Who is this? Where is this?
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R.I.P Neil Armstrong
Stamps commemorating who? Who else did something similar a lot later?
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Oscar Reutersvärd. The mathematician Roger Penrose independently re-created the Penrose triangle impossible figure years later.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Boiledbeans turned 5 years old today! It has been a super amazing experience for the two of us and we have enjoyed every bit of it, thanks to the awesome community we have here.
We covered memes before they were annoying, we covered XKCD before it was famous and we knew about moot before everyone. We have covered so many topics on BB that these days, it takes us a good amount of searching before we can get to a “good” question.
5 years ago, iPhone had just launched, Facebook was “small”, MySpace was popular, the Poincare conjecture was still unproven!
So, 5 years is no short time and you have kept us running for so long! Your awesomeness has no limits!
Here are some of the things we have done:
One post every day with atleast one question. without fail for 5 years!
of which
and
including theme rounds, treasure hunts, puzzles…
Which contained…
On which you posted
and we automatically had..
And all this has been possible because of our
Of whom, more than 1300 people have more than 1 point.
I am so happy and excited that I can go on writing about the awesome stuff we have done. But I will only put one last thing here, and that is
We have some interesting announcements coming up, so stay tuned. Here is our first ever logo
**Bon(g)us question for the day: **Website X started out as a free web-space provider for the founder’s classmates. Later completely transformed into a blog. Which website? What did it transform into?
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Simple - connect:
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(2) was named after the nobel laureate Charles Hard Townes (1)
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