I like that you show L systems for many of the fractals in Benoit Mandelbrot’s 1982 book The Fractal Nature of Geometry. It’s a beautiful book and worth checking out.
Lots of people are pointing out inconveniences with this decimal time system which are the same inconveniences I find with other metric systems. You can’t divide by 3, 4, 6, or 8 easily in this case.
I’d say it’s less random than the headline makes it seem. It’s a random value with mean of 7500 and standard deviation of 3000 pulled from a normal distribution. And, it’s multiplied by the daily volume. So, there may be some thought here. It’s adding about $7,500 per trading unit volume. Not saying it’s legal or anything.
I think the calendar problem is an entirely different subject that would warrant it's own article. I suppose what you could do is look up the calendar for each historical report of the event and then convert it to a single calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars
I thought it was illegal to use an antenna to harvest RF energy. But, I guess not in these situations at least. All I can find from the FCC on this is https://www.fcc.gov/media/over-air-reception-devices-rule Can anyone comment on how these devices are legal?
I grew up listening to these guys with my dad on the radio. They called themselves Click and Clack. I never knew when I was a kid that I’d be able to watch these guys live streamed from my internship at the MIT Media Lab years later.
If you buy a certified diamond they will come with a laser engraving that indicates it was lab grown. They can tell if it was lab grown with special equipment and/or the chain of purchase. So, I guess you'd have to believe the certification company if they say it is NOT lab grown and that's what you want.
While people in the 1850s probably would not have been able to fix or turn the iPad on they would have been able to examine it. They could have taken it apart and looked at the various materials and perform physical and chemical tests on them. They could open up some of the electronics and look at them with a microscope. The understanding of electricity, circuits, and electrical devices in the 1850s was developed enough to learn something from an iPad. Perhaps they could examine the glass face and learn about that. Perhaps they could learn about new manufacturing techniques by examining the way the device was assembled and formed. I think humans would be able to glean similar types of information from alien technology even if we weren't able to actual use it in its intended way.
The first section on randomness seems to imply that all you need to know is information. That if you knew all the data about the weather that you could predict the weather. I think it's more complicated than that. Even if you knew the position, type, and velocity of every molecule of the atmosphere at a given moment you would still need a model that explains how they interact over time in order to predict the future. So, I'm not sure that actually is a knowable unknown because that assumes there is a model that can be made in addition to the information. Maybe the weather is chaotic.
The video and graphics presented with this are really well done. I think it helps educate people when you show them well-made visuals like this. It's a good way to show information in a short period of time without a lot reading required.
I understand what he is saying. The difference between the two lines was positive in the last month. But, compared to how large this positive gap was last August and September (looks like about 4% to 5%) this really seems negligible and possibly due to noise. And, it seems even more negligible compared to the cumulative negative (a good thing) gap since October. I think it's a little early to call the trend on one recent data point. Seems a little alarmist.
I don't think the intention of this simulation is to be realistic. This particular agent just learned to play the music it was reinforced to learn given the physics constraints programmed for the hand mechanics (as far as I understand it). I doubt the physics emulate our human hands very accurately so I wouldn't expect it to be "realistic" or something that needs to be "fixed" unless the specific intention was to optimize actual human hand movements.
I'm not sure if this helps answer your question, but coverage is automatic if you have your funds in an FDIC insurance bank (most all of them) and if it's in a normal savings type account and then any amount 250k or less.
It was cool to see the listing of this book at The Tattered Cover Bookstore website. This is an old school bookstore and well worth a visit. It looks like there are eight locations around Colorado. I grew up going to the one in Colorado Springs on Tejon street in the 90s. It goes to show that used bookstores offer a great service for very modern topics like digital privacy.
Also, something I didn't know for a long time. There are exactly 180 degrees F between freezing and boiling by design. Half a circle. That's pretty cool!
This. The U.S. measurement systems work pretty well! And, we use metric where metric works well. The U.S. systems are sized to daily life and are based on 12 or powers of 2, which you could argue are more fundamental bases of measurement than 10. I never hear people argue for a 10 hour day.
One of the arguments for Oumuamua being more than just a "rock" was its detected dimension. If I recall correctly, it was very long and skinny and thus not very rock-like in a traditional sense. I think Avi Loeb put forth the idea that structurally an object like this could be a a piece of space junk. Maybe a piece of a space ship that would be able to be held together while spinning even with a long and skinny dimension. You'd imagine less stable pieces of rock to collapse into themselves and become more sphere like. Oumuamua was potentially a long skinny object that had been spinning around through the universe for a very long time.
I agree that these ads are showing unsafe use. That said, you can only (mostly) hurt yourself with a kayak. A car can hurt other people in many ways. It's the same story with a bike.
The wood in the radii is lost to sawdust. Perhaps they sell this sawdust as a product, but it’s more likely just to make it easier to handle and less likely to get damaged or damage something else.