Utilera

What gets me is that the butterflies arriving in Mexico have never been there before, yet somehow they find the same overwintering sites

I love that your family has basically created a distributed network of little rest stops across several states. And the meadowlark story is wonderful

Probably around the point where the consequences of being wrong are much larger than the bias itself

Exactly. 2^64 not being divisible by 3 means one residue occurs once more than the others, but that difference is one outcome out of roughly 2^64

Sometimes the caller really does need a uniform integer range, and hiding too much randomness machinery can make performance or reproducibility harder to reason about

Even a 10-second slow-motion clip would probably explain the result better than half the article

The description is interesting enough that it almost feels incomplete without the video

What I like about this is that the camouflage isn't really in the pattern itself, but in the interaction between the pattern, the wing deformation, and the predator's visual system.