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Here's a site that asks the same questions to 22 models and compares how similar their responses are. https://typebulb.com/u/lab/you-re-relatively-right/full According to these res…

Throughout the 1960s a majority of Americans did not think the Apollo moon missions were worth the cost.

An optimal algorithm is shockingly simple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm

I think of the film as a Daft Punk music video, and from that perspective it's great.

Related: Recovering Grizzly Bears in California https://docs.calgrizzly.org/docs/CGA-Feasibility-Study-2025....

"AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1

I have a spreadsheet that I clone and edit each time I go on a trip. So if I go camping, skiing, to the beach, etc, I can look at my old checklists, find a similar one, then clone …

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-...

The National Forest Service alone maintains 265,000 miles of roads. https://www.fs.usda.gov/science-technology/infrastructure/ro...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift

My Amazon account order history starts in 1998.

> 96% of West coast redwoods' habitat has been lost. To be clear, redwoods still grow in almost all of their former range. They were logged, but they grew back. About 4% was never …

It's interesting to point out that the wood has tighter rings and is more durable not necessarily because it came from old trees, but because the old growth trees grew in mature fo…

Yes https://www.reuters.com/science/huge-ancient-solar-storm-rev...

Whoa I had no idea: "To reduce the cost and increase the efficiency and reliability of transporting fuel and materials to South Pole Station, USAP established an overland traverse …

In Costa Rica I would find toads culstered at the bottom of street lamps, waiting to eat insects that would come crashing down.

I like David Allen Sibley's definition of a tree: "If you can walk under it, it's a tree; if you have to walk around it, it's a shrub".

> 70 percent of the sunlight that hits it It looks like that's comparable to fresh snow or a glacier?

Expected investment returns are already inflation-adjusted https://www.csun.edu/~vcovrig/Asset_Aloc.pdf Edit: I think your point still stands though. In situations where inflation …

"Well suppose" — Pemulis can just make out Lyle — "Suppose I were to give you a key ring with ten keys. With, no, with a hundred keys, and I were to tell you that one of these keys…

A favorite of mine is the Gauss-Bonnet theorem which relates the Euler characteristic of a surface (i.e. its topology) to its Gaussian curvature (its differential geometry). https:…

But the best selling candy bar in the US is Snickers. So that would be your biggest competitor.

I can hear Basil Poledouris’s Hymn to Red October just looking at the photos.

When I look at this heat map of recent cases per capita in the US https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppressio... the first thing I see is hot spots all across the …

It’s more like “matter tells spacetime how to curve, spacetime tells matter how to move”.