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Avishalom Shalit

Avishalom Shalit

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Jan 10

The Best Way to Learn to Fly.

The best way to learn to fly a hang glider is by winch towing. Electric, tension controlled towing; on flat ground.

The Best Way to Learn to Fly.

Avishalom Shalit

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Sep 18, 2021

The Metric System on Goldilocks Earth.

Physical properties of Earth were “just right” not just for the development of life, but also for some very nice mathematical coincidences.

The Metric System on Goldilocks Earth.

Avishalom Shalit

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Jun 3, 2020

Whiteness in the USA

Written by XYZ ; “white-other” and “conditionally-white”: who counts as “white” in the US and why.

Whiteness in the USA

Avishalom Shalit

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May 30, 2020

A GTD hack for Slack

Adding “todo”s and “waiting-on”s in a slack workflow with emoji reactions.

A GTD hack for Slack

Avishalom Shalit

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Jul 22, 2019

Strange Things: Voting Anomalies in the Israeli General Election of March 2019

Below I present some voting/counting anomalies (with cool interactive plots). There might be innocent explanations for these. (or not)

Strange Things: Voting Anomalies in the Israeli General Election of March 2019

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Avishalom Shalit

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Jul 3, 2019

An Easy-to-Remember Rubik’s Cube Solution — Now with Videos

I’ve made short videos walking through the solution.

An Easy-to-Remember Rubik’s Cube Solution — Now with Videos

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Avishalom Shalit

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Jun 25, 2019

A Very Easy Rubik’s Cube Solution.

A minimal easy-to-remember method for solving the Rubik’s cube. This method is easy to remember whether you want to learn or to teach

A Very Easy Rubik’s Cube Solution.

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Avishalom Shalit

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May 10, 2019

Robots Sorting Cards

An offline activity for teaching CS concepts: programs, algorithms, sorting, assumptions, correctness, computational complexity etc. etc…

Robots Sorting Cards

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Apr 22, 2019

Innocent Interpretations for Some Suspicious Statistics; General Election Data Exploration.

The 2019 elections in Israel. Some results appear weird, sure, but is there evidence of actual malfeasance, or is there a simple…

Innocent Interpretations for Some Suspicious Statistics; General Election Data Exploration.

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Mar 3, 2019

Feature Engineering Time

Calculating statistics of circular/periodic features

Feature Engineering Time

Avishalom Shalit

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Data Science & Analytics, ML , AI and all the buzzwords (I used to be called an “Algorithm Developer”, which was the style at the time)

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