mikhailfranco

The name Halstatt seems to mean Salt Town.

The process and presentation are also noteworthy.

The web page has a dynamic explanation based on sophistication of the reader.

The physics problem was cast as a question exploring consistent mathematical algebras, symmetries and relations.

AI was used to search a large space of possible solutions under physical constraints. AI results are cross-checked using several different methods. All AI notebooks and results are published for others to check independently.

The blog post was not written by Terry Tao :)

Saudi Arabia changed the weekend from Thursday-Friday to Friday-Saturday about 10 years ago. The existing week only had 3 days' overlap with western businesses, and the smaller Gulf states had already changed.

The weekend discussion had been percolating quietly inside the Shura Council (royal advisors) for several years, but when the King decided, it was only announced with about 10 days advance notice!

Now UAE has now moved to Saturday-Sunday weekend, but practically it is 2.5 days, starting at noon prayers on Friday.

Multi-year web traffic statistics for HN?

English people learning Chinese are told that goodbye is zài jiàn ('again see'), only to find that most Chinese informally say bái bái ('bye-bye').

I think the basis of this is the same as WFH, which has not been mentioned in the article or the comments: insurance, mostly on probabilities of fire and injury.

Their infamous editorial Drowning in oil (4 March 1999) bottom-ticked the oil price.