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The list of informal, weird AI benchmarks keeps growing. Well, simulating a bouncing ball is a classic programming challenge. Accurate simulations incorporate collision detection algorithms, which try ...

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Many habits come and go, but you might find one habit particularly persistent: shaking your leg whenever you’re sitting down. Sometimes, you might bounce loosely from the knee. Other times, your foot ...

A derecho windstorm on May 16, 2024, blew out windows at TotalEnergies Tower in downtown Houston. A recently published study employed miniature models of skyscrapers to find out why the May 2024 ...

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