OJ any one? I'm a bit under the weather and no coffee for me...
Thanks Kathyrn, OJ sounds good, or maybe some hot apple cider. Caught a bit of a cold myself, but I'm gonna keep on
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I got a great gift from my little brother. He sent me a subscription to Scientific America Magazine. I'm so happy.
This is good to know. I have a subscription to their digital version. Not quite the same as having it to leaf through. I used to cut (sometimes) classes like English and Social Studies (and sometimes even gym!) to sneak off to the library to read SciAm.
Chipper... You are such a bad bad person.
Yes, I had to read the fine print. I'm a curious SOB.
As far as SciAm, I'm happy to read anything I can get my hands on that is in English. Haven't found any magazines written in English here in Yangsan.
Hello everybody. Looks like you've all hit the bottle. That Chipper is a bad influence. I used to skip school too, but I shan't tell you what I did because it was very bad :-( .
I'll have a quick drink with you guys before I go and get ready to go out to yet another party. sigh
Hello everybody. Looks like you've all hit the bottle. That Chipper is a bad influence. I used to skip school too, but I shan't tell you what I did because it was very bad :-( .
I'll have a quick drink with you guys before I go and get ready to go out to yet another party. sigh
Hello everybody. Looks like you've all hit the bottle. That Chipper is a bad influence. I used to skip school too, but I shan't tell you what I did because it was very bad :-( .
I'll have a quick drink with you guys before I go and get ready to go out to yet another party. sigh
Thanks for that Chuck. But after reading that article, my knees are jerking too much to hold a bottle, although I can hit the books:
Take a good look at this string of numbers. I say this sequence is NOT RANDOM, despite the APPEARANCE.
14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
72458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436
78925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094
33057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548
07446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912
98336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798
60943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132
00056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872
14684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235
42019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960
51870721134999999837297804995105973173281609631859
50244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881
71010003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303
59825349042875546873115956286388235378759375195778
18577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989
3809...
I also say that this sequence continues all the way to forever and NEVER REPEATS itself anywhere. It's a bunch of INFINITELY MANY NUMBERS in what appears to be a RANDOM JUMBLE. Now for the tricky part. I can STORE all these BITS OF INFORMATION quite easily, with a piece of string whose length need be no more than just greater than zero. To reproduce the numbers, if I need to, I curve the string back on itself end to end, in a circle, and then divide the circumference by the diameter and subtract 3. Don't know if this post makes any sense to anyone, but that's about what I think of 'it for bit'. I must be missing something...
errrr, ok, how did you generate the sequence? Looking at the block of numbers as a data-pack I wish I knew how to feed it to a FITS viewer.
I also have trouble with "Chaos" as an identifier since it reflects a subjective value judgement. If something seems "ordered" we "like" it; if "Chaotic" we don't "like" it. The year ago Tsunami was a magnificently ordered event from its origin at ocean depth to finally reaching coastal Africa. From the point of view of someone being entirely overwhelmed by it ... it is absolutely an undesireable event.
Relative to the NYT article I particularly liked the observation from the University of Vienna: "The world is not as real as we think." That would be a hard sell to someone who went out the window during W.T.C. collapse, don't you think?
errrr, ok, how did you generate the sequence? Looking at the block of numbers as a data-pack I wish I knew how to feed it to a FITS viewer.
It's really a very common non-repeating decimal... If the 14159265... didn't clue you in, his elaborate description of measuring Pi (then subtracting 3) might have helped.
Of course, this is coming from a nerd who memorized 100 digits of Pi for a psychology class (experimenting with memory techniques).
Chuck, that sounds like a good idea. Using maths on physics must be a 2-way street, so why not use physics on maths? I'll look for the link to a file of the first 500,000 digits of pi. Not sure how to convert it to JPG for the FITS viewer. Maybe just change the file extenion from txt to jpg, or does a jpg file have a header also? But what would you expect to see? I think it would look like the Cosmic Microwave Background, but less clumpy...
Hi, Deamiter. Sounds like that was a good class. How many different techniques? What about memorizing words, as in which was easier, numbers or words? Did you notice improved aptitude/retension in other subjects also? Since then, have you adopted any of the techniques for personal use on a regular basis, or was it an exercise you hope not to have to repeat?
Kathryn, I'm happy to give you one, maybe two aspirin, but not the whole bottle! So c'mon, give me a number! :)
errrr, ok, how did you generate the sequence? Looking at the block of numbers as a data-pack I wish I knew how to feed it to a FITS viewer.
It's really a very common non-repeating decimal... If the 14159265... didn't clue you in, his elaborate description of measuring Pi (then subtracting 3) might have helped.
Of course, this is coming from a nerd who memorized 100 digits of Pi for a psychology class (experimenting with memory techniques).
Alas no, I didn't catch it. I carry only 3.1416 around with me. And, thanks for clueing me in. Now I can see it as an elegant 2 part puzzle. I was off in another place for instance wondering if the bit of string could be an infinite-dimensional moebius band. Barking up the wrong piece of string. Following an interest in synaesthesia I saw the 50x20 number block as chaotic and wondered if visualizing it would reveal any pattern.
RE: RE: OJ any one? I'm a
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Chipper... You are such a bad bad person.
Yes, I had to read the fine print. I'm a curious SOB.
As far as SciAm, I'm happy to read anything I can get my hands on that is in English. Haven't found any magazines written in English here in Yangsan.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
RE: RE: Caught a bit of a
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Hmmm..
Well, I really don't like beer, but I do love a good Shiner
Kathryn
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
Hello everybody. Looks like
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Hello everybody. Looks like you've all hit the bottle. That Chipper is a bad influence. I used to skip school too, but I shan't tell you what I did because it was very bad :-( .
I'll have a quick drink with you guys before I go and get ready to go out to yet another party. sigh
Physics is for gurls!
RE: Hello everybody. Looks
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Other reasons to hit the bottle:
"Spooky Action At A Distance"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/science/27eins.html?incamp=article_popular
RE: RE: Hello everybody.
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Thanks for that Chuck. But after reading that article, my knees are jerking too much to hold a bottle, although I can hit the books:
Take a good look at this string of numbers. I say this sequence is NOT RANDOM, despite the APPEARANCE.
14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
72458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436
78925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094
33057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548
07446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912
98336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798
60943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132
00056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872
14684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235
42019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960
51870721134999999837297804995105973173281609631859
50244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881
71010003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303
59825349042875546873115956286388235378759375195778
18577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989
3809...
I also say that this sequence continues all the way to forever and NEVER REPEATS itself anywhere. It's a bunch of INFINITELY MANY NUMBERS in what appears to be a RANDOM JUMBLE. Now for the tricky part. I can STORE all these BITS OF INFORMATION quite easily, with a piece of string whose length need be no more than just greater than zero. To reproduce the numbers, if I need to, I curve the string back on itself end to end, in a circle, and then divide the circumference by the diameter and subtract 3. Don't know if this post makes any sense to anyone, but that's about what I think of 'it for bit'. I must be missing something...
RE: ...sequence is NOT
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errrr, ok, how did you generate the sequence? Looking at the block of numbers as a data-pack I wish I knew how to feed it to a FITS viewer.
I also have trouble with "Chaos" as an identifier since it reflects a subjective value judgement. If something seems "ordered" we "like" it; if "Chaotic" we don't "like" it. The year ago Tsunami was a magnificently ordered event from its origin at ocean depth to finally reaching coastal Africa. From the point of view of someone being entirely overwhelmed by it ... it is absolutely an undesireable event.
Relative to the NYT article I particularly liked the observation from the University of Vienna: "The world is not as real as we think." That would be a hard sell to someone who went out the window during W.T.C. collapse, don't you think?
About that bottle......
ouch! My head hurts
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ouch! My head hurts now!
Anyone got a bottle of aspirin?
Or a bottle of anything else for that matter.
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
RE: RE: ...sequence is
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It's really a very common non-repeating decimal... If the 14159265... didn't clue you in, his elaborate description of measuring Pi (then subtracting 3) might have helped.
Of course, this is coming from a nerd who memorized 100 digits of Pi for a psychology class (experimenting with memory techniques).
Chuck, that sounds like a
)
Chuck, that sounds like a good idea. Using maths on physics must be a 2-way street, so why not use physics on maths? I'll look for the link to a file of the first 500,000 digits of pi. Not sure how to convert it to JPG for the FITS viewer. Maybe just change the file extenion from txt to jpg, or does a jpg file have a header also? But what would you expect to see? I think it would look like the Cosmic Microwave Background, but less clumpy...
Hi, Deamiter. Sounds like that was a good class. How many different techniques? What about memorizing words, as in which was easier, numbers or words? Did you notice improved aptitude/retension in other subjects also? Since then, have you adopted any of the techniques for personal use on a regular basis, or was it an exercise you hope not to have to repeat?
Kathryn, I'm happy to give you one, maybe two aspirin, but not the whole bottle! So c'mon, give me a number! :)
RE: RE: RE: ...sequence
)
Alas no, I didn't catch it. I carry only 3.1416 around with me. And, thanks for clueing me in. Now I can see it as an elegant 2 part puzzle. I was off in another place for instance wondering if the bit of string could be an infinite-dimensional moebius band. Barking up the wrong piece of string. Following an interest in synaesthesia I saw the 50x20 number block as chaotic and wondered if visualizing it would reveal any pattern.