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Why learn & understand when you can search?
A recently and widely (in my nerd circles) shared XKCD comic featured ineffective sorting techniques. The alt text (what you get when you hover over the comic) proposed an additional sort: StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', … Continue reading
So this is why I keep losing my friends
Albert Einstein spent several years in Pasadena, California, working at CalTech. Einstein wasn’t known for being terribly focused on his surroundings, and apparently many of the locals were terrified that they would go down in history as the person that … Continue reading
Posted in Mildly amusing, Research, Science
Tagged absent-minded professors, Albert Einstein, Science, web comic, xkcd
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