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1 month ago |
newscientist.com | Jacob Aron
Terry Pratchett was fond of saying that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. On the face of it, this sentence is mathematically absurd, but in the fantasy world of Pratchett’s Discworld books, powered by the magic of narratives, it makes perfect sense. Of course heroes are always going to face incredible odds, and of course they are almost always going to overcome them, because that is what heroes do.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Jacob Aron
The telltale sign that you used ChatGPT - and a trick to avoid itDon't want people to know you use ChatGPT to write your emails or reports? Pay attention to this small detail. I have been testing ChatGPT since it …
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Jacob Aron
Breaking Down the Trump Administration’s Most Insidious LieDonald Trump tells so many lies that it is impossible to keep track. Of course, not all of them are equal. Some of them are really bad and impactful, …
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1 month ago |
newscientist.com | Jacob Aron
“Only atoms and the void are real,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus. “Well, actually, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Atoms can also be waves, the void is made up of fields and everyone is going to need to start using the word ‘quantum’ all the time.”OK, he said only the first bit. Democritus pioneered atomism – the idea that everything in the universe can be divided into atoms, which can then be divided no further.
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2 months ago |
internazionale.it | Jacob Aron
Chi è stato il primo a calcolare il pi greco? Il primo a capire che dividendo la circonferenza di un cerchio per il suo diametro si ottiene sempre lo stesso numero, cioè poco più di tre? Non lo sapremo mai con certezza, ma c’è motivo di credere che sia vissuto circa quattromila anni fa. Partiamo dagli antichi egizi.
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