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Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?

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"Bookland" is a fictitious country that exists solely in the European Article Number (EAN) barcode system, where it serves as the unique prefix of published books regardless of their country of origin. The codes "978" and later "979" were designated as Bookland prefixes in the 1980s to allow the EAN namespace to catalogue books by International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) rather than requiring a separate or redundant EAN numbering system. Bookland does not represent a real geographic location.

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The Indiana pi bill was bill 246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most notorious attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat. Despite its name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle. The bill implies incorrect values of the mathematical constant π (pi), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The bill, written by a physician turned amateur mathematician, never became law due to the intervention of C. A. Waldo, a professor at Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote. The mathematical impossibility of squaring the circle using only straightedge and compass constructions, suspected since ancient times, had been proven 15 years previously, in 1882, by Ferdinand von Lindemann. Better approximations of π than those implied by the bill have been known since ancient times.

There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can start using this trick yourself.

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57 (fifty-seven) is the natural number following 56 and preceding 58.

In The Student Loan Giveaway is Much Bigger Than You Think I argued that the Biden student loan plan would incentivize students to take on more debt and incentivize schools to raise tuition with most of the increased costs being passed on to taxpayers through generous income based repayment plans. Adam Looney at Brookings takes […]

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

The New Republic writes “President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans.” Yes, but do note that no student is banned from any major and the lending rule is mild. Undergraduate programs must show: that their graduates earn more than the typical high school diploma […]

Many population projections used by international and government agencies assume that, in today's low-fertility societies, future fertility rates will stop declining and roughly stabilize. This paper assesses the evidence for an equilibrium point or rebound from low levels. We show that there is no robust evidence for a systematic fertility rebound, or for a stable equilibrium point at any fertility level conventionally assumed. Instead, where and when fertility has fallen low, it has tended to keep falling. This is true across a range of data sources, time periods, and fertility measures: United Nations data on period total fertility rates for all country-years from 1950 to 2023; Human Fertility Database data on completed fertility for cohorts born between 1935 and 1975 in 31 countries; and fertility rates in subnational geographies in Japan, India, and the United States. We reconcile these results with a prior literature that documented fertility reversals among some low-fertility countries in the early 2000s. Our findings provide an empirical basis for re-examining the equilibrium and rebound assumptions embedded in widely used population projections.

To play the video, I converted each frame of bad apple to an svg, and then each frame of that into an stl. I used prusaslicer with some custom slicer settings to batch process each stl, and then to actually print the files I wrote a small python script to combine the files into large gcode files with 20 frames on each of them. I took the pictures using a Nikon d5100, and it's just a slideshow after that. You will notice the printbed getting more deteriorated as the video continues from the repeated fir

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This section provides a comprehensive overview of base number systems, covering conversions between base ten and other bases like two, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and twelve. It introduces …

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