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The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely *increased the demand for slave labor* because it [made cotton growing so much more profitable](https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent#:~:text=While%20it%20was%20true%20that,both%20land%20and%20enslaved%20labor).
A Year of New Avenues
Robin Sloan
A martini is supposed to be made to the drinkers’ preferences; a martini-drinker needs to know her preferences and how to assert them. The significant other of a martini-drinker should also know these things, as well as how to make one.
On Martinis 🍸
Alicia Kennedy
The great mathematician Gottfried Leibniz who is credited with being one of the inventors of calculus, once said that
> Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Implicit in this statement is the notion that all of us who appreciate music must, on at least a subconscious level, be appreciating its mathematical structure.
Mathematics of Music
ams.jhu.edu
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