Physicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved.

For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...
Interesting Engineering

Mathematicians use children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve decades-old physics mystery

A team of mathematicians from US universities has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a ...

Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

The Value Of Reverse Mentoring: Why Great Leaders Never Stop Learning

By creating opportunities for employees of different generations to learn from one another, reverse mentoring elevates ...
Hacker

The Long Road to Defect-Free Software

Tech professional exploring cloud, cybersecurity, and AI. Sharing insights, research, and real-world perspectives. Start with a deceptively simple observation: software is deterministic. When code ...