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Even weirder:

Prompt: A skeuomorphism stop motion explainer about how the brain hippocampus works with a compelling voiceover. Don’t add seahorses. No voice cuts at the end. Don’t add text

Seahorses???

Pretty sure the license plate/street view level data is from the cars that drive around with a lidar thing strapped to the top, not satellite data

Not sure if everything is correct, seems a bit too easy -

Let y be the horizontal width of the bottom-left-most rectangle, and x be the horizontal width of each of the rectangles directly adjacent on the right to the first one, so that the rectangle marked at the top right as having a vertical width of 3 now has a horizontal width of x + y.

Then, the area of each rectangle is 3x + 3y, as all rectangles have the same area.

It follows that the vertical width of the bottom-left-most rectangle is (3x + 3y)/y, and that the vertical width of each of the two stacked rectangles is (3x + 3y)/x.

Note now that the stacked rectangles have the same horizontal width, and therefore must have the same vertical width. Thus, the vertical width of the bottom-left-most rectangle must be 2 times the vertical width of each of these stacked rectangles, so (3x + 3y)/y = 2*(3x + 3y)/x.

From this, we get 1/y = 2/x (noting that 3x + 3y cannot be be zero), so x = 2y.

This means that the vertical width of the bottom-left-most rectangle is then (3(2y) + 3y)/y = (6y + 3y)/y = 9y/y = 9.

Therefore, the entire left side width is 3 + 9, or 12 units. Since the overall shape is a square, the entire square's area must be 144 square units.

Ironic how the first thing you're greeted with upon opening this link on mobile is a huge popup covering the entire page asking you to allow cookies, with no easy way to decline.

The listing status of Alibaba’s shares in New York and Hong Kong won’t be affected, people familiar with the matter said. Alibaba’s Nasdaq-listed American depositary receipts climbed more than 6% in premarket trading on Tuesday in New York.

Wouldn't the middle ground be to have ISPs ban TikTok? The US doesn't need to create a firewall themselves, they can just rely on the fact that internet providers are in effect an oligopoly, and simply tell all 5 or so of them to prevent their users from accessing the website/service. This would, of course, be circumventable by a VPN, but that's a degree of rigor good enough for China, so it should be fine here.

2^57 seconds is about 4.5 × 10^9 years, which is the age of the universe. They would only need that many stills because it would be possible to do a binary search on the footage, as each frame either has the bike in it or does not.

How does Maxima compare to something like Xcas[1]?

[1] https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html

Nice to see an unusually level-headed take from Luke.

Same. It confused me when I heard people pronouncing it "et-see"; at least it wasn't "etcetera" though lol

Tetris games (quick-paced modern Tetris clones/block stackers like TETR.IO) are good for improving pattern recognition and, at higher levels, memorization (as in openers, perfect clear setups, etc ).