twin

A better way to use twins for developmental research.

In my country social security numbers consist of two numbers, and mine consists of two twin primes.

C's twin sibling Ratfor was a third similar approach, compiling C-like constructs into Fortran rather than assembly.

Once the twin registries have been assembled, its easy and fun, like having a genoscope you can point at one trait after another to take a reading of how genetic things are.

> Similarly, I'd like to ask how you would explain the statistical ridiculousness of terrorism to the families of the thousands of people that died in the twin towers.

It used to have an evil twin, the Underhanded C Contest [1] where the aim was to make an innocent program also do something evil in such a way that that it can be plausibly denied as accidental when the 'bug' is detected in a code review.

And the usual twin study methodology and other behavioral genetic studies show that mood disorders plainly have some genetic influence, although genome association studies have yet to show ANY particular gene with a strong effect on mood regulation.

One of the emperor's advisers even mentioned the 'twin shocks' of Soviet invasion and the atom bombs as being gifts in a sense, as it meant the Emperor could say he was forced to surrender and not that Japan "gave up".So it seems clear that the Soviet invasion was core to the decision-making, but not that it was the only concern, and certainly not that the atom bomb was not factored in at all.