Meta cuts prices for the Quest 2 headset and accessories
Months after Meta launched its Quest 3 headset, the company is slashing prices for its older Quest 2 headset by $50 permanently. The 128GB version drops from $299 to $249 and the 256GB version drops from $349 to $299. Notably, the headset has been on sale at the new prices
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I needed the inverse factorial function for my previous post. I was sure I’d written a post on computing the inverse factorial, and intended to reuse the code from that earlier post. But when I searched I couldn’t find anything, so I’m posting the code here for my future reference
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While much of the tech world has been besieged by layoffs, climate tech continued to hire. Next year looks no different. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Given an integer n, suppose you want to compute ⌊√n⌋, the greatest integer less than or equal to the square root of n. One reason you may want to compute ⌊√n⌋ is to know when you can stop trial division when factoring n. Similarly, ⌊√n⌋ gives you a starting point
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This time last year I wrote about groups of order 2023 and now I’d like to do the same for 2024. There are three Abelian groups of order 2024, and they’re not hard to find. We can factor 2024 = 8 × 11 × 23 and so the Abelian groups
Read moreGovernment Virtual Schools: The Answer to Education Infrastructure Budget Cuts
Classroom demand for 2024 exceeds available space at schools across the country. Compounding the problem is the slashing of school infrastructure allocations by R1.7billion, which according to Equal Education, could have easily provided 2,991 additional classrooms. And while technology could enable more students to participate in basic education without having
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