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If any of our mathematicians ( @Randal'Thor @b_jonas et al) want to figure out the total number of possibilities in this answer:
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A: How do the embryos in Brave New World split into 96 by doubling?

AlexI don’t think the existing answer is correct, for two reasons: The text it cites about “twos and threes” is not referring to Bokanovsky’s Process, but is actually contrasting the process to the old natural way in which an egg might divide into two or three. Even were the “twos and threes” refer...

 
 
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12:56 PM
@Alex That reminds me of L. Frank Baum's method for "counting up to seventeen by twos".
> "It isn't a question of education," returned the Insect; "it's merely a question of mathematics. I've seen the professor work lots of sums on the blackboard, and he claimed anything could be done with x's and y's and a's, and such things, by mixing them up with plenty of plusses and minuses and equals, and so forth. But he never said anything, so far as I can remember, about counting up to the odd number of seventeen by the even numbers of twos."
> "Why not start counting at a half of one?" asked the Saw-Horse, abruptly. "Then anyone can count up to seventeen by twos very easily."
> "One-half, one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven," counted Tip, "thirteen, fifteen, seventeen!"
 
Is that in one of the Oz books?
 
 
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2:54 PM
@b_jonas Thanks.
 
3:29 PM
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Q: Short Story: Time Anomalies that are Increasing

Andres PedrazaI'm looking for a short story I read in the late seventies/early eighties, probably in an anthology book. The story is about someone investigating time anomalies that seem to be increasing. I remember some of the examples: An unknown, older dog shows up at the door, seems thrilled to see the res...

 
 
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posted on April 02, 2023

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: I'm officially adding an AI tag, since from now on 83% of comics on SMBC will be about AI ennui. Ennai? AInnui? Today's News:

 
 
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Q: How fast is Grogu?

Blue Skin and Glowing Red EyesHas there been any recorded speed in which Grogu can waddle-walk? If there is any word-of-god answer, that would be fine, but calculations of movement speed from footage (with footage linked) would be preferred.

 
 
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Q: YA book with teen becoming a (super?)hero

Cauli-FlowerI am looking for a book I read in 2014. I don't remember what the story is about, but I wrote down this citation (And unfortunatly never noted down the source) : "After becoming a hero he would still be ridiculous, he knew it, being ridiculous is like eye color it never changes. But, like eye co...

 
 
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Q: Story ID - fantasy novel with a shipwreck and an odd mage

RadhilThis is a novel I read - possibly only partially - sometime in the late 90s, and during one attempt to move my library or another it slipped out of existence. Most of what I can remember is on a ship that gets underway from one city to another. One character is some kind of mage who insists he d...

 
10:47 PM
> A wordmill is fed the general pattern for a story and it goes to its big big memory bank—much bigger than even Daddy’s—and picks the first word at random. But when it picks the second word it must pick one that has the same atmosphere, and so on, and so on. Of course it is much much more complicated than that,
From 1959. If you were describing ChatGPT to an 8-year-old would it sound much different?
 
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Q: Movie name about self harming

Lucas Bernabé AyalaI remember a particular scene where someone was mutilating his stomach with a knife or something like that. After that I think that someone appeared and started to play with his guts. The context was something about God or gods. The style of the movie was like an old movie in black and white and ...

 
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Q: Historical fantasy Manwah where female lead dies after execution for a crime she didn't commit to protect friend

IsaThe female lead is transported into a nobles body and becomes friends with a boy (bastard prince). She dies for him after he executed his father for the crown and then wakes up again as a young girl because prince turns back time with his powers. Random things I remember: The dad dies in a carria...

 

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