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GW, 6 months ago to religion

The Many Awful Things That Happen To People, All Caused by Religions

No matter what kind of religion it is, #Religion isn’t meant to make things better; it’s only meant to keep us apart.
You’re not picked, but we are. Our #God is the real one, while yours is fake and dirty. #People of other religions can be #killed, #beaten, and #maimed because they are not of our religion, but people of our own religion must be loved and cared for.

"Religion is #Devisive and Hurtful"

https://gwfoto.medium.com/mental-health-fba43a4fec5b

moira, 6 months ago to Seattle

unexpectedly pretty moon at the construction site

#sr520 #montlake #seattle

ColinTheMathmo, 6 months ago to random

OK, not too bad ...

#CellTower 546

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬇️⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬇️⬜⬇️⬜⬜⬜⬜⏹️⬇️⬜⬜⬜
➡️➡️⏹️➡️⏹️➡️➡️➡️➡️⬆️➡️➡️➡️➡️

https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=546

ColinTheMathmo, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

This isn't a request for an answer ... I can look it up. It's a question about your experience.

So in your experience, will Daisy look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two or a bicycle made for two?

Please vote, and then reply in the comments if you're content to share your answer and rough geographical origin.

moira, 7 months ago to random

Holy shit, Republicans aren't even able to get a speaker candidate to a floor vote at this point:

https://mastodon.social/

wrog, 7 months ago to random

The justifications for pretrial detention and solitary confinement, as I understand them -- not that I necessarily agree --, are, respectively, flight risk (the usual problem) and preventing further compromise of classified info even if just to other prisoners (i.e., national security outweighs presumption of innocence)

Now compare (1) relative volumes and sensitivity of documents stolen (RW leaked a single report on 2016 Russian election interference), (2) that we have testimony from folks like Pratt that Trump has blabbed about Actual Military Secrets (submarine specs, nuclear weapons specs, plans for attacking Iran) to foreign nationals,

and pre-trial orders generally don't require proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

An open air school in 1957, Netherlands. In the beginning of the 20th century a movement towards open air schools took place in Europe. Classes were taught in forests so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.

#archaeohistories

crooksandliars, 7 months ago to random

Listen to this voicemail left for a GOP lawmaker's wife because her husband voted against #JimJordan for #SpeakerofTheHouse.
Using threats of political violence IS the GOP's strategy.

https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2023/10/voicemail-threat-wife-gop-lawmaker?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=80685

wrog, 7 months ago to random

I'm starting to think this is not actually Republicans in Disarray.

The radicals wanted a shutdown.

They'll be getting it in a few more weeks, and, thus far, it looks like the entire rest of House GOP delegation will go along with it.

(The insistence that McHenry can't do anything other that conduct Speaker votes is part of the tell here. The rule creating his position was enacted post-9/11 as a way to keep conducting business in the event Something Bad happened to the Speaker.

Therefore he should be able to conduct business -- perhaps only essential matters, but one would think funding the government to prevent a shutdown qualifies...)

moira, 7 months ago to politics

womp-womp

expectations were that he was within 5-10 votes but noooooooo

#gymjordan #speaker #jimjordan #uspol #politics

johncarlosbaez, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Western music has long used chords with fractions built from the primes 2, 3, and 5. What about 7?

I'll paraphrase Gann's book "The Arithmetic of Listening":

Four hundred years ago, the possibility of using seven as a tuning ratio was still up in the air in Europe. Zarlino, in his Le institutioni harmoniche of 1558, had enshrined the number six as the “sonorous number” beyond which no consonances. Over the next couple of centuries, though, various theorists argued for septimal (seven-based) intervals, only to retreat in the face of common practice.

The mathematician Mersenne claimed in 1636, “I have not the slightest doubt that the dissonant intervals of which I have spoken . . . i.e., the ratios 7:6 and 8:7 that subdivide the fourth—may become pleasing if one accustoms oneself to hearing and bearing them . . . for diverse effects that ordinary music lacks.” Later, however, he changed his tune and his tuning, writing that because 7/6 “is neither a consonance nor a difference of consonances, nature—which is harmonic—rejects it and prefers to interrupt its series of intervals and melodies than to move through an interval that serves no purpose except to wound the ear and the spirit.”

The astronomer and scientist Huygens likewise wrote that the number seven “is not unable to produce a consonance” but then dismissed 7/6 and 8/7 as being “incompatible with the consonances already established."

And so it went, writer after writer admitting that septimal intervals could please the ear before deciding that employing them was inconvenient. It was as though if you came out publicly for the number seven, a couple of thugs from the Six-Based Mafia showed up at your office for a little persuasion.

emmadavidson, 7 months ago to random

Someone at work said something about a second lunch and I asked if that’s like hobbitses second breakfast and they said they don’t know what I’m talking about and asked if it was Star Wars and I am just coming on here to feel seen by my people please

ColinTheMathmo, 7 months ago to random

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. -- W.S. Anglin

jmac, 7 months ago to random

I’ve decided I’m okay with calling it “X” without flinching.

Twitter was the thing we all had very complex feelings about for many years, and part of that was how it gave us joy and community. It’s gone now… it’s just gone.

X isn’t a mere renaming, it’s a replacement. And it does not deserve our attention.

moira, 7 months ago to random

Day 5/10

#10Films

I’ve been invited by @Taweret to share one image (no posters, no titles, no explanations) from 10 films that impacted me.

If I was doing this right, then: every day a new person will be added: 10 days, 10 movie images, 10 friends.

however because work has been so bloody stupid and antagonising and because i don't want to double-tag anyone i'm not tagging anybody because i'd totally tag someone already tagged

but i like movies so

ColinTheMathmo, 7 months ago to random

I have a challenge for my constraint programming colleagues ...

I believe there is no perfect solution to this, so the question is what's the least bad solution.

I have 6 home players, A-F, and six visitors, 1-6.

There will be six rounds.
Each round will have 3 matches.
Each match will have two pairs.
Each pair will have one visitor and one home player.

We would like:

Each home player to be paired with each visitor at more once;

Each player to play against each other player at most once.

I don't believe this is possible, but how few repetitions can you get away with?

Here's one tournament:

Rnd 1: B2 v E5, C3 v F6, D4 v A1
Rnd 2: A2 v C4, F1 v B3, E6 v D5
Rnd 3: B4 v A3, C5 v D6, F2 v E1
Rnd 4: C6 v D1, E2 v B5, A4 v F3
Rnd 5: F4 v D2, E3 v A5, B6 v C1
Rnd 6: A6 v F5, E4 v B1, D3 v C2

This is not especially good: Player A players against player 4 in the first three rounds, and so on.

How well can you do?

I can get a tournament with 9 clashes. Can you do better?

timnitGebru, 7 months ago to random

"I admit that I started thinking about this after spending the weekend walking underneath a grove of hundreds-of-feet-tall, centuries-old California Redwoods. As I gazed at the morning fog settling over the giant trees, I wondered: Why are we really spending billions on GPUs and data centers, fueling a spike in water consumption during a drought? For products consumers may or may not want or need?" -Sharon Goldman

https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-ai-is-teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-disillusionment-cliff-the-ai-beat/

johncarlosbaez, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Wow! I just learned that Isaac Newton wrote a treatise about music theory, comparing just intonation with equal tempered scales!

This was in 1665, when he was 22: the year he fled Trinity College to avoid the Great Plague, went to the countryside, invented calculus, and discovered that a prism can recombine colors of light to make white light.

Check out this great new video - it explains everything very simply.

Newton's work is amazing because while an equal tempered scale - one with notes equally spaced - is standard now, it was very unusual in Newton's time. Much more common was just intonation, where the frequency ratios are simple fractions.

Another reason Newton's work is amazing: he compared just intonation not only to a 12-tone equal tempered scale, but also to equal tempered scales with 15, 19, 20, 24, 25, 29, 36, 41, 51, 53, 59, 100, 120 and 612 tones! He discovered that the 12, 53, 120 and 612 tone scales work especially well.

The 53-note equal tempered scale actually goes back to the Chinese music theorist Jing Fang (78–37 BC), who discovered that 53 just fifths is very nearly equal to 31 octaves:

(3/2)⁵³ / 2³¹ ≈ 1.00209031404...

Much later the same observation was made by Nicholas Mercator. No, not the guy with the map, another Mercator: the one who invented natural logarithms.

I don't know if Newton could have known of Mercator's work - but he was influenced by Descartes's Compendium Musicae.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ytb6AWRAk