Why So Many Get This Warren Buffett Famous Quote Wrong and Often Misapply It

Using "forever" as an excuse for inaction. Long‑term investing doesn’t mean ignoring your portfolio or never revisiting your ...
Frontiers

Discrete-time deadbeat control for STATCOMs based on dq reference frame: a high-speed, tuning-free strategy for reactive current regulation

1 Inner Mongolia Wuhai Ultra High Voltage Power Supply Bureau, Wuhai, China 2 Inner Mongolia Electric Power Research Institute, Hohhot, China The increasing penetration of distributed generation and ...
SciELO

Simple pendulum in a rotating reference frame

Describing the harmonic motion of a simple pendulum observed from a rotating reference frame necessitates solving the differential equations governing three-dimensional motion in a non-inertial ...
Ars Technica

As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders

Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase “enshittification” to describe the decay of online platforms. The word immediately set the Internet ablaze, as it captured the ...
Moviefone

Frames of Reference (1960)

An educational physics film utilizing a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area, Leacock’s Frames of Reference ...
Wired

Viewers of Quantum Events Are Also Subject to Uncertainty

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine standing on a railway platform watching a trolley go past. A girl on the trolley drops a bright red ball. To her, the ball falls ...
Quanta Magazine

In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain

The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an insight with potentially major ramifications. Imagine standing on a railway ...