So really it should be Germany's "Fruit Pile" and Nvidia's "predicted orange production" over decades.

That refinement captures that Germany's GDP is more than one fruit, and a snapshot of this year. And Nvidia is more narrow (one fruit), and operating on a different time horizon.

Can you imaging, I wouldn't even need to give my social security number to another org manually again. Anyone could just look it up. It would make things so easy for everyone.

Category theory and the work building programming langauges on top of that.

If the whole thing pans out: Langlands Program (unifying most of mathematics).

Wofram Language and the math capability is pretty amazing for such a small team.

Anything that CERN touches, from the web to various quantum theories.

Genetic mapping and science.

The Lambda CDM model, and all the work that goes into constraining their predictions with limited data is pretty amazing.

Some of the things cryptanalysts and hackers do is pretty remarkable. Side channel attacks like Row hammer attacks (not strictly crypto), EM analysis, etc..., and things like hash collisions and Differential cryptanalysis.

Modern materials science is chock full of amazing intellectual achievements.

"Winning ways for your mathematical plays" as a book on game theory is a remarkable achievement by itself.

You reminded me about another idiosyncrasy: Doctors are addicted to double blind randomized control trials.

Which yes, those are powerful. But good evidence can come from many other study designs. Especially when mechanisms and first principles are being studied.

Doctors, at least 15 years ago, were definitely bad at statistics.

They were not required to take a statistics course at all. Most programs would require Algebra and Calculus as part of their science reqs.

Some would maybe take one basic research course, and they would then become obsessed with p values of 0.05.

They did not have a basic understanding of how to interpret research unless they were an auto didactic and went out of their way to improve. It's something my director (a doctor and software engineer), and the Dean complained about relentlessly.

Is there any alternative?

It also explicitly acknowledges that NAT has side effects that resemble security mechanisms.

In typical deployments, those side effects mean internal hosts are not directly addressable from the public internet unless a mapping already exists. That reduces externally reachable attack surface.

So, the disagreement here is mostly semantic. NAT is not a security control in the design sense, but it does have security-relevant effects in practice.

I personally do consider NAT as part of a security strategy. It's sometimes nice to have.

These puzzles are great! Simple and effective.

I wonder if the engine could be adapted for origami. :)

Advice. Make the scoring more like http://enclose.horse/

Score should be correct out of incorrect but medals for perfect, almost perfect, and some cutoff above.

I missed one fold on the hard one (but 3 points due to this), and only 1 star feels a little harsh to me.

My point is the US at one point had taken the entire Korean Peninsula, and was pushed out by an initial push of hundreds of thousands, then over a million Chinese troops.

The reason tht US hasn't invaded North Korea since is because China won't allow it.

Vanilla authoritarianism, or other forms of government don't need approval from citizens. Oligarchy, monarch, etc... but at the end of the day, even a dictator needs to keep some critical level of people happy.

Classic CGPGray series on this:

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs?si=3LmAGcWjeVWumxsz