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Five shapes of apartment buildings, each with 60 homes. Top left, a wide block with doors off a long hallway, is the most common type built today in the US.

Top center is common in Europe, often as a perimter block wrapping around a yard. Today we'll also look at a few other styles.

Which do you prefer?
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At many universities, standardized tests have fallen out of favor in undergraduate and graduate admissions, meaning committees give more weight to other elements of the files. This includes the essays.

I assume admissions professionals are talking about this, but *anyone* who sits on an admission committees needs to consider the possibility that non-trivial share of essays are AI-generated or at least AI-assisted.

I wonder if ChatGPT will lead to a pause or reversal of GRExit and SATexit.

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The Taliban is a subcontractor for World Cup construction projects in Qatar, which made its elites millions. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/how-taliban-helped-build-stadiums-qatar-world-cup/

BREAKING: White Man Listening To Podcast During Lunch Break. Updates To Follow...

i can't even look at my yeezy shoebox dioramas anymore without thinking about bad man

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Now that twitter is going to be a refuge for alt-right fascist conspiracy TERFs, I return to the sweet embrace of fedi, where none of these exist

Here is a nice photo of the sky.