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Inside Ancient Asteroids, Gamma Rays Made Building Blocks of Life
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid
Enzyme that can turn air into energy, unlocking potential new energy source
A robot from a Metal+ Gel material that conducts electricity and heals itself
Artificial Intelligence Discovers Secret Equation for ‘Weighing’ Galaxy Clusters
Map of Space-Time Distortions Reveals Universe’s Dark Matter Distribution
If the electron wasn’t perfectly round, it would imply new hidden particles
A new JWST image captured the faint rings around Uranus in detai
The Biggest Math Breakthroughs in 2022
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on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:07PM (#35497639)
Alt-Text: There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.
Yeshua Bar ABBA and Barabbas: Hebrew Streams
Category Theory: Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? Strogatz and Eugenia Cheng
4th Edition of “Python in a Nutshell” by Martelli, Ravenscroft, Holden, McGuire
Re:Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution
on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:23PM (#35483429)
(Surprisingly often, mismatches in the family trios told the researchers that the fathers listed by the zoos were unrelated to the babies. Zoo representatives would often shrug at this news and say there might have been two males in the cage. “Yeah, well, the other one is the winner,” Bergeron would joke.)
Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution
Wave cabinet by artist Sebastian Errazuriz
The Computer Scientist Taking on Big Tech: Privacy, Lies and AI
Re:The Computer Scientist Taking on Big Tech: Privacy, Lies and AI
on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:00AM (#35479963)
Related Article on Quanta Magazine:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/he-protects-privacy-and-ai-fa...
With AI, Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way
`Alien Calculus’ Could Save Particle Physics from Infinities
Samsung Fab Workers Leak Confidential Data While Using ChatGPT
Beyond Algorithms: Skills of Designers That AI Can’t Replicate
Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile
Re:On the Four Color Problem
on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:17AM (#35467328)
Article published last week in Quanta Magazine on the famous Four Color Problem of Graph Theory.
“It requires four colors to color West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland — three for West Virginia’s neighbors and a fourth for West Virginia itself.”