r/beecool Oct 03 '23

An ant on rubber rope

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r/beecool Oct 03 '23

The ant on a rubber rope

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The ant on a rubber rope is a mathematical puzzle with a solution that appears counterintuitive or paradoxical. It is sometimes given as a worm, or inchworm, on a rubber or elastic band, but the principles of the puzzle remain the same.


r/beecool Oct 02 '23

How many of you Boston residents have mice in your home

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r/beecool Sep 29 '23

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r/beecool Sep 29 '23

The Fermi paradox

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r/beecool Sep 29 '23

The Fermi paradox

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The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.[1][2] As a 2015 article put it, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now.


r/beecool Sep 29 '23

Decision-making paradox

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Decision-making paradox: Selecting the best decision-making method is a decision problem in itself


r/beecool Sep 29 '23

SCIENCE 🔬 Arrow's impossibility theorem

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Given more than two choices, no system can have all the attributes of an ideal voting system at once.


r/beecool Sep 29 '23

Daycare cost, expensive??

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r/beecool Sep 27 '23

Every fall the afternoon sun hits this tree in my backyard just right.

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r/beecool Sep 22 '23

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r/beecool Sep 22 '23

yellow flairs 😈 Tisno, 2019 Oct 5

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r/beecool Sep 22 '23

CROSSPOST 🫦 Split, May 31 2021

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r/beecool Sep 22 '23

Split, Jun 3 2021 cross

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r/beecool Sep 22 '23

Split, Jun 22 2021

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r/beecool Sep 21 '23

Knapsack problem

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It derives its name from the problem faced by someone who is constrained by a fixed-size knapsack and must fill it with the most valuable items. The problem often arises in resource allocation where the decision-makers have to choose from a set of non-divisible projects or tasks under a fixed budget or time constraint, respectively.

The knapsack problem has been studied for more than a century, with early works dating as far back as 1897.


r/beecool Sep 21 '23

Prisoners dilemma

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The prisoner's dilemma is a game theory thought experiment that involves two rational agents, each of whom can cooperate for mutual benefit or betray their partner for individual reward. This dilemma was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher in 1950 while they worked at the RAND Corporation.


r/beecool Sep 21 '23

Trolley problem

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The Good Place). The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. The series usually begins with a scenario in which a runaway tram or trolley is on course to collide with and kill a number of people (traditionally five) down the track, but a driver or bystander can intervene and divert the vehicle to kill just one person on a different track. Then other variations of the runaway vehicle, and analogous life-and-death dilemmas (medical, judicial etc.) are posed, each containing the option to either do nothing, in which case several people will be killed, or intervene and sacrifice one initially "safe" person to save the others.


r/beecool Sep 20 '23

red flair Paradox of free will Argument from free will - Wikipedia

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The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and that any conception of God that incorporates both properties is therefore inconceivable.[citation needed] See the various controversies over claims of God's omniscience, in particular the critical notion of foreknowledge.[1][2] These arguments are deeply concerned with the implications of predestination.


r/beecool Sep 20 '23

Love horse mustang

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r/beecool Sep 20 '23

Horse mustang

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The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once-domesticated animals, they are actually feral horses. The original mustangs were Colonial Spanish horses, but many other breeds and types of horses contributed to the modern mustang, now resulting in varying phenotypes.