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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad Does Spacetime rotate like a vortex?.There's the Godel Universe, which rotates but has no rotational axis. It's consistent with general relativity but astronomy has shown...
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HHornbein replied to the thread ChatGPT Examples, Good and Bad.I taught statistics. Most of it was calculating statistics by hand, which I thought useless. They should have been teaching what...
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HHornbein replied to the thread ChatGPT Examples, Good and Bad.I have found that customers are usually poor at articulating what they need and want, and engineers often get this wrong.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?.Encore!
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HHornbein replied to the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?.Mr. Fagan surely knows a great deal about chords. I remember this era and how it felt. Wikipedia says the lyrics are satirical...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Did humans migrate a lot in prehistoric times?.Some migrated, others didn't. When the Hopi Indians came to North America they migrated all over the place, leaving mounds in places...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Weird News Compilation.Earlier today I was thinking prediction markets had to be more honest than online poker sites, where one is just begging to be cheated.
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HMeanwhile in the polymarkets... ‘Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor’ to win $34,000 bet
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HCrypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage...
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HThe pressure of the water is ##p = \rho g h##, so gravity enters through the ##g##. But the force of the water ##pA## (where ##A## is...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Weird News Compilation.There was the guy who stole a tank.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.That's right. I incorrectly thought the stated problem is whether there are two Bill Perkinses but it's actually whether any two...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.I repaired an error in my calculations. I seldom get it right the first time.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad Odd coincidence: two people with same name living on the same street.Edited to correct mistake. What you want is the Poisson distribution. Assume that the likelihood that BP lives in a given house is...
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HHornbein reacted to Dale's post in the thread Graduate How valid is the Block Universe theory? with
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I think you mean 83 ps. The speed of light is about 30 cm/ns, so 2.5 cm must be less than a ns.
