Random Thoughts 7

[Borg]

Note that is a gear-driven train. The rack is between the rails.

I've been on that train. We stayed in an inn at the base of the mountain but it was covered in clouds the entire time. We took the train to Gornergrat and when we got to the top, the clouds all cleared. It was an amazing place.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I've been on that train. We stayed in an inn at the base of the mountain but it was covered in clouds the entire time. We took the train to Gornergrat and when we got to the top, the clouds all cleared. It was an amazing place.

We stayed in Zermatt. It seemed like something out of a storybook.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I hope you got double secret overtime on the Alaska job.

The truth is, I got burned for $30K.

The general contractor had a disaster that would drag out for years in court. So I got what I could and got out. I ended up getting as much as I would have had I gotten involved in the law suits. The lawyers would have gotten the rest. I did the math and told my customer if they pay me that much I will just go away.

This is not an exaggeration: When I got back, I was so physically depleted I probably should have been hospitalized.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Surprise! Working 110 hours a week in subfreezing temperatures will eventually kill you.

 

[WWGD]

" Our Gpt may display incorrect or offensive information". Wish I'd known before using it to build that bridge...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[WWGD]

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I did hear of Carey called radioactive.

 

[WWGD]

Added to my CV: Sat the Spirit free (0:42)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I have no idea what to expect in the energy sector now. Will alternatives continue to evolve or will that all grind to a halt with drill baby drill? Sigh.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I have to give a presentation tomorrow and don't know what to say.

 

[Nugatory]

I have to give a presentation tomorrow and don't know what to say.

It is worth plotting American oil and gas production (or just about any other economic indicator) over time, then comparing the inflection points to the election years.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It is worth plotting American oil and gas production (or just about any other economic indicator) over time, then comparing the inflection points to the election years.

Oh yeah it is all drill baby drill now. But how much funding will alternative markets receive that are still in the R&D or D&D mode?

 

[fresh_42]

Earth rotation is hard in the wildcard round.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I have no idea what to expect in the energy sector now. Will alternatives continue to evolve or will that all grind to a halt with drill baby drill? Sigh.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I have to give a presentation tomorrow and don't know what to say.

I found inspiration, worked 12 hours straight after I posted this, and knocked their socks off!

Inspiration led to some fortuitous discoveries. I love it when that happens,

 

[Borg]

The addins installed on the browsers at my company's computers are seriously annoying. Any tab that hasn't been refreshed within a short time frame will auto-refresh when you go to that tab. Same for any currently-selected tabs even if you are doing something else. The net effect is that if I'm typing something in the browser, the text gets wiped out and I have to start over. It even refreshed itself while I was writing this.

Oh, and searching for text on a page is loads of fun as well. If I have a long conversation in ChatGPT and I search for a word, it will go to that word and then immediately scroll to the bottom of the page.

 

[Tom.G]

The addins installed on the browsers at my company's computers are seriously annoying. Any tab that hasn't been refreshed within a short time frame will auto-refresh when you go to that tab. Same for any currently-selected tabs even if you are doing something else. The net effect is that if I'm typing something in the browser, the text gets wiped out and I have to start over. It even refreshed itself while I was writing this.

Oh, and searching for text on a page is loads of fun as well. If I have a long conversation in ChatGPT and I search for a word, it will go to that word and then immediately scroll to the bottom of the page.

At least in some browsers (Mypal, for instance) the auto refresh is a user configurable item. Try the Tools menu and Preferences, or your browser's equivalent.

Oops! I just checked and the Auto Update control is in a browser add-on called "Tab Mix Plus." And it does not automatically block Auto Update (at least in my old version) but gives you a keyboard sequence to switch it On or Off on individual tabs.

Hope this helps at least some.

Cheers,
Tom

p.s. If the company is big enough to have an actual I.P. department, maybe you can write a service request and demonstrate the problem to them in real time.

 

[Mayhem]

At times I wonder if quantum mechanics really is hard or if it's just that the goons who really understand it have zero communication skills. Reading about self-consistent fields yields explainations along the lines of: "A self-consistent field is a field that is self-consistent. That is, a field that is consisent on itself."

 

[BillTre]

I would think that each field has similar statements that are import to a part of the larger field.

In biology, there is natural selection that has circular definitions like adaptive things are the things that survive. The things that survive are defined as being well adapted. You can't measure one without the other. Its a circular definition of an important concept in biology.

I expect that each field is going to have things like this due to its explanatory information structure and something like the incompleteness (Gödel) of the overall knowledge system.

 

[Borg]

p.s. If the company is big enough to have an actual I.P. department, maybe you can write a service request and demonstrate the problem to them in real time.

It's a third party extension that's automatically added to all browsers and isn't configurable. I'm not chasing that windmill.

 

[fresh_42]

That is what a 404 should look like!

 

[fresh_42]

My quick and dirty suggestion for PF:

 

[Ibix]

That is what a 404 should look like!

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Somebody had "Quoth the server, 404", which I rather liked.

 

[jack action]

That is what a 404 should look like!

I think you mean a 500.

 

[pinball1970]

The member awards are a lot of fun and I always count up the votes to get an idea who visits regularly (besides everyone I know) and weightings from one SF to another.
Anyway, the numbers don't add up.
I did not want to make a negative thread but regulars may see this and have a look.
Total votes are less than half the actual votes if you total them up.
Also the % votes are more than 100%.
Not sure what I missed.

 

[Ibix]

Not sure what I missed.

Up to three votes per voter, and I think it divides by voters not votes. Assuming the total doesn't exceed 300% it's fine. Or broken-as-designed, anyway.

 

[pinball1970]

Up to three votes per voter, and I think it divides by voters not votes. Assuming the total doesn't exceed 300% it's fine. Or broken-as-designed, anyway.

Ahhhh.

This is why I will never get nominated in the mathematics sf

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Only a few may know what I mean when I say that apparently Mork and Mindy got it right.

 

[fresh_42]

Only a few may know what I mean when I say that apparently Mork and Mindy got it right.

Reminds me of a tragedy.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Reminds me of a tragedy.

Robin Williams?

My boss nearly collapsed in despair when I explained that Mork was cocaine driven.

He was with Belushi hours before Belushi died.

 

[Mayhem]

My advisor is a dinosaur, so she can't give feedback properly in pdf.

New rule for life: unless your work is extremely math heavy (chemist here), LaTeX is for nerds who don't value their time.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

In recognition of today's events.


It was a good run.

 

[collinsmark]

New rule for life: unless your work is extremely math heavy (chemist here), LaTeX is for nerds who don't value their time.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. The mere inclusion of \LaTeX here at PF has saved me more time than I can accurately measure.

This equation,
\oint \vec E \cdot \vec{dA} = \frac{Q_{\mathrm{enc}}}{\varepsilon_0}
took me maybe two minutes write here using \LaTeX. (And I'm out of practice; back in the day I could probably crank that out in less than a minute.) It would have taken me 5 or 10 minutes to pick and place the right symbols from some menu driven equation writer.

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Edit: And applied to chemistry, even

\mathrm{6 \ K_4 [Fe(SCN)_6] + 97 \ K_2Cr_2O_7 + 355 \ H_2SO_4}
\mathrm{\ \ \ \rightarrow 3 \ Fe_2(SO_4)_3 + 97 \ Cr_2(SO_4)_3 + 36 \ CO_2 + 355 \ H_2O + 91 \ K_2SO_4 + 36 \ KNO_3}

only took a couple of minutes.

Another edit: OK, so I went back and reformated it so it would fit on one page. But it was still simple.

 

[Borg]

I'm planning a trip to Japan and now I can't get this song out of my head.

 

[Mayhem]

Microsoft Excel was created to punish efficient people's muscle memory.

 

[Mayhem]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. The mere inclusion of \LaTeX here at PF has saved me more time than I can accurately measure.

This equation,
\oint \vec E \cdot \vec{dA} = \frac{Q_{\mathrm{enc}}}{\varepsilon_0}
took me maybe two minutes write here using \LaTeX. (And I'm out of practice; back in the day I could probably crank that out in less than a minute.) It would have taken me 5 or 10 minutes to pick and place the right symbols from some menu driven equation writer.

----
Edit: And applied to chemistry, even

\mathrm{6 \ K_4 [Fe(SCN)_6] + 97 \ K_2Cr_2O_7 + 355 \ H_2SO_4}
\mathrm{\ \ \ \rightarrow 3 \ Fe_2(SO_4)_3 + 97 \ Cr_2(SO_4)_3 + 36 \ CO_2 + 355 \ H_2O + 91 \ K_2SO_4 + 36 \ KNO_3}

only took a couple of minutes.

Another edit: OK, so I went back and reformated it so it would fit on one page. But it was still simple.

These are fine. The problem is, graduate level chemistry (bar quantum chemistry and heavy physical chemistry) is far more figure and table heavy than physics.

 

[fresh_42]

These are fine. The problem is, graduate level chemistry (bar quantum chemistry and heavy physical chemistry) is far more figure and table heavy than physics.

\tikzfeynmanset and other tikz libraries can solve this.

 

[WWGD]

Just how do I get #$@ disentangled from the bathroom cleaning crew? Every time I head( haha) there, I run into them.

 

[OmCheeto]

...efficient people's muscle memory.

Couldn't remember having heard such a phrase, so I googled it, and Google AI told me;

"Efficient people's muscle memory" refers to the well-developed neural pathways in the brains of highly efficient individuals, allowing them to perform tasks with minimal conscious effort due to repeated practice, essentially "remembering" the most optimized movements and actions, leading to increased productivity and smooth execution of tasks.

Upon further investigation, this is a quote from the first paragraph of Wikipedias entry on 'Muscle Memory'.

 

[WWGD]

One of my disappointments: A. Haar and G. Hardy never cooperated towards a Mathematical result that would be then titled Hardy-Haar....

 

[WWGD]

Have no fear, the Snake is here: Chinese New Year starts this Wednesday.

 

[WWGD]

I'm planning a trip to Japan and now I can't get this song out of my head.

And not
?

 

[WWGD]

You can rent the entire counyry of Lichtenstein for a noght for $70,000:

 

[fresh_42]

You can rent the entire counyry of Lichtenstein for a noght for $70,000:

But you must start breaking in Austria to stop in Liechtenstein before entering Switzerland.

 

[WWGD]

But you must start breaking in Austria to stop in Liechtenstein before entering Switzerland.

I've heard it's been accidentally invaded several times.

 

[fresh_42]

I've heard it's been accidentally invaded several times.

It is an interesting little country. Its law system is basically Austrian, and its currency and banking system are Swiss.

 

[WWGD]

It is an interesting little country. Its law system is basically Austrian, and its currency and banking system are Swiss.

Have you been there? A full 10 minutes, to walk from end-to-end?

 

[fresh_42]

Have you been there? A full 10 minutes, to walk from end-to-end?

Once as a child, and maybe accidentally driving through. It takes a little bit longer. But hiking holidays are probably one of its tourist highlights.

 

[WWGD]

I'd like to visit their Farmer's Market:" Vaduz Produce"

 

[WWGD]

Trivia answer not accepted. What is the population of the Philippines? A: The set of all people who live there.

 

[fresh_42]

Trivia answer not accepted. What is the population of the Philippines? A: The set of all people who live there.

Hmm, my neighbor is from there. Does she count?