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An interesting statistical example if you haven’t seen it before is the Anscombe Quartet : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet Four sets of X,Y datapoints that have …

It's the simplest AI nihilist!

https://archive.ph/TNLUr

FYI - The actual BBC title is “Cherry Kearton: The eccentric influence on a young Sir David Attenborough” but I felt this wasn’t descriptive enough. The article subtitle is “As a c…

This submission is currently the main HN submission. As of now the submission title is simply “Copy Fail”. Given the severity of the exploit, can we edit the Title to add some cont…

This is a terrible take, and I say this having a PhD in Physics. Many physicists have written popular articles and books for the general population. Eg Einstein, Stephen Hawking, B…

Somehow I got a 7 out of 9, even though I felt like I was mostly guessing. Surface vs deep lines have more rumble but that’s about it that I consciously knew of.

I did a bunch of research on similar Tc superconductors back during my PhD. 7K is considered “warm” from a cryogenics point-of-view because you can just dunk your sample into a dew…

FYI link is below, for the off-chance someone is curious. (not sure what are the unwritten rules of self-promotion here, but hopefully providing a link in a sub-comment instead of …

Lol, my band (London-based) has a song and YouTube music video called "Streets Of London". I had a minor panic/WTF moment when I saw the submission saying : "Streets of London [vid…

Does annybody worry about sabotage if you don’t tip? Eg the cashier does something to your food? “Nice muffin you got there, I’d hate for it to get accidentally sneezed on.” I rece…

Some of Robert Tinney's artwork is still available for sale at his website, limited edition runs of several of the Byte covers and other art. https://tinney.net/

I was wondering this actually, why not just skip past the check entirely instead of going through the effort to pass the check without the dongle?

Really interesting read, wonder how many other installs are using (and trapped into continuing to use) such obscure legacy software.

Two thoughts on situations where the 555 may be preferable, if anyone has experience how these compare : 1. Low-noise applications. I’d naively expect the 555 to be less noisy than…

At my cousin’s company there are TV’s in the lobby. They used to show news channels. He said clients would come in all stressed out. So they changed to a home improvement channel.

Even in your own car dropping off your friends or family at a UK airport (at least the London ones) requires paying a £6 fee now. Just to get to the dropoff area, even for 30 secon…