Many Americans believe Congress could be fixed with a simple solution: Throw the bums out with term limits.
But that creates more problems than it solves, says political scientists.
For one, members in their legally mandated final term in office enjoy a kind of "senioritis" -- and experience apathy toward being productive in their final year, because they don't have to face the voters again at the ballot box.
Today Chris Stuckmann released a review of The Fall Guy where he laments the lack of a Best Stunt category at the Oscars, going so far as to say the phrase "for some reason" as though it's a mystery.
This guy fancies himself a filmmaker and doesn't know that the oft-repeated reason is that rewarding the best stunt with an Oscar will result in productions pushing for bigger and bigger stunts to win the award, which will cause people to die.
@rodhilton
"Does Chris really think he's the first person to notice and say "hey why isn't there an oscar for stunts?!"
Tangent, but this made me laugh because I'm struck with this thought every time I see someone forgetting one or more of the rules of #Maths and then claiming that #Math is "ambiguous". Do you not think that in the centuries that have passed that some Mathematician would've noticed it and, you know, made a #Mathematics rule to cover it? 😂 #MathsIsNeverAmbiguous
"They discuss the mathematics of gravity, including the work of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, gravitational waves, black holes, and recent developments in the field."
Holy crap. Someone won the Texas Lotto -- to the tune of $95 million -- by buying every combination of number available. They apparently invested approximately $25.8M to accomplish that. (Paywall busted below) https://archive.is/etkX9
Proof they bought every number is they ALSO cashed in every combination of five-out-of-six wins possible, per that article. #math#lotto#mathematics#odds
A curious math problem I came up with: given a target, what's the fewest digits an integer must have (in a given base) to contain all integers from 0 to the target, as substrings?
e.g. for a target of 19 a candidate representative would be 1011213141516171819 in base 10, that has 19 digits. Can it be done in less, or is $\sigma_10(19) = 19$?
Can we find a general rule? Any properties of this function?
So I wanted to post a question about a #math problem, and I wanted to reach the widest possible math community on the #Fediverse. Aside from using the correct tag, my first thought was to find a #Lemmy or #kbin community/magazine to cc in the post. And … there isn't one. There's many. Just from a quick search I found https://lemmy.ml/c/mathematics https://lemmy.ml/c/math https://kbin.social/m/math
so now the question becomes … should I cross post to all of them? Or is that poor form?
"An interview with Prof. Marcus du Sautoy about his book Around the Wold in Eighty Games . . . .a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games."
"Life, as we know it, has been evolving for billions of years. It has evolved to process information and materials by zillions of nano-scale molecular “machines” all working in parallel, competing as well as backing each other up, maintaining themselves and the ecosystem supporting them. The total complexity of this machinery, also called the biosphere, is mindboggling. In DNA, one bit of information takes less than 50 atoms. Given the atomic nature of physical matter, every part in life’s machinery is as miniature as possible in principle. Can AI achieve such a complexity, robustness, and adaptability by alternative means and without DNA?" https://blog.oup.com/2024/04/is-humanity-a-passing-phase-in-evolution-of-intelligence-and-civilisation/#Maths#Math#Mathematics#Science#Medicine#Technology#STEM#AI#ArtificialIntelligence@science
How the puzzle game Connections prompted thoughts about the beauty of flowers, mathematics, and the aesthetics of science. “As beautiful as the sunflower is, isn’t it even lovelier knowing there is a deep mathematical order to it?” https://kottke.org/24/03/making-connections
English polymath Isaac Newton, who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and theologian, died #onthisday in 1727.
His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics [1]. He also made seminal contributions to optics (among many other things), and shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing calculus.
Born #onthisday in 1927, Allen Newell was an American computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology.
In 1955, before the term “AI” existed, Newell co-wrote what many consider the world’s first AI program, the Logic Theorist. The Logic Theorist proved 38 of 52 classic math theorems and established the field of heuristic programing [1,2].
Playing with Infinity; Turtles, Patterns, and Pictures by Hans Zantema
This book will provide a fascinating read for anyone interested in number theory, infinity, math art, and/or generative art, and could be used a valuable supplement to any course on these topics. Along the way the author will demonstrate how infinity can be made to create beautiful ‘art’, guided by the development of underlying mathematics.