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The surprising reason JavaScript is the best language for beginners

Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
Smithsonian Magazine

From Crushed Sugar Cubes to Exploded Ceramics, This Universal Law Predicts How Most Objects Will Shatter

A new equation calculates how many fragments of each size will be produced when an object breaks. The principle could help ...

This AI Model Can Intuit How the Physical World Works

Researchers have developed an AI system that learns about the world via videos and demonstrates a notion of “surprise” when ...
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Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possible

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the ...