Post Overview
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Analysis
9 years ago+2 2 0Benford's Law
Benford's law is a phenomenological law also called the first digit law, first digit phenomenon, or leading digit phenomenon. Benford's law states that in listings, tables of statistics, etc., the digit 1 tends to occur with probability ∼30 ...
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Analysis
9 years ago+1 1 0Non-transitive Dice
A set of dice where the "this die rolls a higher number than this other one more than half the time" relation is not transitive.
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Video/Audio
9 years ago+2 2 0Virtual Barber Shop: Binaural Audio
You must wear headphones/earphones for this. I also recommend closing your eyes and sitting down.
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Analysis
9 years ago+8 8 0The idea behind the divergence theorem
Introduction to divergence theorem (also called Gauss's theorem), based on the intuition of expanding gas.
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Analysis
9 years ago+2 2 0CCRL: A Rating List for Chess Engines
CCRL plays chess engines against each other in order to determine which engines are the strongest at any one time.
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Analysis
9 years ago+1 1 0The Planimeter: An analogue device used to measure the area enclosed by a curve
A planimeter is a table-top instrument for measuring areas, usually the areas of irregular regions on a map or photograph. They were once common, but have now largely been replaced by digital tools.
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Current Event
9 years ago+23 23 0The Chinese stock market has lost £1.5 trillion in the last three weeks
The Chinese stock market has endured a torrid three weeks in which it has lost value equivalent to £1.5 trillion — that's 10 times the size of Greece's annual GDP.