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Adam SpencerMaths AI curiosity and general geekiness including my weekly NerdNews newsletters
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Racing! The 25 Horses Puzzle. The Solution.
THE PROBLEM:
You have 25 horses. One track. No stopwatch!
You need to find the fastest 3 horses. But it costs $1,000 a race to hire the track!!!
What’s the fewest races in which you can determine the fastest three horses?
It takes...
Racing! The 25 Horses Puzzle.
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THE PROBLEM:
You have 25 horses. One track. No stopwatch!
You need to find the fastest 3 horses. But it costs $1,000 a race to hire the track!!...
A jellyfish that lives forever! NerdNews is excited.
The Guardian’s Invertebrate of the Year countdown is on again and as always it is an incredible peek into the world of the spineless. NerdNews gives an Aussie legend some props, and finds, perhaps, an even cooler, immortal, invertebrate.
I...
The first AI song to crack the charts just got busted. Do you care?
Milli Vanilli were exposed as Mimey Vanilli. The Monkees were actively banned from playing on their early albums. Marvin Gaye’s estate took Robin Thicke and Pharrell to court over blurred lines and won. Pop is full of controversy. Well 2026...
You far gone beauty ... Argon?
In 1894, after two years of painstaking work, physics phenom Lord Rayleigh, confirmed a very small measurement. Very small, but very important. You see, the nitrogen he extracted from air was very slightly heavier than the nitrogen he made...
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