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After thirteen years five quadrillion housecats would cover the surface of the Earth. Further reproduction would be inhibited as the...

If they were then after seven years you would have at most 100 housecats.

I once heard Michio Kaku hold forth on quantum computing on television. He spoke with confidence but it was totally wrong. He didn't...

Start with one hundred housecats. Given unlimited resources, in seven years you will have a billion housecats.

Leading mathematician is pro-AI for research. It's "excellent" for certain things such as literature search. He's used it to help with...

There's the Godel Universe, which rotates but has no rotational axis. It's consistent with general relativity but astronomy has shown...

I taught statistics. Most of it was calculating statistics by hand, which I thought useless. They should have been teaching what...

I have found that customers are usually poor at articulating what they need and want, and engineers often get this wrong.

Encore!

Mr. Fagan surely knows a great deal about chords. I remember this era and how it felt. Wikipedia says the lyrics are satirical...

Some migrated, others didn't. When the Hopi Indians came to North America they migrated all over the place, leaving mounds in places...

Earlier today I was thinking prediction markets had to be more honest than online poker sites, where one is just begging to be cheated.

Meanwhile in the polymarkets... ‘Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor’ to win $34,000 bet

Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage...