehow develop mechanisms or even structural connections to re-integrate information across the hemispheres, particularly when operated at early adulthood.


> I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness.

Indeed:

"Our findings, however, reveal that although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other, the brain as a whole is still able to produce only one conscious agent."

Which is materially impossible, given the premise.


> although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other

How confident are we in this? Both hemispheres talk to singular organs, for instance.


They are regulating websites anyway, surely they can just invent some standard format to say what function each cookie has. How about requiring that the name of every cookie has to start with one of "Strictly Necessary", "Functional", "Performance", and "Targeting/Advertising"?


The F-22 itself was delayed because of the end of the cold war. The original plans were to have it enter service in 1995, and then this slipped by a year or two. They could have had it being pass produced from 1997, but they delayed it because of the peace dividend. (This is from Aronstein et al, "ATF to F-22 Raptor"). So one should not consider the 2005 date as "how long it took".


The Rust compiler always produces quite large binaries compared to other programming language. I notice there's a (closed) issue on the Zed github [https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/34376],

> At this time, we prioritize performance and out-of-the-box functionality over minimal binary size. As is, this issue isn't very actionable, but if you have concrete optimization ideas that don't compromise these priorities, we'd be happy to consider them in a new issue.


Surely your graph shows it declining dramatically? If you zoom out a bit [https://crimeforecast.substack.com/p/explaining-the-crime-de...] we're currently at almost an all-time low, you have to go back to the 1950s to find similarly low numbers.


I imagine the 2025 section is anomalously low due to lack of data availability and the graph's unwillingness to extrapolate


I'm guessing they mean it detected a different vehicle and pedestrian but not the ones it hit. (If it was the victim I don't think they would have said "a".)


The radioactive lead isotopes come from decay of uranium and thorium, so lead from different mines will have different isotope ratios depending on how much U and Th happened to be in that ore.

Not all leaded gasoline was the same either:

> 206Pb/207Pb ratios commonly found in Pb ores throughout the world range between 16.0–18.5 and 1.19–1.25, respectively (Hansmann and Köppel, 2000). Exception to this rule is the commonly used Pb ore from the Broken Hill deposit, Australia, which is characterised by extremely low 206Pb/207Pb ratios (1.03–1.10). On the other hand, Pb originating from the Mississippi Valley ore deposit, USA, exhibits significantly more radiogenic Pb isotopic composition (206Pb/204Pb N20.0; 206Pb/207Pb= 1.31–1.35) (Doe and Delevaux, 1972). American leaded gasoline reflected therefore significantly higher 206Pb/207Pb ratios compared to European gasoline (Fig. 1). The introduction of the European leaded gasoline around 1945 resulted in a steep decrease of the 206Pb/207Pb ratio of atmospheric Pb (Weiss et al., 1999; data from peat deposits). The isotopic composition of leaded gasoline was to some extent dependent on economical factors, such as the availability and price of Pb ores and has evolved due to the different Pb ores used. For example, Pb used for French leaded gasoline originated from Australian, Moroccan and Swedish ores and the contribution of the separate ores changed during time (Véron et al., 1999). It is therefore indispensable to gather data concerning the origin of gasoline used in studied regions.

[from https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2007.10....]


The telescope is panning to keep the comet still in the frame during the exposure.


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