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qwson Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for leaving games early

Is it really still profitable in e.g. that case of Dabo Swinney landing a 93 million dollar contract?

qwson Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)

Yeah, really. A lot of filler paragraphs building up to unreadable code. Bad article.

qwson Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly

Someone please help correct my intuition here:

the harder it is to find flaws in the Standard Model, the harder it would be to use such new physics in engineering.

Basically I'm curious whether continuing failures to find new physics can be taken as evidence that, if and when we find the new physics, it will be very difficult to apply.

I'm not against science for its own sake, however. Just more of an engineer than a scientist, myself.