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What Is A Fever?

The textbook definition of a fever is 100.4 Fahrenheit and 38 Celcius. This number is created by sampling a bunch of people who are considered not sick and using their average temperature as a "norm."


How Can I Have A Meaningful Conversation With People?

It is hard to get people to go off script, particularly if they are not speaking in their native language, or trained to speak in front of a microphone. In order to get people to open up and talk about their challenges, you need to be empathetic and sincere. Being an objective and detached observer does not work. You have to get outside of your comfort zone and share your own hopes and fears and insecurities.


How Do You Find Happiness?

Justin Kan is a entrepreneur and investor who is probably best known for Twitch TV. Justin has been featured on Smash Notes before in a podcast where he talked openly about his successes and failures. He openly discussed that money does not equal happiness, and how and why he's struggled with self for a long time. Justin has recently put his thoughts into an essay -- Feeling Good: Justin Kan Program -- which is definitely worth a read, especially if you are not feeling 100% happy with your own self.


How Do You Program An Ai To Produce Something That Is Pure Creative?

It’s difficult to do. There are algorithms that try to mimic curiosity. When an AI agent is playing the creative mode in Minecraft and comes across something it didn't predict, it will be surprised, and that gives it a happy little bonus. So naturally, you'll try to seek new areas. Those type of algorithms aren't as well developed compared to maximizing an objective or win rate.


How Is Anger With Us During Some Of The Best Moments Of Our Lives?

Some examples of anger during the best moments of our lives are when we have special occasions like vacations and weddings. These events are often marred by bad frustrations in the moment, but are ultimately forgotten once things turn out well.


What Does Alfonse Do?

He is wearing only one garment— a black thong. He partially removes Belinda’s clothing and then steps back to look at her body. Later, he asks if Belinda would visit his office in Brussels.


What Is Odd About The Situation?

Strauss states that it’s odd that Adea’s ex-boyfriend is basically the gatekeeper of her information. He had someone hack into her iCloud account to get her last messages on text and WhatsApp.


What Makes Y Combinator Startup School Such A Special Event?

The content for Startup School is of course important, but the community and advisors that exist around this endeavor is what makes it truly special.


What Are The Health, Policy, And Market Implication Of Covid19 Lockdown?

Health: We need to ramp up testing to get a better idea of who is infect and how the virus is spreading.

Policy: It is frightening. If we keep with the status quo, 20-30% of American workforce will be unemployed by this summer.

Market: The world lives on 30 day food supply. If we isolate borders and stop food production, we are going to have a real food shortage crisis.


Is The Lockdown Necessary?

It's a nuanced question and it should be a little bit more involved in terms of treatment, testing and containment strategy. And it doesn't need to be so binary.

It may be that we need a more nuanced policy where you say, let's keep people over 65 years old, and give them a strong recommendation to stay home. Make sure that you distribute helpful drugs to doctors around the country. As soon as elderly people start having symptoms, they maybe get some treatment. But, you know, that's kind of an option. You keep 65 year olds at home, you do random test general population for antibodies. And once you hit a certain percentage of the population having been exposed to this thing, it may be that at that point you say, okay, the over 65 limit is lifted. You also do it with medicine being distributed.


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