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Almost all fields of pure math use a much stronger set of axioms called ZF and essentially everyone also accepts the axiom of choice (making it ZFC). The axioms in ZF are reasonabl…

Benford's law works in any base.

I have no php experience so I have absolutely zero conception of what the language used to be like, just what it looks like now. I can't help but see it as some kind of frankenlang…

Hopefully this helps make video gaming a more community oriented activity instead of something done at home alone.

My belief is that people believe whatever they want to believe. If you are liberal it is because you want to be liberal. Alternatively you might just not want to be conservative. S…

I was wondering why these worked everywhere. I had no idea it was a mac feature.

"In the game of chess, you can never let your adversary see your pieces." - Zapp Brannigan I, for one, would love to see professional players attempt to play this game. It does see…

I'm glad the label worked for you but it did not work at all for me. It kind of shoehorned me in to a personality type and limited my social options. In all honesty I look back at …

What is everyone’s favorite translation of Meditations? I bought a cheap copy and the translation is unsurprisingly hard to read and distracts from the text’s content.

I've noticed several side effects such as decreased attention span, decreased sociability, decreased desire to do anything other than your preferred method of attention capturing. …

Note for any college students (especially undergrad): Do your STEM presentations in Beamer to get extra brownie points.

No denominators for zero divisors in the localization of any ring!!! [English: No denominators where you can multiply the denominator by anything nonzero to get zero.] Technically,…

Smartphones are what I think of as "attention capturers" which are able to completely capture almost anyone's attention span for a significant amount of time. Other attention captu…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography

My current favorite is 1.e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 :)

There is also a "Red Book" in mathematics. It is David Mumford's Algebraic Geometry book. Are there any other fields with a "Red Book"? I am mildly curious.

I simply don't understand what is going to happen to all of the PhD students that I saw when I was in university. I managed to escape the PhD trap and find software engineering but…

Its not really "what we perceive as mental illness", it's just a mental illness. It doesn't have to have an innate biological component to be a mental illness.

I am a big fan of the "humans are social creatures" mantra. In that regard, if something is more stimulating than social interaction it is likely to be harmful but if something is …

I can't help but think I would be much happier if I had never seen a computer or cell phone in my life. Maybe its just my personality type. Maybe its because I started at a very yo…

Can someone explain how it is physically possible for them to eat a monkey whole? That's probably the craziest video I've seen in a while.

One feature that would be useful for me would be the ability to convert a video to a PGN of the game. This could, for example, be used to strip game data from streamed chess en mas…

What's the difference between someone getting in because their parents bought a building and someone getting in because their parents spent 50k/year on a highschool?