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Citizens of San Francisco have a right to know what our leaders are planning to do to slow/stop the spread of Coronavirus in our city.

We know now that community spread is already happening here in SF, which means it's only a matter of time before we need to take more drastic measures to encourage (or enforce) a higher degree of social distancing to "flatten the curve" and avoid a worst-case-scenario where our healthcare infrastructure is overwhelmed, all at once, like it is happening today (March 9th) in Italy ([1], [2], [3]).

Even if we assume the Mayor London Breed, SFUSD Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews, and other local community leaders have a plan to take dramatic action when the time is right, th

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Principles of the American Cargo Cult

I wrote these principles after reflecting on the content of contemporary newspapers and broadcast media and why that content disquieted me. I saw that I was not disturbed so much by what was written or said as I was by what is not. The tacit assumptions underlying most popular content reflect a worldview that is orthogonal to reality in many ways. By reflecting this skewed weltanschauung, the media reinforces and propagates it.

I call this worldview the American Cargo Cult, after the real New Guinea cargo cults that arose after the second world war. There are four main points, each of which has several elaborating assumptions. I really think that most Americans believe these things at a deep level.

Ignorance is a virtue

Coursera: Machine Learning; Exercise 4 Tutorial

Coursera: Machine Learning; Exercise 4 Tutorial
Step 6: Random Initialization

	# DOOM E1M1 ESC tune
	#
	# Compatible with https://esc-configurator.com
	#
	# Originally adapted by Rox Wolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ5DpbyOHik
	#
	# Enjoy!

	# ESC1:
	e1m1:b=420,o=4,d=32:8c4,8p,4c4,4c5,8c4,8p,4c4,4a#4,8c4,8p,4c4,4g#4,8c4,8p,4c4,4f#4,8c4,8p,4c4,4g4,4g#4,8c4,8p,4c4,4c5,8c4,8p,4c4,4a#4,8c4,8p,4c4,4g#4,8c4,8p,4c4,1f#4

	Button*

	unlocked*
	default*
	mouseEnter -> hovered

	hovered
	mouseLeave -> default
	mouseDown -> pressed

	// The `loader` argument is a Dataloader instance
	// https://github.com/facebook/dataloader
	const makeLoader = (loader) => {
	class Dataloader extends React.Component {
	state = {data: null, isLoaded: false};
	componentWillMount() {
	this.prefetchData(this.props);
	}
	componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
	if (this.props.id !== nextProps.id) {

	const styles = StyleSheet.create({
	list: { /* etc */ },
	hover: { /* etc */ },
	});

	export default class List extends React.Component {
	static propTypes = {
	style: React.PropTypes.style,
	hoverStyle: React.PropTypes.style,
	};

	var Style = require('react-free-style').create()

	var BUTTON_STYLE = Style.registerStyle({
	backgroundColor: 'red',
	padding: 10
	})

	var ButtonComponent = Style.component(React.createClass({

	// You must define `contextTypes` to access `freeStyle`.

	MySimpleComponent = React.createClass
	render: -> <pre>{@props.mytext}</pre>

	MyComponent = React.createClass
	render: ->
	<ul>
	@props.items.map (item) =>
	<li><a href="#" onClick={@props.handleClick}>{item}</a></li>
	</ul>

	license: mit
	border: no
	height: 420