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- The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works
- The LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and astrophysics. It was completed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in 2024.
- Query Mastodon with SQL! Open source CLI. No DB required.
- Experiments suggest chemical reaction rates explain how amino acid pairs, and perhaps DNA and RNA, get biased toward one handedness
- Peut-on se passer de l’expérimentation animale ? Si cela s'avère encore difficile dans certains domaines de recherche, des alternatives commencent à voir le jour. C'est notamment le cas à Strasbourg, où des biologistes travaillent à reconstruire une peau artificielle à partir de cellules humaines. Objectif : créer un modèle qui possède les mêmes propriétés que notre organe et
- Art and gallery news, inspiration, modern craft, photography, and visual culture. Published daily.
- Everywhere in education, you see incentives at work. The incentives, though, are so far removed from the actual goals of education that they produce perverse results. Goodhart’s Law is usually stated, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
- A simple visual editor for creating commutative diagrams.
- As a schoolchild, she had delighted in using a pendulum to make drawings in her exercise books, but it was not until midlife that she found in this process a portal to a larger world of ideas. In 1938, using a silver pendulum with a jade end she believed was guided by energy fields — a technique she termed radiesthesia — she began making large-scale drawings in pencil and crayon on graph paper, hundreds of them, to divine diagnoses of physical and psychic ailments and heal people, often with results bordering on the miraculous.
- A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone
- How Voltaire exploited a lottery loophole
- An observer once called the Mandelbrot Set “The Thumbprint of God,” the simple equation that led to the discovery of fractal geography, chaos theory, and why games like No Man’s Sky even exist. In 1994, Arthur C. Open Culture, openculture.com
- Definitions of algorithms, data structures, and classical Computer Science problems. Some entries have links to implementations and more information.
- Every now and then I want to generate normally distributed values in something like Perl, which does not have built-in functions for it. Unfortunately, there’s no easily remembered way to generate numbers from the normal distribution. I just learned the best way to do it: don’t. Generate logistically distributed values instead.
- We shouldn't leave audiences seduced or suspicious
- Insight into the hidden ecosystem of autonomous chatbots and data scrapers crawling across the web
- One reason there wasn’t an emphasis on reducing hallucinations is because the problem is hard. Some argue that hallucinations are “baked into” AI chatbots.
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- ACM Trans. Math. Softw., 23 (2): 266-294 (June 1997)
- The Astrophysical Journal, 954 (2): 169 (September 2023)
- (2022)
- Neuron, 47 (5): 763-770 (2005)
- Nature, (2019)
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 945 (2): L31 (March 2023)
- Papers in Palaeontology, 7 (4): 2245-2253 (2021)
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- Protein Sci, 13 (7): 1787–1801 (July 2004)
- Phys. Rev. X, (2023)
- Scientific Reports, (2015)
- Nature, (2023)
- Journal of Physics: Complexity, 3 (4): 040201 (January 2023)
- Science, (2010)
- PLOS ONE, 18 (11): 1-24 (November 2023)
- Cell, 119 (2): 148-149 (2004)
- Information, 10 (2): 51 (2019)
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 15 (9): 2923--2938 (2022)
- eLife, (2023)
- Current opinion in neurology, 35 (4): 453--459 (August 2022)
