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FactChecker replied to the thread How far will we let AI control us?.It's not clear what you classify as AI. If it is any ranking of videos or posts according to your past interests, I would agree that... -
FactChecker reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread A Is it correct to state that all measurements count photons? with
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Almost all measuring devices do not count photons. For example, you mention reading a thermometer, which requires light to see its... -
FactChecker reacted to Dale's post in the thread A Is it correct to state that all measurements count photons? with Like.
There is a very big difference between using photons and counting photons.
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FactChecker reacted to PeroK's post in the thread I Is this another "paradox" or a veritasium mistake? with Like.
The video was posted 5 years ago and has already been described in the comments as a "masterpiece"! That said, it would be interesting...
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FactChecker replied to the thread I Is this another "paradox" or a veritasium mistake?.IMO, Veritasium tries hard to be correct. It might be nice to leave a comment on the video about the mistake. UPDATE: I see that the...
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FactChecker reacted to Dale's post in the thread I Is this another "paradox" or a veritasium mistake? with Like.
And making the animations appealing rather than accurate. The rocket doesn’t appear to be accelerating, or at least if it is...
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FactChecker reacted to Dale's post in the thread I Is this another "paradox" or a veritasium mistake? with Like.
Yes, I would say the video is wrong in that spot. The two mistakes in that clip are: (13:18) From the perspective of the external...
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FactChecker replied to the thread I Is this another "paradox" or a veritasium mistake?.Good catch. You are correct. What the man says from 13:04 to 13:20 seems all correct, but the video illustration is bad. Everyone sees...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Problem with Bernoulli calculation.Good catch.
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V2 can't reach ten times the value of V1 in the smallest diameter section of the Venturi because it would be way over the speed of...
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FactChecker reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?" with
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If you have an editor where you can highlight a set of lines of code and indent or dedent them all at once, it makes it a lot easier... -
FactChecker replied to the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?".I never tried it, but the indentation seems to make it hard to cut and paste code whose indentation was at a different level. How would...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Prove that l^p is a subset of l^q for all p,q from 1 to infinity.IMO, the first duty of a person asking for help is to make a correct, accurate question. Part of the OP is trivially wrong if ##p=q##.
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FactChecker replied to the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?".Good! There aren't that many programmers who do that now because I have killed a lot of them. But the bodies are getting harder to hide...
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FactChecker reacted to Hornbein's post in the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?" with Like.
I never overloaded an operator or any of that fancy stuff. If you don't use it then it's harmless.