In many programming languages, phrases are shortened to reduce the time taken to write programs.
I really do not think this is why; the amount of time saved is miniscule, especially with autocomplete. It’s so that more can fit on the screen at one time so you can better comprehend chunks/lines of code. There is also probably a historical aspect where the size of code on disk (or paper!) used to matter more.
I think one of the main points of this study is exactly to show that studying such smaller quantities would be worthwhile and could have tangible health implications
The very first sentence is
A new study examined the impact of alcohol consumption in healthy adults who did not report drinking more than the accepted ‘low-risk’ alcohol limits.
Which makes it very clear that by “little” in the title (they do not say “little” in the article) they mean “below the low-risk limit”, and that “low-risk” is a technically defined term. Here is also the very first sentence of the abstract of the paper which the article is about, which they link to and is free to read:
Low-level alcohol consumption at or below current guidelines (≤1 standard drink equivalent/day for females, ≤2 standard drink equivalents/day for males)
What more do you want?
That is literally the entire point of the study. How is that misleading?
The title is really missing a keyword from the actual quote… (emphasis mine)
Not only that, but it’s possible to kill almost any NPC in the game…
Something I see a lot that I think blocks understanding is “the dimensions”, “the 3rd dimension”, “the 4th dimension”, etc. This is wrong.
Dimensionality is a property of something. It is a number which describes some aspect of a thing. As others have said, it corresponds to the number of “independent directions” needed to describe a thing, but these directions need not be uniquely definable in any way, and most certainly you cannot say “this is the first one, this is the second one”, etc.
As a small example, just as you can say North and East are two independent directions on a map, you can also say South and North North East are as well; either of these facts on their own imply that a map is at least two dimensional. The fact that you cannot find a third independent direction means a map is two dimensional.
Uhhhh, what? IMAX is a screen format. It’s the really really big screens.
https://github.com/processone/fluux-messenger is an XMPP client by the ejabberd people that seems aimed at being a Discord alternative. I think it is intended to support voice and screen sharing eventually, though it looks like they want to focus on getting text chat worked out for the time being.
Lol, yeah. Most of his videos are a couple of minutes, but sometimes he wants a little bit more…
Relevant for anyone who cares about this sort of thing: https://youtu.be/GcjbwkBQeO8
It does indeed scale with r^(n-1), but your factors are not close at all. It involves the gamma function, which in this case can be expanded into various factorials and also a factor of sqrt(pi) when n is odd. According to Wikipedia, the expression is 2pi(n/2)r(n-1)/Gamma(n/2).
Here is the actual study, and the questionnaire they used can be found attached as Supplement 1
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2846565