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zeusdclxvion A map of every lighthouse

Uncharted archipelagoes in 2026? Couldnt satellite imaging help with this? And I don't think it's near any shipping lanes theyre incredibly remote, theyre more likely there so the research vessels that enter the Port-aux-francais harbor can see the shore

zeusdclxvion Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

Depending on how much space you occupy, closer to 500 trillion per second

zeusdclxvion Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

You can follow along with the researchers here https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/life-at-the-pole/2026/10/week-...

zeusdclxvion A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet

Didnt know there were lighthouses on the French Antarctic Kerguelen Islands

zeusdclxvion We're working on a new RuneScape MMO

Varlamore and Sailing are bad, as is almost everything introduced into OSRS since they added the GE in 2015

zeusdclxvion On social reality in China

I don't know, I think it does, US social media is rather shameless, there's certainly no national social credit score or anything

zeusdclxvion On social reality in China

"Social death" is a common thing on Chinese social media apparently, shame-based virtue

zeusdclxvion Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

So why comment then

zeusdclxvion The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

thanks; also in US perhaps they have a certain number of free articles a month thing

zeusdclxvion The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

This article on pay to kill is paywalled

zeusdclxvion A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

I'd wager close to 0%

zeusdclxvion Stealing Is a Skill

Well, I have level 99 Thieving on RuneScape

zeusdclxvion Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

They are saying not to do it though and their arguments are awful

zeusdclxvion Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

1v1 to start off

zeusdclxvion How many of the 170k English words do you know?

I got 84/100 right. Their "Scientific Estimate" was that I know 65,300 words.

zeusdclxvion I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)

No its weird buddy

zeusdclxvion I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)

>our family group channel in Telegram

what country do you live in where this is a normal thing?

zeusdclxvion I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spin_liquid

Neat

zeusdclxvion Roman Letters

This appears to be written to this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Septicius_Clarus

zeusdclxvion Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

There was a mathematician and a chemist arguing these structures had a pattern that had something to do with the distribution of prime numbers. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-chemist-shines-light-on-a-s...

zeusdclxvion Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it

No it doesnt, it will not be upheld in court, as the Democratic Hawaiian AG even argues in the article

zeusdclxvion New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

If you are using AI-hallucinated references in scientific papers then there is some obvious intent to deceive there

zeusdclxvion Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

No reliable secondary sources that you are still alive I'm afraid

zeusdclxvion John Bradley, author of xv, has died

Almost everything on the sidebar of vox day's site is a dead link too

zeusdclxvion Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'

The polybolos was an advanced ancient Greek repeating ballista, often described as a "machine gun of antiquity," invented in the 3rd century BC by Dionysius of Alexandria. It used a unique chain-drive and gravity-fed system to fire bolts in rapid succession

zeusdclxvion The “small web” is bigger than you might think

Are you asking why public libraries exist?

zeusdclxvion Digg is gone again

I downloaded the mobile app, and now it's just a login screen that doesn't work

zeusdclxvion NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun

India

zeusdclxvion X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel by Using "Au10tix"

Wasnt this confirmed to be random number generator searches, fake graphs etc.

zeusdclxvion Terence Tao had a paper rejected

He's just like me!