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by bugs_bunny 3y ago
An interesting read related to this is the following article, which begins with von Neumann's comment that ``Nobody really knows what entropy really is." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228935581_How_
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Monty Hall and the ‘Leibniz Illusion’(chance.amstat.org)
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by bugs_bunny 5y ago
I wonder if this is a skill that must be learned before a certain age, something like what happens for learning a language [0] and possibly learning the natural numbers [1]. It is also interesting that they have learned to be able to solve
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FBI leading probe as cyberattack continues to cripple RPI(timesunion.com)
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by bugs_bunny 6y ago
Noob here. Is FB really the powerhouse it is thought to be in terms of active users? In the iPhone app store there are 712K reviews, while TikTok has 8M and Instagram has 20M. I know that these are ratings, but you would think there woul
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by bugs_bunny 7y ago
I think he might be referring to the slide with 20 ft drops made with two pipes...as in the Darwinian versions shown here.... https://clickamericana.com/toys-and-games/dangerous-old-play...
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by bugs_bunny 8y ago
This is a prescient article given the state of computing at the time it was written. In reading it I also wondered if this explains Steve Jobs insistence of using the name iPad (he was pressured to change the name because the default refer
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by bugs_bunny 8y ago
Yeh, what concerns me is the boat the rhino used to get there.
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by bugs_bunny 9y ago
My guess is that the Oort Cloud is where the mothership turned off its interstellar drive.
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by bugs_bunny 9y ago
It wouldn't be quick, and it would be ugly, as explained in... https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-gamm... and https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-deadly-would
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by bugs_bunny 9y ago
This idea that we have a database that covers all possibilities for anything that would qualify as alien is delusional. It's like Neatherandals claiming that they have a complete database for hard things, and it contains exactly two e