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  2. Work (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In science, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement.In its simplest form, for a constant force aligned with the direction of motion, the work equals the product of the force strength and the distance traveled.

  3. Arrow of time - Wikipedia

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    In the 1928 book The Nature of the Physical World, which helped to popularize the concept, Eddington stated: . Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the state of the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if the random element decreases the arrow points towards the past.

  4. Pointer (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    A pointer a pointing to the memory address associated with a variable b, i.e., a contains the memory address 1008 of the variable b. In this diagram, the computing architecture uses the same address space and data primitive for both pointers and non-pointers; this need not be the case.

  5. Inverted microscope - Wikipedia

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    An inverted microscope is a microscope with its light source and condenser on the top, above the stage pointing down, while the objectives and turret are below the stage pointing up. It was invented in 1850 by J. Lawrence Smith, a faculty member of Tulane University (then named the Medical College of Louisiana).

  6. Right-hand rule - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and physics, the right-hand rule is a convention and a mnemonic, utilized to define the orientation of axes in three-dimensional space and to determine the direction of the cross product of two vectors, as well as to establish the direction of the force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field.

  7. An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment ... - AOL

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    They didn’t really talk about work, which was normal for them. When OpenAI came up, they made the same jokes about Dune. Balaji buying a gun earlier in the year also did not seem out of the ...

  8. Application checkpointing - Wikipedia

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    One of the original and now most common means of application checkpointing was a "save state" feature in interactive applications, in which the user of the application could save the state of all variables and other data and either continue working or exit the application and restart the application and restore the saved state at a later time.

  9. Police: Muncie man shot after trying to steal vehicle

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    MUNCIE, Ind. — City police said a Muncie man was shot Wednesday after he allegedly tried to steal a car. Branden Dane Harless, 23 — who suffered a gunshot wound in one of his arms — was also ...