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Elvis Presley returns to the stage thanks to deepfake technology(yahoo.com)
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Elvis Comes Alive to Sing with Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara and Heidi Klum(youtube.com)
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by jhncls 4y ago
Notable in this context is also Sister Celine, with some groundbreaking work concerning computer algebras. Her PhD was in mathematics, though. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celine_Fasenmyer [1]: https:&#x
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by jhncls 4y ago
This reminds of Doron Zeilberger's statement that "real" analysis is just a degenerate case of discrete analysis [0]. [0]: https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimPDF/...
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by jhncls 4y ago
For anyone interested in a magical introduction to Bernoulli numbers, there is Mathologer's video [0]. [0]: https://youtu.be/fw1kRz83Fj0
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by jhncls 4y ago
Well, the article that is being discussed [0], mentions an "address for bug reports (taocp@cs.stanford.edu)". [0]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news22.html
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The dark side of big data(forbes.com)
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by jhncls 4y ago
It is weird how people look at this as a NP-hard scheduling problem. That doesn't touch the fundamental issue of uncertainty. Digging a hole can take between 5 minutes and eternity, depending on whether tree roots, old cables, old re
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How to Hire Good Engineers(siliconvict.com)
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by jhncls 4y ago
How can a discussion about visual comedy not include pioneers Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd? [0] https://youtu.be/frYIj2FGmMA [1] https://youtu.be/QD9VypQh7qM
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Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention(norulesrules.com)
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A man who bought a cruise ship on Craigslist(cnn.com)
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by jhncls 5y ago
There is also the story of "Shalosh B. Ekhad", the computer who co-authored many papers in combinatorics. [0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Shalosh+B.+Ekhad%22 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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Wild video shows goldfish 'driving' a water-filled car in weird experiment(livescience.com)
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by jhncls 5y ago
This[0,1] article suggests ants communicate by vomiting chemicals into each other's mouths. [0] https://www.livescience.com/ants-vomit-to-form-social-bonds [1] https://elifesciences.org/articles/20
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by jhncls 5y ago
With Trabber you can choose "nearby" airports for either departure and/or destination airport. It includes Ryanair, Easyjet and many smaller European airlines. [0]: https://www.trabber.es/en
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Ants vomit into each other's mouths to form social bonds(livescience.com)
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by jhncls 5y ago
Even more loyal than the French to the ancient vigesimal counting system are the Basque[0] and the Welsh[1]. Traditional Welsh has constructions as: - 16: un ar bymtheg ("one on five-ten") - 18: deunaw ("two nine") - 41
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by jhncls 5y ago
The research indicates that shopping carts with parallel handles (i.e., like a wheelbarrow or “walker”) would increase purchasing with 25% compared to traditional shopping carts.
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Shopping Carts Affect Purchasing by Activating Arm Muscles(openaccess.city.ac.uk)
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by jhncls 5y ago
In a unique Numberphile video featuring Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown), this weird number pops up in a game of darts. [0] https://youtu.be/6_yU9eJ0NxA
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by jhncls 5y ago
This reminds of Steve Jobs' speech, "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." "... following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on." https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/j
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6M-Dollar AI Changes Accents as You Speak(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by jhncls 5y ago
It is well-known that neglect during early infancy has a strong life-long negative effect. The argument that one doesn't remember much from before age 5 doesn't impede early infancy having a huge effect on emotional and physical d
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by jhncls 5y ago
You can read Edsger's handwritten quote in the third paragraph at page EWD898-2. [0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD898.PDF
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Fast Inverse Square Root(en.wikipedia.org)
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A Strange but Elegant Approach to a Surprisingly Hard Problem (GJK Algorithm)(youtube.com)
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by jhncls 5y ago
It should be noted that many Jesuits played a very prominent role in science, including "hard" sciences. For example Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang theory.
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The Mpemba Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jhncls 5y ago
In a similar undertaking, Inigo Quilez (of Shadertoy fame) once created an animation using the cells of a spreadsheet [0] as pixels. [0] https://youtu.be/JnCkF62gkOY

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