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The 'S' in IoT stands for security.
The 'P' in AI stands for privacy.
psst.
who makes and sells knit stuff here on the fedi?
booties!
skull(ish?)caps!
fingerless gloves!
Please boop me if you know of people!
It is my understanding that the ancient Hebrew and modern Jewish view of the serpent in the Garden of Eden is that the creature was not demonic at all. Just a talking snake, no judging.
And in fact, a literal reading the Genesis text reveals a stretch to transform snek into Satan, in any way other than that he convinced Eve to go against God's orders.
But look at the gift she got. Yes, she became mortal and thus could die. But uhm, also now she could have babies, knowledge, and a system of moral reasoning. She could leave home and become her own person out in the world with her BFF BF Adam.
She didn't eat of the Tree of Death and Sin... She ate the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Snek here is offering life, expansion, freedom, reasoning, knowledge, struggle, creativity, and growth. She really did become "like God."
And the cost of all that happens to be death. That is a trait of the universe, not of moral evil or rebellion against authority.
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Two students who discovered a novel proof of the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem.
While still in high school, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson from Louisiana used trigonometry to prove the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem, which states that the sum of the squares of a right triangle's two shorter sides are equal to the square of the triangle's longest side (the hypotenuse).
Mathematicians had long thought that using trigonometry to prove the theorem was unworkable, given that the fundamental formulas for trigonometry are based on the assumption that the theorem is true.
Jackson and Johnson came up with their "impossible" proof in answer to a bonus question in a school math contest.
They presented their work at an American Mathematical Society meeting in 2023, but the proof hadn't been thoroughly scrutinized at that point.
Now, a new paper published Monday (Oct. 28) in the journal American Mathematical Monthly shows their solution held up to peer review.
Not only that, but the two students also outlined nine more proofs of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.
There's a very weird but common misconception that people on disability benefits are somehow a "drain on the economy." But 100% of that money will be spent, on things like rent, mortgage, insurance, food, clothing, and so on. That's money that immediately goes to business owners and, if those business owners aren't hoarding wealth, will cycle through the rest of the economy.
Drains on the economy are where money stops moving, like, for example, when it reaches wealthy billionaires.
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