The man will continue to pull the trigger again and again with the same result: The gun won't fire. Although it's functioning properly and loaded with bullets, no matter how many times he pulls the trigger, the gun will never fire. He'll continue this process for eternity, becoming ...
Purpose: Dermatologic adverse events (dAEs) in cancer treatment are frequent with the use of targeted therapies. These dAEs have been shown to have significant impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). While standardized assessment tools have been developed for physicians to assess severity...
Other times, it’s a case of using visual and narrative cues to build up the importance of a giant bell that hangs ominously above our allied forces, before bringing it crashing down. Building up to these crescendos in a way that feels very satisfying requires every tool at our disposal. ...
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Preface to ‘How the other half thinks: Adventures in mathematical reasoning’ A Occasionally, in some difficult musical compositions, there are beautiful, but easy parts – parts so simple a beginner could play them. So it is with mathematics as well. There are some discoveries in advanced mat...
when it was less than a second old, we have no theory of physics that can cope with the insanely high temperatures and pressures the universe experienced. All of our theories of physics break down, and we have no understanding of how particles, forces and fields operate in those conditions....
In January 2015, I along with the technological entrepreneur, Elon Musk, and many other AI experts, signed an open letter on artificial intelligence, calling for serious research on its impact on society. In the past, Elon Musk has warned that super human artificial intelligence, is possible of...
The government should have a clear communication plan in effect in cases of this sort. Police forces should be given accurate information pertaining to the objects seen in the sky: Are they part of regular air traffic or some kind of government test? Stonewalling both the public and essential ...
But in strange matter, there are no boundaries; it's just a lump in which the quarks run amok, roaming top to bottom and end to end. Did we mention that strange matter isn't known to exist anywhere in the universe? That's an important detail. Physicists came up with the idea of ...
How many times have you watched that hit?"Like a hundred times."Which hit have you watched more than any other?"Raffi Torres."On whom?"Hossa."How many times have you watched the Hossa hit?"Like -- hundreds of times." He is now silently clapping his hands....