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            "description": "Can you find the Solution?",
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            "title": "To Find Quarrel in a Straw",
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            "description": "I had so much fun the first time, I volunteered to host it again!",
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            "description": "A guest post for White Group Mathematics",
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            "description": "Approximate Atavising with Differentiable Automata",
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            "title": "GPT-3 and Claude Shannon Visit the Tartu-Moscow School",
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            "title": "Believing",
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            "description": "An old Levi's ad that ran when I lived in India went like this: \"It's the thread in your seams that's tied to your dreams. It's the soles in your feet that keep the beat.\"",
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            "description": "I, Thomasina Coverly, have found a truly wonderful method whereby all the forms of nature must give up their numerical secrets and draw themselves through number alone...",
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            "description": "What is it about birds?",
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