This is the wolframalpha solution to a question. That question is representative of a particular style of questions. What are the style of questions called?
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Fermi Problems - this specifically is “How many Piano Tuners are there in Chicago”. Fermi’s approximation was 125. WA has 250 based on actual data.
What is the man in the lab coat holding? WTF is it all about?
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A spherical cow of uniform density - a parody animal that’s frequently used to point out how ridiculous the “assumptions” underlying physics work are.
Who wrote this paper, and what was special about it?
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
There are many natural scientists, and especially physicists, who continue to reject the notion that the disciplines concerned with social and cultural criticism can have anything to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Still less are they receptive to the idea that the very foundations of their worldview must be revised or rebuilt in the light of such criticism. Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook, which can be summarized briefly as follows: that there exists an external world, whose properties are independent of any individual human being and indeed of humanity as a whole; that these properties are encoded in eternal'' physical laws; and that human beings can obtain reliable, albeit imperfect and tentative, knowledge of these laws by hewing to the objective’’ procedures and epistemological strictures prescribed by the (so-called) scientific method.
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What famous problem does this try to describe?
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The Multi-Armed Bandit
Identify/connect to the brain:
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Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke - discovered the major speech centers of the human brain
What specific term was used to describe images such as these? The 3 below are representative (perhaps even iconic) of the term, but by no means an exhaustive collection.
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Composographs
Identify the art installation.
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Movable type, at the NY times.
Identify the company whose technology is being demonstrated here
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BrainGate - a sensor implanted in the brain being used to control a robot arm.
The Sun, The Moon, The Southern Cross, and The Evening Star.
What?
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VLT - the Very Large Telescope in Chile
Something on display in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. What?
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Einstein’s original manuscript of the General Theory of Relativity