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Good point! I did include snowball Earth as one of the events in an earlier draft, but felt it was out of place and confusingly too similar to the writeup about Pannotia’s effects on life. There are many more theories on what contributed to the development of complex multicellular life, and it’s possible that it’s a result of multiple coinciding factors. But for this narrative centered on plate tectonics, I thought it made the story clearer to not include the snowball Earth hypothesis.

This was the original writeup for the glaciation event:

# Snowball Earth

Between 715 to 635 million years ago, the Earth experienced a series of intense and extensive glaciations that covered the planet in ice.

The earliest fossils of large multicellular life are dated soon after the end of these “Snowball Earth” conditions. Some theorise that the increased selective pressure during glaciation, followed by the return of vast coastal environments without competitors, helped drive the diversification of multicellular life.

References

Gee, H. (2021). A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

McCall, G.J.H. (2006). The Vendian (Ediacaran) in the geological record: Enigmas in geology's prelude to the Cambrian explosion. Earth-Science Reviews, 77(1–3), 1-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.08.004.

Lenton, T.M., Boyle, R.A., Poulton, S.W., Shields-Zhou, G.A., & Butterfield, N.J. (2014). Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era. Nature Geoscience, 7(4), 257–265. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2108

I’ve created a tool that shows the movements of Earth’s continents throughout time on an interactive globe. It also includes a brief history of the evolution of life, highlighting the impact plate tectonics may have had on life.

What do you think about it? This was a personal project of mine and I’d love your thoughts on ways to improve it!

I was wondering what this project had to do with GitHub. Looks like the only feature from GitHub that this addresses is the global username namespace, which it decentralises using the blockchain.

Here's the article associated with the project: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor...

It looks like you are supplying the linked document as a reference to support the statement that “Osama bin Laden predicted that America would overreact.” However, I am having trouble figuring out the connection between the linked document and the statement.

The document is from some time after 2009, as it makes references to Obama delaying the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. I failed to find any passage where he references previous statements he made in the past. From these observations, I am guessing that the prediction you are talking about is of some overreaction that takes place some time after 2009.

However, I am failing to find this prediction of overreaction you are referring to in the document. I’m assuming that’s a failure on my part to read between the lines in bin Laden’s writing, and I’m hoping you could clarify that.

Section 9 in the paper[1] is all about comparing these mistakes between the system and humans. The most common mistakes for humans and the system are in tables 9—11.

We find that the artificial errors are substantially the same as human ones with one large exception confusions between backchannel words [acknowledgment words like “uh-huh”] and hesitations.

The difference they found, but suspect might be a result of the different transcription guidelines of the training corpus: we see that by far the most common error in the ASR system is the confusion of a hesitation in the reference for a backchannel in the hypothesis. People do not seem to have this problem.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05256

I think that's a reference to Einstein's famous ridicule of quantum mechanics, "spooky action at a distance".

The title is a reference to a minor sarcastic remark made in the blog post: a forged document containing the font Calibri was claimed to be last saved (in 2002) before Microsoft released the font (in 2006), yet the questionable Turkish court disregarded this indication of tampering with the last-saved date and accepted the document as factual. In fact, most of the post has nothing to do with Microsoft.

Bear in mind, this is not a news article, but just a blog post from 2012.

Especially odd since it's a retina Macbook Pro, which has a single shared audio in/out jack, which means no use of headphone / external speaker either.

Another comment from them: "Site is down for hosting a mayor [sic] amount of ISIS stuff."[1] They also tweeted about bringing down several other supposedly ISIS-related sites. I'm guessing they're not aware of what the Internet Archive does...

[1] https://twitter.com/AttackNodes/status/743170229426094080