The python function that complains about the number of arguments no matter how many arguments you give it:
f = lambda x: f(x,x)

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Hey #Fediverse. When you post pictures, please please please with puppies on top fill in that description box for the visually impaired. You will be helping us out tremendously. We want to enjoy your pictures as much as others do. You don't have to write a novel, but just fill in some details.

Thanks with much love:
A Blind Dude

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This is fun! typing game! My PB so far is 36, what's yours?

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λx.x(λxyz.xz(yz))(λxy.x) is the best combinator.

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"I declare you husband and wife" -->
"I declare you spouse and spouse" -->
"I declare you spice"

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Alan Turing is the face of the new £50 note

The Bank of England has announced, following a public poll, that the new £50 note will feature mathematician, cryptographer and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. While this might seem like unambiguous good news, the issues it raises are more complicated than they first appear. Here&#8217;s a guest post from LGBT+ mathematician Calvin Smith with his&hellip; aperiodical.com/2019/07/alan-t

I did a google image search and these were the top two results. Any guesses what I googled?

This upsets me.

A random question that came to me in the shower has already been addressed by the internet. Good. isnphard.com/g/bejeweled/

Some company is advertising by handing out USBs that look like thumb drives, but actually act as keyboards and open the company's webpage on any OS, sometimes by using the windows run dialog. This has given the attack vector more publicity and hopefully will remind people not to plug in random USBs they find. v.redd.it/6aygvuaqdq431

"You don't know how high above you the sky goes, but you're not freaking out about that." - xkcd

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Sincerely.

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The graphs of cos(x) and tan(x) intersect at right angles - who knew ?!? More, have a look at the gradients - *very* interesting.

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multifactor authentication

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Breaking news in the algorithmic/arithmetic world!

Integer multiplication in time O(n · log n). [1]

It means you can multiply two n-bits integer using roughly n log n operations. It's a *very* important problem because a lot of mathematical software rely on efficient integer multiplication.

It breaks the last best known algorithm [2] (Schönhage–Strassen), that was in O(n · log n · log log n)

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