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  • Wordle大揭秘:资讯理论101

    Wordle大揭秘:资讯理论101

    上年网上游戏Wordle的风潮席卷全球,大家的社交媒体好一阵子都被绿色、黄色和灰色的方格占据。你可能见过朋友夸耀自己只猜了三次就已解开当天谜题,也有时会沮丧地抱怨当天只能以「X/6」饮恨作结,未能揭开当天谜底。当我们思考应用甚么单字开始游戏时,我们也许会很随性地把一个五个字母长的任意单字填进空格,但其实这其实是一个科学问题…

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  • Wordle大揭秘:資訊理論101

    Wordle大揭秘:資訊理論101

    上年網上遊戲Wordle的風潮席捲全球,大家的社交媒體好一陣子都被綠色、黃色和灰色的方格佔據。你可能見過朋友誇耀自己只猜了三次就已解開當天謎題,也有時會沮喪地抱怨當天只能以「X/6」飲恨作結,未能揭開當天謎底。當我們思考應用甚麼單字開始遊戲時,我們也許會很隨性地把一個五個字母長的任意單字填進空格,但其實這其實是一個科學問題…

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  • Wordle大揭秘:資訊理論101

    Wordle大揭秘:資訊理論101

    上年網上遊戲Wordle的風潮席捲全球,大家的社交媒體好一陣子都被綠色、黃色和灰色的方格佔據。你可能見過朋友誇耀自己只猜了三次就已解開當天謎題,也有時會沮喪地抱怨當天只能以「X/6」飲恨作結,未能揭開當天謎底。當我們思考應用甚麼單字開始遊戲時,我們也許會很隨性地把一個五個字母長的任意單字填進空格,但其實這其實是一個科學問題…

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  • Demystifying Wordle: A Crash Course in Information Theory

    Demystifying Wordle: A Crash Course in Information Theory

    The game Wordle took the world by storm last year – you might have seen your friends posting green and yellow boxes on social media, claiming that they have solved this daily word puzzle in three guesses, or that dreaded “X/6,” which means that they didn’t manage to crack it. When one considers what first word to guess, it might be tempting to randomly put a five-letter word at the beginning, but this can actually be reduced to a scientific question…

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  • Demystifying Wordle: A Crash Course in Information Theory

    Demystifying Wordle: A Crash Course in Information Theory

    The game Wordle took the world by storm last year – you might have seen your friends posting green and yellow boxes on social media, claiming that they have solved this daily word puzzle in three guesses, or that dreaded “X/6,” which means that they didn’t manage to crack it. When one considers what first word to guess, it might be tempting to randomly put a five-letter word at the beginning, but this can actually be reduced to a scientific question…

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  • 指纹:判别个人身分的特征

    指纹:判别个人身分的特征

    在使用血液测试和DNA分析这些复杂方法之前,我们早已有一套简单直接的方法来辨别身分,那就是我们经常在电影中看到或是通关会用到的指纹分析。指纹又称为「皮嵴」(friction ridge skin),像我们的容貌一样,它是我们独一无二的特征。可是你有想过为甚么每个人的指纹都不同吗?…

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  • 指紋:判別個人身分的特徵

    指紋:判別個人身分的特徵

    在使用血液測試和DNA分析這些複雜方法之前,我們早已有一套簡單直接的方法來辨別身分,那就是我們經常在電影中看到或是通關會用到的指紋分析。指紋又稱為「皮嵴」(friction ridge skin),像我們的容貌一樣,它是我們獨一無二的特徵。可是你有想過為甚麼每個人的指紋都不同嗎?…

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  • 指纹:判别个人身分的特征

    指纹:判别个人身分的特征

    在使用血液测试和DNA分析这些复杂方法之前,我们早已有一套简单直接的方法来辨别身分,那就是我们经常在电影中看到或是通关会用到的指纹分析。指纹又称为「皮嵴」(friction ridge skin),像我们的容貌一样,它是我们独一无二的特征。可是你有想过为甚么每个人的指纹都不同吗?…

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  • 指紋:判別個人身分的特徵

    指紋:判別個人身分的特徵

    在使用血液測試和DNA分析這些複雜方法之前,我們早已有一套簡單直接的方法來辨別身分,那就是我們經常在電影中看到或是通關會用到的指紋分析。指紋又稱為「皮嵴」(friction ridge skin),像我們的容貌一樣,它是我們獨一無二的特徵。可是你有想過為甚麼每個人的指紋都不同嗎?…

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  • Fingerprints: The Key to Our Individuality

    Fingerprints: The Key to Our Individuality

    Before we delve into the complexities of blood tests and DNA analyses to identify who we are, society has already made a simple yet straightforward method that we always see in movies and when we are crossing the border: our fingerprints which are also known as “friction ridge skin”. Just like our faces, fingerprints are key to our individuality and identity. But have you ever wondered why each of us has unique fingerprints?…

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