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Wheeler once posited the notion of a geon, a ring of light held together by the gravity of its own field energy. Geons have never been observed, and I believe there's some debate on whether they are stable, but theoretical physics entertains such notions in the search for quantum gravity and...

And yet Ramanujan almost did slip through the cracks if not for some special people in India and Hardy and Littlewood in England.

My understanding of things was that IQ tests are imperfect for a number of reasons. One being the background of the person taking it as questions can have an implicit bias for one culture over another. The popular tests for college entry were IQ tests recast for college entrance and were meant...

I always thought it was more diabolical to make the drone look like a bird, fly like a bird, and land like a bird. So I guess the next innovation would be to make a hummingbird drone where the hummingbird appears and disappears at will.

A mixed bag. Chatgpt paid seems pretty good. But others not so good. Also it depends on the language and developers. Nuances in a language not understood by a developer have greater mistranslations than when developer teams know source and target languages intimaely.

Maybe this would be a good insight article on when and how to use Metcal.

I've seen docs that look okay but when you select text it reverses the letters. An example, selecting the word “smart” and you “trams”. —- From a ChatGPT search —- Nature’s PDFs are standard PDF files, but they often have characteristics that make them harder for software to extract text...

Personally I would retire your computer and transfer your stuff to a new one. Reason a connector fail but when it works it stops.

Grandma got run over by a reindeer. No comma needed for the song.

I think it will quickly rise again as students learn the new ways of software development being hammered out in the AI agent age. I believe a human will have to have the right vibe programming skills to direct the AI agent to a good outcome rather like the way bosses do now with their...

That's great! Can you share what you found?

Zotero is a citation tracker that grad students are encouraged to use. It's either an app or plug-in that captures a citation. It's great for when you need citations for papers you're writing. It keeps them in one place and can generate different citation styles. I use it to track references...

I wonder if this will fix that issue I had a few weeks ago where I needed to reload several times before I got everything. PF is the only site that I have this issue with.

It may not be smaller but a tighter font with less frills kind of like the difference between Courier and Arial with variable width.

Wow you even have citations. Are there plans to connect to Zotero?