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HHornbein reacted to jackjack2025's post in the thread What do computer science engineers do? with
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HHornbein reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Anyone like “2001: A Space Odyssey?” with Like.
Not a lot of people know this but a lot of these scenes were filmed on Earth to save production costs.
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HHornbein reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread Undergrad Why is gravity a fictitious force? with Like.
Consider a cloud of non-interacting dust particles in free fall near a black hole: no electric forces at all, yet the cloud stretches...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Today I Learned.Today I learned that commercially sold teak oil contains no teak oil.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Making a Giant Telescope Mirror Takes Years.In Bangkok's Don Mueng airport is a corridor. The floor is polished by a robot. Shiniest floor you ever saw, reflects the lights like...
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HHornbein posted the thread An AI to Write Data Analysis and Modeling Programs in Computing and Technology.https://seas.harvard.edu/news/ai-system-automates-coding-scientific-research They say it's faster and better than what humans can do...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad MOND disproved at large scales.MOND is just fitting a curve to data. As such it can't be proved or disproved.
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HI happened to tune in to the premier of this. I missed breakfast because I was afraid if I left and came back later it would no longer...
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HHornbein replied to the thread A homemade mechanics problem: A beetle on a globe.He says it isn't required to be a great circle so the path isn't required to be straight. The idea could be that the insect's path is...
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HHornbein replied to the thread An "Untranslatable" Word?.Indonesian, same. I suspect most languages are like this. Requiring a pronoun is artificial, unnecessary. In Indonesian gendered...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Extremely Weird Music.The "singer" is now a deacon in Hawaii.
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HHornbein replied to the thread A homemade mechanics problem: A beetle on a globe.If it were obliged to rotate around a fixed axis then one number would be enough to describe it's motion so it would have one degree of...
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HHornbein replied to the thread A homemade mechanics problem: A beetle on a globe.Since the center of the ball is fixed all the action is confined to a 2-D surface, so I would say the ball and beetle each have two...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Some Trap Drumming I Like."Senri Kawaguchi at age 15 possibly already the best bebop drummer in history." I'd say the best bebop drummer in history was Max...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Who is your favorite Jazz musician and what is your favorite song?.