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identity politics

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<> NUS-HIST301 American History

The idea of identity politics is proposed, that politics became associated with sub-population of identities:

  • Black Pride Movement
  • Chicano Activism
  • The American Indian movement
    • Termination of reservation system
    • Pan-Indian Rights
    • Alcatraz and Wounded Knee Occupations
  • LGBT movement
    • Stonewall
    • GLF starts marching
  • Asian American
    • Yellow Peril
    • Model minority movement
  • NOW Femanism Acts
  • Environmental Movement
    • Silent Spring
    • Cuyahoga River on fire
    • Richard Nixon creates the EPA
    • Earth Day

if and only if

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to prove that something goes both ways: given \(A\Rightarrow B\), and \(A \Leftarrow B\), \(A \Leftrightarrow B\).

If P != NP, then BPP in P

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We really really want to prove:

\begin{equation} \text{BPP} \subseteq \text{P} \end{equation}

which will give \(\text{P} = \text{BPP}\).


How about we replace the truly random bits on the random tape \(r \in \qty {0,1}^{\text{poly}\qty(|x|)}\) with “pseudo-randomness” bits and prove that \(M\) can’t tell the difference.

Namely, a thing that is “pseudo-random” is easier to brute force over. So, we ideally can brute force over \(\text{poly}\qty(n)\) many outcomes instead of \(2^{\text{poly}\qty(n)}\) in the case of true randomness.

immoral v-structure

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v-structure whose parents are unconnected are immoral

This is immoral:

This is moral

Immunogen Design

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Using a bunch of signals to create a 3d representation of the system

features

  • cyro-EM
  • x-ray
  • tomo
  • glynomics/libidomics
  • genetics

studying large-scale viron behavior

Misc. Discoveries bydoing a bunch of MD

  • proteins of specific virons “breath”: oning and closing an entire backbone group; this is not yet quantified in physical modeling
  • when its open, the “breathing open” motion causes the virus to be vunerable
  • *we don’t *
  • “we are so biased by what we can see experimentally”