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Looking for stuff in code is an essential skill in daily tasks. It lets me keep a laser focus on the problem at hand. Examples of questions I find myself asking over and over again: Does this repository contain this variable? What was the context of changing this variable name? Who is the best person …

Artificial-intelligence tools can often spot more duplicated images in papers than a human specialist can.Credit: Sezeryadigar/Getty Scientific-image sleuth Sholto David blogs about image manipulation in research papers, a pastime that has exposed him to many accounts of scientific fraud. But other scientists “are still a little bit in the dark about the extent of the …

Consider a graph with weights on its edges. Like the one in the figure, for example. One way to represent this graph is via an adjacency matrix A whose component A(s, t) is the weight of the edge between nodes s and t. Notice that since there may not be edges between all vertices (after …

“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly: sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” – Ernest Hemingway At times writing can feel like completing a jig-saw puzzle: contorting stray pieces to fit the image seen on the cardboard box. You reach for words …

Elon Musk said on Tuesday (Dec 20) he will step down as chief executive of Twitter after finding a replacement. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams,” Musk wrote on Twitter. This is the …

I’ve published a quick word finding game 🙂 The gameplay is simple, Click the letters to find a word. If the word is correct the length of the word will be transformed into points, if the word is not correct the length of the word will be decurted from your points. Letters are not reusable, …

How often are you attracted to someone just based on looks? If you’re being honest, probably most of the time. That was how seven-year-old Juli Baker fell in love with Bryce Loski in Wendelin Van Drannen’s Flipped. But this beautiful childhood crush is nothing but a nuisance to Bryce. Why? Because Bryce’s problem is that …

WA researchers identify new method for seismic sensing  Technology makes it cheaper and easier for exploration companies to detect mineralised structures beneath the surface   Curtin University researchers, supported by the State Government through the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia, have developed a new technology for detecting seismic energy as it passes through rocks and …

Portland Timbers midfielder Bill Tuiloma (#25) winds for a free kick during an MLS match against the LA Galaxy at Providence Park in Portland, Oregon on Sunday, April 3, 2022.Sean Meagher/The Oregonian After playing one of its best matches of the season in a much-needed 3-2 road win over Vancouver, the Portland Timbers head back …

Tile and Dell have teamed up to make a stylus that’s practically impossible to lose. The result is the Dell Premier Rechargeable Active Pen. It features Tile’s so-called “finding technology” that allows people to use the company’s mobile apps to “ring” their misplaced stylus, view its last-known location, or “enlist the secure help of Tile’s …