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This video covers a chaotic and unintentionally hilarious confrontation between a group of flat earthers and a genuine scientific powerhouse—someone armed with real data, real physics, and actual ...

Johnson & Johnson's JNJ medical devices segment, known as MedTech, offers products in the orthopedics, surgery, cardiovascular and vision markets. The MedTech segment accounts for around 36% of J&J’s ...

Abstract: This article describes an approach for extracting multiple planar regions in 3-D point clouds from spinning multibeam LiDARs. This technique benefits from the intrinsic structure of LiDARs ...

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Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

One recent Wednesday night in Atlanta, dozens of people gathered in a studio space armed with water bottles, hand fans, towels and an expectation to be in sync. There were hugs among the regulars ...

We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as numbers, you can do an okay job with sixteen segments off the shelf. But if you want ...

In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic ...

ChatGPT has already wreaked havoc on classrooms and changed how teachers approach writing homework, since OpenAI publicly launched the generative AI chatbot in late 2022. School administrators rushed ...

i am struggling to achieve mesh refinement around a line segment and around some points inside a polygon. i used this code below to define the geometry for the PSLG for meshing, i have a n Ellipse and ...