To solve last week’s puzzle: you are told how many heads there are so start by flipping that number of coins.
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Explainaways protect the system from unwanted evidence by ignoring or dismissing it. But when the weight of such evidence grows, they stop sounding persuasive.
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The research mainly shows that there is more than one route to animal intelligence and shaking up Darwin’s tree can be productive.
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Despite good reasons to be optimistic about reading’s ultimate survival, Horowitch and Harrington are putting their fingers on something real and concerning. Even for someone like me, who grew up reading books, the allure of digital distraction is often overpowering.
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I spent 55 years as an eyewitness to this disaster, watching a relatively lean and efficient enterprise turn into a distended, barely recognizable caricature.
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The answer to Micro Softy 87 depends on understanding which number a given sequence of the code represents.
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Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every two years. But Moore’s Law must eventually stop at the Planck length.
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Meta and Google recently lost a bellwether case accusing them of exacerbating children’s mental health struggles by intentionally addicting them to unhealthy social media.
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The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.
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To solve Micro Softie 85, ask yourself, when would a slightly smaller caliber bullet than the enemy uses be a definite advantage?
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Why would a military force decide to use a slightly different caliber of bullets from the one used by the enemy force?
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The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, we should picture what must happen when every bug wants to place itself between two other bugs.
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Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.
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Shermer’s coverage of issues like the design inference and irreducible complexity is embarrassingly shallow.
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The inventions that changed our lives for the better were usually accompanied by speculation bubbles and busts. LLM firms will likely attract the same fate.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, keep in mind that every termite is doing the same thing.
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The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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Swarm intelligence enables the colony to converge on the shortest and most efficient path to food without any individual being especially smart.
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One unusual feature is that driver attention is monitored and inattentive drivers can have the self-driving mode suspended.
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