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I think that anyone who thought that the sole purpose of reasoning was to explore understanding clearly has not been paying much attention in life. I think that exploring understanding is certainly a valid use of reasoning that does exist, but human beings definitely mostly just do it to avoid...

This guy was the April 8 BotW.

Possibly. But it's still relevant, because: The issue, though, is that the product of the two matters. If you apply 1TV over something and only get 1mA of current, then the resistance of the thing is 10^15 Ohms. 1mA may not be much current, but 1mA running through a 10^15 Ohm resistor is still...

I very strongly doubt that your body has 10^15 Ohms of resistance, though, which would be required for a trillion volts to yield only a 1mA of current. I also disagree with your assumption that generating a gigawatt of power, which is implied by those voltage and current values, is similar to...

If you trust pretty much anything your senses take in, you kind of have to allow for the existance of a "time" dimension. What people sometimes get tripped up on, I think, is that they don't realize just how similar it is to another "spatial" dimension. If you take a bunch of two-dimensional...

Same reason we don't use dirt for our nuclear reactors; it being common doesn't give it certain important chemical properties.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but basically, it works kind of like this:

Is there an issue with simply splining the curves together? One of the main reasons to use curves with easily forced ending directions is that you can very easily build a spline with continuous first derivative (I specifically say "first derivative", because things like second derivative and...

While Hollywood's AAA production system does have a structure that causes big-budget films to be usually okay but rarely phenomenal, the single largest reason, I would argue, that foreign-language films seem so much better sometimes is that most of those films never make it over to us; we only...

I dunno. For an extremely over-the-top review, I've found that I actually agree with a surprising amount of it. I'm also inclined to argue that that it's actually at the start that it's the best; the AotC and RotS reviews are the ones that degenerate into a whole lot of moderately...

I'm not sure why this would necessarily put EE people out of work; one of the supposed advantages to this stuff is that components behave analagously to various basic electrical components; they simply have potential to be smaller and more efficient.

Not really. If it exists, it's probably not well-illuminated by the sun, and it wouldn't have enough gravitational effect on the inner solar system for us to make out easily. The easiest way to detect extrasolar planets, for example, is if their orbit around their star causes them to transit...

I would respect that choice; it's got a far stronger soundtrack than most of the other nominees, I thought. This having been said, I would LOVE to see Powell's score for How to Train your Dragon get it. It's original, consistant, full of beautiful variety, and carried the phenomenal film it...

I don't actually have my stats book on me right now and I'm kind of rusty, but I wouldn't be surprised if a few thousand students or so, particularly with a large amount of testing with each one, could assemble bounds of good confidence (I dunno, maybe 90% or so) around 53% that excludes 50%, if...

If a system accomodates for different players (yours does, ie "GetOwningPlayer(GetTriggerUnit()) instead of using a literal) and has no waits (yours has no waits), then it's pretty much going to be naturally MUI. Non-MUI is usually a result of conflicting variable writing, but if everything in a...

In a well-controlled test with a massive sample size, a 3% offset could have extreme statistical significance. Of course, if everyone has failed to replicate it, which would not be a particularly surprising development...

Well, it's obviously a vague approximation with a whole bunch of vague assumptions. The theoretical minimum requirement according to special relativity for a 75-year and 4.24 LY trip of a 1kg object, starting and ending at rest, and ignoring things like gravity wells, is 3.2 grams of...

Waits don't work properly in ForGroup loops anyway, so the span in which you can use a global in a ForGroup loop is instant. If you need to use the data in something the ForGroup does after a wait, you'll have to use a timer or something to create that wait, at which point it's a simple...

Nope. It's entirely possible to build an interpreter in vJass, but it's so hilariously stupid that even when I built half of one just for kicks I never bothered finishing it. I actually did make a system once that was able to read a string as an infix-notated mathematical statement and return...

If all of your walls are either straight verticle, or straight horizontal, you can just reverse the sign of one component of motion. For example, if a unit strikes a horizontally-running wall such as the bottom right one in your diagram, you can just flip the sign on the unit's y-dir velocity...