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JohnVideogames

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    Comment #42236111

    The Pi Pico W 2 can run micropython, which is a reasonably limited and fun version of python that is accessible for beginners. If the types of projects you have in mind will involv…

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    Comment #41608642

    British homes are almost exclusively heated by natural gas boilers; home heating is only a small part of the grid electrical load.

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    Comment #41509536

    I had to tackle a problem much like this one when analysing the polygons in planar graphs (analysis of planar chemical networks). A fun approach I found was to use a Delaunay trian…

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    Comment #40993594

    It's obvious that you can't solve hallucinations by curating the dataset when you think about arithmetic. It's trivial to create a corpus of True Maths Facts and verify that they'r…

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    Comment #39894705

    "Accident & Emergency" - you may know it as the Emergency Room, but it's commonly called A&E in the UK

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    Comment #39867436

    I love persistent homology; it's such a weirdo bit of maths that topologists keep trying to make useful. Similarly its bigger cousin, Topological Data Analysis, which as far as I c…

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    Comment #39585301

    A black body will emit radiation (and receive radiation) until it's in equilibrium with its surroundings. In theory, the black bit of box radiates heat into space, and receives som…

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    Comment #39418005

    Matplotlib for python solves this with a SymLogScale, which is allows you to chart (-10 ^3, - 10^2,..., 10^2, 10^3) in the way that you'd expect. It does this by being linear betwe…

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    Comment #39252715

    One percentage point is a four relative percent increase here: (25/24) = 1.041

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    Comment #39042175

    This is mad (especially from a UK perspective!) and it doesn't cover the key point of insurance: you insure risks that you couldn't afford if they went wrong. I insure my house, my…

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    Comment #38925097

    Some factors you haven't considered: 1) heat pumps make much more sense when you don't burn things to power them. Solar PV, wind, hydro etc powering heat pumps mean you turn energy…