attempting to convince a friend that she should not let her kids read harry potter, not (merely) because rowling is a shithead, but (also) to forestall the possibility that her kids will grow up into harry potter adults

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@oulipien We followed an inoculation strategy of peak HP involvement at age five -> Over It by age nine, a good outcome that came at the terrible cost of having to read the whole damn series aloud to a semiliterate kindergartener.

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.