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  • I bought a Xiaomi A3 about four years ago. I’m still using it now but my experience has been mixed.

    Two years in, my carrier told me I had to switch phones because it didn’t support a bunch of technology they now require. It in fact supported everything including all the correct GSM bands, but ATT was now operating on a whitelist to which my phone did not belong, and they would not produce an explanation as to why. I was able to switch to T-Mobile at a reduced rate, but I find the coverage leaves much to be desired by comparison.


  • Just after going through a few examples in my head, the difficulty becomes somewhat more apparent. let’s start with 3. This is odd, so 3(3)+1 = 10. 10 is even so we have 10/2=5.

    By this point my intuition tells me that we don’t have a very obvious pattern that we can use to decide whether the function will output 4, 2, or 1 by recursively applying the function to its own output, other than the fact that every other number that we try appears to result in this pattern. We could possibly reduce the problem to whether we can guess that the function will eventually output a power of 2, but that doesn’t sound to me like it makes things much easier.

    If I had no idea whether a proof existed, I would guess that it may, but that it is non-trivial. Or at least my college math courses did not prepare me to find one. Since it looks like plenty of professional mathematicians have struggled with it, I have no doubt that if a proof exists it is non-trivial.





  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —

    Last year, hospitals across New Mexico became overwhelmed by respiratory syncytial virus. Now, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to combat hospitalizations and keep kids healthy.

    “The younger you are, the more affected you can be from this virus,” Advertisement

    Hospitals in New Mexico could not believe the cases flooding through their doors, but this year, experts hope it’s different.

    “It is absolutely exciting I think for every pediatrician out there who has dealt with this seasonal RSV,” Dr. Anna Duran with the University of New Mexico Hospital said.

    This new drug, Beyfortus, will not only help lift some of the stress doctors deal with, but also keep hospitalizations down. It would be given to babies that come through hospitals, and would reduce hospitalizations by 75 percent.

    “This is going to be a game changer for the number of children who require hospitalization, due to RSV or respiratory syncytial virus,” Duran said.

    The season for RSV starts around October and dies down around March. Newborns up to one of age or born during RSV season are eligible for this drug.