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About a decade ago, TIME Magazine published A World Without Bees [1] Since then, many people seem to think bees are on the edge of extinction. In fact, there are more bees now than…

> Participants were instructed in their respective native languages to estimate roughly how much time it took If they really want to claim that the “language you speak” changes you…

> They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read. Profound or contrapositive [1]? P = reader Q = not steal not P = does not read not Q = Theif P - > Q not Q - > not P […

> the story from France of the second-grader who, asked what 2x3 equals, replied "3x2", knowing only that multiplication was commutative. This is a classic joke making fun of the i…

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08997 “arXiv will not consider removal for reasons such as journal similarity detection, nor failure to obtain consent from co-authors, as these do not i…

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I did not realize RPN is not available for CAS, that is disappointing. Is an HP 50G really the last of its kind? Hard to suggest since it’s priced like a collectors item now…

HP Prime on Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) mode [1, Page 47]. RPN is a basic stack based programming language, which is really fun to use [2]. [1] https://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/att…

One key feature of 1Password is the use of a secret key in addition to a master password. See page 10 [1] which explains how the secret key provides extra entropy (which makes it m…

> Fusion “Breakthrough” Won’t Lead to Practical Fusion Energy >Just one more step on the long road to commercialization Road noun 1. a wide way leading from one place to another 2.…

Turning Machines Are Magic: The Gathering [1] [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

> "Busyness is a sign of poverty that will eventually lead to personal bankruptcy" "People who like pseudo-profound quotes are not so smart, science says" [1,2] [1] https://qz.com/…

> flex, not a tool Suppose that a plane has 250 seats and makes 50 trans-con flights a month. Airline A decides to advertise having fast internet access in their flight, and raises…

This does not directly address your question, but it does really help with finding errors: https://ctan.org/pkg/texfot?lang=en texfot – Filter clutter from the output of a TEX run …

> ArXiv won't let authors remove their paper from the website This is an essential feature of arXiv to maintain academic integrity and encourage serious academic submissions. If yo…

I expect more from IEEE than a bait-and-switch: > license plate on that car showed that it was registered to ... Steer EV ... Agents served a subpoena on Steer EV for the renter’s …

In case you missed this in the article, the effect you described is a possible explanation of why the effect happens … > Or perhaps external factors come into play: A layer of fros…

On hacker news, it is equal plausible that the comment is being downvoted since it is not completely serious, so I will add the disclaimer that: The purpose of my above comment is …

I have a few qualms with this app. As a shopify user, you can already build such a system for yourself quite trivially. From the Shopify organization admin, click Stores. Click Cre…

> Their move to a paid subscription was very odd above several people note that > the IKEA one … is the only one in the article they don't earn a commission on when someone buys it…

This is a horrible policy, but it seems there is a possible solution (for people with good enough credit, which means the most vulnerable people cannot do this): Get a mortgage on …

I disagree that the title is click bait. The AES standard is only defined for 128, 192 and 256 bits [1], but in the title the author mentioned breaking AES-1024. So it is clear to …

This criticism seems unfair. There is nothing wrong with semi-supervised learning.