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riceissa / liquid_room.cue
Last active September 21, 2015 23:28
cue file for fishmans live at liquid room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczBATZenDg
REM GENRE "Japanese Dub"
REM DATE "1997"
REM COMMNENT "source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczBATZenDg"
PERFORMER "Fishmans"
TITLE "1997.12.12 Shinjuku LIQUID Room"
FILE "FISHMANS LIVE 1997.12.12 Shinjuku LIQUID Room.mp3" MP3
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Oh! Crime"
PERFORMER "Fishmans"
REM Intro with Weather Report (blurb)

This is a timeline of online dating services that also includes broader events related to technology-assisted dating (not just online dating). Where there are similar services, only major ones or "the first of its kind" are listed.

Full timeline

Year Service Notes
1690 Personal advertisements first appear in British newspapers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_ethics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Broome_(philosopher)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Ord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_and_Persons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_What_Matters
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riceissa / .vimrc
Last active December 18, 2015 06:28
set nocompatible
set nomodeline modelines=0
filetype plugin indent on
syntax enable
inoremap <C-u> <C-g>u<C-u>
inoremap <C-w> <C-g>u<C-w>
inoremap <C-r> <C-g>u<C-r>
nnoremap K <C-^>
set hidden number ruler showcmd
set expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 tabstop=4
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riceissa / Good_Ventures_Grants_Database.csv
Last active March 29, 2017 23:59
good ventures grant table
We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: Unclosed quoted field in line 9.
"Grant","Organization","Topic","Date of Award","Amount"
"Accountable Justice Project — General Support","Accountable Justice Project","Criminal Justice Reform","04/2016","$350,000"
"Against Malaria Foundation — General Support","Against Malaria Foundation","Global Health & Development","12/2011","$500,000"
"Against Malaria Foundation — General Support","Against Malaria Foundation","Global Health & Development","12/2012","$1,250,000"
"Against Malaria Foundation — General Support","Against Malaria Foundation","Global Health & Development","12/2014","$5,000,000"
"Against Malaria Foundation — General Support","Against Malaria Foundation","Global Health & Development","01/2016","$22,845,500"
"Against Malaria Foundation — General Support","Against Malaria Foundation","Global Health & Development","01/2017","$15,080,000"
"AI Impacts — General Support","AI Impacts","Potential Risks from Advanced AI","12/2016","$32,000"
"Alliance for Open Society International — Albanian Renaissance","Alliance for Open Society Interna
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riceissa / generate.py
Last active March 29, 2017 23:56
open phil grant database
#!/usr/bin/python3
# Automatically generate the grant amounts of the grants table in the Open
# Philanthropy Project Wikipedia article [1]. This script requires the grants
# CSV file from the Open Phil website [2].
#
# [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Philanthropy_Project
# [2] http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants
import csv
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riceissa / gd.py
Last active May 7, 2016 22:13
gradient descent example
#!/usr/bin/python3
def gradient_descent(f, f_prime, x_0, alpha, num_iter=5):
x_prev = x_0
x = x_0
for k in range(num_iter):
x = x - alpha * f_prime(x)
print("x=", x, "f(x)=", f(x), "diff=", x_prev - x)
x_prev = x

This page is a timeline of senescence research, including major theories, breakthroughs and organizations. "Senescence" here refers to "Ageing" rather than the phenomena of cellular senescence, which is a change in cell state associated with ageing, cancer prevention, wound healing, regeneration and embryonic/placenta development.

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