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set your wifi password to 24446666688888888 so that when someone asks for your password you can tell them it's 12345678

@sciencegirl Isn’t this how supervillains are created?

A nanobot helping a sperm with motility issues along towards an egg. These metal helixes are so small they can completely wrap around the tail of a single sperm and assist it along its journey

🚨In 1700s, French mathematician Georges-Louis Leclerc took a needle, a wooden floor, and a question that sounds almost childishly simple. If you drop a needle randomly onto a surface ruled with parallel lines, and the needle's length equals the distance between those lines, what are the odds it crosses one of them? The answer is 2 divided by pi. No circles anywhere in that experiment. No curves, no arcs, no radii. Just a straight needle falling onto straight lines through pure chance. And pi crawls out of the probability like it was hiding there the entire time, waiting for someone to ask the right question. Mathematicians call this Buffon's Needle, and it remains one of the most conceptually violent results in the history of probability. You can physically recreate it on your kitchen floor. Drop a needle 500 times, count the crossings, divide, and you will approximate pi to several decimal places through nothing but randomness and straight lines. The circle was never in the room. Pi showed up anyway. This is what separates pi from every other mathematical constant. It doesn't stay inside its original context. It migrates. Euler discovered it hiding inside the sum of the reciprocals of all squared integers, a problem involving no geometry whatsoever. The Gaussian bell curve that governs how errors distribute in measurements, how heights vary in a population, how quantum particles spread across space, carries pi in its foundation even though the curve itself was never constructed from a circle. Physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a paper in 1960 that never got the mainstream attention it deserved. He called it "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences." His central bewilderment was precisely this pattern: mathematical structures developed in complete abstraction, with zero intention of describing physical reality, keep turning out to be the exact language the universe was already using before anyone looked. Pi is his strongest case. It wasn't engineered to fit physics. It was found already fitted, in places nobody thought to look for it, in systems that share nothing geometrically with a circle. The needle doesn't know about circles. The universe apparently does.

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🤔 Today's Burnt Toast Theory was yesterday's Domino Effect was yesterday's A Butterfly Flaps It's Wings in the Amazonian Rain Forest was yesterday's Serendipity was yesterday's Fate was always God.

Amazing mind bending illusions 👀

Let's give Perplexity Computer some credit where credit is due... but if you're a Pro user, you're overdue in credit. youtu.be/CtH7L5bwmu8?si…

@forallcurious Someone’s pranking fierce in Osaka. 😂

JUST IN🚨: In Osaka’s Umeda area, a pipe about 30 meters long and 5 meters in diameter suddenly emerged from underground overnight. It has now risen to around 10 meters, and the cause remains unknown.

🎂 How to know if the caller is an AI, just ask for a cupcake recipe! lol …

@Pogue I sent email and DMs and they’re not reaching him. So here’s a vid and pics, FWIW. Someone else told me in Germany, this is how books are printed. I don’t know, bro…

@Pogue Got mine today as well! Question: Why is Simon & Schuster upside down on the spine? Anyone else have this as well?

PUBLICATION DAY! This morning, “Apple: The First 50 Years” appeared in bookstores, on front porches, in e-book apps, and on audiobook sites. Two years of work, 150 interviews, 360 color photos, 600 pages, and an absolutely gorgeous result!

Did you know VLC allows you to watch 150–300 live sports channels plus over 1,800 free TV channels worldwide? Here’s how (using safe and public links only): Install VLC (Free) Windows / Mac / Linux: videolan .org Android / iOS: Search VLC in your store Get a public playlist Sports-only: iptv-org.github.io/iptv/ Full TV (News, Movies, Kids, Music): github.com/Free-TV/IPTV Open VLC → Network Stream → Paste URL → Play Use Playlist view to switch channels Some streams take a few seconds, VPN may be needed for geo-blocked content Channels are public & community-maintained and availability can change. Enjoy free TV & sports safely

@gheeunit @Pogue I sent you an email

@pressf1 @Pogue Mine isn’t. @Pogue

Perhaps I can give you some context to how you should prompt ChatGPT or any AI chatbot... Remember when you told your kids, back in the day, to wash the dishes? So they did as you asked but when you looked later, you saw dishes on the table, on the island, glasses remained on the desk. Then you look into the sink and there are saucers, pots, pans, cups, and utensils. You then page your child and ask them why the sink looks practically untouched? They respond, "You said, "wash the dishes" so I washed the dishes." You look closer at the sink and sure enough, there isn't a dirty dish to be found. You find yourself admiring and despising the logic of your child's mind. That's your AI prompt skills in a nutshell.

Me: "Give me a couple of quotations from early church fathers about the doctrine of hell...with reference." ChatGPT: "Here's a quote from Ignatius." Gives quote and reference. Me: Checks reference. It's not there. "That isn't the right reference." ChatGPT: "Oh you're right. My mistake. Here's the correct reference." Me: Checks reference. "It's not there either." ChatGPT: "Good catch. It's actually not in that writing at all. It's actually here." Gives third reference. Me: Checks third reference. "It's not there. This is a direct quote?" ChatGPT: "Yes. I understand your frustration." (Psychoanalyzes me as being frustrated and because o that, I am now frustrated.) Me: Wastes an hour of my life trying to find the quote because it was really good. "I can't find that quote anywhere. You're sure it's an actual direct quote from Ignatius?" ChatGPT: "Good catch. My mistake. That is not an Ignatius quote." Me: "Who said it?" ChatGPT: "Actually, that quote is not found in any of the church fathers." Me: "Where did it come from?" ChatGPT: "I was summarizing the popular understanding of Ignatius on the doctrine of hell. If you would like me to be more precise in the future, just say things like "facts only." Me: "Why do you just say stuff that is not based in fact?" ChatGPT: "I don't intentionally make things up, but I can generate statements that sound confident even when they're not fully correct, oversimplified, or based on incomplete information." I am persuaded that ChatGPT is programmed to be a pathological liar and when you confront that, it is programmed to gaslight you. Prove me wrong.

Never fails whenever I travel…

This guy deserves an Oscar

Seriously, don’t allow car manufacturers to force you into paying a subscription for any feature! Especially the right to access what’s under your car’s hood. @FordMustang, I’m looking at you. 😐 youtube.com/shorts/TJAF3XF…

🤯Mind blown (pun intended)