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500 years ago, tragic Welsh genius Robert Recorde wanted to teach math to ordinary people. Without him, we never would get people confusing '=' and '==' (and '===')
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Everything good comes from Wales (yes, including me)! 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Everything good comes from Wales (yes, including me)!
I sure hope you're not implying Sperm Whales.
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Why yes, some of us are known for it..!
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Except "0" (the digit) of course, which came from India.
Enabling us to say that nothing good comes from India 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: nothing gooda good nothing comes from India
FTFY 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Of course, my impressions of Welsh and Indian accents are virtually indistinguishable, so maybe he was onto something with the original point that all good things come from Wales.
(It's not just me either: Searching for Welsh-Hindi link[^] )
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Alan Kay.
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In 1557, a destitute Recorde was thrown in debtor's prison, where he died a year later at the age of 48
How prophetic of what will happen to all of us with jobs that can be automated. 
Marc
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Stanford researchers using smartphones to track the activity levels of hundreds of thousands of people around the globe made an intriguing discovery: in countries with little obesity, people mostly walked a similar amount per day. But big gaps between people who walked a lot and those who walked very little coincided with much higher levels of obesity. So the solution to obesity is to move to a country where the people walk the same amount you do?
Or get everyone in your country to walk as you do.
Is this why Chris travels between Oz & Canuckistan?
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Quote: The ground-breaking study, appearing in Nature, used data captured from smartphones to analyze the habits of 717,000 men and women from 111 countries, whose steps were studied for an average of 95 days.
And they got data release forms from each of those 717,000 people? The cynic in me says 'No.'
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I'm one of them.
Answer: No.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
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I think we need to enlist this lot to encourage people to walk in the correct manner...
RUN-DMC - Walk This Way - YouTube[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is this why Chris travels between Oz & Canuckistan?
Does he walk between them? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Although there are many counterintuitive ideas in quantum theory, the idea that influences can travel backwards in time (from the future to the past) is generally not one of them. That 'splodey sound you hear is my head
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This would seem to imply you can travel to the past.
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If I read it right, it doesn't. Instead, it is more along the lines of predestination: you get the Bell results because you chose the results you wanted and set the machine to match, which was somehow known in the past.
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Still, if true, it means information can travel to the past. If information, then it's likely a person can do so too.
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Quote: So ultimately everything boils down to the choice of whether to keep time symmetry or no-retrocausality, as Leifer and Pusey's argument shows that you can't have both. Since time symmetry appears to be a fundamental physical symmetry, they argue that it makes more sense to allow for retrocausality. Doing so would eliminate the need for action-at-a-distance in Bell tests, and it would still be possible to explain why using retrocausality to send information is forbidden.
"The case for embracing retrocausality seems stronger to me for the following reasons," Leifer said. "First, having retrocausality potentially allows us to resolve the issues raised by other no-go theorems, i.e., it enables us to have Bell correlations without action-at-a-distance. So, although we still have to explain why there is no signaling into the past, it seems that we can collapse several puzzles into just one. That would not be the case if we abandon time symmetry instead.
"Second, we know that the existence of an arrow of time already has to be accounted for by thermodynamic arguments, i.e., it is a feature of the special boundary conditions of the universe and not itself a law of physics. Since the ability to send signals only into the future and not into the past is part of the definition of the arrow of time, it seems likely to me that the inability to signal into the past in a retrocausal universe could also come about from special boundary conditions, and does not need to be a law of physics.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-physicists-retrocausal-quantum-theory-future.html#jCp
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Interesting. But he doesn't say that it doesn't happen, just that it's possible to explain "retrocausality" without it happening.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That 'splodey sound you hear is my head
Last week. I wondered what that was I heard. Now I know. 
Cheers,
Peter
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Two ears and a tail! Hurrah! Well done.
TTFN - Kent
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Instead, retrocausality means that, when an experimenter chooses the measurement setting with which to measure a particle, that decision can influence the properties of that particle (or another particle) in the past, even before the experimenter made their choice. In other words, a decision made in the present can influence something in the past.
Are election results particles?
Marc
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When I catch myself in the future smirking at myself in the present, that can be hard to get past.
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Third-party tracking software is increasingly is controlled by only a handful of companies. Big Cookie is watching
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We’re gradually learning that smart home devices can be quite valuable for police. And it also placed an order on a book about conflict resolution
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