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Many optimization problems in business engineering and science exhibit the behavior described by this function They start with a...

I still have a Gumby. He injured his hand awhile back and it's hard to fix. The foam material aged over 60 years or so that it crumbles...

I never had a Barbie, nor a Ken. Nor a GI Joe to boss them around. Instead had a Gumby and Pokey.

Here's a YouTube video on the History of Barbie:

I am actually surprised that governments don’t generally use Linux for security reasons. A government should worry that a commercial...

I was working at the UK's Ministry of Defence just over 10 years ago when they rolled out Office 365. This involved the MOD making...

Yes, I found that to be true, too. At work, all Mac users were forced to switch to Windows laptops because we had a firewall setup...

Update, so I checked, and it’s known as an affiliate link, and it’s a tracking ID attached to your purchase. You don’t have to buy...

My understanding is It only works if you click the link on PF and buy the book when it appears on Amazon. Did you check your invoice...

I remember reading it and wondering why he was so proud that his math served no useful purpose other than to view its elegance and...

One trap in math that physicists fall into is relaxing a rule as a practical expedient to solve a problem. But to a mathematician, you...

Not a good sign for MS Windows desire to dominate the World's computers. MS was always afraid of Linux and then embraced it when they...

Another way to look at it ##a^0 = 1## ##a * a^0 = a * 1## ##a^1 = a## Of course you can reverse the steps and conclude that ##a^0...

Such is Mathematics.

This is so cool. I thought of giving you a warning for extreme coolness since the like button doesn’t cut it. Thanks for sharing. I...