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A comprehensive article from DebugBear on website carbon emissions, the data, and why the reports and calculators that use them may be flawed.
Jeremy B. Merrill went all in trying to find linguistic variations of the classic phrase “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”. A masterclass in NLP.
How to survive if you're in a car that's hanging off a cliff
Drive slow, homie.
There's iron atoms in that thar Earth's inner core
‘Our advanced calculations show that iron atoms display collective motion with fast diffusion in the premelting regime, leading to the ultralow shear modulus and ultrahigh Poisson’s ratio.’
Hippos are horrible at chewing, and their giant tusks and front teeth are to blame, according to a PLOS ONE paper from 4th October. To be honest, I’m not surprised as watching them chew food on Instagram made my mouth hurt.
Rest of World on the world’s last internet cafes
‘As long as ownership of personal computers is low, then we will still be doing some business. There is so much one cannot do on the phone conveniently,’
Science media on the super blue moon from last month
True blue, baby I love moon!
Text classification using... gzip??
Why waste time class lot word when gzip do trick?
Matt Parker looks at the maths behind needing just 27 lottery tickets to guarantee a win
I like those odds!
Happy birthday to Marjorie Lee Browne who was born on this day in 1914. Her work on linear algebra, topology, and the properties of classical groups and being the first Black women to earn a PhD in mathematics from a US university makes her a champion Blerd (↬ Bluesky)
Ernie Smith on dead hardware
Imagine thinking a hand crank for a laptop would be a good idea!