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There was one poor Miss America beauty contestant who flubbed her final essay question in front of millions by just aimlessly rambling...

One idea is to have the students do it anyway to learn the procedure and to see which student contaminated their sample. Veritaseum did...

@Andy Resnick you’re no fun. :-)

This is so great. British comedienne Diane Morgan does an incredible job portraying the clueless journalist/documentarian. It reminds...

I hope you may find this as hilarious as do I.

Perhaps your students could try the filtering too and compare their calculations with a physical experiment.

I think I'd try this Bayes fashion:$$p(B|A)=\frac{p(A|B)p(B)}{p(A)}$$In your case you are interested in ##B## being ##N##, the number of...

OMG thank you! This is EXACTLY the kind of answer I was hoping for. I'm saving and printing it out for permanent reference. The exact...

The best heuristic I can give is that anything that can do something, even something very simple, on its own, without being told what to...

Yes, Jack you need to look at the big picture here. New tech bring benefits, and we pay to enjoy those benefits in subscription fees but...

Yeah, sometimes a heuristic is used that's easy to remember, like the famously wrong one used during COVID to stand 6 feet apart, which...

Perhaps what you need is an EPA test protocol where you filter the 100ml through a couple of filters and culture the filters for...

!!! SECOND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT !!! We aren't here to debate issues of competition for resources between humans and AI. It's...

Yes MS destroyed many promising companies in their rise to dominance. Zip tools when MS introduced a compressed filesystem. I don't...

Javascript has some libraries to do that. One example is pako https://github.com/nodeca/pako