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Does anyone have any tales of 'street uses' they have come across of some more recent technologies? I often feel like the technologies people get excited about around here are too …

I decided to try it. https://gist.github.com/eli173/c089c27db9c1302fe4e003716b402... Perhaps I am the kind of person they are trying to avoid, but I did this in a bit less than an …

I was shown a similar problem (I believe it was originally a Putnam question) which asked if you could cover a chessboard missing one corner with L-shaped triominos, and then asked…

Families were often separated through the slave trade. Slaves were expensive, so owners typically wouldn't or couldn't spend more than they needed to, which meant buying husbands b…

You don't need to be tracked for this to happen though. If ad networks placed video game-related ads on video game-related websites and tampon-related ads on tampon-related website…

There is a style of yoga that I have heard being referred to as 'flying'. It involves two people, and one lifts the other completely off the ground so that the second person can pr…

For example, if you calculate the magnitude of a thousand-dimensional vector, you end up with a single scalar. If you calculate the magnitude of a thousand one-dimensional vectors,…

Looks like somebody got to ~8.7GHz through overclocking a ~4GHz cpu. http://hwbot.org/submission/%202615355 I happened to catch an overclocking competition being streamed on Twitch…

Looks like what's publicly available can be found here: https://www.flux.utah.edu/project/a3

In the latter part of high school, I began standing in the classes where I both knew the teacher fairly well and didn't think I would bother anyone else by doing so. Since there we…