The Motorway Problem, also known as the Steiner tree problem, is a problem in which you have to find the shortest interconnect between a certain number of points. In the following video, Youtuber singingbanana explains a technique to easily find the solution. Check it out:
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Fortunately for the citizens of Gotham, firing up the Bat Signal was less complicated than this…
Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists — that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.
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I’ll just leave this link here and let you guys figure out why such a thing could be true (or not!) in the comments.
Are users of other Web browsers smarter than the people who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? A new survey doesn’t quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it.
The survey by AptiQuant, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test.
The result? Internet Explorer users scored lower than average, while Chrome, Firefox and Safari users were slightly above average.
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