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Computers are better than humans at poker (DeepStack) and backgammon (eXtreme Gammon). XG for example is commonly used by expert backgammon players to analyse play, much like how e…

Because it’s a completely misleading headline. The number of cores in the heuristic used to calculate task switch frequency was capped to 8. This is a reasonable thing to do as a h…

Vitamin D is fat soluble, and thus you can overdose on it. High dose frequently is not recommended, and most high dose supplements will have warning labels about vitaminosis.

This seems perfect for _Generic. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic

This involves a manual left corner transform, so I would probably call this a variant of a left corner parser (LC parser)?

C₈F₈⁻ The extra electron makes it negatively charged by -1 (thus an anion).

The original was posted to USENET by Ed Nather (utastro!nather) on May 21, 1983.

"Communication in the human cortex" seems pretty clear. The abstract is there for an extended summary if one doesn't wish to read the whole article. One cannot possibly understand …

Federated/Decentralised identity/authentication is a solved problem. For example, this is essentially OpenID. Unfortunately this entire concept failed to gain traction.

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Is Little embeddable? This seems like a perfect scripting language for embedding into a larger C application.

> into the nose It's not going into the nose, it's going into the jejunum (the intestines) via a nasojejunal tube, which is placed up your nose.

Medicine is a field I'm in where learning large bodies of unrelated facts is helpful, since it's a field where having a generalist's shallow understanding of a wide variety of fiel…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra Less ambiguously called "Clifford algebras", though Clifford himself prefered the term geometric algebra.

Yes, it does, because it is an identical representation to quaternions. Except it actually explains all the weirdness in quaternions without resorting to 4-space. This is because q…

Improper title. 1. This is specifically about non-SCLC. 2. This article is entirely about a downside to receiving PD-1/PDL-1 inhibitor biologics as immunotherapy; that approximatel…

Yes? Very common in Engineering disciplines, for example.

"If you don't put your finger in it, you'll put your foot in it" is still a common aphorism. Enjoy your time on surgical assessment when you get to your clinical years!

Yes, obviously, if that can be proven to be the cause? Proper criminal rehabilitation and reintegration is very important.

Pilot wave theory (also known as Bohmian mechanics) imposes a single-world interpretation.

That's exactly it. Atom comes from atomos, meaning indivisible; if you take the literal meaning, it has no constituent parts.

Quite a large number of people use C++. C++ is 3rd place on the latest (July 2017) TIOBE index, behind Java and C. C++ sits in a niche wherein its competitors have mostly died out …