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[WWGD]

It seems Interview Coaching is making it harder (for non-clients) to get jobs.

 

[jack action]

In reality, plants are actually farming us, by giving us oxygen daily, until we all eventually decompose so they can consume us.

 

[Ibix]

In reality, plants are actually farming us, by giving us oxygen daily, until we all eventually decompose so they can consume us.

This message brought to you by the school of biology that teaches that a human is just a sperm or egg cell's way of making more sperm and egg cells.

 

[ergospherical]

 

[valenumr]

Chickens won at evolution by being delicious.

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[BillTre]

Maybe this is for anyone else but maybe @BillTre : Do viruses have gender?
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/viruses-are-there-male-female-viruses.1010478/

see my reply here:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/viruses-are-there-male-female-viruses.1010478/post-6578459

 

[BillTre]

Chickens won at evolution by being delicious.

That is how chickens as domesticated animals won (preserved an ecological place for their reproduction) distinct from that of the jungle fowl they (un-naturally) evolved from.

But, lots of things win at evolution.
If you're seeing them, then they are winners.
Every living things has a winning (successful) lineage of survival and reproduction, extending back billions of years (longer than most geological features).

Who wins more?
Biggest genome making a more complex construction (like a person)?
Or something with huge numbers of copies, like bacteria (or the mitochondria in your cells)?

 

[fresh_42]

Who wins more?
Biggest genome making a more complex construction (like a person)?
Or something with huge numbers of copies, like bacteria (or the mitochondria in your cells)?

Considering the resources it takes, us 7'809'880'911 and counting dry-nosed primates did a good job. Too bad economists don't understand Weierstraß's EVT.

 

[valenumr]

That is how chickens as domesticated animals won (preserved an ecological place for their reproduction) distinct from that of the jungle fowl they (un-naturally) evolved from.

But, lots of things win at evolution.
If you're seeing them, then they are winners.
Every living things has a winning (successful) lineage of survival and reproduction, extending back billions of years (longer than most geological features).

Who wins more?
Biggest genome making a more complex construction (like a person)?
Or something with huge numbers of copies, like bacteria (or the mitochondria in your cells)?

Jungle fowl are actually quite successful here (Hawaii). Not a lot of predators, mainly feral cats and mongooses going after the young.

 

[BillTre]

Considering the resources it takes, us 7'809'880'911 and counting dry-nosed primates did a good job. Too bad economists don't understand Weierstraß's EVT.

There are a lot of bacteria:

The number of bacteria on Earth is estimated to be 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is five million trillion trillion or 5 x 10 to the 30th power.

 

[WWGD]

Your count is 3 seconds old. Add 140 to your total. ;).

 

[valenumr]

There are a lot of bacteria:

That's on the order of the number of stars in the observable universe!

 

[WWGD]

Chickens won at evolution by being delicious.

I thought it was interesting that ' Pollo Tropical' chain has an outlet in Moscow, open year long. Imaging going there in mid-January.

 

[fresh_42]

There are a lot of bacteria:

I know. I'm the landlord of quite a share of them. Good tenants, payments are always on time and they don't require many resources.

 

[BillTre]

That's on the order of the number of stars in the observable universe!

Biological numbers can get big in different ways.

Stuart Kauffman figures that to explore the space, of possible protein structures of any sequence, in a 200 amino acid protein is beyond the calculating capacity of the (known) universe.

His argument goes something like this:

proteins: strings of amino acids, linked by peptide bonds.
20 kinds of amino acids per each position

A protein with 200 amino acids has 20²⁰⁰ different possible sequences; which is about 10²⁶⁰

Age of Universe 13.7 BY (~10¹⁷ seconds).

There are an estimated 10⁸⁰ particles in the (known) universe.

Taking Plank time (10^-43 seconds) as the shortest time period.

If each particle in the universe, made a different 200 amino acid length protein, each Plank time period, it would take 10³⁹ times the age of the universe, to make one copy of each possible 200 amino acid protein once.

 

[WWGD]

Lichtenstein is so small, it has no room for improvement.

 

[ergospherical]

Why does time flow faster in the small hours? I swear half an hour's gone by in the last five minutes.

 

[valenumr]

Biological numbers can get big in different ways.

Stuart Kauffman figures that to explore the space, of possible protein structures of any sequence, in a 200 amino acid protein is beyond the calculating capacity of the (known) universe.

His argument goes something like this:

proteins: strings of amino acids, linked by peptide bonds.
20 kinds of amino acids per each position

A protein with 200 amino acids has 20²⁰⁰ different possible sequences; which is about 10²⁶⁰

Age of Universe 13.7 BY (~10¹⁷ seconds).

There are an estimated 10⁸⁰ particles in the (known) universe.

Taking Plank time (10^-43 seconds) as the shortest time period.

If each particle in the universe, made a different 200 amino acid length protein, each Plank time period, it would take 10³⁹ times the age of the universe, to make one copy of each possible 200 amino acid protein once.

Another thought to go with big numbers... There are something on the order of 2⁸⁵ potential genetic codes, yet all life on Earth shares more or less the same.

 

[Keith_McClary]

There are a lot of bacteria:

An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/factors-allow-viruses-infect-humans-coronavirus
They would fill 600 supertankers.

 

[WWGD]

Jungle fowl are actually quite successful here (Hawaii). Not a lot of predators, mainly feral cats and mongooses going after the young.

And Jungle Love * is driving me mad and making me crazy

* Somehow appeared in my YouTube rotation feed. Cool song.

 

[WWGD]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/factors-allow-viruses-infect-humans-coronavirus

Mongooses or Mongeese? Mongander?

 

[fresh_42]

And Jungle Love * is driving me mad and making me crazy

* Somehow appeared in my YouTube rotation feed. Cool song.

And I have been Whamed today. Damn, I almost made it.

 

[fresh_42]

It always works. I like certain directors even if I do not know they made the movie. I watched a movie (Mestari Cheng) that I liked a lot and looked up its director afterward. So happened yesterday. It was a Chinese-Finnish production. It turned out that it was a Kaurismäki film, Mika this time. But it also worked with Tarantino (Jackie Brown) or Besson (The Fifth Element).

 

[Astronuc]

I was thinking this article might fit under Weird News, but then it's not news, nor is it really weird, but just how people deal with being lost, including one four-year old, Paul Gosford, the Wunderkind, who actually found his way to civilization (in 1805)!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-curious-cases-getting-lost-wilderness-180975495/

Edit/update: Another of the 10 stories: The Snob, "In 1928, Jimmy Hale got lost searching for prehistoric relics in the caverns of the Ozark mountains in Arkansas. Hale fancied himself an expert archeologist because he had “read some books,” according to a 1928 article in Forest and Stream magazine."

 

[ergospherical]

(Not-so) random maths thought: Is there a way to write $P^2 + (\nu - e^{-X})^2 -e^{-X}$ in the form $\mathbf{v}^{\dagger} \mathbf{v}$, where $\mathbf{v}$ is a complex vector, without using any square roots?

 

[WWGD]

YouTube Recommender system seems to have found a song to loop about for each time.

 

[dlgoff]

My youngest daughter got Covid for the second time.
I've asked her to keep me posted on her symptoms.

 

[dlgoff]

My youngest daughter got Covid for the second time.
I've asked her to keep me posted on her symptoms.

Her mom was with me today and we both cried a lot

 

[WWGD]

Her mom was with me today and we both cried a lot

Sorry to hear that, DL, hoping for a quick recovery.

 

[dlgoff]

Sorry to hear that, DL, hoping for a quick recovery.

Thank You @WWGD

 

[Astronuc]

My youngest daughter got Covid for the second time.
I've asked her to keep me posted on her symptoms.

Is she at home?

 

[dlgoff]

Is she at home?

Yes. She's at home resting. I'll update about her when she let's me know how she's doing. Thanks for asking @Astronuc

 

[WWGD]

Interesting design on this bench:

You rotate to get to the dry part after it rains.

 

[dlgoff]

My youngest daughter got Covid for the second time.
I've asked her to keep me posted on her symptoms.

@Astronuc
My next older daughter, who lives in Reno, just called me saying that she just got over Covid. She is studying to become a nurse. She's making all As and will be applying for nursing school after this semester.

 

[Borg]

I'm reading through the code from a paper. I'm learning some things and shaking my head at others. It's weird how someone can write a paper on something so complex and yet code such a dumb implementation of it.

 

[WWGD]

Would be nice to have a 'phonetic' version of Google ( or otherwise) translator.
Not much use if yo want to say something in Chinese if you don't know the language and are just given
Chinese characters.

 

[dlgoff]

My youngest daughter got Covid for the second time.
I've asked her to keep me posted on her symptoms.

Her mother called my youngest daughter today and now she has an ear infection.
I don't think this would be a symptom of Covid, but I don't know.

Does anyone here know if that could be Covid related?

Thanks in advance ... Don

 

[jack action]

Does anyone here know if that could be Covid related?

Study finds the SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect the inner ear

I was hesitating to post this as you seem to already worry a lot about this. So I will also remind you that the Covid recovery rate is at least 97% and your daughter already got through once, which indicates she most likely have what it takes to fight this. Think positive and spend less time worrying about things you cannot control.

 

[dlgoff]

spend less time worrying about things

This is exactly what she told me. Thanks for your reply. It's reasuring

 

[collinsmark]

Would be nice to have a 'phonetic' version of Google ( or otherwise) translator.
Not much use if yo want to say something in Chinese if you don't know the language and are just given
Chinese characters.

Google "Lens" app has this capability, and should work if your phone has an Internet connection.

https://lens.google/

The app will use a camera to take pictures of the given Chinese writing (or writing of any other common language). You can then play it back as spoken Chinese (where you can hear and memorize it if you want to say it yourself later. Or more simply, just let the Chinese speaker hear your phone's speaker), or translate it to English, so you know what the set of characters mean.

 

[WWGD]

Google "Lens" app has this capability, and should work if your phone has an Internet connection.

https://lens.google/

The app will use a camera to take pictures of the given Chinese writing (or writing of any other common language). You can then play it back as spoken Chinese (where you can hear and memorize it if you want to say it yourself later. Or more simply, just let the Chinese speaker hear your phone's speaker), or translate it to English, so you know what the set of characters mean.

Thank you. For now, I'm limited to : Yi , Er, San , Si , Wu and She-She.

 

[WWGD]

Words of the year: Kindness, Toxic, Narcissist.

 

[WWGD]

Google "Lens" app has this capability, and should work if your phone has an Internet connection.

https://lens.google/

The app will use a camera to take pictures of the given Chinese writing (or writing of any other common language). You can then play it back as spoken Chinese (where you can hear and memorize it if you want to say it yourself later. Or more simply, just let the Chinese speaker hear your phone's speaker), or translate it to English, so you know what the set of characters mean.

Xie, Xie.

 

[WWGD]

Outside of supermarket, with my bags, run into friend, who tells me:

" Have a good new year, don't eat too much".
Reply:
" So, which of the two is it, guy?" Pick one.

 

[kyphysics]

Day 1 of my diabetes journey.

First day taking Metformin.

 

[WWGD]

Day 1 of my diabetes journey.

First day taking Metformin.

Sorry to hear, ky.

 

[dlgoff]

Day 1 of my diabetes journey.

First day taking Metformin.

I'm so sorry. Keep your chin up.

 

[kyphysics]

Sorry to hear, ky.

No worries. I was depressed at first, but have slowly learned to accept it. We had to confirm it with a second blood test, before I started meds. But, I'm okay with it now. LOTS of worse diseases. Many diabetics can live to 80's...I think on average we have 10 years less life, but overall still decent if you manage it. I'm glad I don't have like prostate cancer! Like I said, there are many, many worse diseases.

This shall ultimately teach me sympathy for others and to have a more loving attitude toward humanity.

 

[dlgoff]

This shall ultimately teach me sympathy for others and to have a more loving attitude toward humanity.

This is very inspiring to me. Thanks

 

[WWGD]

Thinking about James Caan.
Can Caan win Cannes? He'll dance the can-can under the Caanopy.