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ELI5: How come Google searches preview text that isn't in the page?

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ELI5: how did ai seemingly progress so quickly?

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ELI5: How do checkers like zeroGPT know if a piece of writing is written by human or not?

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ELI5: why can’t X-ray machines now diagnose problems and fractures without a radiologist to do more than verify the results the technology is there

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ELI5: Why is flying statistically safer than taking the train?

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ELI5: Why does the Cybertruck rust but the Delorean doesn't?

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ELI5: How do we know our units of measurement are consistent?

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ELI5: Why does Australia have such terrible internet/internet speeds

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ELI5: Why are we still using paper ballots for elections?

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ELI5: How do multi-colored lightbulbs work?

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ELI5: Why can my computer play multiple audios at the same time but my phone can't?

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ELI5: How do professors detect that ChatGPT or plagiarism has been used in papers and homework?

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ELI5: How does flash photography 'stop motion' (more than ambient light)

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ELI5: What does it mean to have a dedicate IP address? (Asked by a business that will potentially be hosting my website)

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ELI5 how unused equipment breaks itself

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ELI5: When people talking about ai learning to play video games say the ai is "punished" or "rewarded" for losing/winning, what does this actually refer to?

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ELI5: How do air headphones work?

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ELI5: How does the US military combine several hundred gaming consoles or GPUs to support a bit of technology?

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ELI5: how does a camera actually capture a moment in time?

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ELI5 - How do EMR pens (eg for K Scribe, Remarkable) work without needing to be charged?

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eli5 hello, I dont understand what tokens are and how they work with chatgpt if someone can explain it to me please.

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ELI5: Why aren't all hybrid cars plug-in hybrids?

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ELI5: in modern banks money is just a number in a database, right? What stops the bank owners from just adding an amount to a saldo of an account?

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Eli5: how does ctr in encryption work and what’s the difference between keystream and secret key?

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ELI5: domestic flight never matches your flight ticket with your idenfication, how do they know it's the right person boarding the plane?

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