🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325.
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The Mechanical Turk (pictured), a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden human, began a tour of Europe.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Researchers found that brief reliance on AI help for math and reading tasks boosted immediate performance but quickly reduced persistence and problem-solving ability once AI was removed, suggesting heavy chatbot use may slowly weaken motivation, confidence, and independent reasoning over time.
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Researchers using machine learning found sperm whale “codas” contain vowel‑like elements and patterned timing, forming a complex phonetic system comparable to human speech tones. Project CETI aims to decode around 20 whale “expressions” by 2031, enabling basic two‑way communication.
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Scientists analysed DNA from 16,000 ancient and 6,000 modern people, finding 479 gene variants under recent selection. In Europe, genes for red hair and fair skin rose over 10,000 years, likely boosting vitamin D in low-sunlight farming populations.
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Inertia Enterprises struck three deals with Lawrence Livermore Lab, licensing ~200 patents and collaborating on next‑gen lasers and fuel targets. Backed by $450M and NIF’s proven ignition, it gains a major edge in commercializing laser-based inertial confinement fusion power.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
When Jeff Dean designs software, he first codes the binary and then writes the source as documentation.
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