Pick a random spot on a slide-rule. You are more likely to hit a region where the mantissa starts with 1 than any other region.
And as posters have already pointed out, a base-2 slide-rule would guarantee that the first digit is 1.
There is nothing magic about Benford's law, it only shows that random numbers based on measurements are logarithmically distributed.
1. San Francisco prohibits new parking lots, and the city voted for anti-parking (A) and againt pro-parking propositions (H) on last year's ballot . So don't count on more parking lots.
2. The "bridge & tunnel" crowd may check their cell phones before they drive to the City, and see that there is no parking, so might just give up on the trip altogether. I certainly have been guilty of driving up from the Peninsula and not been able to find a parking place in the Mission after driving around for 20 minutes and just giving up (and going elsewhere).
3. The key piece of this technology is that is designed for parking ticket enforcement, to generate additional revenue for the city. The city will be able to see globally where all the expired meters are and will be able to more efficiently give out tickets for expired meters.
They only asked 100 people. In the two groups, they had 50 people. The numbers are 14 and 23. If you assume Poisson statistics, the error bars are about 4-5. These numbers are statistically consistent with no difference whatsoever.
And as someone else said, the actual study showed no difference between infection rates, only in reported symptoms.
"Caltech" is capitalized sometimes like that, but never in mixed case, ie "CalTech" or "Cal-Tech" or "Cal Tech" are all wrong. A few old timers are allowed to call it "CIT", but that is considered quaint.
BTW, for non-techers, an "RF" is a Rat Fuck, a prank that entails freezing a rat in liquid nitrogen and smashing it to bits in someone's dorm room. RF has come to mean any prank now.
I was a student at Caltech from 1988 to 1992 and recognize the cannon. It is the same cannon in both the Mudd and MIT heists. I recall that *no one* really cared that Harvey Mudd stole the Fleming cannon in 1987, and I doubt that anyone (besides Fleming) cares that MIT stole it now. I repeat, this cannon is owned by the *dorm* Fleming House, not Caltech. There is no Caltech cannon.
Fleming House has the reputation of being the black sheep of the Caltech housing system, and is not representative of Caltech. 76% of the Caltech undergrads would be *happy* to see the cannon stolen. And the grad students really don't care at all.
The Harvey Mudd vs Caltech story is interesting, because it is sort of like Canada vs USA. Canada considers itself a competitor to the USA, while the USA doesn't even know that Canada exists. Techers do not consider Harvey Mudd a rival of Caltech.
The cannon belongs to a particular dorm (Fleming House), not to Caltech. It is not a Caltech cannon, it is the Fleming House cannon. No one outside of Fleming House gives a rats ass about that cannon. (Actually, no one outside of Fleming House gives a rats ass about Fleming House).
The sad truth is that we are not meant to live on other planets. Our bodies are naturally designed to live without any protection from radiation, breath the air without filtration, drink the water without purification, eat the vegetation and animals. Wouldn't it be easier to fix the relatively minor problems with air pollution and global warming here (a few degrees of tweak) than dreaming of living on a planet or spacestation in the vacuum and intense radiation of space.
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GnuStep started out as a project to port a particle physics analysis program from a NeXT to a Sun. Paul Kunz, from SLAC, was one of the founders of the GnuStep project. I helped out a very little bit, back in the mid 90s since I really wanted to use that program for my PhD thesis. The name of the program was Hippoplotamus.
At somepoint, Paul Kunz gave up and rewrote the application in Quicktime.
A friend of mine also built one in college (Carl R.) for his EE project. That was around 1991-1992. I don't remember the interface, but it might have been a joystick.
If the Concorde failed because it was too expensive, how is a 5000 mph rocket ship going to be competitive?
This reminds me of the talk of colonizing Mars. A lot of people say we could colonize Mars after we destroy the Earth. It is and will always be a lot easier to live in the Gobi desert than on Mars, regardless of the amount of pollution!
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Pick a random spot on a slide-rule. You are more likely to hit a region where the mantissa starts with 1 than any other region. And as posters have already pointed out, a base-2 slide-rule would guarantee that the first digit is 1. There is nothing magic about Benford's law, it only shows that random numbers based on measurements are logarithmically distributed.
2. The "bridge & tunnel" crowd may check their cell phones before they drive to the City, and see that there is no parking, so might just give up on the trip altogether. I certainly have been guilty of driving up from the Peninsula and not been able to find a parking place in the Mission after driving around for 20 minutes and just giving up (and going elsewhere).
3. The key piece of this technology is that is designed for parking ticket enforcement, to generate additional revenue for the city. The city will be able to see globally where all the expired meters are and will be able to more efficiently give out tickets for expired meters.
They only asked 100 people. In the two groups, they had 50 people. The numbers are 14 and 23. If you assume Poisson statistics, the error bars are about 4-5. These numbers are statistically consistent with no difference whatsoever. And as someone else said, the actual study showed no difference between infection rates, only in reported symptoms.
"Caltech" is capitalized sometimes like that, but never in mixed case, ie "CalTech" or "Cal-Tech" or "Cal Tech" are all wrong. A few old timers are allowed to call it "CIT", but that is considered quaint. BTW, for non-techers, an "RF" is a Rat Fuck, a prank that entails freezing a rat in liquid nitrogen and smashing it to bits in someone's dorm room. RF has come to mean any prank now.
I was a student at Caltech from 1988 to 1992 and recognize the cannon. It is the same cannon in both the Mudd and MIT heists. I recall that *no one* really cared that Harvey Mudd stole the Fleming cannon in 1987, and I doubt that anyone (besides Fleming) cares that MIT stole it now. I repeat, this cannon is owned by the *dorm* Fleming House, not Caltech. There is no Caltech cannon. Fleming House has the reputation of being the black sheep of the Caltech housing system, and is not representative of Caltech. 76% of the Caltech undergrads would be *happy* to see the cannon stolen. And the grad students really don't care at all. The Harvey Mudd vs Caltech story is interesting, because it is sort of like Canada vs USA. Canada considers itself a competitor to the USA, while the USA doesn't even know that Canada exists. Techers do not consider Harvey Mudd a rival of Caltech.
The cannon belongs to a particular dorm (Fleming House), not to Caltech. It is not a Caltech cannon, it is the Fleming House cannon. No one outside of Fleming House gives a rats ass about that cannon. (Actually, no one outside of Fleming House gives a rats ass about Fleming House).
The sad truth is that we are not meant to live on other planets. Our bodies are naturally designed to live without any protection from radiation, breath the air without filtration, drink the water without purification, eat the vegetation and animals. Wouldn't it be easier to fix the relatively minor problems with air pollution and global warming here (a few degrees of tweak) than dreaming of living on a planet or spacestation in the vacuum and intense radiation of space.
GnuStep started out as a project to port a particle physics analysis program from a NeXT to a Sun. Paul Kunz, from SLAC, was one of the founders of the GnuStep project. I helped out a very little bit, back in the mid 90s since I really wanted to use that program for my PhD thesis. The name of the program was Hippoplotamus. At somepoint, Paul Kunz gave up and rewrote the application in Quicktime.
A friend of mine also built one in college (Carl R.) for his EE project. That was around 1991-1992. I don't remember the interface, but it might have been a joystick.
This reminds me of the talk of colonizing Mars. A lot of people say we could colonize Mars after we destroy the Earth. It is and will always be a lot easier to live in the Gobi desert than on Mars, regardless of the amount of pollution!
2500 gallons is like 10 TONS of water.
Get a standalone digital scope on ebay. I got a 400 MHz HP (Agilent) for about $450. They have cheaper digital scopes for cheaper.