Can you post the CPU info? I think it should be available from the BIOS.

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

I audited a class on the topic. The professor said something like, "Some folks think evolution isn't a fact, it's just a theory --- but they have it backwards! It is a fact...but it's a lousy theory."

Then there's the pitcher plant that isn't really carnivorous, but relies on excrement...it's not so much a pitcher as a toilet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_lowii

IIRC there are vast differences between the states. My recollection is that there is a very strong red state/blue state correlation, which is absolutely shocking (/s, obviously).

Also, https://www.cmqcc.org/

Millenia is thousands, epoch "Mya" is million years ago.

But as my stat mech professor once said, "what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?"

Edit: thanks to bisby, MBM.

Have you heard the joke about the SEO manager who walks into a bar pub saloon watering hole place to meet friends great cocktails beer on tap?

Only briefly skimmed, but don't you need nonlinearity for these things to work (e.g., rectifier, sigmoid...)? Else, it's just linear algebra, and more layers can't help (since matrices can be multiplied, the dimensionality is the only thing that matters). I don't think you can really get nonlinearity with one bit.

Not my field, so I'm sure I'm missing something. If anyone wants to ELI5 though...

As far as reinstalling and losing your data, you may want to just backup /home to a USB disk now.

You'll want to figure out the VPN issue, so maybe post what you know about that. Also post ifconfig -a or ip addr show. Also the output of route for good measure. Can you ping anything? Is it just a nameserver issue (try pinging 8.8.8.8 and kernel.org, for instance)?

Once you have network access, I'd install tmux if you're going to be spending any significant time debugging in the terminal :)

I like the sentiment, but there are non-peer reviewed papers that are real science. Politics and funding are real things, and there is a bit of gatekeeping here, which isn't really good IMHO.

Also, reproducibility is a sticky subject, especially with immoral experiments (which can still be the product of science, however unsavory), or experiments for which there are only one apparatus in the world (e.g., some particle physics).

Particularly for folks with long spines, height can change significantly throughout the day.

There's a certain irony in bemoaning subscription news paywalls on an article about the alternative, unsavory monetization paradigm...

Sir Mix-a-Lot about to drop a new single.

This is a memory that I hold dear with honor and glory.

FTFY

Wild turkeys can fly, too. It's impressive. I once came around a blind corner on my bike, there was a turkey in the road, and it took off in a manner I can only describe as 747esque --- it did not look like it should be able to fly, yet there it was, clearly flying.

That's my Signal alert sound.

If the research was conducted with public money, it should be freely accessible by the public, change my mind...

My 2¢ is that running Linux, you play the role of user and of sysadmin. On some distros you only put on the sysadmin hat once in a blue moon, but on others you're constantly wearing it.

My Arch experience is a few years out of date; I felt I played sysadmin more than, say, Debian Stable, but it wasn't too onerous. I also had an older Nvidia card, so there were some...fun issues now and then.

I use Debian on my machines now, and am happy. Try some different distributions! Even better, have /home on its own partition (better yet, own disk) --- changing distros can be nice and easy without worrying about your personal data.

Makefile in other comments. You'll need something like this on the title page (this assumes you use my Makefile which puts the version in VERSION.tex [that's the literal name of the file, not a placeholder]):

{\bf{\color{red}DOCUMENT REVISION:}} {\color{blue}\input{VERSION}}

I also had some Makefiles in other directories, e.g., for my media/ I had:

MAKE = make -s
RECURS = svgs/

recurs: $(RECURS)
        @$(foreach DIR, $(RECURS), \
                echo "MAKE      (CD)    $(CURDIR)/$(DIR)"; \
                $(MAKE) -C $(DIR) $(MAKECMDGOALS);)
        @echo "MAKE     (CD)    $(CURDIR)/"

all: recurs

clean:

allclean: recurs clean

and for media/svgs/:

SVG_FILES := $(wildcard *.svg)
PDFDIR := ./
PDF_FILES := $(patsubst %.svg,$(PDFDIR)/%.pdf,$(SVG_FILES))

all: $(PDF_FILES)

clean:
        @rm -f $(PDF_FILES)
        @echo "SH       (RM)    Tidying up derived PDFs"

allclean: clean

$(PDFDIR)/%.pdf: %.svg
        @inkscape -T --export-pdf=$@ $<
        @echo "INK      (PDF)   $<"