The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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Joystick drift on the DualSense controller is one of the most common frustrations for PlayStation 5 gamers. This issue occurs when analog sticks register movement even without input, causing ...