johnp314

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by johnp314 16d ago
Here's something to ponder. Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis is true, would that monkey type out a proof of the RH before it got to Hamlet? I guess it depends on if the proof can be expressed in fewer words than the word count of Hamlet
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by johnp314 3mo ago
My wife had knee replacement surgery two weeks ago. She was given an epidural for the procedure and it worked well for her. Our two children were born back in 79 & 82 (20th century) and epidurals were available but only as some sort of
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by johnp314 3mo ago
Science is partisan, at least the 'science' being addressed in this article, because the funding for this science comes from a finite source and there are competing demands placed on this finite source. As any competent scientist
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by johnp314 3mo ago
Oh if religion wasn't responsible for "massive cultural destruction" then mankind would have invented something else to do it (whatever is meant by "massive cultural destruction").
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Neanderthal Dentists(journals.plos.org)
2 points by johnp314 4mo ago|0 comments
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by johnp314 9mo ago
You have much better (concrete) examples in South and Centeral America, e.g. Venezuela & Nicaragua, but there are plenty of others.
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by johnp314 10mo ago
Please include me also in contacts. I developed anosmia about 8 years ago (well before COVID). I truly wish there were some sort of 'cure' that would restore even a small amount of my sense of smell.
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by johnp314 10mo ago
Minor correction, Fourier made his breakthroughs in the early 1800's. He worked under the reign of Napoleon and continued in the decade thereafter.
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Partial Collapse of Hongqi Bridge in SW China [video](youtube.com)
5 points by johnp314 10mo ago|1 comments
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by johnp314 10mo ago
Apparently a landslide on the approach to the bridge triggered this dramatic collapse.
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by johnp314 1y ago
> we can't know anything absolutely (except that we exist yada yada). Well we only know that if we 'think'.
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by johnp314 1y ago
At first your comment fell flat with me but then I realized it was pretty sharp. You are a natural. But the cute proof was pretty cute. I recommend calc teachers try to work it into their lecture on e.
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92+ Year old Galapagos Turtle gives birth(philadelphiazoo.org)
6 points by johnp314 1y ago|1 comments
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by johnp314 1y ago
This is good news considering that the Galapagos Turtle is endangered. The mom has been in the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 and has never had offspring till now. Here's to wishing the children a long and healthy life and many children.
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by johnp314 2y ago
Thanks for the reference to the video. I watched it a few weeks ago and was befuddled by it. How can the ball just randomly start rolling in a random direction? It seemed to me that an obvious explanation would be that there is air flow in
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Ivanpah solar energy plant in Mojave Desert faces bleak future(msn.com)
2 points by johnp314 2y ago|3 comments
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by johnp314 2y ago
It is more than a little disappointing that a solar plant in the desert cannot survive. While birds, who were killed at the plant by the thousands each year are rejoicing, those of us who seek a cleaner form of energy have been dealt a sign
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by johnp314 2y ago
What am I missing? I can sit in my den and watch SpaceX and now Blue Origin launches, in real time see the telemetry data, see stage separation, reentry burns, etc, etc. As for Saturn V, to quote the Byrds "I was so much older then...&
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by johnp314 2y ago
I love this CGonaB site. I used it several times myself including for my similarly titled "Go west (not so young) man" diary documenting my XCountry ride in 2007. I didn't own a cell phone then (did they even exist then?). I
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by johnp314 2y ago
Since it's an "evil twin" should we not expect to find it in an alleged Nazi bar?
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by johnp314 2y ago
Well, the OED definition of 'recall' is "official order to return to a place" and a software update or fix requires no return to the place of purchase. I wonder how may legally defined 'recalls' Microsoft Windo
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by johnp314 2y ago
It's a shame the title begins with 'Mathematica', makes one think the book is about the Wolfram software. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title. Hopefully Wolfram doesn't sue him for copyright vio
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by johnp314 2y ago
"...anyone else would have handled it differently", yes, and very likely we would not have gotten the COVID vaccine as quickly as we did and hence Biden would not have been able to set us out on the road to the pandemics end (and
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by johnp314 2y ago
It would be interesting to see a comparison of lane effect, say for instance, re-running a race after let's say a weeks rest with the top finishers now nearest the side walls and the lowest finishers in the center lanes. Oh and for inc
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by johnp314 2y ago
Today's Wall Street Journal (Jun 20) has an article "Europe has a new Economic Engine: American Tourists", where this is written: "While Germany’s economy is flatlining, Spain is Europe’s fastest-growing big economy. Nea
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by johnp314 2y ago
I have never run into this alleged issue. In fact, we have several times booked AirBnB homes in the town of my youth and hosted Thanksgiving Dinner for my elderly mom and siblings who are themselves visiting and staying in AirBnB's. Ye
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by johnp314 2y ago
Yeah, or the Wash Post or NYT or MSNBC. As for Fox, listen to the Howard Kurtz show on Sunday mornings, he provides a nice, dare I say "fair and balanced", analysis of media coverage of news stories from the previous week.
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by johnp314 2y ago
Can't all these many people who want the technology purchase it today? I think for every new hobbyist that comes along only because of this saw there will be five less hobbyists who stay away because of cost.
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by johnp314 3y ago
One can do this mentally easily enough. 52! = 52 51 50 .... 3 2 1, and there are 26 even numbers in this progression, so we have 26 powers of 2. Taking them out, there are 13 of those even factors divisible by 4, but we already took out the
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by johnp314 3y ago
I must have missed something since the title of the linked IEEE Spectrum article calls out MIT and IBM yet the text of the article says nothing about either. The only source mentioned is the lead researcher who's from Georgia Inst of T

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