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  • J jon-nyc
    10 Jan 2023, 19:18

    This is very interesting to geeks and uninteresting to normal people, which I suppose nets out to “mild”

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    Horace
    wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 20:08 last edited by
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    @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

    This is very interesting to geeks and uninteresting to normal people, which I suppose nets out to “mild”

    That’s very cool, thanks for posting it.

    Education is extremely important.

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    • J jon-nyc
      10 Jan 2023, 11:08

      Several surprises here.

      DDBB119D-434E-4509-B2CC-53225E1C503F.jpeg

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      Ivorythumper
      wrote on 11 Jan 2023, 02:38 last edited by
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      @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

      Several surprises here.

      DDBB119D-434E-4509-B2CC-53225E1C503F.jpeg

      I had breakfast with my parish priest a few months ago. He told me that in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia post Covid Mass attendance is 12% of what it was before the lockdown.

      The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.

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      • I Ivorythumper
        11 Jan 2023, 02:38

        @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

        Several surprises here.

        DDBB119D-434E-4509-B2CC-53225E1C503F.jpeg

        I had breakfast with my parish priest a few months ago. He told me that in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia post Covid Mass attendance is 12% of what it was before the lockdown.

        The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.

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        Copper
        wrote on 11 Jan 2023, 02:44 last edited by
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        @Ivorythumper said in Mildly interesting:

        The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.

        Eventually they'll start selling indulgences on Amazon.

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        • I Ivorythumper
          11 Jan 2023, 02:38

          @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

          Several surprises here.

          DDBB119D-434E-4509-B2CC-53225E1C503F.jpeg

          I had breakfast with my parish priest a few months ago. He told me that in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia post Covid Mass attendance is 12% of what it was before the lockdown.

          The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 11 Jan 2023, 17:31 last edited by
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          @Ivorythumper said in Mildly interesting:

          @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

          Several surprises here.

          DDBB119D-434E-4509-B2CC-53225E1C503F.jpeg

          I had breakfast with my parish priest a few months ago. He told me that in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia post Covid Mass attendance is 12% of what it was before the lockdown.

          The bishops closed the churches and told everyone to not go to Mass, and 88% of the Catholic still haven't returned.

          Wow. And this graph shows a 40 trend and stops well before Covid.

          Only non-witches get due process.

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            jon-nyc
            wrote on 12 Jan 2023, 02:53 last edited by
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            Only non-witches get due process.

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            • J jon-nyc
              12 Jan 2023, 02:53

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              Doctor Phibes
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              @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

              Almost as embarrassing as the Steve Ballmer clip.

              I was only joking

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                George K
                wrote on 12 Jan 2023, 14:02 last edited by
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                Zebra stripes not just for camouflage:

                https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2019/10/07/painting_zebra_stripes_on_cows_wards_off_biting_flies.html

                Seeking a potential solution to this situation, a team of Japanese researchers cleverly applied lessons from research on zebras. Animal scientists have long pondered the function of zebras' dsitinct stripes, and a growing consensus now suggests that they deter insects, possibly by confusing bugs' motion detection systems that control approach and landing.

                And so, the researchers painted six Japanese Black cows with black-and-white stripes, which took just five minutes per cow. They then observed the cows for three days, taking high-resolution images of them at regular intervals to count the insects on the animals and also recording any fly-repelling behaviors like leg stamping, tail flicking, and skin twitching. The same cows were also observed for three days with painted-on black stripes (to see if it was the paint chemicals, not the coloring, that repelled flies) and and with no stripes at all.

                The apparent effects of the stripes were remarkable. The number of biting flies observed on zebra-striped cows was less than half the number seen on unpainted cows and far less than cows painted with black stripes. Moreover, zebra-striping reduced fly-repelling behaviors by about 20%, indicating that the cows were less bothered by the insects

                Oh, and for those who will say "TTIWWOP", here you go:

                Screenshot 2023-01-12 at 8.02.01 AM copy.jpg

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote on 13 Jan 2023, 08:41 last edited by
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                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                    bachophile
                    wrote on 13 Jan 2023, 10:46 last edited by
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                      13 Jan 2023, 10:46

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                      LuFins Dad
                      wrote on 13 Jan 2023, 12:38 last edited by
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                      @bachophile said in Mildly interesting:

                      Border Collies are great dogs!

                      The Brad

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                        bachophile
                        wrote on 14 Jan 2023, 07:00 last edited by
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                          jon-nyc
                          wrote on 14 Jan 2023, 17:50 last edited by
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                          It’s such an amazing result - that close but not equal.

                          If you were to guess the number of atoms in the universe and missed it by just one, that would an incomparably larger miss than this expression gets to pi

                          Only non-witches get due process.

                          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          • J jon-nyc
                            14 Jan 2023, 17:50

                            It’s such an amazing result - that close but not equal.

                            If you were to guess the number of atoms in the universe and missed it by just one, that would an incomparably larger miss than this expression gets to pi

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                            Horace
                            wrote on 14 Jan 2023, 18:13 last edited by
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                            @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                            It’s such an amazing result - that close but not equal.

                            If you were to guess the number of atoms in the universe and missed it by just one, that would an incomparably larger miss than this expression gets to pi

                            I wonder if that has something to do with Euler's identity.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                              jon-nyc
                              wrote on 15 Jan 2023, 22:30 last edited by
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                              More very-interesting to geeks stuff.

                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                kluurs
                                wrote on 16 Jan 2023, 01:27 last edited by
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                                My high school teachers would say something like, "that's fine - but you didn't show your work."

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                                • J jon-nyc
                                  14 Jan 2023, 17:50

                                  It’s such an amazing result - that close but not equal.

                                  If you were to guess the number of atoms in the universe and missed it by just one, that would an incomparably larger miss than this expression gets to pi

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                                  Horace
                                  wrote on 16 Jan 2023, 02:32 last edited by
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                                  @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                  It’s such an amazing result - that close but not equal.

                                  If you were to guess the number of atoms in the universe and missed it by just one, that would an incomparably larger miss than this expression gets to pi

                                  Apparently not so amazing according to the comments. It’s a “discretization” of an infinite sun identity which is exactly equal to pi. The constants in the discretization can be chosen such that the sum is arbitrarily close to pi.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    mark
                                    wrote on 16 Jan 2023, 17:11 last edited by
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                                    Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

                                    https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

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                                    • M mark
                                      16 Jan 2023, 17:11

                                      Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

                                      https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

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                                      Doctor Phibes
                                      wrote on 16 Jan 2023, 17:16 last edited by
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                                      @mark said in Mildly interesting:

                                      Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

                                      https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

                                      Now you can have a date with Jesus!

                                      I was only joking

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                                        16 Jan 2023, 17:16

                                        @mark said in Mildly interesting:

                                        Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

                                        https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

                                        Now you can have a date with Jesus!

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                                        LuFins Dad
                                        wrote on 16 Jan 2023, 17:26 last edited by
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                                        @Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:

                                        @mark said in Mildly interesting:

                                        Scientists in Israel are growing date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds.

                                        https://hasanjasim.online/scientists-in-israel-are-growing-date-palms-from-2000-year-old-seeds/?fbclid=IwAR0B_lgN70YNQKen7Qq2n_OmxwxG2U5XRGwrCJ8DRE_7VLqwq1RKrYlNfTI

                                        Now you can have a date with Jesus!

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                                          wrote on 17 Jan 2023, 20:19 last edited by
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