Scientific/Math Humour

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Identical to the curve for toilet paper demand over the exact same period.. Coincidence?

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With that I am leaving the room.

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What is up with the spherical cow?

In physics (and science) we try to make models. They don't have to be perfect models, in fact they never are. We just want models that work.

What does that mean?.......

Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum".

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/what-is-u ... rical-cow/

[Typhoon]

What is up with the spherical cow?

In physics (and science) we try to make models. They don't have to be perfect models, in fact they never are. We just want models that work.

What does that mean?.......

Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum".

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/what-is-u ... rical-cow/

Very good. "Consider a spherical cow" is probably the best known joke in theoretical physics.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

~ George E. P. Box, statistician

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

~ John von Neumann, mathematician/physicist

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Yeah people should not give a flux.

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au contraire.

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no fuse boxes, no cut off valves on the gas supply, no standards on voltage, blue sky products with no user testing.

electricity was a nightmare for ages and killed lots of people.

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au contraire.

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no fuse boxes, no cut off valves on the gas supply, no standards on voltage, blue sky products with no user testing.

electricity was a nightmare for ages and killed lots of people.

I would guess that the same occurred when gas for lighting/heating/cooking was introduced into Victorian homes.

Would be more impressed if the video quoted actual numbers rather then anecdotes.

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I dont believe anyone has taken on the mammoth task of turning all those old rotting paper books into indexed and searchable database records, so newspaper articles is about all thats available.

On a general level, every safety feature in the modern electricity and gas grids came from lessons learnt the hard way, the original implementations didnt have any of that.

[Simple Minded]

I dont believe anyone has taken on the mammoth task of turning all those old rotting paper books into indexed and searchable database records, so newspaper articles is about all thats available.

On a general level, every safety feature in the modern electricity and gas grids came from lessons learnt the hard way, the original implementations didnt have any of that.

Safety guards and safety considerations have only found their way on farm equipment in the last 80 years or so. During the Wild West days of product innovation it's "Damn the torpedos full steam ahead!" Much more common to know people missing fingers, toes, arms, etc 40 years ago.

Ingenuity or continue in the old ways? "We" can't have both. It would be like closing the virtual barn door after the virtual horse is running around in cyberspace!

Has all the reverse Darwinism made society better and more capable or not? That could be argued until our virtual cows come home.

Idiott proofing everything prevents culling of the idiott herd which requires more idiott proofing which raises the cost of everything!

Now if we could ideologically discern which is better, 1's or 0's, then we could solve some serious problems....... 1's have too much privilege and 0's lack equality!!!!

In the long run, we're all halves! (tm)

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Now if we could ideologically discern which is better, 1's or 0's, then we could solve some serious problems....... 1's have too much privilege and 0's lack equality!!!!

In the long run, we're all halves! (tm)

the problem with tri-state logic is the subtle differences between true/false/maybe and true/false/dunno and true/false/dont-care

1's are fat and consume power, 0's are sustainable for eternity, it is the perfect state of order, our final goal.

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Now if we could ideologically discern which is better, 1's or 0's, then we could solve some serious problems....... 1's have too much privilege and 0's lack equality!!!!

In the long run, we're all halves! (tm)

the problem with tri-state logic is the subtle differences between true/false/maybe and true/false/dunno and true/false/dont-care

1's are fat and consume power, 0's are sustainable for eternity, it is the perfect state of order, our final goal.

Ahhh, you aim for perfection sire, a worthy goal. What are you going to do with all the people who f**k everything up?

You know the types, the ones who confuse upper case "ohs" for zeros, and lower case "els" for ones. It's why the whole black/white, male.female, rich/poor order has fallen apart. Sooner or later, someone mixes the chocolate and vanilla soft serve in a cone......

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Venn diagram.


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What can't be seen is the circle for Politicians, because it is overlapped exactly by the circle for Preachers.

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this implies the religious zealots really did get into heaven. makes me doubt it's veracity.

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Don't drink and derive.