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Had an intro calc course and a dim memory of Taylor polynomials as an approximation tool, but that stuff is a use it or lose it thing. If you never use, you swiftly lose. Especially anything beyond basic algebra and trig. So me hearing "Maclaurin expansion in one's head" is a bit like my predatory cat hearing a lecture on Lotka-Volterra equations.

Hehe, yes, or the mum. The kids are Karen, Bob, and Pareidolia. Pareidolia was the best at Hide n Seek - you would spot her face almost anywhere but it usually wasn't actually she.

https://medium.com/@reuvengorsht/what-we-lose-when-we-stop-doing-hard-things-01830f7a2c41 When Texas Instruments released the first handheld scientific calculator in 1972, math teachers everywhere sounded an alarm. They worried that students would lose the ability to perform mental arithmetic, that the cognitive muscles required for mathematical thinking would atrophy. They were right, but also wrong in ways they couldn’t have predicted. Research from the late 1980s confirmed what teachers had suspected: students who relied heavily on calculators showed diminished mental math abilities. A study published in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education found that calculator-dependent students struggled more with estimation and number sense. (Goes on to more nuances, with those losses paired with some students gaining more problem-solving abilities and mastering more complex math problems)

Yup, and even when a pattern is somehow (often retroactively) claimed as showing itself, sometimes an observed pattern or connection is nothing more than apophenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

Farewell Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert joined by Sir Paul McCartney for The Late...The host joined Sir Paul and the band to close out the show with a performance of the Beatles' Hello, Goodbye. But even as he [Colbert] began to introduce his final guest as hailing from "the Vatican", a staffer interrupted to say Pope Leo was refusing to come out of his dressing room. "We didn't read his whole rider, and we didn't get him his snacks," his staffer said. The only glimpse the audience had of "the Pope" was an arm reaching out from behind a dressing room door labelled "Pope Leo XIV" and throwing away a hot dog. "The Pope, who was definitely my guest tonight, has cancelled. We already sent the other stars away. This is terrible," Colbert said. "Who's going to be my last guest now?" (...)

Why does the CP have to assume that burden? Maybe could you clarify a bit what is meant by the "internal structure of the theory"?

Reasonable precaution. Yes I was just adding information and expanding on things a bit. BTW, it would be interesting to see if there seasonal correlations which were reversed six months, calendar-wise, in NZ. Chaldeans are troublemakers. When you get a 9, they just act coy and pretend that's not real.... BIVSChaldean Numerology Explained: Meaning, Chart & Name...Discover what is Chaldean numerology, how the Chaldean numerology chart works, and how to calculate your name number. Learn its secrets for success and destiny. Somewhere back there, an early Chaldean numerologist got one of his fingers chopped off.

Also, most Libras are Virgos, due to equinox precession. And Virgo being a large constellation, over fifty degrees of arc along the plane of the ecliptic. Sorry, puny Libras. Jesus = 11 Yeshua = 25 One of them must be wrong. "The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees. How come Jesus gets industrial disease?"

Canadian study of pro hockey players. Showing a fairly straightforward causal relationship between birth season and early encouragement from sports teachers and coaches. There could be other seasonal effects, as well, both in terms of homeroom age differences and also early infant development as it relates to day lengths, ambient temps, airborne pollens, etc. These effects are amenable to statistical analysis, unlike mystical conjectures like those of numerology or astrology.

You'd think a being with such a large cranial capacity could evade capture long enough to put on trousers.

Mr Ramsay has Trouble counting syllables. Stick to cooking, Gord. * * * Rotting leaves smell bad. Everything in nature sucks. I am wearing pants. * * * her thighs: they jiggle like cottage cheese and Jell-O I think I'm in love

Might be one for the bad poetry thread, though it's really too good for it. (Well, I loved it) But the nod to McGonagall does make it relevant to that topic. I will resume my obsequious and confectious probings of a lump of green putty in my armpit.

The ocelot, prowling in his jungle dream, more sentient Than the heedless frogge it would seem. As well the self-coding neural net in its virtual jungle dream heuristics, Cortical columns, recursive self improvement, metacognition, More sentient than the parrot LLM with its billion texts statistics, A stochastic echo of human introspection, sans inner spark's ignition.

Thanks. And yes, I meant "or other means" as including refrigeration. In places like W VA where many datacenters have popped up, that's led to some serious noise issues with adjacent properties. As I recall, the chillers make quite a racket 24/7. The industry has been called into court on noise complaints - likely that's part of the shift towards very remote areas.

Emily comments on numerology thread... Fleet are numerologists. I go lo, remunerate elf.

I have to wonder if some kind of molecular computing will render all these monster data centers obsolete, some sitting Ozymandias-like in the desert.

You see the problem here? Dates have arbitrary aspects. Even if positing that me being born 180 days past the vernal equinox had some causal meaning like "end of summer babies show certain traits," that doesn't connect to any casual role in reducing that number to a numerological essence (9, in this example). And the calendar system is even more detached from any intrinsic metric, since the year begins on January 1, an arbitrary point, and months are also somewhat arbitrary. Also the year designated, let's say 1955, is arbitrary wrt nature. September 18, 1955 (not my exact birthday, for online security reasons) reduces to 2, in numerology. Meaningless. I can get any number by switching calendar systems.

Very little from cases I've seen. Huge buildings with three employees on-site.

Actual tearing is more common when there is bad leverage, a common example is the shoulder when you pull something across the midline of your body. Many shoulder injuries come from that - when I'm doing renovation or yard work, I try to avoid reaching across the midline to exert force on anything. Rotator cuff tendonitis can result.

With companies it comes down to relative costs. Open loop is cheap (pipe from the river, dump hot water back in the river, the hell with riparian life), and there's some evaporative loss. Closed loop is expensive, you need glycol and inhibitors in the waters, cooling towers or other means of dumping the heat, and any use of dumped heat is even more expensive. But water use is minimal. I'll guess that closed energy loops are even more expensive (like fairy tales at this stage), where you reclaim waste heat to power turbines which feed joules back to the chips (With whatever mechanical losses that would involve). There's also thermogalvanic batteries being developed, which seem like a potential solution down the road. I still think companies need to think longterm and use solar in the desert, reaping the longterm benefit of not paying to pipe in NG and thus generating with fewer moving parts

Emily drives a sports car through Japan in search of a fabled herb... A MG, in Edo: off on a familiar trail, I'm a fan of food enigma.

Here's the link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed water supplies. The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes, and suck up a significant amount of water in an area that has been hit by severe drought in recent years....(end clip) This is a project with so much environmental impact, I have to wonder if there aren't ways to better engineer the sourcing of power and coolant. And if a baking desert is really a suitable site location for something so critically dependent on cooling and water. The present plan seems almost like the engineering equivalent of trolling. Also, why not at least take advantage of the solar efficiency of a desert? But no, they're going to put in gas turbines. It's this kind of idiocy which makes the US currently look so...idiotic in the eyes of other developed countries.

This was the answer I started typing up, until I saw yours. Yes, statistically meaningful correlations, measuring actual relevant values (like yards rushed in football) and so on....are not numerology. Numerology is analysis like "I was born on 9/18/55, therefore my number is 82 and that means blah blah blah...." IOW, gibberish.

You know how jersey numbers are assigned? Players in the National Football League (NFL) wear uniform numbers between 0 and 99, with no two players on a team able to wear the same number outside of the offseason. Rules exist which tie a player's number to a specific range of numbers for their primary position. Additionally, rules exist which limit who may handle the ball on offense: generally players who are designated as offensive linemen, who wear numbers 50–79, are not allowed to handle the ball during a play from scrimmage, though they are allowed to do so if they report to the referee as playing out of position for a tackle-eligible play, if they pick up a fumble, or if they catch a deflected pass. The NFL's system, while having become more lenient since 2021, remains more rigid than other levels of football, which outside of offensive lineman wearing 50–79 are generally nonrestricted, especially on defense. (From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_uniform_numbers ) I don't see where any mystical quality of numbers (i.e. numerology) would enter into this.