Dan Drake 🦆I'm absurdly excited to learn that 2024 = 2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³.
...and it's because:
2025 = 45², and
45=1+2+⋯+9, and
(1+⋯+𝑛)²=1³+⋯+𝑛³ !
Via https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/18tr14a/2024_2³3³4³5³6³7³8³9³/.
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when i started at twitter in 2011 one of the first trainings i attended was the security one, which said, outright "you have a target painted on your back now, you will have to be vigilant".
seemed like pretty sound advice at the time, 12 years ago
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Wonder of ScienceThe surprising intelligence of crows demonstrated in an experiment showing they have a causal understanding level of a 5 to 7-year-old child.
Video credit: PLOS Media
Further reading: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0092895
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows
Understanding causal regularities in the world is a key feature of human cognition. However, the extent to which non-human animals are capable of causal understanding is not well understood. Here, we used the Aesop's fable paradigm – in which subjects drop stones into water to raise the water level and obtain an out of reach reward – to assess New Caledonian crows' causal understanding of water displacement. We found that crows preferentially dropped stones into a water-filled tube instead of a sand-filled tube; they dropped sinking objects rather than floating objects; solid objects rather than hollow objects, and they dropped objects into a tube with a high water level rather than a low one. However, they failed two more challenging tasks which required them to attend to the width of the tube, and to counter-intuitive causal cues in a U-shaped apparatus. Our results indicate that New Caledonian crows possess a sophisticated, but incomplete, understanding of the causal properties of displacement, rivalling that of 5–7 year old children.
Mandu 🥟know when to take the L
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