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Mitchell Carson

@MitchellTCarson

Fan of all things STEM

 Boston, MA
sites.google.com/view/carsonwebs/home
Joined June 2009
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All roads lead to Rome, and all Wikipedia pages lead to philosophy (if you click the first link enough times).
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The latest generative AI struggling on simple addition.
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AI browser of the future? sites.google.com/view/carson…
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When an app clearly shouldn’t be released for iPad but it is anyway:
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The Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle invented by mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1899, in which a stack of discs must be moved between two poles. In its original 64-disk form, it would take a human over 550 billion years to solve. Even a computer takes over a billion years to do it.
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@Rainmaker197324 Jan 2024
The Stepping-Feet Illusion features two rectangles apparently moving like a pair of stepping feet, but they're actually moving at the same constant speed. The illusion is broken when the striped texture is removed.
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When you're practicing your #Python and the IDE solves it for you...
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Are you kidding me!!! 🤯 INCREDIBLE SHOT @johnkrausphotos !!!
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@johnkrausphotos29 Dec 2023
FALCON HEAVY TRANSITS THE MOON: Tonight’s launch of the USSF-52 mission with seventh mission of the Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane.
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@Rainmaker19732 Dec 2023
Despite you won't believe it immediately, these are four perfectly aligned circles and nothing is crossing anywhere
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Just in case the deployment of Orwellian spyware in schools across the country wasn't bad enough:
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@Rainmaker197321 Oct 2023
Based on a planar leg mechanism known as Jansen's linkage, Theo Jansen's Strandbeest are kinetic beings whose skeletons are made from yellow plastic tube (Dutch electricity pipes) and are able to walk entirely powered by wind xitter.gq/finetraitt/status/1715…
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In 2019, The International Space Station spotted an exotic type of upside-down lightning called a blue jet, which was zipping up from a thundercloud into the stratosphere 😱
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I think you can guess from the picture, but for context, here's a list of all of the data that could possibly exist about you, courtesy of Google's privacy policy. (It's under "Categories of information we collect"!)
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Domain administrators, if you work or study at an organization that uses Google services. Law enforcement or other third parties, for the legal reasons described in Sharing your information.
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For the whole policy, which is about an hour read, go to policies.google.com/privacy
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