Identify and connect
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Nim Chimpsky, named as a pun on Noam Chomsky, was a chimp raised in a laboratory environment. Scientists were attempting to disprove Chomsky’s theory that humans were “wired” for language by trying to teach Nim how to speak.
Plaintext question (essentially an excuse for the wordplay).
The “traditional” effect A makes it seem that nearby stars are moving in relation to faraway stars, when seen from the earth. This is essentailly caused by the motion of the earth around the sun.
The “reverse” of the traditional effect is actually an artifact of gravitational lensing. The outcome is the exact converse of A, and hence named B.
**B?
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Xarallap, the exact converse effect of stellar Parallax.
Yay! Internet obscuridade time!
Who invented this keyboard layout? (1 becomes 2 when you hit caps lock)
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Randall Munroe of xkcd!
One of the world’s most talked about companies. For all the wrong reasons. Which company?
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webvan.com, the biggest flop of the .com bubble!
Logo for an ‘app’ that would’ve probably made facebook a lot more popular, and given lawyers something else to chew on for a while. Identify.
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Wirehog - a peer-to-peer filesharing system created by Zuckerberg, Sean parker and David Kirkpatrick.
We are noticing some back-end issues and commenting features are not functioning properly.
We are working to get it fixed.
We will keep questions open longer.
Thanks for your patience.
P.S: Thanks to Shwetha for letting us know about this!
Guest question from %gqh% Satya Saha.
What principle is depicted here?
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Quoting wikipedia - “Reproduction of a page of Ibn Sahl’s manuscript showing his discovery of the law of refraction, now known as Snell’s law.”
This fabric lends its name to a visual artifact in digital video/imaging. Identify.
PS: apologies for superlate post. Gremlins got my internet connection this time.
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The so-called “Moire pattern” is named after the Moire fabric. Interference between closely-spaced sets of parallel lines causes the strange patterns that you see very frequently when people wear stripes on TV :-)
Yes, Srikanth successfully completed another trip around the sun. Lets all join hands and congratulate him on this joyous occasion!
Blast! No Iframe support! What are you in? 1960?
What product did this guy create? Hint - the object in his hand matters.
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Apache Hadoop. Pictured is Doug Cutting holding his son’s stuffed toy called Hadoop. He named the famous framework after this toy :)