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We explore how a local AI agent becomes a chief of staff on your PC—granting direct file access, persistent rules via Claude.MD, and vibe coding that lets non-programmers design repeatable workflows. Learn about the Model Context Protocol, safety and permissions, and real-world ways to orchestrate Notion, Obsidian, Google Calendar, and more.

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We explore the catenary—the true curve of a freely hanging chain and the mathematics it hides. Learn why it isn’t a parabola, how Galileo and Hooke unlocked its secrets, and why flipping the curve turns tension into compression for elegant, efficient arches. From the Gateway Arch to Gaudí’s mosaics, we’ll contrast true suspension curves with bridge loads, touch on the minimal-surface catanoid, and glimpse modern applications in micro‑optics and efficient filaments. A math-meets-architecture deep dive into gravity, geometry, and design.

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A deep dive into Cron, the five-field scheduler that powers recurring tasks across multi-user systems. We trace its evolution from the brutal minute-by-minute polling of early Unix, through System V’s discrete-event scheduling, to modern standards like Vixie Cron and the OpenCron Patterns Specification—explaining how the leap from “is it time yet?” to “when is the next event?” made scalable, reliable infrastructure possible.

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We explore how sharks replace tens of thousands of teeth with a multi-row, multi-series conveyor system, how warmer waters speed turnover, and why fluorapatite enamel makes their teeth incredibly durable. From fossil megalodon teeth to modern biomaterials, we uncover the architecture of apex predation and how this self-renewing toolkit inspires durable, self-healing technology.

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A rigorous yet intimate tour of the 32‑bar song form (AABA) that underpins countless classics. We break down the four eight‑bar sections—three A sections with the same hook, a contrasting B bridge, and a triumphant return—and show how this tight structure creates emotional payoff. From Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm to early rock ’n’ roll and even Doctor Who themes, we trace how constraint breeds creativity, explain the old chorus/refrain terminology, and illuminate why composers keep returning to this elegant blueprint.

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On a black-sand beach, lava collides with ice or seawater to forge hyaloclastite —glass fragments instantly shattered by thermal shock and cemented into palagonite. In this episode we unravel how non-explosive quench fragmentation creates jigsaw-fit textures that freeze the exact moment of contact, how palagonitization turns loose debris into solid rock, and why these rocks preserve a record of past ice sheets. We’ll explore hyaloclastite layers under glaciers and at mid-ocean ridges, their role as paleoenvironmental archives, and their significance for geothermal reservoirs, hydrocarbon seals, and geohazards. A fire-water rock that links volcanism, the cryosphere, and the hydrosphere.

Why does dry sand crumble while a splash of water lets it stand tall? We dive into the granular physics behind sandcastles, exploring capillary bridges, surface tension, and the surprising power of tiny water fractions. Learn about the pendular and funicular regimes, why about 1% water is often optimal, and how compaction strengthens the structure. We’ll connect these beachside insights to civil engineering, geophysics, and the everyday engineering of stability in sands, landslides, and earthquakes.

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We break down the dew point—what it is, why it matters for your comfort, aviation, and building design—and how engineers estimate it with the Magnus–Tetens and Buck equations. Learn why sensor errors often dominate accuracy, how the gap between air temperature and dew point sets cloud base, and a look at extreme dew-point values.

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Join us as we unpack the NVIDIA Rubin platform—the next-gen AI supercomputer built around extreme co-design. We map the six-chip system (Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6, Connect X9, BlueField 4 DPU) and its groundbreaking bandwidth and efficiency gains, from 3.6 TB/s per GPU to 10x lower inference costs and MOE training with 4x fewer GPUs. We explore the Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, the rise of agentic AI, and what Rubin means for scaling confidential AI at the forefront of industry adoption by AWS, Google, Microsoft, and major AI labs. A Vera Rubin-inspired look at the invisible infrastructure powering th...

A friendly, intuitive tour of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Using the relatable 'full trash bin means he's home' metaphor, we explore how to infer unseen states from noisy observations, learn the model parameters with Baum–Welch, and decode the most likely state sequence with the Viterbi algorithm. You’ll see how forward–backward smoothing combines evidence from past and future, and how these ideas power real-world AI—from speech recognition to gene finding and beyond.

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Take a journey into how ancient textiles function as living programs. We examine Andean backstrap weaving and Japanese ikat not just as art, but as sophisticated algorithmic systems: from on-the-fly debugging as a weaver adjusts a row, to pre-dyed patterns that compile into the fabric. We connect motifs as macro-operations, recursion in repeating motifs, and the idea that pattern grammars underpin both cosmology and modern CAD-driven looms. A reminder that computation isn't just electronics—it's a human practice woven into cloth.

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We explore Ernst Zermelo's 1913 theorem for two-player, perfect-information, deterministic games. It guarantees that such games are solvable: one side can force a win, or both can force at least a draw. We unpack the non-repetition argument, why it's finite, and how this foundational insight underpins modern game theory, AI, and formal verification—long before backward induction became standard.

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We unpack the core bottleneck in streaming AI: the split between heavy pre-fill computations and fast, memory-light decoding. From chunked prefill to physical separation (DissServe) and logical isolation (DuetServe), we explore how phase isolation eliminates interference, delivering 2x–4.5x better goodput and transforming cost efficiency. Join us as we translate GPU architecture ideas into scalable, user-friendly AI services, with practical takeaways for builders, operators, and decision-makers.

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A deep dive into cymatics—the study of visible patterns produced by vibration. We trace its history from Hooke's flour-drag experiments on a vibrating plate to Chladni's sand figures, then to Faraday's liquid waves and Hans Jenny's iconic imagery. We explore how a medium's geometry predetermines the possible patterns, how modern engineers use sound as an invisible mold for materials and microstructures, and how artists like Björk have brought these patterns to life on stage, including the sacred om symbol that can emerge in sound. 

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Jacobi’s exact four-square formula makes r4(n) elegant, but five squares lead to deeper territory with half-integral weight forms and L-functions. In this episode we trace Emil Grosswald’s clever reduction of r5(n) to a sum of r4(n), bypassing the circle method to yield a sharp asymptotic, and we unpack the main term, the role of L-series, the cusp-form error, and what this reveals about the boundary between exact formulas and structured approximations in number theory.

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We uncover phantom cities defined by riverine logic: buried systems (medieval rivers and culverted canals), drowned landscapes (post-glacial river basins now submerged), and canalized rivers forgotten in the city’s routine. From Perugia’s 13th-century aqueduct to London’s Lost Rivers and modern restoration efforts, archaeology, geophysics, and proactive urban design are reviving these invisible streams to inform resilient futures.

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A deep dive into how an orb web’s radial spokes and logarithmic spiral create a resilient, damage-tolerant architecture. We explore the math of load distribution, the role of pre-stressing, and how this natural blueprint inspires biomimicry—from advanced fabrics and protective gear to nanoscale tubes and space-ready structures.

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We explore a provocative claim that next‑generation fusion plants could use 14.1 MeV neutrons to transmute mercury-198 into gold while breeding tritium and funding clean energy. This episode breaks down the physics of neutron-induced transmutation, the engineering hurdles of isotope separation and materials compatibility, and the economics of a multi‑product fusion platform that could couple energy with resource cleanup and industrial element synthesis.

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A deep dive into recursive language models (RLMs) that avoid the context bottleneck by keeping massive context in an external symbolic workspace. The root LLM acts as an active researcher and manager, writing and running code in a REPL to interrogate the context, delegating subtasks to sub-LLMs, and using tools like searches and regex to prune data. We explore how this context-centric decomposition enables long-horizon reasoning, review dramatic gains on the OolongPairs benchmark (moving from near-zero to as high as 58% F1), and discuss scaling to 10 million tokens, practical costs, and the potential to train models to get better at...

LiDAR and photogrammetry reveal Brusselstown Ring as a vast Bronze Age–Iron Age hill-fort spanning two hilltops with over 600 micro-topographical features—hundreds of roundhouse platforms—suggesting a densely planned settlement of 2,000–3,500 people. The discovery of a monumental cistern and extensive communal infrastructure challenges the view that prehistoric Ireland was sparsely settled, pushing proto-urban scale back to around 1200 BC and reshaping our understanding of social coordination in the Atlantic Bronze Age.

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A deep dive into the math and history of Bézier curves, from Sergei Bernstein’s polynomials to De Casteljau’s algorithm. Learn how endpoint interpolation and control-point handles create the smooth curves that power fonts, graphics, robotics, and animation—and how this ancient geometry underpins modern efficiency and elegant motion.

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A deep dive into Pollia condensata, the marble berry, whose electric blue hue arises not from pigment but from nanoscale architecture. We uncover how densely layered cellulose microfibrils form a twisted photonic crystal that reflects a narrow blue band through Bragg reflection, with cell-to-cell pitch variations creating a mosaic of blue, green, and purple speckles. The berry’s left- and right-handed spirals also produce dual polarization colors, making its color both brilliantly vivid and astonishingly durable. This pigment-free blueprint is guiding the development of sustainable materials—from textiles to coatings and anti-counterfeiting—by emulating nature’s most intense, resilient color di...

We take a global tour of cheese—from ancient roots across Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East to today’s astonishing variety. We unpack six levers of cheese diversity: origin of the milk and what the animal eats, pasteurization, butterfat, microbes, processing, and aging—and show how tiny microbes do the heavy lifting of flavor. Along the way we explore standout examples: Serbia’s donkey-milk peel cheese, Rubing from Yunnan’s Bai and Sani, Mauritania’s caravan cheese made from camel milk, and Midwest squeaky cheese, whose freshness is betrayed by its famous squeak. We’ll see how color, texture...

Join us as we unpack Sanjoy Mahajan's Street Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving. We spotlight the first tools—dimensions, easy cases, and lumping—and explain how rough, low-entropy answers can unlock real-world progress far faster than perfect rigor. Through concrete examples like GDP versus market value and the ellipse area test, we show how to think with units, test assumptions on extreme cases, and build robust intuition that fuels action and innovation.

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A deep dive into the tondero's three-part structure—glosa, dulce, and fuga—tracing how Romani, African, and Amerindian roots fuse with Peruvian rhythm and instrumentation to create a wild, transformative courtship dance from Piura and Lambayeque. We explore the mournful cantos, the flirtatious middle, and the explosive finale, and what this musical remix reveals about cultural adaptation and migration.

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We explore the shift from AI assistants to AI representation—where agents don’t just suggest options, they transact on your behalf. Learn how guardrails, feedback loops, and a digital audit trail keep budgets and quality in check, and how standards like the Agent Payments Protocol enable accountable, auditable machine-to-machine commerce. We discuss the retail market upheaval anticipated by 2030, implications for shoppers and retailers, and what businesses should do to prepare.

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Today we explore Dracula's Chivito, the monster protoplanetary disk around a luminous young Herbig A star about 300 parsecs away. Named for Transylvania fangs and a famous Uruguayan steak sandwich, it’s one of the largest disks known around a massive star, with a radius near 1650 AU and a butterfly-shaped silhouette in Hubble images. Submillimeter data from SMA (and NOEMA) reveal CO gas in Keplerian rotation, confirming this is a genuine planet-forming disk rather than a dying nebula. The disk is far from simple—featuring rings, a central cavity, and a strong north–south brightness asymmetry suggesting eccentric, dynami...

We unpack Hoeffding's inequality, the 1963 result that bounds how far the average of independent bounded trials can drift from its expected value. We compare it with Chebyshev and the central limit theorem, explain why the bound decays exponentially with more data, and show how to use it to plan sample sizes. From coin flips to reliable AI systems, this episode reveals the math that underpins practical certainty in data.

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A global tour of nephrite jade, the “imperial gem” prized above gold. We explore its buttery mutton-fat luster and legendary toughness, why interlocking tremolite/actinolite fibers make it famously hard to break, and how this one mineral connected civilizations from ancient China and the Silk Road to the maritime jade routes of Southeast Asia and New Zealand. From tools and ornaments to currency and sacred heirlooms, nephrite has shaped culture, trade, and ritual across millennia.

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A deep-dive into the spine of computing: tree traversal. We unpack depth-first search with preorder, inorder, and postorder, and breadth-first search’s level-by-level exploration. Learn what each visit order buys you—copying a tree, producing sorted keys, or generating postfix notation—and how memory models (stacks versus queues) drive real implementations. We also discuss challenges on infinite trees and why hybrid strategies matter for AI and complex data navigation. If you’ve organized files or built large data systems, these two simple questions—go deep or go wide—shape modern computing.

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A landmark genomic study across 128 genomes reveals the potato arose 8–9 million years ago through a hybrid between a wild tomato ancestor and Etuberosum. We unpack how two genes—SP6A and IT1—flipped the switch to tuber formation, creating a brand-new underground storage organ, fueling Andean adaptation and global diversification. We also explore how this map is guiding modern breeding and synthetic biology to shape crops for the future.

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Could the double-slit interference be explained if photons can briefly inhabit dark quantum states invisible to detectors? In this episode we connect that quantum idea to the cosmic mystery of dark photons—the hypothetical portal to a vast dark sector—and explore what current experiments and data analyses could mean for physics beyond the Standard Model. We discuss how hidden states might reshape our understanding of light and matter, review the searches underway at colliders and labs around the world, and ponder what a confirmed dark sector would imply about the nature of reality.

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A deep dive into the Perron–Frobenius theorem, from its origins with Perron and Frobenius to its role in irreducible nonnegative matrices. We unpack the guaranteed real, positive dominant eigenvalue (the Perron root) and its positive eigenvector, and explain how this single driver predicts long-run behavior in sprawling networks—think web graphs, population models, and the spread of ideas. Learn why this math provides a stable, unique destination for complex systems and how it underpins reliable, AI-driven modeling and ranking.

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From two teeth sold as dragon bones in a Hong Kong drugstore to the largest known primate, this episode reconstructs a giant’s life. We explore its colossal size, enamel armor, and a diet revealed by dental calculus and ancient proteins—tying it to orangutans—and uncover why porcupines may have gnawed away its bones as climates shifted and forests vanished.

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We untangle the 11th‑century embroidered narrative that preserves the Norman invasion. From Opus Anglicanum and Canterbury workmanship to border scenes of daily life, farming tools, and Halley’s Comet, we explore who stitched the story, who funded it, and what it reveals about power and perspective. Learn about its UNESCO Memory of the World status, the upcoming 2026–2027 loan to the British Museum, and why this 70‑meter textile still speaks across nine centuries. 

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A deep dive into Fourier's heat equation—the Laplacian, thermal diffusivity, and heat kernels—and how a simple smoothing principle unifies physics, geometry, image processing, and even financial markets. From a hot piece of toast cooling on the counter to Brownian motion in markets, this episode reveals the astonishing reach of one elegant PDE.

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Dive into non-orientable surfaces with the Klein bottle. We explain what it means for a surface to have no inside or outside, why physical models require self-intersections (immersions) in 3D, and how a true Klein bottle must live in four dimensions (R4) to embed without self-crossings. We'll connect to the Mobius strip, discuss boundary vs no boundary, and reveal a striking fact: slicing a Klein bottle yields two mirror Mobius strips. Along the way we touch on cosmology ideas like the Alice Universe and the value of mathematical intuition.

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A deep dive into Australia’s beloved cheese and bacon roll (the CBR): fluffy, freshly baked dough topped with melted cheddar and crispy bacon that fuels mornings for tradies and bakery lovers alike. We trace its ubiquity, simple perfection, and regional twists—from tomato bits to cheese-filled riffs—while placing it in the wider Aussie bakery canon (meat pies, sausage rolls, lamingtons, vanilla slices). Then we meet the Savory Slice from Murray Bridge, a meat-gravy–filled puff pastry square that’s even tucked into a roll for a double-carb feast. It’s comfort food, local innovation, and Aussie optimism in edible fo...

A journey from the peacock feather’s structural color to engineered photonic crystals, showing how geometry—not pigment—controls light. We explore photonic band gaps, slow light, and how ultra-compact, energy-efficient on-chip lasers and switches arise from nanostructures—redefining data communication and security in the next generation of optics.

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Join us as we explore Alicella gigantea, the 34 cm white amphipod that thrives in abyssal and hadal trenches. We unpack abyssal gigantism, a decade-long lifespan, and a genome around 34.8 Gb that hints at a past whole-genome duplication, shaping its gigantism. With a cosmopolitan distribution across roughly 59% of the world’s oceans and gut microbes that maximize energy from scarce meals, this giant reframes what life can endure in Earth’s deepest darkness.

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We explore the Vishapakar—massive basalt monuments of the Armenian highlands carved with fish, serpents, and other symbols, named for the water dragon Vishap. New research shows their placements align with ancient irrigation and water networks dating to the Chalcolithic (roughly 4,200–4,000 BCE), revealing a sophisticated water-centered ritual landscape. We’ll unpack the three main shapes, their later reuse in Urartian and medieval periods, and how UNESCO heritage efforts are helping safeguard this 6,000-year-old legacy that links myth, infrastructure, and memory.

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From the fossil record's 66-million-year gap to the 1938 South African discovery, we trace the coelacanth's improbable return and why it's called the ultimate Lazarus taxon. We'll dive into Latimeria, the lobed-finned lineage that links us to lungfish and tetrapods, and explore their bizarre anatomy—the notochord and intracranial joint—that keep them thriving in the deep. Along the way, we debunk the 'living fossil' label and celebrate the ongoing discoveries that remind us how much of Earth's history remains hidden in the sea.

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We explore Verlinde's entropic gravity, the bold claim that gravity is not a fundamental force but an emergent force arising from information and thermodynamics. We'll tour the core ingredients— the holographic principle, equipartition of energy, and the Unruh effect— and show how they can reproduce Newton's law. We discuss the dramatic implications for dark matter and dark energy, and how this 'cosmic information' view reframes the universe as an information-processing system.

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Meet TOI 561, a 10-billion-year-old orange dwarf in the Milky Way's thick disk—the galaxy's ancient backbone. This metal-poor star hosts at least four planets, including TOI 561b, a scorching super-Earth with an 11-hour orbit whose composition is debated: rocky with little iron or a water-rich body shrouded in a dense steam atmosphere. The discovery challenges ideas about planet formation in the early universe and hints that migration could move icy worlds inward over billions of years. A story of time, metal scarcity, and planetary diversity across our galaxy.

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A math-filled dive into wrapping a conical spiral around a tree. We model it with height H, base radius R, and N turns, showing how the radius shrinks as you rise and you complete N loops. The arc length requires calculus—and an inverse hyperbolic sine—to estimate how many lights you’ll need. We also explore the broader beauty of spirals in nature and how tiny tweaks could morph a tree spiral into cosmic spirals.

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On Christmas Eve, a simple misprint sparked a legendary tradition: NORAD's Santa Tracker. We unpack the origin—from a CONAD hotline prank to a real-time, 3D Cesium-powered digital twin of Earth—complete with star catalogs, LiDAR terrain, and a 26,762-triangle sleigh. Meet the volunteers, the engineering feats, and the enduring blend of old myth and modern precision that turns holiday wonder into a showcase of teamwork and technology.

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In this deep dive, we unpack sparse representation theory. Learn how a complex signal can be expressed with only a handful of dictionary atoms, why exact sparsity is NP-hard, and how convex relaxation (basis pursuit) and greedy methods (orthogonal matching pursuit) yield fast, provable solutions. We explore structured and collaborative sparsity, real-world impacts like faster MRI scans, and the growing link between sparse models and deep learning—showing how intelligent simplification drives clearer insights and smarter AI.

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We explore the Gumbel distribution—named after Emil Julius Gumbel—and how it models the maximum of a dataset. From 500-year floods to the Gumbel Max Trick in AI, this episode shows why engineers and data scientists rely on max-stable theory to plan for the extreme and build resilient systems, while tracing a surprising historical thread from Laplace to the coupon collector.

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We explore density functional theory, the idea that a chemical system's behavior can be determined entirely from electron density. Learn how Kohn and Sham replaced a hopelessly tangled many-electron problem with a fictitious non-interacting system that reproduces the same density, and why the elusive exchange-correlation energy remains the single remaining approximation. From fundamental science to real-world design—how this breakthrough powers modern materials discovery, from solar cells to next‑gen batteries.

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We dive into CSS Grid Lanes—the native masonry solution that moves items into the shortest available column, eliminating the need for heavy JavaScript. Learn how it differs from standard Grid, the three-line setup (display: grid lanes; grid template columns; gap), and how tolerance affects placement for accessibility. Explore real-world use cases, performance benefits, and how to start testing in Safari Tech Preview 234.

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A deep-dive into 2025 discoveries that rewrite the roots of modern fishes. With high-tech imaging and modeling, these tiny fossils are expanding our view of the grand history of vertebrate evolution.

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We dive into Alfred Rényi's 1958 random sequential parking puzzle on a line, uncovering the jamming limit and the famous parking constant ≈ 0.7475979. We explore how this one-dimensional geometric bound mirrors how tokens fill context in transformers, via causal attention masking and the idea of metastable anchor points (Rényi centers) that boost efficiency. We also touch on the harder two-dimensional packing questions and what these insights could mean for future multimodal AI systems.

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In this deep-dive, we explore how Fisher Information measures how much your data can tell you about an unknown parameter. Visualize it through the curvature of the log-likelihood—sharp curves mean high information and precise estimates, flat curves mean ambiguity. We’ll cover additivity across independent observations, the Cramér–Rao bound as the ultimate precision limit, and how FI guides experimental design. From machine learning and marketing data to neuroscience and color perception, FI ties together theory and practice, revealing the geometry of knowledge.

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A tour of the young star Fomalhaut and its spectacular, collision-prone debris disk. We unravel why its bright ring behaves like a nonstop demolition derby, the misidentified exoplanet Dagon, and the rare feature of two stellar companions each hosting a disk. It's a dynamic, real-world lab showing how chaos fuels planet formation in a multi-star system just 25 light-years away.

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A practical dive into performance engineering—how estimation, the latency hierarchy, and smart data structures turn frustrating delays into instant responses. Guided by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat's performance hints, we unpack moving from O(n log n) to O(n), hoisting temporaries, and fast paths for the common case. We also glimpse real-world wins—like a 7.5% CPU reduction and a 21.6% improvement in a massive build—and outline how to identify and optimize your own critical 3%. 

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A data-driven dive into the Eephus pitch—the infamous 'dead fish'—exploring its history, the physics behind a slow, high-spin arc, and what the data really says about contact quality, exit velocity, and on-base percentage. We separate myth from method, examine why this oddball pitch persists, and discuss how teams might use it as a legitimate tool in modern baseball.

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A deep dive into Torricelli's trumpet, the shape formed by revolving y = 1/x about the x-axis from x = 1 to infinity. We explore why its volume is finite (π) even as its surface area diverges to infinity, unravel the painter's paradox, and see how calculus resolves the mystery. We'll also discuss why the paradox disappears in the real world due to physical thickness and limits, and touch on the related fact that finite surface area for surfaces of revolution implies finite volume.

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In this episode we explore how the Nabataeans turned Petra, a rose-red rock city, into the heart of a powerful trading kingdom. Learn how ingenious water engineering, control of the incense route from Yemen to Gaza, and fierce defense allowed them to dominate ancient trade, withstand big rivals, and endure as a commercial force even after Rome claimed their land.

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From a creek’s tiny whirl to the robust math of fluids, we explore how vorticity and vortex stretching power turbulent flows. We trace Berger’s vortex as a stable exact solution, then reveal high‑resolution simulations showing that, in the inviscid 3D Euler equations, the anticipated blow‑up is tamed by dynamic depletion: vortex tubes flattening into thin sheets that slow stretching. We then reframe the turbulent energy cascade, arguing that while stretching drives fluctuations, the average energy transfer is governed by the self‑amplification of the surrounding strain-rate field. All of this points to a surprising geometric order amid...

We unpack a provocative claim: a tiny, non-existent seahorse emoji as a tripwire revealing a new phase in AI training—the use of thinking-trace data that exposes the model's internal problem-solving process. We trace how labs feed rough drafts into models to produce more stable, better-aligned AI, and what this means for reliability across closed and open systems.

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We explore how monitoring AI reasoning can reveal safety signals in critical decisions. Learn what monitorability means, why a perfect transcript isn’t required, and how robust metrics and three evaluation modes—intervention, process, and outcome—help catch red flags. The episode covers why bigger models aren’t necessarily less transparent, the surprising role of compute and RL, and practical tips like the monitorability tax and targeted follow-ups. 

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We distill CNPC's Shendi Take One Well in the Taklamakan Desert—a 10,910-meter onshore drilling milestone that makes Asia’s deepest vertical well and ranks second globally behind the Kola borehole. Drilled from May 2023 to February 2025, it set a world record for the fastest onshore depth to that level and yielded the first ultra-deep onshore oil-and-gas discovery. The project confronted extreme conditions (temperatures over 210°C and pressures above 145 MPa) and relied on a domestically developed, 12,000-meter automated drilling rig with more than 90% of the system built in China. Core samples span 12 continental strata and date back about 540 million years, offer...

A deep dive into the foundational shifts Karpathy highlights for 2025: reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) driving massive cheap optimization, the rise of ‘thinking time’ traces and jagged, task-optimized intelligence, and the birth of vibe coding—guiding powerful AI with plain language. We explore the new LLM app layer that turns lab models into deployed professionals, on-device agents like Claude Code, and the multimodal LLM GUI that blends text, visuals, and code. Finally, we discuss the economic dynamics, evolving benchmarks, and the future jobs vibe coding may unlock in the year ahead.

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An intimate journey through the life of Emil Grosswald, a towering figure in number theory who thrived under upheaval. From dual degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering in Bucharest, through wartime flight across Europe to Cuba, and finally to a transformative U.S. career under Hans Rademacher, Grosswald bridged pure theory and practical insight. We unpack milestones like his work on Dedekind sums, the Grosswald–Schnitzer theorem linking zeta zeros, his multilingual early papers under the pseudonym E.G. Garnia, and his lasting impact on education at Temple University and the annual Emil Grosswald Memorial Lectures. This episode shows ho...

NASA’s Earth Observatory spotlights a surreal 22-kilometer chain of five pale-blue thermokarst lakes near Billings on Russia’s Chukchi Peninsula. The pattern isn’t surface snow but underground ice wedges melting in summer, causing the ground to slump into a line that winds and waves slowly align end-to-end. From orbit you can see this dramatic natural sculpture and its scale—about 14 miles long, far longer than any real snowman. We unpack how permafrost and wind shape landscapes, the history of Arctic exploration with Commodore Joseph Billings and the Chukchi people, and what this teaches us about recognizing patterns and inno...

From button taps on your iPhone to complex event flows, this episode breaks down the Chain of Responsibility design pattern. Learn how a chain of handlers can decide who processes a request at runtime, keeping senders agnostic of receivers and enabling dynamic, extensible systems. We’ll look at Cocoa’s responder chain as a concrete example, discuss how multiple handlers can engage, and explore implications for future AI-driven, decentralized software architectures. Plus practical tips for architects and developers.

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We dive into Spherical Voronoi (SV), a new framework that partitions viewing directions on the sphere with adaptive Voronoi cells to capture sharp reflections and high-frequency lighting in real-time rendering. See how SV uses a single softmax temperature to smoothly span diffuse to mirror-like highlights, outperforming traditional approaches like spherical harmonics and even neural baselines such as ZipNerf, all with an explicit, stable model. We'll discuss Voronoi light probes, benchmark results, and what this means for achieving real-time photorealism in games and VR.

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We dive into DisCIPL (Decentralized Collaborative Intelligent Planning Language model), a two-part framework that splits reasoning into a planner LM that writes a task-specific program and a swarm of cheap follower LMs that execute in parallel. The planner acts as a blueprint-writer and gatekeeper, guiding thousands of quick, inexpensive attempts and filtering them against constraints. This setup lets small, affordable models match or beat a single giant model on hard tasks—from precise rhyming to strict-budget itineraries—while delivering huge efficiency gains. We also explore how this approach points toward fully recursive, self-steering AI and the future of scalable, auto...

We dive into aerogels and the extreme aerographite—a nanoscale, three‑dimensional carbon network so light it weighs less than 0.2 mg per cubic centimeter, yet conducts electricity even at cryogenic temperatures. Learn how a sacrificial zinc oxide template and chemical vapor deposition create this porous, conductive marvel, why its vast internal surface boosts energy storage and fast charging, and what it could mean for cryogenic electronics, next‑gen supercapacitors, and future materials.

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Dive into the ancient art of letterlocking—the craft of folding a letter into its own secure envelope. We trace spiral locks, self-destruct mechanisms, and the long arc from Mesopotamian seals to modern physical information security. Then see how X-ray microtomography lets researchers virtually unfold 300-year-old letters from the Brienne Collection without breaking seals, including Mary, Queen of Scots' last letter. It’s a fusion of old-world craft and cutting-edge science. 

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We unpack the OpenAI–Red Queen Bio study that had an AI design RAPF HiFi—RECA-assisted assembly paired with GP32, a novel temperature cycle, and a surprising downstream boost from pelleting cells at 4°C—that together delivered a 79x jump in cloning efficiency, validated by a robotic automation system. We break down the mechanism, the validation, and the implications for speeding biology from months to days, with a look at the future of AI-assisted wet labs.

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A dramatic soft X-ray flare from the active galactic nucleus in NGC 3783 triggers an ultra-fast outflow racing at 0.19c, launched from about 50 gravitational radii. Radiation pressure falls short; magnetic reconnection—the same physics that powers solar flares—appears to drive the wind. This suggests a universal mechanism for extreme outflows and a key role in galaxy evolution through AGN feedback, revealed by coordinated XMM-Newton and XRISM observations over 10 days.

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Discover how the first confirmed exoplanets didn’t orbit a sunlike star but a pulsar, the ultra-dense remnant of a supernova. We unpack pulsar timing—the cosmic clockwork that reveals planets by tiny shifts in pulse arrival times—and explain how these worlds can form from the star's shredded debris, sometimes as carbon-rich, 'diamond' planets. We'll also reflect on what pulsar planets tell us about planet formation in extreme environments and how many might lie hidden in the Milky Way.

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Meet Advhena magnifica, the deep-sea 'E.T.' sponge discovered by NOAA's Okeanos Explorer. This glass sponge's syncytial tissue forms a single, many-nucleus network that conducts electrical signals across its body, enabling rapid internal communication and a nervous-system-like coordination in a delicate, glass architecture. As an ecosystem engineer, it filters nutrients and could host novel compounds with future medical potential, while its remarkable longevity hints at secrets of resilience in the deep.

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A deep dive into ruptures that outrun their own seismic waves. We unpack the forbidden speed range between Rayleigh and S-waves for common mode-2 ruptures, reveal the Burridge–Andrews mechanism that launches a fast daughter crack ahead of the main rupture, and show how laboratory tests and modern sensors confirm this radical behavior. We’ll explore the telltale pulverized rock signatures left behind by super-shear events and what they reveal about earthquakes from the crust to the mantle.

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A deep dive into how olive oil moved from a luxury indulgence to a pillar of imperial power. We trace the long arc from grove investment to Archimedes’ screw-driven presses, and from the Dressel 20 amphora to standardized stamping and tituli picti that served as ancient supply-chain checkpoints. Follow oil from Baetica to Rome, the staggering throughput of ships, the Monti Testaccio waste as a record of consumption, and the grain-and-oil dole that linked trade to governance. A look at how logistics, administration, and simple vessels created vast, connected empires.

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We dive into the quantum world behind everyday vibrations: phonons, the quasi-particles that carry vibrational energy through crystals. Learn about acoustic and optical phonons, how they shape thermal and electrical conductivity, and why some vibrations couple to light as infrared-active modes. We explore cutting-edge ideas like phonon tunneling across nan gaps, their role in superconductivity via the isotope effect, the astonishing milestone of isolating single phonons, and what controlling phonons could mean for future technology.

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An in-depth look at promotion and relegation—the open league system that makes every match matter and fuels both drama and financial risk. We unpack how parachute payments shield relegated clubs, why they’ve reshaped parity in leagues like the Premier League, and how alternative systems like Promedios in Argentina and Uruguay balance short-term results with long-term performance. We analyze whether PNR delivers fair competition, why parity remains elusive, and how leagues continually evolve to blend excitement with sustainability.

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We dive into Quilter, a physics-driven reinforcement-learning system that designs a complete two-board Linux computer on the NXP iMX8M Mini. It generates layout options and verifies real-world physics—impedance, heat, and manufacturability—during the design, achieving first-power-up reliability with no re-spins. We explore how this hardware-rich approach could cut R&D costs by ~26% and speed time to market by ~28% across semiconductors, redefining the pace of hardware development.

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From a cat’s trill and chatter to a ferret’s duke, alpaca clicks, and otter choruses with hiccups, this episode explores the formal, onomatopoeic vocabulary humans have built for animal noises. We scan how scientists name and interpret these sounds, what they reveal about intent and meaning, and how advances in bioacoustics and AI may unlock even deeper secrets of interspecies communication.

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We travel to the Isua Greenstone Belt in southwest Greenland to read Earth's oldest rocks (3.7–3.8 billion years). This episode digs into what these rocks reveal about early oceans and crust, weighs the plate tectonics versus heat-pipe debate, and surveys the first signatures of life—from light carbon isotopes to possible stromatolites—and what these clues imply for life on other worlds.

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We break down MIT's Speech-to-Reality system, a leap toward physical AI that turns spoken requests into real objects. The pipeline runs from natural-language understanding to a 3D generative mesh, then voxelization that enforces buildable geometry and modular, magnet-connected parts. Robotic arms assemble the design, while vision-language models with function-aware reasoning guide choices. The show also covers human-in-the-loop design, sustainability through component reuse, and a future of swarm robots that could build at scale.

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A deep dive into how James Gibbs turned a radical circular library into England’s first, using precise geometric rules drawn from his own Rules for Drawing. We explore the 1:10 column proportion, the one-fifth entablature, and the pedestal adjustments Gibbs justified by decorum, showing how he balanced exacting math with artistic judgment. From the rusticated base to the piano nobile and the mannerist rhythm, discover how Gibbs made complex proportions accessible—and how that democratized classical design across Britain and the colonies.

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We trace the evidence for Pangaea—from coastline fits and matching mountain belts to Mesosaurus fossils—how Wegener and Holmes built the case for plate tectonics, what Triassic climates were like, and how the giant landmass finally tore apart into the continents we know today. Plus a look at rifts like the Red Sea and the future of planetary drama with Amazia and Pangaea Proxima.

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Time on Mars isn’t just longer days. In this deep dive we explore how relativity and Mars’ orbital quirks affect local time, why a Martian day (the sol) runs 24h39m35s, and how the equation of time can swing by as much as 93 minutes over the Martian year. We then compare calendar schemes—the Darian model and the pragmatic Smoital system with occasional short days to keep solar noon stable—showing how a robust time standard could anchor navigation, life-support, and infrastructure for a growing Martian civilization.

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We dive into the hunt for a hypothetical fourth neutrino flavor—sterile neutrinos—and how they could solve the neutrino mass puzzle via the seesaw mechanism, with a potential link to dark matter. From KATRIN and MicroBooNE to future big detectors like DUNE, we review the latest results, why they matter, and how scientists are pushing beyond the Standard Model in a truly global search.

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In this deep dive we explore why the pumpkin toadlet, about the size of a Skittle, is one of the clumsiest jumpers in the animal kingdom. CT scans from the Overt initiative reveal an impossibly small vestibular system—the smallest semicircular canals recorded in an adult vertebrate—so the fluid can’t sense midair rotations, leading to belly flops rather than prepared landings. The toadlet is also deaf to its own mating calls and uses a vivid neon throat sac as a visual signal instead. 

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A deep dive into Google's AlphaEvolve, an AI-powered system that evolves optimization algorithms through seed code, mutation, and fitness-based selection. See how the Gemini-powered coding agent uses fast exploration and deep analysis to yield breakthroughs—recovering 0.7% of global compute by better scheduling, speeding a vital kernel by 23%, and trimming Gemini's training time by 1%—and explore what this meta-learning approach could mean for businesses with proprietary data and previously intractable optimization problems.

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We dissect Andrej Karpathy's project that uses a modern LLM to retrospectively judge the foresight in 930 December 2015 Hacker News discussions. From the six-section prompt to bias mitigation, learn how the system assigns A-to-F grades, spot standout predictions, and discuss what this approach implies for future knowledge synthesis and AI-driven forecasting.

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In this deep-dive episode, we recount the final full year of the LHC's Run 3 (2025), where ATLAS and CMS hit a new milestone with 125 fb^-1 each and the four experiments together surpass 5×10^16 collisions in total. We explain the 150-pileup environment, 90%+ data-taking efficiency across ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, and ALICE (ALICE at 95% during a 21-day lead run), and why the proton–oxygen, oxygen–oxygen, and neon–neon collision program matters. Neon’s non-spherical bowling-pin shape and early signs of quark–gluon plasma in these lighter systems are reshaping our understanding of nuclear matter. We also look ahead to the HL-LHC upgrade (2030+), five times...

In this deep dive, we unpack Menger's theorem—the elegant link between the minimum number of elements needed to disconnect two points and the maximum number of disjoint paths connecting them. We'll distinguish edge connectivity and vertex connectivity, explore how max-flow min-cut and linear programming underpin the same duality, and show how the theorem scales to infinite networks. Along the way, we connect the math to real-world resilience in road networks, data centers, and supply chains, and discuss practical implications for designing robust systems.

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Join us as we unpack StarCloud-1, the first satellite to host an NVIDIA H100 in orbit and run a powerful LLM in space. We'll explain how orbital compute could slash energy use and cooling, scale to a proposed 5 GW data center powered by solar, and explore real-world applications—from wildfire detection to lifeboat spotting—in the race to redefine AI infrastructure.

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A nine-ton hadrosaur from late Cretaceous Laramidia, found in New Mexico, spent over a century mislabelled in a museum. In 2025, a meticulous reanalysis by Dollman and colleagues reclassified it as Ahshislesaurus wimani. We unpack how a partial skull, a robust front mandible, and an extra set of teeth revealed a new genus—and how old bones in museum drawers can rewrite dinosaur history while honoring the Navajo place-name Ashi Uba (salt-gray).

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From the limits of early pseudorandom generators to the MT powerhouse, we unravel how Matsumoto and Nishimura engineered a long-lasting, high-quality RNG. Explore its astronomical period, 623-dimensional equidistribution, and the tempering polish that eliminates hidden patterns, plus why it’s become the backbone of Python, MATLAB, R, and Excel. We also survey cryptographic variants (CryptMT, SFMT, TinyMT) and what makes MT fast, scalable, and indispensable for simulations—and when you should not rely on it for security.

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We unpack the iterated prisoner's dilemma, why 'tit for tat'—start cooperative and copy your opponent's last move—proved stunningly effective in Axelrod’s tournaments, and how generosity (GTFT) prevents spirals from miscommunication. From World War I trenches to AI diplomacy and business, we explore how a little forgiveness can stabilize complex systems and why simple strategies can outperform clever ones.

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A friendly dive into knot theory and the unknotting number—the minimum number of crossing switches needed to untie a knot. We ride from simple knots like the trefoil and the figure-eight to complex families like twist and torus knots, explain why the unknotting number gives a deep glimpse into a knot's structure, and celebrate the 2025 result showing that unknotting numbers are not always additive when you connect a knot with its mirror. Plus a peek at other invariants that round out the knot-theory toolkit.

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We unpack how Bombus terrestris nests mount a four-phase defense—from a rapid worker-led onset with alarm buzzing and leg-raising to a prolonged 'abdominal pumping' warm-up, followed by a delayed response with pulse buzzing and grooming. The colony's defense adapts to threat type, and a hidden layer—social immunity via transgenerational immune priming—helps offspring start stronger. These findings reveal a structured blueprint for resilience and complexity that offers insights for biology, business, and even AI training.

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Join us as we connect climate and chemistry models to Mars' faint young Sun paradox, where crustal hydrogen release and episodic volcanism could have produced bursts of warmth long enough for rivers to carve vast networks. A new map identifies 16 mega basins—each over 100,000 square kilometers—that cover only about 5% of the ancient terrain but contain roughly 42% of the river-eroded sediment, concentrating Mars' chemical history. With Perseverance findings like kalinite in Jezero and iron-phosphate-rich specks in Sapphire Canyon, these hotspots become the most promising targets in the search for signs of past life and a precise roadmap for future miss...

We explore how memory-two bilateral reciprocity (MTBR) emerged from multi-agent Q-learning, revealing a dominant social strategy that combines forgiveness with a cycle-breaker. Learn about the dual objective—maximize your relative advantage to deter exploitation while also maximizing your own total payoff to encourage cooperation—and how these rules drive robust cooperation across Prisoner’s Dilemma, Stag Hunt, and evolving networks. Discover why MTBR can lift the average payoff of entire populations and what this means for real-world collaboration and the design of cooperative AI.

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A humbling deep dive into MAB (formerly S2003-U1), the faint Uranian moon that evades easy measurement and even Voyager 2’s flyby. We trace its Hubble discovery in 2003, the mystery of its size, and how a chaotic, Goldilocks-sized moon acts as a self-sustaining dust factory that feeds Uranus’ ring system. This episode explores how a small world can shape a giant structure, challenging our maps of the solar system.

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