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Short story of how the first flights were made possible
David McCullough published a book a few years ago about the Wright brothers, who invented the airplane in the first decade of the 20th century. I wasn't…
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Nikita Sokolsky
How to take a perfect dating photo
A systematic, iterative approach
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Nikita Sokolsky

January 2024

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January 2023

August 2022

The many definitions of a "pandemic"
Or what it would take for the COVID pandemic to officially end
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Nikita Sokolsky
Sri Lanka vs chemical fertilizers: did organic farming ruin the country?
On April 22nd 2021, the President of Sri Lanka announced a ban on importing chemical fertilizer: The President’s Media Division yesterday informed that…
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Nikita Sokolsky

June 2022

Abortion advertising in 1971
A history of one billboard
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Can AGI destroy us without trial & error?
Or how the AI alignment community is forgetting that novel engineering is very, very difficult
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Nikita Sokolsky
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May 2022

Additional data on historical housing prices
Analyzing Silicon Valley, Seattle and Miami prices, as well as single-income households.
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Are housing prices worse than ever in history?
An attempt of objective apples to apples comparison
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March 2022

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