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If you’ve ever grabbed your phone “for just five minutes” and somehow found yourself still scrolling through TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts an hour later, you can relate. Many people assume ...

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Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm. The feature, aptly called "Dear algo," allows users to post a message to the algorithm with the note "dear algo ...

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An artist’s impression of a quantum electrodynamics simulation using 100 qubits of an IBM quantum computer. The spheres and lines denote the qubits and connectivity of the IBM quantum processor; gold ...

I was reviewing the code for the DDA algorithm (found in graphics/digital_differential_analyzer_line.py). The current docstring is very minimal. It only says: Draws a ...