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The Border Crisis Won't Be Solved at the Border(texasmonthly.com)
54 points by bikenaga 2y ago|57 comments
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by bikenaga 2y ago
You might be thinking of this one: "I Went to 50 Different Dentists and Almost All of Them Gave Me a Different Diagnosis" - https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/
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Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal(phys.org)
40 points by bikenaga 2y ago|18 comments
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Before-and-after images show Helene wiped parts of North Carolina off the map(cnn.com)
5 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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by bikenaga 2y ago
From "Uncovering the Viral Nature of Toxicity in Competitive Online Video Games" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.00978 "Abstract: Toxicity is a widespread phenomenon in competitive online video games. In ad
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An interstellar instrument takes a final bow(news.mit.edu)
5 points by bikenaga 2y ago|1 comments
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by bikenaga 2y ago
Original paper (pdf): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06737
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Alien civilizations are probably killing themselves from climate change(livescience.com)
7 points by bikenaga 2y ago|1 comments
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Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It [pdf](arxiv.org)
4 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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Abandoned mines cover the West(hcn.org)
57 points by bikenaga 2y ago|31 comments
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A Static Analysis of Popular C Packages in Linux [pdf](arxiv.org)
1 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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Stay or go? Pacific Islanders face climate's grim choice(phys.org)
2 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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Scientists clarify the neuronal basis of the mathematical concept of 'zero'(medicalxpress.com)
3 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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by bikenaga 2y ago
A few years ago when I noticed a skunk in my yard at night. I was worried I'd get sprayed coming home from work in the evening. But when I called some pest control companies about trapping, they told me that in Pennsylvania, pest contr
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How to Become a Superhero [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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Recent study reveals reduced math performance of adults with dyspraxia(medicalxpress.com)
1 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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AI Meets the Classroom: When Does ChatGPT Harm Learning?(arxiv.org)
2 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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by bikenaga 2y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen a graphical system of any kind that didn't have 0,0 at the top-left corner of the monitor or viewport either, with positive x going right and positive y going down. Is that because the electr
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by bikenaga 2y ago
What is "more natural" is a matter of opinion, and opinion will differ. But even if there's a lot of agreement that an existing convention could stand improvement, that doesn't by itself make it "a good reason any
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by bikenaga 2y ago
> This is probably the most overly pedantic, nitpicky reason for not using a program I've ever heard. If you found learning math easy, you're fortunate. But lots of people find learning math difficult and frustrating, and thing
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by bikenaga 2y ago
Leaving "-3²" to be "interpreted" according to context is not a good idea. Mathematical notation should be unambiguous and context-free as much as possible, not "do what I mean". A computation involving "-
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by bikenaga 2y ago
As someone else noted, "bearing" isn't a mathematical convention. To be clear, when I say "mathematical convention" I mean what mathematicians do and teach. But I didn't know about "bearing" in navi
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by bikenaga 2y ago
I'm using the version from Debian testing: dc -V dc (GNU bc 1.07.1) 1.4.1 In fact, in my version "-v" as opposed to "-V" isn't recognized as a valid option. 3 _ 2 ^ p 0
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by bikenaga 2y ago
Maybe something's wrong with my terminal. In dc: 3 _ 2 ^ p gives 0 _3 2 ^ p gives 9 3 2 ^ _ p gives 0 5 _ p gives 0 _5 p gives -5 You didn't intend that I should get those zeros, ri
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by bikenaga 2y ago
You're right that violating established mathematical convention can be a deal-killer for some kinds of adoption. A few years ago I was reading the docs for a new programming language, thinking it might be useful in teaching. The docs w
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by bikenaga 2y ago
Thanks for looking all this up, particularly the stuff about spreadsheets. I wonder what real early spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3 or even Visicalc would do with "-3^2". I have to feel one of the early spreadsheet programmers just
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by bikenaga 2y ago
No - in a subtle way, you're assuming that the unary minus has precedence, when the point is that it doesn't. You're right that "thing^2" means "thing times thing", but in "-3^2", what is it
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by bikenaga 2y ago
An annoyance with spreadsheets that deterred me from ever using them in teaching is that they've perpetuated a arithmetic order-of-precedence bug. ("Bug" in the sense that it contradicts long-standing mathematical convention.
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Has the Recession Started? [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments
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Primordial black holes in the solar system [pdf](arxiv.org)
3 points by bikenaga 2y ago|0 comments

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