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Evening_Presence_927 t1_j4s7j3t wrote

around policing during their terms was the practice of stop and frisk. Lmao not even close https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gray_(police_officer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Amadou_Diallo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Anthony_Baez https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Dorismond https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Ousmane_Zongo ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Timothy_Stansbury https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Sean_Bell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_alleged_police_sodomy_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Premo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Ramarley_Graham All of those incidents happened during Giuliani and Bloomberg’s administrations. They have some serious blood on their

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lunar_unit t1_jdcj6zb wrote

years after Patrick Henry delivered his speech and eighteen years after his death, biographer [William Wirt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wirt_(Attorney_General\)) published a posthumous reconstruction of the speech in his 1817 work Sketches of the Life ... Character of Patrick Henry.[[2]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty,_or_give_me_death!#cite_note-FOOTNOTECohen1981702Footnote_2-2) **This is the version of the speech as it is widely known today and was reconstructed based on the recollections of elderly witnesses many decades later ... others invented parts of the speech including its famous closing words. >According to [Edmund Randolph](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Randolph), the convention sat in profound silence for several minutes after Henry's speech ended. [George Mason

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cashonlyplz t1_j9gtw93 wrote

reposting truth social adjacent BS like it's any better. Rumble is an [online video platform](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_video_platform) and [cloud services](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_service) business[[2]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(website\)#cite_note ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(website\)#cite_note-3) headquartered in [Toronto, Ontario](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto,_Ontario) with its U.S. headquarters in [Longboat Key, Florida](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longboat_Key,_Florida).[[4]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(website\)#cite_note-4) It was founded in October 2013 by Chris Pavlovski ... Canadian technology entrepreneur.[[5]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(website\)#cite_note-:0-5) The cloud services business hosts [Truth Social](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social), and the video platform is popular among [American right](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States)

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lazydictionary t1_ithejtu wrote

Just read the intro on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism). >However, they generally support [private property](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property), [market economies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_economy)...Liberals also ended [mercantilist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism) policies, [royal monopolies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_monopoly) and other [trade barriers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_barrier), instead promoting free trade and marketization.[](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism#cite_note-Gould,_p._3-14) [Classical liberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism) [Social liberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism) [mainstream Democrats], which are usually defined as center

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iMogwai t1_jdsi8qe wrote

Dennis uses his middle name Hugh as his stage name because the actor [Peter Dennis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dennis) was already a member of the performing arts union [Equity](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_(British_trade_union\)).[[16]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Dennis#cite_note-16) ... later revealed in a 2016 episode of BBC's [Would I Lie to You?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Would_I_Lie_to_You%3F_(game_show\)) that he had requested to keep his birth name as there was little chance of confusion between ... Peter Dennis was the chair of the union's naming committee at the time.[[17]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Dennis#cite_note-17)

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Pawneewafflesarelife t1_j3air3z wrote

Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a [hurricane](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane) (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, [Huracan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huracan)), ... oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a [typhoon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone I'm still fuzzy on the terms - moved to Australia and they

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Inlhia t1_is69oxi wrote

learning works. It’s based on Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development from the early 1900s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development Blended with Maslows Hierarchy of needs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs To create Bloom’s Taxonomy ... 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy#/media/File%3ABloom's_Revised_Taxonomy.jpg And distilled to the “Conscious Competence” learning model. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence These frameworks are the very basics of learning. Learning models are still evolving today but this is the best attempt

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BlackberryImaginary9 t1_jd86srm wrote

good list of films on the wikipedia sorted by year: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_artificial\_intelligence\_films](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_intelligence_films) ​ And [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_fictional\_artificial\_intelligences](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_artificial_intelligences)

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lucasbelite t1_j907sp8 wrote

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_carriage In a lot of areas a taxi license is called a hack license. Look up the etymology of hackney to get the first origin. > The [New York City](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) colloquial ... terms "hack" (taxi or taxi-driver), [hackstand](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_stand) (taxi stand), and hack license (taxi licence) are probably derived from hackney carriage. Such cabs are now regulated by the [New York City Taxi ... Limousine Commission](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Taxi_and_Limousine_Commission). And that will bring you to: > The origins of the word hackney in connection with horses and carriages are uncertain. The origin is often attributed to the London borough

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doc89 t1_jdqpmwp wrote

Tennessee Senate Bill 3, known as the Tennessee drag ban,[[1]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Senate_Bill_3#cite_note-1) is an anti-[drag](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_show) bill, which [bans](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_(law\)) public "adult cabaret performance" in front of children ... state of [Tennessee](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee). Why do we have to pretend to care about this stuff???????? Aren't there more important issues we can be talking about

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Ok-Ease5589 t1_j6zgz70 wrote

pico- to femtoseconds. There are some built by physicists that are in the attosecond regime. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrashort_pulse_laser https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_locking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_comb https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-18-12-13006&id=199923 There are other devices called pulse shapers that ... separate pulses that have a delay time similar to the duration of the original pulse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtosecond_pulse_shaping

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aclockworkporridge t1_ixh46ci wrote

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_and_Spirits_Fair_Dealing_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine_price-fixing_conspiracy https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna20388297 https://modernfarmer.com/2021/01/tyson-foods-to-pay-221-5-million-in-chicken-price-fixing-scandal-settlement/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/01/10/federal-lawsuit-alleges-16-elite-universities-engaged-in-price-fixing/?sh=8dca71873add https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-price-fixing-scandal-ever-82255/amp/ https://www.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-memorycards-pricefixing-lawsuit-idCABREA4D0MI20140514 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna41926712 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/ftc-takes-action-against-frontier-lying-about-internet-speeds-ripping-customers-who-paid-high-speed https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/16314-price-fixing-allegations-continue-to-tarnish-the-food-sector *~Everywhere you look

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SnooPoems2010 OP t1_iuwmfny wrote

Data sources used: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_prime\_ministers\_of\_the\_United\_Kingdom](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom)[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_prime\_ministers\_of\_the\_United\_Kingdom\_by\_length\_of\_tenure](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_length_of_tenure)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston\_Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill)

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albasri t1_is6bgph wrote

This is an example of an [inverse problem in perception](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_problem_in_optics). The light that finally reaches our retina is the product of three things: the nature of the illuminant (what wavelengths are emitted ... from above etc. When everything goes well, we achieve what is called [luminance and color constancy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy) that is -- we experience objects as having consistent surface reflectance properties despite changes in illumination. This ... reaching our eye, we assume that surfaces in shadow are actually lighter than they appear. [Here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion) squares A and B are *physically identical* (exact same pixel values) but one appears much lighter

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janindu_r_t_ t1_izsawur wrote

sinful deeds, they will be born in the afterlife as spirits, who we call "Pretha" (Details: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preta) or "Kumbaanda", where they become somewhat connected with the said house or member. Most ... commit merit as our religion says like alms giving or a Pirith chanting(What is Pirith: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paritta) or (at least they used to) resort to ancient exorcism rituals called "Thowila." (More info ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_of_Sri_Lanka)

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CalmLikeBomb t1_ja37k3z wrote

Holy fuck! The [bonnet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_(car\)) lid scythed through the air, "[decapitating](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation) tightly jammed spectators like a [guillotine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine).

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Inquerion t1_j4ud05i wrote

German NDAP can win or get significant amount of votes? Is democracy in the Netherlands threatened? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germany It seems that right wing party (Forum of Democracy) already won provincial elections ... change the system or they are not really "right wing populist party "(like Wikipedia is saying) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dutch_provincial_elections https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dutch_provincial_elections

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Ok_Letter_9284 t1_j9tl49l wrote

Communism was the GOAL. An economic utopia. “Marx's concept of a post-capitalist communist society (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society) involves the free distribution of goods made possible by the abundance provided by automation ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy#cite_note-28)” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy Marx was taking about Star Trek. You can’t just “switch” to communism. You need robots doing all the work or else you have scarcity! Socialism, Marx said

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czl t1_jbbjlgv wrote

originals. This is commonly done when secret messages are EM transmitted for example with turbo codes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_code With stenography instead of encoding messages in the EM spectrum you encode in the media (sound ... random offset pixels. Your algorithm knowing the pseudo random sequence can decode your data analogous to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum techniques for secret messages transmission and applications like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-probability-of-intercept_radar

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Cryptizard t1_jduumtg wrote

will not match with actual fact, I.e. what is in Wikipedia. What is an [oblivious tree](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivious_data_structure)? What is the population of [Goleh-ye Cheshmeh](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goleh-ye_Cheshmeh,_South_Khorasan)? Where was the [65th governor ... Delaware](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Terry_Jr.) born

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_ixh47n1 wrote

Wine and Spirits Fair Dealing Act](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_and_Spirits_Fair_Dealing_Act)** >The Wine and Spirits Fair Dealing Act, also known as the Wirtz Law, was an infamous Illinois state law passed in 1999 that prevented distillers ... Federal Trade Commission actively lobbied against the law, to no avail. **[DRAM price fixing scandal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal)** >In 2002, the United States Department of Justice, under the Sherman Antitrust Act, began a probe ... June 15, 2002, including Hynix, Infineon, Micron Technology, Samsung, and Elpida. **[Lysine price-fixing conspiracy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine_price-fixing_conspiracy)** >The lysine price-fixing conspiracy was an organized effort during the mid-1990s to raise

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albasri t1_itq7f8y wrote

those other events happening. This is also related to how we define a [probability space](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_space). Once we agree on the possible events and outcomes, we can go about assigning or calculating probabilities ... more specific. Part of what you describe might also be related to the [conjunction fallacy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy) which is an example of a kind of probability error people tend to make in judging ... Linda is a feminist) = 0.95, then, assuming [these two facts are independent of each other](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_independence), Pr(Linda is a bank teller and Linda is a feminist) = 0.05 × 0.95 or 0.0475, lower than

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Randomswedishdude t1_j2n27ka wrote

Cullinan produced 9 major stones of 1,055.89 carats (211.178 g) in total,[[23]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullinan_Diamond#cite_note-23) plus 96 minor [brilliants](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_(diamond_cut\)) and some unpolished fragments weighing 19.5 carats ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullinan_Diamond#cite_note-24) So, you're both right depending on perspective

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mynameismy111 t1_j28k41r wrote

know but Im just excited about the https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg/1280px-Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope which was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter. Instead the biggest in 2027 will be 40 meters ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope The observatory aims to gather 100 million times more light than the human eye, 13 times more light than the largest optical telescopes existing in 2014, and be able to correct for atmospheric ... will it be small compared to everything already under construction. Nearest peer ready 2023 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory Directish comparison https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/elt_giant_optical_telescopes_infographic.jpg For fun if u got this far: https://xkcd.com/1294/

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HanzG t1_j2pnupv wrote

Modern dimmers are built from [semiconductors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductors) instead of variable resistors, because they have higher [efficiency](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_efficiency). A variable resistor would dissipate power as heat and acts as a [voltage divider ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_divider). " Is this quote not true? Were old ones were not resistor types that induce voltage drops

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excitato t1_j9f52re wrote

state was founded with the law that [Black people were banned from moving to the state?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_black_exclusion_laws) The reality is that things like [expulsions of Black people](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_expulsions_of_African_Americans) and [sundown towns ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town) were indeed so common that it’s probably better for every US student to learn generally how thorough and widespread the discrimination was, rather than just single incidents

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buried_lede t1_j1b070t wrote

classic https://preview.redd.it/i9ngqb9xuk7a1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bcca840900821fc420b3b04f92035eb93fdbfe4 [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer\_above\_the\_Sea\_of\_Fog#/media/File%3ACaspar\_David\_Friedrich\_-\_Wanderer\_above\_the\_sea\_of\_fog.jpg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog#/media/File%3ACaspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg)

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TibetianMassive t1_j1kekom wrote

Right because nowhere in the United States has been having [issues](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis) that seems more 1800 than 2000. It's been smooth sailing [keeping American lights on](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/24/ercot-power-grid-texas/), and pretty consistently ... available](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis). There's no major flaws with the [infrastructure ](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/camp-fire-by-the-numbers/).

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juwyro t1_j0pty4e wrote

There was almost [Sino-Roman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations) direct contact. They knew of each other through trade goods and information that trickles through. Then there's the [Battle of Zhizhi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zhizhi) , probably false

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PitchFormal921 t1_j021pb4 wrote

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_black_metal A few years ago a hate group called the Wolves of Vineland tried to start a branch here in Baltimore. While it ultimately was a failure, The Depot was their de facto hangout ... being influenced by what bands they wanted to see left a mark on the bars reputation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_of_Vinland

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j1kelt1 wrote

Flint water crisis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis)** >The Flint water crisis is a public health crisis that started in 2014 after the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan was contaminated with lead ... water supply, exposing around 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels. **[2021 Texas power crisis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis)** >In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during

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dcheesi t1_iz4bphz wrote

different concepts/theories that happen to share a very similar name: [Broken Windows theory (criminology)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory) [Broken Window fallacy (economics)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window)

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PigpenMcKernan t1_izh9xrq wrote

Providence’s 436. However, Providence’s population is over 660k while Washington’s is under 130k. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County,_Rhode_Island](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County,_Rhode_Island) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_County,_Rhode_Island](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_County,_Rhode_Island)

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felipeasg t1_irtrdlg wrote

help you to investigate graphs. One approach from NLP (Natural Language Processing) world is called embedding (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_embedding). You can use some techniques to represent your graph in a vector space like: https://github.com ... networkx.org/documentation/stable/tutorial.html And this to sample graphs: https://brandonrozek.com/blog/networkx-random-sample-graph/ https://little-ball-of-fur.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html others references: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_embedding https://link.medium.com/rW0beBuz1tb

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