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RockofStrength
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Comment #46006705
My former piano student, u/physicsstudent137, has created a brilliant and simple method for identifying the tonic of a given key signature: Step 1: Count the number of sharps or fl…
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Comment #43605891
If nothing changes the market will drop 20% next week.
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Comment #41430958
Since the first color was right between blue and green, I refused to choose one or the other. I'm not gonna play that game.
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Comment #41097191
Another lens is ii7-II♭7-IM7 = ii7-V7♭5♭9-IM7, viewing the II♭7 as an altered V7. This would retain the same 3-7 (just flips them).
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Comment #40334406
Here're a couple links for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/cbd0a7/found_e_in_the... https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/ikwn03/e_in_the_prime... https://www.reddit.c…
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Comment #40331923
(2,3,5) because 2 to 3 = 1 and 3 to 5 = 2. 5 to 7 is also 2 so the gap does not grow, so 7 starts the next set.
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Comment #40318859
You get e from the primes by averaging the set size of only growing gaps (2,3,5)(7,11)(13,17)... or only non-shrinking gaps (2,3,5,7,11)(13,17)(19,23,29)... Not a property of prime…
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Comment #39143099
This is already incorporated to some extent. Keeping in mind sets vary, Knight's profile is the L-shape. Rook has four parapets (and four gaps). Bishop has a diagonal slit. King ha…
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Comment #39078174
Chess.com seems to have excellent opening instruction. It actually tells you the opening name as you play. After you play, it gives you more. It shows where you screwed up, gives y…
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Comment #38928294
After reading the complete Shakespeare, it is a natural continuation to go on to read the complete Milton. Outside the core of Paradise Lost/Regained, Samson Agonistes is another g…
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Comment #38672834
CAPTCHAs are used as a literal Turing test; that's their whole purpose. From the get-go their usefulness window had a looming expiration date.
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Comment #38597669
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Comment #33381424
How about to hold the female in place during mating?
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Comment #30080938
Robert Wilson theorizes that each character in Sideways symbolizes a type of wine. Miles = Pinot noir (thin-skinned, great potential). Jack = Cabernet Sauvignon (adaptable, survivo…
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Comment #29449072
It was a divine move in the sense that he created a surprise tsumego that crashed AG. Lee Sedol called it his 'trick move' in the post game interview I believe. Move 78 shouldn't h…
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Comment #29441141
Move 78 was humanity's last great stand against AI in a board game. Lee Sedol, tired and inspired, reddens AlphaGo's ears with a move plucked from a higher dimension. It now seems …
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Comment #29283715
The Recife (Brazil) logo is just brilliant. https://mapa-metro.com/en/brazil/recife/recife-metro-map.htm
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Comment #26852521
The OEIS can also be considered a sort of number encyclopedia, especially for large numbers. It can also be interesting to link geometric observations with unrelated OEIS sequences…
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Comment #22580976
Also 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 = 6^3
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Comment #18994537
If they don't cap the apm at 300 or so, this means nothing. I am not impressed with super speed, only decision making matters. Deepmind, you can do better.
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Comment #18648837
Reminds me of meta-algebra. For example, a^n - b^n = (a - b)(a^(n-1) + (a^(n-2))ab + ... b^(n-1)) .
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Comment #17193832
http://oeis.org/A257479 Maximal kissing number in n dimensions: maximal number of unit spheres that can touch another unit sphere.
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Comment #15871558
One idea is Bongard problems, because they are purely creative categorization, so it's interesting for AI. http://www.foundalis.com/res/bps/bpidx.htm