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How To Use Science?

123 stories

“Planck Wissen” written on a whiteboard

A cartoon showing knowledge spillover happening between two stick figures; they seem happy. However, knowledge spillover appears to be not possible with a third stick figure, who appears very sad.

How To Make Sense Of Bertrand’s Box Paradox? — Three boxes are placed side by side. Box 1 contains 2 gold coins. Box 2 contains one silver coin and one gold coin. Box 3 contains 2 silver coins.

Hemanth

Puzzles and Padaoxes

72 stories

How to solve this fun math problem? 2¹⁴ - 1 = ?

How To Make Sense Of Bertrand’s Box Paradox? — Three boxes are placed side by side. Box 1 contains 2 gold coins. Box 2 contains one silver coin and one gold coin. Box 3 contains 2 silver coins.

Puzzle Time: The Struggling Classroom — A stick-figure based cartoon where a teacher is standing in front of a class room board, where the following information is laid out: M -> 85%, P -> 75%, G -> 80%, and B -> 70%. Besides these scores is the big letter “F”. In front of the board are three students who seem depressed. The little girl in the centre seems to be crying.

Hemanth

The Beauty of Math

13 stories

How to solve this fun math problem? 2¹⁴ - 1 = ?

How To Make Sense Of Bertrand’s Box Paradox? — Three boxes are placed side by side. Box 1 contains 2 gold coins. Box 2 contains one silver coin and one gold coin. Box 3 contains 2 silver coins.

6174: The Most Useless Fascinating Number I Have Come Across

Hemanth

The Tricky Algebra Problem Series

16 stories

How To Debunk Fake Math Proofs? — a = b; a*a = a*b; a*a — b*b = a*b — b*b; (a+b)*(a-b) = b*(a-b); a+b = b; 2b = b; 2 = 1

The Tricky Algebra Problem — Whiteboard style graphic illustration presenting the following equation: x + xy + y = 64 → x + y = ?? when both x and y are positive integers

How To Solve This Tricky Algebra Problem (XIII) — Whiteboard-style graphics asking the following question: 98*99*100*101*102 = ?? Below this question, the following text is written in a box: “Use Algebra”

Hemanth

The Tricky Logic Puzzle Series

7 stories

Tricky Logic Puzzle (VII) — How To Really Solve It? — An illustration showing a building with 100 floors on the left. On the right, a special box is dropped from the top of the building. Below, at ground level on the right, you can also see another special box marked “special box 1”.

How To Really Solve This Tricky Logic Puzzle? (VI) — An illustration showing three characters: Matt — a human being, Can — a puppy, and Cheat — a robot, all happily chilling. Above them hovers an alien spaceship with fancy lights and two aliens inside it.

Tricky Logic Puzzle (V): How To Really Solve It? — A whiteboard-style graphic illustration showing a cat and dog above two mystery boxes labelled “Mystery Box 1” and “Mystery Box 2”. On the surface of each of these boxes, there are two question marks “??” marked.

Hemanth

How To Beneft From Computer Science In Real Life

9 stories

The Math Behind Image Rotation — A grid of 9 square blocks arranged in a 3x3 grid. Each block is numbered and has a unique color. On the right, the same block has been rotated 90 degrees in the clockwise direction. An question mark in the middle asks how to do this.

Web Development: How To Do Animated Recursion — A square on the left transforms into a cross-stitch curve on the right. The middle third of each side is extended forward to create three more sides, each one-third the length of the original sides.

Cracking The Code: How Salt & Pepper Secure Passwords — An illustration showing the text “How Does Password Security Work?” In between the words ‘password’ and ‘security’, there seems to be an open lock.

Hemanth

Entropy

21 stories

What Makes Clocks And Cats Different? — a hand-drawn clock on the left and a funny comic-like hand-drawn cat on the right. The word “Vs.” in between.

Gravity and entropy give rise to nuclear force, which gives rise to the sub (all of this is comically hand-drawn). The sun then gives rise to life which is represented comically by a hand-drawn planet Earth with one over-sized sheep standing on top of the Earth.

The word “Gravity” on the left and the word “entropy” on the right. Both these words combine to form the sun

Hemanth

Startup Ideas

5 stories

How To Get Better At Problem Solving — An illustration showing a videogame controller connected to a monitor. The monitor has a 2D-brain with two connected jigsaw puzzle-pieces inside. Below these puzzle pieces, we have the following words: “Problem Solving!!”

What Is The Best Age To Become An Entrepreneur? — An illustration showing a speedometer style meter with ‘too early’ on the left extreme and ‘too late’ on the right extreme. A young stick figure is beneath the left extreme and an old stick figure is below the right extreme.

Hemanth

Entrepreneurship

17 stories

Hemanth

Calculus

14 stories

Calculus XIII: How To Really Understand The Chain Rule — Whiteboard style graphic illustration showing the following information: y = f(x) = (x² + 5)^(3/2); dy/dx = What (??)

A picture of Newton’s personal copy of “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica” — to illustrate the thrilling story of calculus

Calculus XII: How To Deal With The Time Derivative — An illustration of a car travelling at a fast rate on the left. The driver seems to be a smiling stick figure with a smug look. On the right, the following pink text is written inside a black box: “dx/dt = what ??”

Hemanth

The Zero Series

9 stories

The Story Of The Banned Numbers — A whiteboard graphics style image showing the number 16 written in pink inside a black box on the left. This box and number combination is copied and rotated 180 degrees on the right to represent 91.

An image asking the following questions: 0/2=0; so, 2/0=?

Image of a question asking if division by zero leads to infinity

Hemanth

The Fun Geometry Puzzle Series

2 stories

How To Really Solve This Fun Geometry Puzzle? (II) — Whiteboard graphics showing a circle two radii that are perpendicular to each other. Along these radii lie the sides of a rectangle with length 4 units and breadth 3 units respectively. The area within this construction that is not occupied by the rectangle is shaded yellow. Shaded area = What??

How To Really Solve This Fun Geometry Puzzle? A complex geometry made of 4 squares — two identical squares stacked on top of each other on the right. There are two differently-sized squares on the left that are on top of each other and touch the two squares on the right at the same time. There is a line of length 4 units joining the right-intersection of the left-sqaures and the right squares to form a triangle. The left-squares are shaded. The following text is seen: “Shaded Area = ??”.

Hemanth

Correlation

3 stories

Correlation (III): How To Avoid Berkson’s Paradox — An illustration showing a stick-figure with a chef’s hat stirring dough in a pan while holding an engaged look on its face. It is quoted saying “I’m skilled and ethical.”

Correlation (II): How To Spot The Surrogate Endpoint Problem? — A cartoon illustration showing two stick figures. On the left, a happy stick figure says, “To complete the study, we have to wait for you to die!” On the right, a sad stick figure with a green face seems uncomfortable with the conversation.

Correlation: One Of The Most Misunderstood Concepts In Science — An illustration featuring a comic, where a stick figure standing behind an announcer table is pointing to a presentation of what appears like linear regression data. The stick figure says, “Here, we see correlation between correlation and causation!”

Hemanth

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Black Hole

3 stories

What Do Black Holes And The Big Bang Have In Common? — An image showing the timeline for the metric expansion of space since big bang (Image from WikiCC)

Simulated image of a non-rotating black hole — A model for Sagittarius A (Image from WikiCC) — The black hole appears to look like an eclipsed star with a toroidal ring surrounding it. The leftward edge of the ring appears to be brighter. Likewise, the top surface of the ring appears to be brighter than the rest of the ring.

The first direct image of a supermassive black hole at the core of Messier 87 galaxy (image credit: EHT Collaboration)

Hemanth

Complex Number Theory

4 stories

How To Really Solve i^i? — An image with the following expressions: i = √(-1); i^i = ??

How To Really Solve 1ˣ = -1? An image showing the equation: 1ˣ = -1 and asking the question as to what is the value of x?

How To Really Calculate The Square Root Of i? —An image with the following text: i =√(-1); √i = ??

Hemanth

Euler's Number

2 stories

Why Do We Really Use Euler’s Number For Growth? An image that asks “Why e^(rt) and not 2^(rt)?

How To Intuitively Understand Euler’s Identity? — [e^(iπ) + 1 = 0]. But why??

Hemanth

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