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Totally agree. I was disappointed to see the article follow the trend of framing everything in life around the notion of productivity. But one can only be thankful that poor mental…

Agreed, I think this is an overly-simplified explanation. Skimming the paper it looks like the crucial thing which introduces bias is precession of the coin.

True, but the GP suggested that you can find the absolute reference frame by looking at the relative velocities of the dots (independent of any force measurements).

>Rotation is inherently about different particles moving at different velocities. This is why there is an absolute reference frame for it: it is defined by these differences, so by…

> The real problem with kraits is that they enter homes in the dead of night and bite people in their sleep. A krait in the bed is the premise for the excellent short story "Poison…

It tastes delicious and has a fantastic aroma. It's quite complex. I'd put it somewhere between vanilla, marzipan and cinnamon. I've tried it with chocolate, almond, vanilla, fruit…

In fact unless I'm missing something the units don't match up: Total stock market value has units $ GDP has units $/year So expressing their ratio as a % is misleading.

The question asks for positive solutions, which turns out to be a bit harder!

24 Sep 2014 (hover over the title in https://xkcd.com/archive/ ). So, less than 5 years ago!

> He can go left and come out right to demonstrate that he knows the secret - without revealing the secret Correct > The reporter would still not know how he did it Correct > and c…

People get by with a lot less. The median household income in London was £39k in 2013 [1] [1] https://data.london.gov.uk/apps_and_analysis/gla-household-i...

> More evenings with no sleep, coupled with a 4 hour commute (both ways) means she is exhausted. This stood out to me - I cannot imagine the detrimental effect that 8 hours commuti…

I totally agree. In fact the systems studied by social sciences are so complex that the notion of an experiment in the classical sense (hypothesis, observations, repeatability, etc…

The surface is the data. E.g. the ridership for Lafayette Street is the upper line of the green area, minus the lower line of the green area. This is called an area chart and is us…

OTOH, the terrible truth is that it was necessary to order thousands of soldiers to their almost-certain deaths in order to win the war, and without a disciplined army this would n…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis

I'm sure Huang didn't consciously intend to be sexist, but unfortunately a culture of "off-color remarks" is what enables sexism. Senior, highly visible professionals should be par…

During a mock execution the victim actually believes they are about to die.

>Walking anywhere in London or navigating the subway during rush hour means having to make a mad, dodging, aggressive dance against an oncoming tide of people, many of whom seem ob…

However this comes with the interesting caveat that the English upper classes don't like to appear too French, especially when it comes to pronunciation, where using the foreign pr…

There is definitely pedagogical value. This issue is covered by the author, but when studying ODEs for the first time, at some point the student will come across the fact that exp(…

>There are more than 50 thousand games that end in mate! Obviously this is minuscule compared to the size of the database, but I wonder if the players really didn't see it coming, …

I hate how programming is so inconsistent. I mean, in vim I press 'w' to move one word, whereas in Notepad I press Ctrl-Right. They're not even close! I hate it when I use someone …

A related, and to my mind even more counter-intuitive result, is a strategy for predicting f(x) given only the values {f(y), y https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ted/203S10/References/pec…

"it may be that he was sexually attracted to her and she may not have shown enough rejection signs" The problem is that the onus should not be on her to show rejection signs. 'I'm …