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Is it easy to make money by growing corn? Probably not. So this is a very legitimate test. We may learn some interesting ways that planting, growing, harvesting, storing, and selli…

Professional mathematicians trying to give easy proofs of the well-known fact that an increasing exponential eventually dominates every polynomial.

I found this fun! But my plan to gain access to M by taking the opposite of DAD was prevented by the word list. How is the list generated?

Another review of the same book: Weeding or Writing: On “Henry at Work” https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kaag-van-belle-henr...

I gave it a photo of my face, and it said that I look approachable and friendly. I asked it to improve my hair, and it replaced me with a completely different person. Oh well! Stil…

Just took the interview for the Senior JavaScript Developer position! (I'm not actually a js developer, but this was the closest I could find) - It was very nice to have "two minut…

Professional mathematicians giving careful consideration to simple concepts: ~50 comments, 34 answers, and the question's still active!

Online chess players, even excellent ones, are too busy playing actual chess to properly consider the implications of their pre-moves. As a result, a large majority of professional…

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (very shortly) to release footage of the wreck of Titanic that was captured in July 1986 from cameras on the human-occupied submersible Alvin a…

Slides from a talk by John Baez intended for a general technical audience; this was part of a birthday conference for Ross Street.