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What are these atomic clocks measured against?

It reminds me of when people argued against covid restrictions saying that the virus had a 99% survival rate. A disease with a 1% infection fatality rate is a terrible disease! Ful…

It would benefit adults too...

Question: The conjecture was about an upper bound for the maximum number of pairs. It has been disproven. Was the Erdos problem the conjecture itself, or was it about the actual ma…

I, for one, am happy that every terminal I've ever used still supports Emacs shortcuts. Useful, for instance, to cut a whole line and paste it later on (ctrl+k, ctrl+y).

I think it's nice that the watch falls back to effectively unlimited watch-mode instead of shutting down completely because the heart-rate tracker ate up all the battery.

Ha ha, that's such a wonderful description, that's exactly how it feels!

My father drove one of those in his childhood. Now retired, he has bought a used one and uses it to maintain about an acre of land (and his grandkids love helping him). Once, it br…

The sample of cheaters that we know about is biased towards cheaters who get caught.

Let me be blunt: the only reason I see not to implement solutions like this appears to be laziness from instructors.

The problem was solved (thanks to social media, presumably) and the cause was “anti-abuse rules that are over triggering right now”. https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/20453167110…

Set a timer for 20 minutes, lie down (or at least close your eyes) and force yourself to stay motionless until the timer rings. Try to let your thoughts float freely... Sometimes i…

My subjective appreciation of building materials depends essentially on how gracefully they age. I find that concrete does not age well... and dislike brutalism for this specific r…

So I've been told... but I could never hear the difference myself!

While helping my children learn French spelling, I was horrified when I realized that there are 6 or 7 ways to write the sound [ɛ̃]: un in (im) [i]en ain aim ein

I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this: > Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discov…

How do we know there are no antimatter galaxies far away from us?

Since it's a PDF file, I'm pasting the abstract here: Average grades continue to rise in the United States, raising the question of how grade inflation impacts students. We provide…

Quite imaginative, too... thanks for answering :)

I probably lack imagination, but how would gambling work in this game?

This is very insightful, thanks. I had a similar thought regarding data science in particular. Writing those pandas expressions by hand during exploration means you get to know the…

Complete tangent, but, for me, this is where AI shines. I've been able to find things I had been looking for for years. AI is good at understanding something "continued fraction" i…