Actually, in ancient Hebrew "Yeda" is commonly used as a euphemism for sex. For example (My translation from Hebrew):
"And Adam YEDA his wife Eve and she became pregnant and she had a son" (Genesis, chapter 4 verse 1)
Not every infinitely long random number contains every possible pattern. Consider an infinitely long sequence of digits. Now drop all '1's from the sequence. You still have an infinitely long series of random digits, in that knowing previous digits doesn't help you predict future digits. However, this infinite random sequence does not contain every possible pattern.
Whether this applies to pi or not, I have no idea.
The correct formulation of "every possible pattern" is that given an infinite sequence of letters (or digits) from an alphabet A, where every letter is chosen uniformly, the probability that a given pattern of finite length will appear somewhere is 1.
So there're two problems with your example. First of all, after removing the '1's, the digits in the resulting sequence aren't uniformly distributed. Secondly, just because the probability of a pattern appearing is one, that doesn't necessarily mean that the pattern will appear. For example, it's possible that the random sequence consists of only one digit. Such a sequence clearly doesn't contain every pattern. But the probability of generating such a sequence is zero. Similarly, it's certainly possible that the infinite sequence doesn't contain any ones, but the probability of that happening is zero.
Actually, microeconomics theory shows that the prices would drop and the corporations would make a higher profit. Some companies will be willing to slightly lower the prices. This will pressure other companies to lower prices until an equilibrium is reached. Eventually, the abolished taxes will go partly to the consumers and partly to the producers.
I don't see how legalizing drugs would help in this case. Wouldn't the mafia use it's considerable power to control the drug supply? It could maintain it's power by executing any civilian that attempts to manufacture drugs.
MRIs are expensive, and autism-like behavior is obvious enough that you can narrow down the group of people you're going to test significiantly before you start testing.
In the case of autism, the earlier you get a diagnosis the more effective the treatment will be. So waiting until the child starts showing symptoms isn't ideal. It's better to have a way of testing for autism while the child is still under a year old. That's why it's important to have physiological tests, as opposed waiting for the parents to notice eye contact or social problems.
There's a big difference between a plane and a train. With a plane, it's easy to inflict massive damage with relatively small weapons. This is because you're dealing with an aluminum tube packed with people flying through the sky. If it get's diverted the smallest amount from it's path, or sustains minor physical damage, then a large percentage of the people inside will die. The 9/11 terrorists brought down the twin towers armed with trivial weapons such as knives. In addition, a plane is an isolated environment, so once a handful of terrorists take control, there isn't much that the entire US armed forces can do to stop them, short of taking down the plane.
But with a train that's all different. The train is on the ground so it's easy for a helicopter to catch up with it, drop $SPECIAL_FORCE on the the roof, and take back the train. And even if a terrorist does manage to detonate a bomb on the train, it will probably only kill people in the same car.
So I think that there's more reason to be paranoid of terrorists on planes.
This does arouse suspicion. even if you forget the variable names for a moment, any pattern like bool,real,real, *real, int, *char,*char,*bool,.... that is identical between two structs would be an improbable occurence. and when you see it in back to back structs it becomes nearly impossible to happen by chance.
Actually, the order of declarations in a struct is far from random. Even without getting into specifications and compatibility, there're multiple performance issues (such as padding) that are directly related to the exact order of the variable declarations.
Here:
The Science Page
I found the following:
"A machine which said 'COFFEE' which was located in the center hall. The machine was built from discrete components and had a series of coils and capacitors for filters and oscillators. Lamps lit up the letters "C", "O", "FF" and "EE" as the machine spoke. Visitors could vary parameters using analog pots to make the word sound different."
So maybe Mark Csele knows.
FTFA: "mainly powered by solar energy" (emphasis mine)
What's the rest powered by? Water? To the best of my knowledge, even electric cars need some kind of fuel to provide electricity when there's little sun or during harsh conditions.
Whatever iconography that hangs from his neck (Isreali dog tags? a Star of David?) can only afford a cheap black cord.
If that is really an Israeli soldier than the iconography is a dog tag. In addition, it's connected to his neck with a steel chain which is covered with a "cheap black cord". All combat soldiers cover the steel chain so that it wont reflect light and give away their position in battle.
This could easily be explained by the fact that smoking is more common in the combat and combat supporting (tank and APC mechanics for example) units than it is in the bureaucratic and intel units.
Many young soldiers pickup smoking simply as a way to pass the time. Therefore, it's more likely to happen in the combat units since they stay in the army for extended periods of time (usually around 17 days) as opposed to the bureaucratic and intel units who go home every day. Soldiers in combat units simply have more time to spare. In addition, life in a combat unit is far more stressful and smoking is a popular way to deal with it.
Now, I probably don't have to say that soldiers aren't sent to combat units because of their extraordinary brain power. I dont have any data to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that the average IQ in the combat and combat supporting units is lower than in the bureaucratic and intel units.
With this in mind, the results aren't to surprising. It happens because a high percentage of soldiers with lower than average IQ's are sent to units which encourage smoking.
Why is western society obsessed with mathematics, deluded
into thinking it's useful in general, and why are people so stressed
over learning this useless and dryly-presented subject?
Other posters have already explained the crucial practical aspects of math, but that's not the end of the story. A good mathematical education can help a person become an open-minded and critical thinker, which is important in a democratic society.
Studying math teaches you that nothing is right just because someone says so. You only believe something that makes sense to you. If a little kid finds a mistake in a Field Medal laureate's proof, then the laureate is wrong. This seems counter to open-mindness but it really isn't. Being open minded isn't about everyone being right. It's about listening to every opinion and accepting them based on their merit. This is exactly what's conveyed to a student while studying math.
For a further elaboration of this point I'd recommend the book I give to anyone who complains that math is irrelevant:
"The Education of T.C. MITS" by Lillian Lieber (T. C. MITS = The Celebrated Man In The Street)
Seriously. Read the entire history of Israel, not just the propaganda that you learned in Sunday School, and in the mostly biased United States media outlets.
Israel has the utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life and/or rights. They've proved that repeatedly.
GP's irony is on target.
Seriously. Get out of your cave and look at some of the current news. If by "Israel" you mean the government then I can find quite a few examples disproving your statement. A nation with utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life probably wouldn't send a response team to Haiti, which isn't exactly known for it's thriving Jewish poplulation, accept and provide aid to Somali refugees or send relief units to Kenya. How many other western countries have done that?
And if by "Israel" you mean the population then you just made a gross over-generalization. I live in Israel and neither my friends nor myself have an "utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life and/or rights". Quite the opposite actually.
You accuse the OP of listening to biased news outlets, but it seems as if you prefer to extrapolate from your narrow understanding of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to Israel's view of the entire world. Wow.
Copyright Protection - Hey, we're big fans of the major media players, and we think they deserve a little somethin'-somethin for their generosity in the last several campaigns. (You don't think this administrations election campaign really raised three-quarters of a trillion dollars from (essentially) untraceable $10-200 donations over the web, do you?
So if he didn't get the money from web donations then he must have gotten it from the media companies? That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one.
Because of the angle, it's hard to tell whether the shockwave is spherical or cone shaped. A cone looks like a sphere while viewed from underneath like in the video.
This kind of anxiety has also been shown to cause behavior that confirms stereotypes. For example, if girls are told that they can't succeed in math, then they'll get more anxious than the boys before math tests and score lower:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070524082806.htm
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Actually, in ancient Hebrew "Yeda" is commonly used as a euphemism for sex. For example (My translation from Hebrew): "And Adam YEDA his wife Eve and she became pregnant and she had a son" (Genesis, chapter 4 verse 1)
Not every infinitely long random number contains every possible pattern. Consider an infinitely long sequence of digits. Now drop all '1's from the sequence. You still have an infinitely long series of random digits, in that knowing previous digits doesn't help you predict future digits. However, this infinite random sequence does not contain every possible pattern.
Whether this applies to pi or not, I have no idea.
The correct formulation of "every possible pattern" is that given an infinite sequence of letters (or digits) from an alphabet A, where every letter is chosen uniformly, the probability that a given pattern of finite length will appear somewhere is 1.
So there're two problems with your example. First of all, after removing the '1's, the digits in the resulting sequence aren't uniformly distributed. Secondly, just because the probability of a pattern appearing is one, that doesn't necessarily mean that the pattern will appear. For example, it's possible that the random sequence consists of only one digit. Such a sequence clearly doesn't contain every pattern. But the probability of generating such a sequence is zero. Similarly, it's certainly possible that the infinite sequence doesn't contain any ones, but the probability of that happening is zero.
Actually, microeconomics theory shows that the prices would drop and the corporations would make a higher profit. Some companies will be willing to slightly lower the prices. This will pressure other companies to lower prices until an equilibrium is reached. Eventually, the abolished taxes will go partly to the consumers and partly to the producers.
I don't see how legalizing drugs would help in this case. Wouldn't the mafia use it's considerable power to control the drug supply? It could maintain it's power by executing any civilian that attempts to manufacture drugs.
A team of cats would also do the trick.
I think that that this was the newsworthy part: "returned home to Sudbury, Canada"
Now there's nothing wrong with purse math.
That's a massive understatement. For most people, money counting is the most important type of math.
MRIs are expensive, and autism-like behavior is obvious enough that you can narrow down the group of people you're going to test significiantly before you start testing.
In the case of autism, the earlier you get a diagnosis the more effective the treatment will be. So waiting until the child starts showing symptoms isn't ideal. It's better to have a way of testing for autism while the child is still under a year old. That's why it's important to have physiological tests, as opposed waiting for the parents to notice eye contact or social problems.
There's a big difference between a plane and a train. With a plane, it's easy to inflict massive damage with relatively small weapons. This is because you're dealing with an aluminum tube packed with people flying through the sky. If it get's diverted the smallest amount from it's path, or sustains minor physical damage, then a large percentage of the people inside will die. The 9/11 terrorists brought down the twin towers armed with trivial weapons such as knives. In addition, a plane is an isolated environment, so once a handful of terrorists take control, there isn't much that the entire US armed forces can do to stop them, short of taking down the plane.
But with a train that's all different. The train is on the ground so it's easy for a helicopter to catch up with it, drop $SPECIAL_FORCE on the the roof, and take back the train. And even if a terrorist does manage to detonate a bomb on the train, it will probably only kill people in the same car.
So I think that there's more reason to be paranoid of terrorists on planes.
This does arouse suspicion. even if you forget the variable names for a moment, any pattern like bool,real,real, *real, int, *char,*char,*bool,.... that is identical between two structs would be an improbable occurence. and when you see it in back to back structs it becomes nearly impossible to happen by chance.
Actually, the order of declarations in a struct is far from random. Even without getting into specifications and compatibility, there're multiple performance issues (such as padding) that are directly related to the exact order of the variable declarations.
Here: The Science Page I found the following: "A machine which said 'COFFEE' which was located in the center hall. The machine was built from discrete components and had a series of coils and capacitors for filters and oscillators. Lamps lit up the letters "C", "O", "FF" and "EE" as the machine spoke. Visitors could vary parameters using analog pots to make the word sound different." So maybe Mark Csele knows.
FTFA: "mainly powered by solar energy" (emphasis mine) What's the rest powered by? Water? To the best of my knowledge, even electric cars need some kind of fuel to provide electricity when there's little sun or during harsh conditions.
Who fuels the cars on the way? Do they know how to spot gas stations and ask the gas station attendants to fill them up? How do they pay?
Whatever iconography that hangs from his neck (Isreali dog tags? a Star of David?) can only afford a cheap black cord.
If that is really an Israeli soldier than the iconography is a dog tag. In addition, it's connected to his neck with a steel chain which is covered with a "cheap black cord". All combat soldiers cover the steel chain so that it wont reflect light and give away their position in battle.
This could easily be explained by the fact that smoking is more common in the combat and combat supporting (tank and APC mechanics for example) units than it is in the bureaucratic and intel units. Many young soldiers pickup smoking simply as a way to pass the time. Therefore, it's more likely to happen in the combat units since they stay in the army for extended periods of time (usually around 17 days) as opposed to the bureaucratic and intel units who go home every day. Soldiers in combat units simply have more time to spare. In addition, life in a combat unit is far more stressful and smoking is a popular way to deal with it. Now, I probably don't have to say that soldiers aren't sent to combat units because of their extraordinary brain power. I dont have any data to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that the average IQ in the combat and combat supporting units is lower than in the bureaucratic and intel units. With this in mind, the results aren't to surprising. It happens because a high percentage of soldiers with lower than average IQ's are sent to units which encourage smoking.
Why is western society obsessed with mathematics, deluded into thinking it's useful in general, and why are people so stressed over learning this useless and dryly-presented subject?
Other posters have already explained the crucial practical aspects of math, but that's not the end of the story. A good mathematical education can help a person become an open-minded and critical thinker, which is important in a democratic society. Studying math teaches you that nothing is right just because someone says so. You only believe something that makes sense to you. If a little kid finds a mistake in a Field Medal laureate's proof, then the laureate is wrong. This seems counter to open-mindness but it really isn't. Being open minded isn't about everyone being right. It's about listening to every opinion and accepting them based on their merit. This is exactly what's conveyed to a student while studying math. For a further elaboration of this point I'd recommend the book I give to anyone who complains that math is irrelevant: "The Education of T.C. MITS" by Lillian Lieber (T. C. MITS = The Celebrated Man In The Street)
Seriously. Read the entire history of Israel, not just the propaganda that you learned in Sunday School, and in the mostly biased United States media outlets. Israel has the utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life and/or rights. They've proved that repeatedly. GP's irony is on target.
Seriously. Get out of your cave and look at some of the current news. If by "Israel" you mean the government then I can find quite a few examples disproving your statement. A nation with utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life probably wouldn't send a response team to Haiti, which isn't exactly known for it's thriving Jewish poplulation, accept and provide aid to Somali refugees or send relief units to Kenya. How many other western countries have done that? And if by "Israel" you mean the population then you just made a gross over-generalization. I live in Israel and neither my friends nor myself have an "utmost contempt for a non-Jew's life and/or rights". Quite the opposite actually. You accuse the OP of listening to biased news outlets, but it seems as if you prefer to extrapolate from your narrow understanding of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to Israel's view of the entire world. Wow.
So if he didn't get the money from web donations then he must have gotten it from the media companies? That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one.
Because of the angle, it's hard to tell whether the shockwave is spherical or cone shaped. A cone looks like a sphere while viewed from underneath like in the video.
This kind of anxiety has also been shown to cause behavior that confirms stereotypes. For example, if girls are told that they can't succeed in math, then they'll get more anxious than the boys before math tests and score lower: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070524082806.htm