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Fan of all things STEM

Boston, MA
Joined June 2009
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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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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When you're practicing your #Python and the IDE solves it for you...
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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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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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There is an ongoing mathematical debate over how many regular tetrahedrons you can pack onto a point (where they share a vertex). I say its 14. ⬇️
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Total lunar eclipse near Boston, MA. Great show by Mother Nature!
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