Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real. It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time. Thus if you give one

• Prenez un nombre : 251 • Ajoutez-le au nombre obtenu en le lisant à l'envers : 251+152=403 • Recommencez l’opération : 403+304=707 Si vous n'arrivez jamais à obtenir un palindrome, le nombre de départ s'appelle un nombre de Lychrel. On ne connaît aucun nombre de Lychrel.

In 1978, James Burke made this perfectly timed shot on television and is widely considered "The Greatest Shot In Television History"

Now I have finally met my "mother", thanks to the Golden Globes.

Mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1953.

In case you wondered how Visa $V makes money. Here's a breakdown of Visa's revenue for Fiscal 2023 (CY Q4 2022 - Q3 2023) 👇🏻

What if the world found out that Eminem was actually Satoshi Nakamoto? 👀

Elodie Safaris Je sais plus quoi vous dire! Il est limpide y compris dans son lapsus. Si ça vous convient on a un problème!

L'antisémitisme à Sciences Po par ceux qui le vivent 👇 (Dans les témoignages qui vont suivre, recueillis par la section de l'UEJF Sciences Po, tous les prénoms ont été modifiés) 1/17

This demo is insane. A student shares their iPad screen with the new ChatGPT + GPT-4o, and the AI speaks with them and helps them learn in *realtime*. Imagine giving this to every student in the world. The future is so, so bright.

I hate to admit it but Mark Zuckerberg has swagger

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Whole Mars Catalog Maybe it’s time to build that flying metal suit of armor

En France, les actes antisémites ont augmenté de 284% en 2023. Mais derrière les chiffres, il y a des femmes, des hommes, et des enfants dont la vie n’est plus la même. Retrouvons Notre #Fraternité

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I’ve missed the Trump-Macron arm-wrestles. 🤣

Digital gold > gold.

It's hard to definitively attribute the causality, but it seems that AI is starting to influence Stripe's macro figures: payment volume from customers that signed up for Stripe in 2025 is tracking way ahead of prior years. (And ahead of even 2020, when the lockdowns triggered a