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A ‘yoga pill’ to end anxiety? Scientists find a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress. (seattletimes.com)
Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms) (scientificamerican.com)
The sham legacy of Richard Feynman (youtube.com)
Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems (modular.com)
How animals got butts (youtube.com)
Lecture 16: Relational Algebra (courses.cs.washington.edu)
(Re)affirm design principles for future C++ evolution (open-std.org)
Nash equilibria in Ballmer’s binary-search interview game (quuxplusone.github.io)
The science of why you can remember song lyrics from years ago (theconversation.com)
How some of the world's most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong (stuartschechter.org)
why is mathematica so bad at being a spreadsheet?
a few weeks ago, i gained a need for something roughly spreadsheet-shaped. very tiny—1e4 or 1e5 rows, if that. i decided my options were: - literal spreadsheet - sqlite plus some sugar - mathematica notebook i have never used mathematica before in any serious capacity (nor anything else in...
Sharing without clicking on news in social media (phys.org)
The Business-School research scandal that just keeps getting bigger (theatlantic.com)
N-Spheres (youtu.be)
The stereographic projection of the Stern–Brocot tree (richardt.io)
Generating entanglement on 27- and 65-qubit quantum systems (ibm.com)
Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable (arxiv.org)
> We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction w...
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)
A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers (andreinc.net)
Nothing-up-my-sleeve number (en.wikipedia.org)
Giant impact had silver lining for life, according to new study (news.harvard.edu)
Book review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate" (theinfinitesimal.substack.com)
Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants (cell.com)
James Gleick's Chaos: The Software (github.com)
Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS--the ionosphere (popsci.com)
The Monads Hurt My Head --- But Not Anymore (2009) (golem.ph.utexas.edu)
Turtle genomes fold in a special way (futurity.org)
Digging into the first work of modern ecology (nautil.us)
The geometry of data: the missing metric tensor and the Stein score [Part II] (blog.christianperone.com)
The US has a cloned sheep contraband problem (wired.com)