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[Borek]

More random image than random thought With Marzena and my Mom, 1991.

 

[Oldman too]

I was fortunate to see Gretzky play the Red Wings

Are you familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Krupp ?

Random thoughts on citing a paper on retracted papers that were cited after being retracted, and the Author/publishers responses concerning their effects on research in general.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08989621.2022.2082290?needAccess=true

 

[gmax137]

Formula 1 after Senna?

in my mind I say "after Lauda"

 

[WWGD]

in my mind I say "after Lauda"

I can't hear you. Lauda!

 

[WWGD]

Nice random problem. Are there infinitely many primes so that the average of their digits (Decimal rep) is also a prime? We have trivial ones : 2,3,5,7 and then others like 13, 31. Too lazy to give it a try.

 

[Borg]

Are you familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Krupp ?

I've heard the name but don't remember much about him.

 

[Oldman too]

I've heard the name but don't remember much about him.

I just wanted to mention that I was at a fight recently and a hockey game broke out.

 

[Oldman too]

 

[dlgoff]

I just got an email for my middle daughter that she and one of her sons have gotten COVID.

edit: I think this is the second time she has gotten it.

 

[WWGD]

Windows 10 has decided to log me off every application whenever I turn off my PC.

 

[WWGD]

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I just got an email for my middle daughter that she and one of her sons have gotten COVID.

edit: I think this is the second time she has gotten it.

Sorry to hear, DL. Good luck for their recovery.

 

[Hamiltonian]

The number of unskippable adds on YouTube are getting absurdly high

 

[strangerep]

The number of unskippable adds on YouTube are getting absurdly high

I've noticed that too. I figured it was because I was watching channels with high subscriber counts. It's not as bad on lesser channels, afaict.

 

[WWGD]

I've noticed that too. I figured it was because I was watching channels with high subscriber counts. It's not as bad on lesser channels, afaict.

In songs, adds ( seemingly) absurdly are shown some 5 seconds after/before the beginning/ end of the song.

 

[WWGD]

Just had my Android #$&* again randomly change the background color from white to black. Overreactive piece of %$#@

 

[WWGD]

Windows 10 has decided to log me off every application whenever I turn off my PC.

I assume security settings in my pc were randomly changed; now I log back on, but I have to do it for each tab having the same app. So, e.g., if I'm reading different tabs here in pf, I must log on to pf separately for each tab. Good thing several forums available where others have posted same question.

 

[Tom.G]

Since the "logged in" condition is saved as a cookie on your machine, try doing a screen refresh on those tabs after logging in.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Oldman too]

Overreactive piece of %$#@

I have one of those also.

 

[WWGD]

I have one of those also.

Send your spies to take care of it.;).

 

[WWGD]

Only problem with living in Kansas are the thunderstorms. Power loss=No PF

There's no Toto Tone for phone either. ;).

 

[WWGD]

It seems Euclid plead the Fifth re his Parallel Postulate.

 

[fresh_42]

I really enjoyed it today. A cup of coffee. Hot coffee. Just coffee. No latte, no cappuccino, no artificial flavors, nothing. The only question was: with a cover or not? Milk and sugar were available as much as I liked. But that was all extras. And it was all that was needed.

And, yes, nobody asked my name.

 

[WWGD]

I really enjoyed it today. A cup of coffee. Hot coffee. Just coffee. No latte, no cappuccino, no artificial flavors, nothing. The only question was: with a cover or not? Milk and sugar were available as much as I liked. But that was all extras. And it was all that was needed.

And, yes, nobody asked my name.

Sort of goes with this offer by YouTube: White noise for studying, reading ,
if you're in a somewhat noisy place. I remember Toffler's prescient observation on how society would need to cut down on overstimulation.

As for me, I just asked for my Pepsi. All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just a Pepsi...

 

[nuuskur]

What to do when a person firmly believes the following are equivalent?

1. $\forall x \exists y P(x,y)$
2. $\exists x_0 \forall y P(x_0,y)$

and it's driving you nuts. Could ignore and let someone else deal with their malfunctioning mind. Am I responsible for letting it get there, though?

 

[fresh_42]

What to do when a person firmly believes the following are equivalent?

1. $\forall x \exists y P(x,y)$
2. ${}\underbrace{\lnot}_{\text{now they are ...}}{}\left(\exists x_0 \forall y {}\underbrace{\lnot}_{\text{... equivalent}}{}P(x_0,y)\right)$

 

[WWGD]

What to do when a person firmly believes the following are equivalent?

1. $\forall x \exists y P(x,y)$
2. $\exists x_0 \forall y P(x_0,y)$

and it's driving you nuts. Could ignore and let someone else deal with their malfunctioning mind. Am I responsible for letting it get there, though?

Every person is someone's father does not imply there is a specific person who's everyone's father.
Not even for Luke.

Edit: Will they accept a Universe/Possible World in which their argument does not hold:

$\{ x_1, x_2, x_3 \} ; P(x_3, x_3),P(x_1, x_2), P( x_2, x_3)$?

 

[WWGD]

What are the odds? Starbucks had a worker wearing a sign tag : " I'm in Training". I was wearing one that
read " I'm Not"??

 

[Astronuc]

Learning something new every day.

Wife out in the blackberry/blueberry patch pulling weeds. She had noticed a chipmunk in one of the blueberry bushes, so she went out to put down some rubber snakes (we'll see if they work). She started pulling weeds, so I went out to join her. She had several kinds in her hand and made a comment the weeds were out of control.

I reached down and asked about a weed I didn't recognize.

Me: You want to get rid of this?

Wife: Yeah, it's invasive. (I thought she said evasive).

Me: (pulling weed) What is it?

Wife: It's black medic.

Me: (Still pulling he weed)

Wife: It's poisonous.

Me: Thanks for letting me know. Is it poisonous to touch? (I'm thinking like poison ivy or giant hogweed).

Wife: No, just the berries (which the plant had).

I tossed the weed in the garbage and washed my hands. Not sure about its toxicity after reading about it.

 

[fresh_42]

I tossed the weed in the garbage and washed my hands.

I don't think it (medicago lupulina) is poisonous. Invasive in America, yes. It grows everywhere in Eurasia and is used as food for cattle. You won't do that if it was poisonous.

 

[Astronuc]

I don't think it (medicago lupulina) is poisonous. Invasive in America, yes. It grows everywhere in Eurasia and is used as food for cattle. You won't do that if it was poisonous.

After reading up on it, I agree that it does not appear to be poisonous. It is a just another nuisance.

 

[fresh_42]

After reading up on it, I agree that it does not appear to be poisonous. It is a just another nuisance.

Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed / Riesen-Bärenklau) is our common enemy.

 

[BillTre]

Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed / Riesen-Bärenklau) is our common enemy.

I just read about this somewhere. Its a nasty plant!

 

[fresh_42]

I just read about this somewhere. Its a nasty plant!

I recently learned that Taxus is dangerous.

 

[BillTre]

Taxus

Source of taxol (an anticancer drug). Better know as yew trees to me.
We had them in our yard as ornamentals, when I was a kid. I was aware they were poisonous nature (I never ate any of their cute red "berries"!).

Here a really weird plant I read about recently:

A kind of pitcher plant, in Indonesia, that grows its pitchers underground and catch most invertebrates there. Pitcher plants trap and digest animals to supplement their nutrients in a nutrient poor environment. They make a pot (pitcher) of digestive juices to digest trapped insects. Nutrients freed by digestion are absorbed through the walls of the pitcher.
This CNN report has some video.
Here is the original research report.

 

[fresh_42]

I never ate any of their cute red "berries"!

The berries aren't poisonous, only the seeds. At least the European variant. The needles and the bark are. And 100g needles isn't very much. My favorite syrupe against cough is made of needles. Or was it pinecones?

 

[fresh_42]

Day 90. And still tempted.

 

[WWGD]

Wonder if all constructions of Fractals are algorithmic. ("Standard")Cantor set has the obvious "Remove Middle Third of each remaining component. No idea ofr others.

 

[fresh_42]

Wonder if all constructions of Fractals are algorithmic. ("Standard")Cantor set has the obvious "Remove Middle Third of each remaining component. No idea ofr others.

More famous is the Mandelbrot set (here: apple men).

 

[Astronuc]

A Lottery Lawyer Won Their Trust, Then Lost Their Mega Millions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...inners-lost-riches-after-using-lottery-lawyer
Jay Kurland built a practice giving legal and financial advice to jackpot winners. He’s now accused of fraud.

In 2018 he started representing the biggest solo lottery winner of all time, a woman who’d bought a $1.5 billion ticket at a convenience store in South Carolina.

I wondered what happened to that anonymous woman who won the $1.5 billion (probably about $950 million after taxes).

 

[Oldman too]

Send your spies to take care of it.;).

The spies recommended dumping the android and going with the "dark side", yup, iphone. I don't miss the glitchy android one bit and comparing play store and apple store apps for malware is a little sobering. (spy vs. spy was my favorite strip from mad, thus the avatar.)

 

[WWGD]

The spies recommended dumping the android and going with the "dark side", yup, iphone. I don't miss the glitchy android one bit and comparing play store and apple store apps for malware is a little sobering. (spy vs. spy was my favorite strip from mad, thus the avatar.)

I was kind of partial to both " Joke Setups in Search of a Punchline" and " No-joke Jokes".

An example of the first was " Dr Kevorkian walks into a butcher shop and gets _two_ tickets..."
For the second: " Your mama so fat, when she walks around the house, she really walks around the house", and " The town I was born in was so small, even the hooker wore a helmet".

 

[WWGD]

Kind of interesting:

 

[Oldman too]

Kind of interesting:

Amazing that no one has worked that into a marketing angle yet.

 

[WWGD]

Amazing that no one has worked that into a marketing angle yet.

You read it here in PF first. Blue, black, any-color honey coming soon to your supermarket !

 

[Rive]

Kind of interesting:

Kind of upsetting too: if bees had access, then many other had to.

 

[Borg]

Notes from the (un)help(ful) desk:

Me: Submits ticket stating that I can't achieve a task after logging into AWS C2S.
Help desk: Do you have a C2S account?
Me:

 

[pinball1970]

Kind of upsetting too: if bees had access, then many other had to.

Yuk.
Cockroaches, ants, wasps, Flies, Ants, Spiders.

Pigeons, mice and rats too?

Some interesting diseases carried by that little lot.

Salmonellosis.
Typhoid Fever.
Cholera.
Dysentery.
Leprosy.
Plague.
Campylobacteriosis.
Listeriosis.
E. coli.
St. Louis encephalitis
Histoplasmosis.
Candidiasis.
Psittacosis
Hantavirus.
Leptospirosis.
Rat bite fever.
Rat tapeworm.

I cannot remember if Psittacosis has a silent P

Anyone care for an M&M?

No? How about some blue honey?

 

[Jarvis323]

It sounds like it wasn't an M&M factory, but instead it was a biogas plant processing discarded M&M candy shells.

local bees were feeding on remnants of colored M&M candy shells, which were being processed by a biogas plant roughly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121011-blue-honey-honeybees-animals-science

 

[WWGD]

Yuk.
Cockroaches, ants, wasps, Flies, Ants, Spiders.

Pigeons, mice and rats too?

Some interesting diseases carried by that little lot.

Salmonellosis.
Typhoid Fever.
Cholera.
Dysentery.
Leprosy.
Plague.
Campylobacteriosis.
Listeriosis.
E. coli.
St. Louis encephalitis
Histoplasmosis.
Candidiasis.
Salmonellosis.
Psittacosis
Hantavirus.
Leptospirosis.
Rat bite fever.
Rat tapeworm.

I cannot remember if Psittacosis has a silent P

Anyone care for an M&M?

No? How about some blue honey?

( Violently spitting out the M&Ms in my mouth. Almost killed a passer-by).

 

[WWGD]

@Oldman too : Upon doing a bit of reading, re our exchange on the over-sensitivity of Android phones, wonder if the problem may be related to a poorly-designed Gyroscope.