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Information technology

Slowing Down Faster Than Hardware Speeds Up: Wirth’s Law

Wirth’s Law is the rule of thumb that software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. This piece covers where it came from, why software keeps getting heavier, examples arou

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Robotics

The Number of Joints Shapes Movement: Degrees of Freedom

What determines how a robot can move? This article explains degrees of freedom, covering what the term means, how six-axis industrial robot arms work, the degrees of freedom of the

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Statistics

When Chance Adds Up to Order: The Law of Large Numbers

Why does the share of heads get closer to half the more times you toss a coin? This article explains the meaning and principle of the law of large numbers, its history beginning wi

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Psychology

More Precious When You Build It Yourself: The IKEA Effect

The IKEA effect is the cognitive bias that leads people to value things they made or assembled themselves far more than they are actually worth. This article covers how the effect

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Library & information science

The Concept and Stages of SQ3R, an Effective Reading Method

This time, I would like to introduce SQ3R, a step-by-step technique for effective reading. SQ3R is a reading method consisting of five stages: surveying, questioning, reading, memo