Random Thoughts XIII - Radioenergopithecocracy
- Thread starter Takhisis
- Start date
- Status
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Synobun
Deity
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2006
- Messages
- 24,884
Synobun
Deity
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2006
- Messages
- 24,884
Reached out to someone local and asked if we could get to know each other. I feel like a weirdo. But it's really about time I try making friends here again. I gave up on that idea for most of my 20s, and not having anyone nearby has been excruciatingly lonely.
There is nothing weird about trying to make friends, as long as you don't try too hard, too fast.
Best of luck.
Challenge accepted, the next time I get one of these threads.
In the meantime, check your PMs.
Holmes argues that she shouldn't spend (much) time in prison, because she is being publicly humiliated on a daily basis.
In other words, if you massively scam people and get more money than you need for the rest of your life, your punishment is enough.
"Judge, you have to be lenient, I am an orphan!", said by the person who killed his parents
EgonSpengler
Deity
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2014
- Messages
- 12,260
I've been thinking about the ethics of submitting a legally-binding document for signature to someone you know or suspect doesn't understand the document. I feel like it's too easy and dismissive to say, "That's their problem. If they don't fully understand it, they shouldn't sign it." Another 'easy out' would be to say, "It's not for me to assess what they do and don't understand." I feel like that's a cheap way out too. I guess I could fatten it up by specifying a language barrier (e.g. can you even ask someone who doesn't seem to speak English to sign a document that's written in English?), but there are other scenarios I can imagine where it's not as clear-cut. I also have to admit that I don't love living in a society built on the predator-and-prey principle; on the one hand, I'd be naive not to admit that I do live in such a society; otoh, I kind of believe in some version of "be the change you want to see." Different conversation, but not an unrelated one, I guess. Certainly there are people who firmly believe that if it's legal, you can do it, and [screw] ethics. For those folks, I guess there would be no dilemma in the scenario I'm sketching out.
This, on top of your recent rejection of videogames, makes me wonder about your mental health.
Synobun
Deity
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2006
- Messages
- 24,884
Same here.
^The laugh reaction is missed ^^
Anyway, I am very happy with the rate of expanding understanding of the relations between functions, their respective equations, and how they are mapped in combinatorics. I hope that a few weeks from now I will be in a position to create some stuff out of my new interest
@Perfection , nice to see you back. You likely don't recall something said about analytical philosophy years ago.
Anyway, I am very happy with the rate of expanding understanding of the relations between functions, their respective equations, and how they are mapped in combinatorics. I hope that a few weeks from now I will be in a position to create some stuff out of my new interest
@Perfection , nice to see you back. You likely don't recall something said about analytical philosophy years ago.
Hemp-Fed Cows Get Buzzed, Study Finds, but Will Humans Who Drink Their Milk?
Hemp with high THC content given to Holsteins leached into their milk, according to a group of German scientists exploring the food chain for dairy production.Do cows that consume cannabis act goofy, get the munchies and spend more time lolling about with their stoned buddies? It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but German researchers seeking to understand the effects of feeding dairy cows THC, the psychoactive compound found in industrial hemp, made a few intriguing discoveries, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature Food.
Compared with cows that received the usual diet of corn and hay, the hemp-fed Holsteins were more chilled out, salivated and yawned more often, and frequently engaged in whimsical tongue play, the study found. They also spent more time lounging around the barn as they chewed their cud and ruminated the universe. They did not, however, exhibit a proclivity for binge eating. Although the behavioral changes were noteworthy, they were in some ways the unintended consequences of an experiment by researchers at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, who were seeking to learn how THC-laden hemp might affect dairy production. The scientists also wanted to know whether THC, short for tetrahydrocannabinol, could find its way to humans through milk.
Those questions are especially pertinent to American hemp growers, who have struggled to find an outlet for the roughly 24,000 tons of organic matter leftover once cannabinoid compounds like CBD are extracted from cannabis sativa, the flowering plant that produces widely divergent levels of THC depending on the cultivar.
"THE GREAT physicist Enrico Fermi used to challenge his University of Chicago students with questions that, at first, seemed impossible to answer using only the facts at hand. Most famously, he liked to ask them to estimate the number of piano tuners in Chicago, with no peeks at the Yellow Pages allowed.
When the students threw up their hands, Fermi would walk them through a rough-and-ready estimation process that went something like this: If we know Chicago has a population of about 3 million, and we assume an average of four people live in each home, that gives us 750,000 households. Now, let’s guess that one-fifth of those own a piano—and thus there are 150,000 pianos in the city. OK, then, how many tuners are needed to keep these pianos sounding harmonious? If we figure an expert can tune about 4 pianos a day, each tuner would work on 1,000 pianos in an average work-year. Add one more assumption—that each piano gets tuned annually—do some simple division, and we have our answer: There are about 150 piano tuners in Chicago.
The point of these exercises— now known as “Fermi problems,” or “Fermi estimations”— wasn’t to nail down the precise number of piano tuners in the city. It was to teach students that even seemingly impossible questions can be answered (crudely, at least) by combining a bit of existing knowledge, some reasonable assumptions and a little arithmetic. The universe isn’t quite as mysterious as it seems—and the process of puzzling it out can be kind of fun."
When the students threw up their hands, Fermi would walk them through a rough-and-ready estimation process that went something like this: If we know Chicago has a population of about 3 million, and we assume an average of four people live in each home, that gives us 750,000 households. Now, let’s guess that one-fifth of those own a piano—and thus there are 150,000 pianos in the city. OK, then, how many tuners are needed to keep these pianos sounding harmonious? If we figure an expert can tune about 4 pianos a day, each tuner would work on 1,000 pianos in an average work-year. Add one more assumption—that each piano gets tuned annually—do some simple division, and we have our answer: There are about 150 piano tuners in Chicago.
The point of these exercises— now known as “Fermi problems,” or “Fermi estimations”— wasn’t to nail down the precise number of piano tuners in the city. It was to teach students that even seemingly impossible questions can be answered (crudely, at least) by combining a bit of existing knowledge, some reasonable assumptions and a little arithmetic. The universe isn’t quite as mysterious as it seems—and the process of puzzling it out can be kind of fun."
That's OK, you would then just get a different answer. The whole point is walk folks through a logical process of estimating.I'd challenge some of these assumptions.
"Often it is better to be approximately correct than precisely wrong."
Gori the Grey
The Poster
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2009
- Messages
- 13,361
Most lobsters are red. You only need to specify the color of a lobster if it's not red.
- Status
Similar threads
