Everything posted by Genady
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Failed supernova provides clearest view yet of a star collapsing into a black hole
A free-falling observer doesn't observe anything special while crossing event horizon. (Without looking outside.)
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Failed supernova provides clearest view yet of a star collapsing into a black hole
No, it does not.
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The Computational Universe: Time as a Processing Rate
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Happy Darwin Day!
Darwin Day is a celebration to commemorate the birthday of Charles Darwin on 12 February 1809. The day is used to highlight Darwin's contributions to science and to promote science in general. Darwin Day is celebrated around the world. (Darwin Day - Wikipedia)
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Today I Learned
Here is your chance 😄 1968 Krakatoa East of Java - Full movie | Popular Film
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Windows at left, right, both ?
I was instructed very early to set up my writing desk at home so that the window is on the left and also to put the lamp on the desk on my left and it was explained to me with the light/shadow argument.
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Windows at left, right, both ?
I'd guess the latter is correct.
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Windows at left, right, both ?
I certainly remember that majority of people in Israel were right-handed. I remember two classrooms there. One, from a short Hebrew language course. It had windows on the left. Another, from a short professional upgrade course. It had windows on the right. I don't remember my kids' classrooms though.
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Windows at left, right, both ?
I don't know the answer for the first question, but the answer for the second is, definitely no.
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Windows at left, right, both ?
Why the Windows in School Classrooms are Normally on the Left-Hand Side | RWTH Aachen University | EN
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Windows at left, right, both ?
Maybe you should've added, for clarity, "looking towards the blackboard in a head-up position" 🙂. I attended different schools and different classrooms and the only ones with windows not on left were in basement with no windows.
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Windows at left, right, both ?
I remember, left. I think, it was intentional.
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is common approach across Science right thing really?
Here is another evidence that math is not a science: in these science forums math seems to be one of the rarest topics.
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Automatically sent emails
Thanks a lot.
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Today I Learned
I'm talking about people who say, for example, that the real number defined in the Cantor's diagonal argument is counted for in the last row of the list.
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Automatically sent emails
Where do I set or cancel the emails which are automatically sent to me on new comments etc.?
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Today I Learned
Georg Cantor | Biography, Contributions, Books, & Facts | Britannica
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Today I Learned
Today I learned that there is an entire international subculture of ignorant jerks bent on refuting Cantor.
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Political Humor
I didn't hear it as a teenager because there was no second opinion then 🙂.
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Political Humor
Perhaps you're right. I just think that the humor of this joke is apolitical:
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Political Humor
You know as well as I do that correlation does not imply causation. E.g. Far more religious people than atheists reject vaccinations. Far more religious people than atheists are on the Right. Or. Uneducated vs. educated. Etc.
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Political Humor
Being an idiot is not political. There are plenty of anti-vaxxers on both sides. And were there before Covid, too.
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Political Humor
But how is this humor political?
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How should we use AI in medicine ?
Details matter here. It depends. Which humans? How were they trained? What parameters were given for the analysis?