Science / Math / Physics (2024-05)

Deaths mount and water rationed as India faces record heat (washingtonpost.com)

~ 43 pts 10 comments by unknown May 31, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created (popsci.com)

~ 14 pts 1 comments by unknown May 31, 2024 ~science Science / Math / Physics thread

James Webb Space Telescope spots the two earliest galaxies ever seen (space.com)

~ 31 pts 9 comments by unknown May 31, 2024 ~space Science / Math / Physics thread

Evolution of Cloud Block Store (asatarin.github.io)

L 5 pts 0 comments by eatonphil May 30, 2024 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics thread

A socialist critique of Kohei Saito’s “start from scratch” degrowth communism (jacobin.com)

~ 6 pts 0 comments by unknown May 30, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Icelandic volcano located near the famous Blue Lagoon has erupted once again – the fifth such eruption since December (dw.com)

~ 11 pts 0 comments by unknown May 30, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Scientists figured out why orcas have been sinking boats for the last four years [turns out it's juveniles just having fun] (newatlas.com)

~ 47 pts 19 comments by unknown May 29, 2024 ~science Science / Math / Physics thread

Inventing Fisher's Exact Test (two-wrongs.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by kqr May 29, 2024 math Science / Math / Physics thread

Everything I Know About The Fast Inverse Square Root Algorithm (github.com)

L 26 pts 5 comments by FrancisStokes May 29, 2024 ccompscimath Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming Languages / CS Theory Science / Math / Physics thread

Secrets from the algorithm: Google Search’s internal engineering documentation has leaked

~ 30 pts 4 comments by unknown May 29, 2024 ~comp Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics thread

Better depression relief with electromagnetic treatment (stanmed.stanford.edu)

~ 8 pts 0 comments by unknown May 28, 2024 ~science Science / Math / Physics thread

How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid (washingtonpost.com)

~ 16 pts 5 comments by unknown May 28, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

NASA finds more issues with Boeing’s Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1 (arstechnica.com)

~ 17 pts 2 comments by unknown May 28, 2024 ~space Science / Math / Physics thread

0.1 + 0.2 (rtfeldman.com)

L 20 pts 37 comments by yonkeltron May 28, 2024 mathplt Programming Languages / CS Theory Science / Math / Physics thread

Illegal tin mining due to smart phone demand tied to deadly crocodile attacks (theconversation.com)

~ 8 pts 1 comments by unknown May 28, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Astronomers find “Big Ring” 1.3 billion light years across (skyandtelescope.org)

~ 21 pts 4 comments by unknown May 27, 2024 ~space Science / Math / Physics thread

Surge in India’s renewables set to keep coal’s share below 50% in total installed capacity (ieefa.org)

~ 7 pts 1 comments by unknown May 27, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Los Angeles County captures ninety-six billion gallons of water during ‘super year’ of storms (latimes.com)

~ 14 pts 2 comments by unknown May 27, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Generating Almost Normally Distributed Values (two-wrongs.com)

L 15 pts 5 comments by kqr May 27, 2024 math Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics thread

Mexico City and Bogotá stare down a ‘Day Zero’ without water (grist.org)

~ 25 pts 4 comments by unknown May 27, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement (newatlas.com)

~ 25 pts 2 comments by unknown May 27, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Evolution of the ELF object file format (maskray.me)

L 25 pts 10 comments by MaskRay May 26, 2024 linuxunix Systems / Low-Level / OS Science / Math / Physics thread

Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home (theguardian.com)

~ 11 pts 0 comments by unknown May 25, 2024 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Taming Floating-Point Sums (orlp.net)

L 11 pts 9 comments by xoranth May 25, 2024 mathrust Systems / Low-Level / OS Science / Math / Physics thread

MIT astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars (news.mit.edu)

~ 7 pts 1 comments by unknown May 25, 2024 ~space Science / Math / Physics thread

Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning (2010) (arxiv.org)

L 3 pts 0 comments by shekhinah May 25, 2024 ai AI / Machine Learning Science / Math / Physics thread

Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same. (bbc.com)

~ 56 pts 22 comments by unknown May 25, 2024 ~tech Science / Math / Physics Internet / Digital Culture thread

If You Wish to Truly Understand Frappe's Scheduler, You Must First Invent the Universe (frappe.io)

L 11 pts 3 comments by ankush May 25, 2024 linuxpython Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics thread

Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis. (quantamagazine.org)

~ 25 pts 1 comments by unknown May 25, 2024 ~science Science / Math / Physics thread

Analytical Methods for Dynamic Simulation of Non-penetrating Rigid Bodies (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

L 5 pts 1 comments by bollu May 25, 2024 math Science / Math / Physics thread

A method for analytically calculating the forces between systems of rigid bodies in resting (non-colliding) contact is presented. The systems of bodies may either be in motion or static equilibrium and adjacent bodies may touch at multiple points. The analytic formulation of the forces between bod...