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I have no comprehension of the problem they're using the number for, I guess it's complicated if they've taken decades to move the lower bound from 6 to 13.
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Sharkie posted:(with a dash of misogyny thrown in - the female nurses are "smiling zombies," You are extremely sexist for assuming that the nurses were female. Do the SJW thing somewhere else. For content: The disappearance of Kyron Horman. If you lived in the Portland Metro Area in 2010, you are probably sick as gently caress about hearing about it, but it's an interesting example of the court of popular opinion. Ask anyone from Portland if they think Terri Horman killed her stepson, they'll almost invariably say yes, but there has never been any evidence that made the charges stick. Then, the Horman's landscaper went to the police claiming that Terri tried to offer him money to kill her husband, but when the police put a wire on him and tried to get her to repeat it, they couldn't get any hard evidence. The thing that freaks me out about this whole thing is how quickly people assign guilt to someone who hasn't even been formally charged with anything. Also, you still see his missing posters up around town every now and then. His cheesy kid smile kinda freaks me out in its own right.
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Popelmon posted:I read the Wikipedia articles before I read your post and they really broke my brain. That number is just so loving huge. But it's also really cool that there are actually algorithms that spit out the last numbers of Graham's number. Here's something really mind blowing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREE(3) Wikipedia posted:The TREE sequence begins TREE(1) = 1, TREE(2) = 3, then suddenly TREE(3) explodes to a value so enormously large that many other "large" combinatorial constants, such as Friedman's n(4),[*] are extremely small by comparison. A lower bound for n(4), and hence an extremely weak lower bound for TREE(3), is A(A(...A(1)...)), where the number of As is A(187196), and A() is a version of Ackermann's function: A(x) = 2↑x-1x in Knuth's up-arrow notation. Graham's number, for example, is approximately A64(4) which is much smaller than the lower bound AA(187196)(1).
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Math uses incomprehensible things all the time. Just try to imagine infinity, yet it's an integral (heh) part of pretty much everything you can do with calculus.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Math is incomprehensible. There ya go. Seriously, that post Lehrer made before yours doesn't blow my mind because of whatever the hell it says in that quote he put, it blows my mind because I don't know what the gently caress for 99% of the words in that quote.
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Jun 21, 2013 13:48
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Math uses incomprehensible things all the time. Just try to imagine infinity, yet it's an integral (heh) part of pretty much everything you can do with calculus. I could never wrap my head around math, I barely passed College Algebra. Just use your drat imaginary incomprehensible numbers and letters and make Internet go faster and my phone do cool stuff and I'm happy.
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Jun 21, 2013 13:56
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Clocks_by_time Unnerving due to the shear mind-numbing levels of autism that must have gone into categorizing these pictures.
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Cordyceps Headache posted:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Clocks_by_time Nah, that's pretty normal autism. If you're bored enough, sorting things properly can be fun simply because it lets you focus on something. It's probably just some sperg whose job blocks most sites but not Wikipedia.
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Radio Help posted:You are extremely sexist for assuming that the nurses were female. Do the SJW thing somewhere else. I think kids just disappearing like that is like The Worst Thing. Even moreso than when they are found murdered later, the fact that they're just gone and there probably won't ever be any answers just eats at you. Its the kind of thing that can seriously ruin my day, I have to just put it out of my mind completely. The step-mother in this one though is a tough nut to crack. Her behavior on the day of the disappearance seems totally normal, and the majority of it appears to be documented, not just what she says she was doing. But she was also the last one to see the kid and as his step-mom he would have gone with her totally willingly so there would have been no loud scene to witness or anything. Then theres the whole thing with her landscaper claiming she later tried to have her husband killed, so I really don't know what the hell to think.
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Basebf555 posted:I think kids just disappearing like that is like The Worst Thing. Even moreso than when they are found murdered later, the fact that they're just gone and there probably won't ever be any answers just eats at you. Its the kind of thing that can seriously ruin my day, I have to just put it out of my mind completely. Actually, a lot of them do turn up later. If you look at the resolved cases at any missing-person site, a lot of the kids you see on milkboxes turn out to be runaways or to have been kidnapped by a non-custodial parent. "Somebody kidnaps and murders a child" is a very unusual case.
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A ton of them in my local area are just kids who were out past some curfew and their parents panicked and called the po-po.
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Cordyceps Headache posted:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Clocks_by_time Yeah go ahead and crosspost this in the "most worthless wikipedia stuff" thread in YOSPOS. Though to be completely fair somebody actualy did a thing like that and made it not autistic: http://kotaku.com/5987695/a-24+hour-movie-made-of-24-hours-worth-of-movie-clocks
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abraxas posted:There ya go. Seriously, that post Lehrer made before yours doesn't blow my mind because of whatever the hell it says in that quote he put, it blows my mind because I don't know what the gently caress for 99% of the words in that quote. Okay good, that wasn't just me. I seriously don't understand anything in that post.
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TheModernAmerican posted:Graham's number was the original upper bound to the solution of a problem, it wasn't ever published because Graham found an upper bound smaller while working on the problem (that number also has more digits than particles in the universe). It's interesting because it's the largest number ever used in a genuine proof, and not a googolplex-esque arbitrarily large number. Yes, but is it Numberwang?
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Arschlochkind posted:Yes, but is it Numberwang? This right here is some fantastic levity to this thread. In addition, I love reading about the Chicago Outfit and other active mob groups. The fact that we know, as the public, so much of their structure and crimes, yet many of them roam free freaks me out. If anyone has a link explaining how they remain active, I'd be grateful. Hell, I'd buy multiple books if they're worth it.
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Kaizoku posted:This right here is some fantastic levity to this thread.  mob group or roller derby team, could be either one.
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So, uh, I have been running a lot lately and have been dealing with calluses. While searching for ways to treat them, I came across this.  I am so sorry. Here's something to cleanse your palette.
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What the hell kind of weirdo would prefer underhand? It makes it impossible to get any. All the reasons provided on the page are ways of compromising in special circumstances. I guess it's true that everyone has strong feelings about this issue.
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Jack Gladney posted:What the hell kind of weirdo would prefer underhand? It makes it impossible to get any. All the reasons provided on the page are ways of compromising in special circumstances. I freely admit to being one of those weirdos who changes people's toilet roll orientation if they've done it wrong (underhand). loving do it right.
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Guys, don`t start that stupid rear end derail here. It always end in a five page argument.
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FrozenVent posted:Guys, don`t start that stupid rear end derail here. It always end in a five page argument. I am actually pretty unnerved that I care so much about something that I realize must, objectively speaking, be incredibly stupid. Here's something kind of unnerving, though: promotion for a low-rent horror film created a persistent supernatural urban legend http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/blackeyed.asp I guess I get weirded out by the power advertising has, and the degree to which it can manipulate individual people and the entire culture. And here it's escaped the intentions of its creators and now runs wild through the imaginations of the gullible. The reverse doesn't bother me at all, though, like how Slenderman is now getting turned into video games and movies. I guess that feels more like the natural evolution of folklore.
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I'm inclined to agree. As much as I'd enjoy a debate on TP orientation, yeah--let's just not do that in here. Let me see if I can find something soul-shattering to make give this post a little more meat. Have we actually discussed the Ariel Castro thing that went down a few months ago? If not, that's an idea.
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FrozenVent posted:Guys, don`t start that stupid rear end derail here. It always end in a five page argument. That, and it's really not creepy or unnerving, so it doesn't fit in here anyways. If you happen to find toilet paper roll orientation "unnerving" or "scary", you need therapy.
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Jack Gladney posted:I am actually pretty unnerved that I care so much about something that I realize must, objectively speaking, be incredibly stupid. I'm confused by snopes claiming it's for the film since Brian Bethel apparently posted about BEKs in 1998, hell heres a reference to the myth on snopes forum from '05. http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=43;t=001003;p=0
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jalopybrown posted:I'm confused by snopes claiming it's for the film since Brian Bethel apparently posted about BEKs in 1998, hell heres a reference to the myth on snopes forum from '05. http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=43;t=001003;p=0 Yeah, I've heard about that urban legend for years and years now. Usually in the same context as MiB sightings.
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jalopybrown posted:I'm confused by snopes claiming it's for the film since Brian Bethel apparently posted about BEKs in 1998, hell heres a reference to the myth on snopes forum from '05. http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=43;t=001003;p=0 They don't claim that the film made it up, just that it sparked a renewed interest in it. They even quote the filmmakers talking about how the legend has been around for a while.
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:They don't claim that the film made it up, just that it sparked a renewed interest in it. They even quote the filmmakers talking about how the legend has been around for a while. Back in my day  Snopes used to try and find the origin so as to better disprove not just grab the most obvious.
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Speaking of movies that turned into urban legends: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Pig_(film_series) Every now and then some college kids gets ahold of it and is certain he's found the world's first snuff film. Instead its just a very cheap and very convincing fake. Charlie Sheen was fooled once too and went so far as to call the FBI. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation. Edit: Fixed link so it doesn't go to 'guinea pig' the awesome ball of fur. into the void has a new favorite as of 01:20 on Jun 23, 2013 |
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Elim Garak posted:From the Kelly Ann Bates wiki: A couple pages back, but I have no idea how some people who have to sift through that kind of stuff day after day for big trials manage to cope afterward. If I recall correctly one of the officers involved with David Parker Ray's trial evidence ended up committing suicide afterward. I'm honestly surprised you don't hear about more of the same, because even reading descriptions of some of this stuff is just sickening. I don't know what I would do if I had to look at pictures of it, or god forbid be one of the crime scene investigators. Dunno if this has been contributed yet, and it's not exactly scary (maybe a bit unnerving though it's obviously just coincidence): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parker_%28shipwrecked%29 I'm not sure how common of a name that was, but the fact that some poor dude literally lived out the plot of an Edgar Allen Poe story is pretty weird. Seemed to be a pretty unlucky name for sailors in general. I was pretty surprised to see that name pop up again in Life of Pi.
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Alternative pants posted:Yeah, for more Late, but this made me tear up in happiness. So glad she went on to live a good life and have her own family.  No Wikipedia article unfortunately, but this news story about a woman refusing to leave her car even after it caught fire gave me nightmares after I first read it. quote:Nicholas Willmore told the inquest he was working in his workshop at Cottage Farm Antiques when his mother alerted him to what was happening in the road outside. The article says she had bipolar disorder and that affected her decision making capabilities and my god, the thought of just sitting there, allowing yourself to burn to death and actively encouraging the flames with no attempts to escape is just terrifying for me to try and comprehend.
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This thread also reminded me, and I guess this is a good a place as any to ask- Does anyone happen to know the source of a photo that shows a bunch of drowned bodies being towed through the water? I can't remember if it was from a sinking ship or something else, but as I recall it was a color photograph, possibly associated with Vietnam, and for some reason the bodies were being carried back to shore in, I think, a giant net. From what I remember they'd been in the water long enough to turn very white. The details are a bit fuzzy because it's something I saw as a pretty young kid and it freaked me out, but I can't find a reference to this anywhere and I'm starting to wonder if I'm just very poorly recalling something or if my brain just made it up entirely. It's an image that's stuck with me for a long time so whether it's real or not, I guess it's pretty unnerving. There's a scene in the movie Across the Universe where a bunch of naked people painted white fall into the ocean and just kind of float there, and it brought the memory back to me. It made me wonder if the film was directly referencing a real life event (since the Vietnam war is a big part of the film and I recall the photo dealing with that) or if it was just a coincidence. I dunno, I probably just sound crazy but it's been bugging me recently so I wanted to see if there was some faint chance that someone knew what I was talking about.
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Honey Badger posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parker_%28shipwrecked%29 About that, I did a pretty huge essay on Life of Pi, and if I remember right, the name Richard Parker was chosen specifically because of this association.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires This heatwave and 400 or so fires associated with it always unnerved me, especially since most of the fatalities happened on the same day. quote:The Black Saturday bushfires[7] were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009. The fires occurred during extreme bushfire-weather conditions and resulted in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire;[8] 173 people died[5][9] and 414 were injured as a result of the fires.  quote:Wednesday, 28 January 2009 quote:5:00 pm – wind direction changed from northwesterly to southwesterly in Melbourne (see Fawkner Beacon Wind chart for 7 February 2009). quote:Wednesday, 4 March This is the worst part I think. The fire front was pretty fast (possibly too fast to evacuate from) and I guess 113 people thought their safest bet was to seek refuge in their houses. quote:Location of deaths: And here's a plume of smoke blowing all the way to New Zealand:  Edit: grammar police. Vladimir Poutine has a new favorite as of 15:17 on Jun 23, 2013 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires I was in the Melbourne CBD all day that day and it was one of the most bizarre days I've ever experienced. By 9am the temperature was already up to 35 celsius and when it got up to 47 at 4pm or so, it felt like being continuously bathed in bus exhaust. By 10pm the temperature dropped to 23. The creepiest thing that day was that the sky was the oddest color I'd ever seen. It wasn't just gray, but almost silvery. It's pretty awful to think about what kinds of particles were in the muddy rain that fell that evening.
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Shnicker posted:I was in the Melbourne CBD all day that day and it was one of the most bizarre days I've ever experienced. By 9am the temperature was already up to 35 celsius and when it got up to 47 at 4pm or so, it felt like being continuously bathed in bus exhaust. By 10pm the temperature dropped to 23.  I was in Adelaide during that heatwave and there was a bit of a weird vibe because there were leaves all over the road and paths like it was autumn/fall. Except it was the middle of summer, and there were leaves everywhere because the hot weather had killed every goddamn tree in my neighbourhood. Also, I think this is the most  picture of them all:
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Also, I think this is the most  This is real - part of an art project that celebrates the restoration of the Emscher river, which used to be one of the worst-polluted rivers in the Ruhrgebiet. e: grammar
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I got married on Black Saturday in Central Gippsland. Suffice to say it was not a great day for a wedding. 40+ degrees in a small chapel with no air conditioning, we obviously kept the ceremony very short. Several guests couldn't make it due to road closures and/or their houses being under threat of fire. Also, due to a hilarious(?) miscommunication, one of my good friends spent most of the reception believing his house was gone, only to find out afterwards that it was totally fine. Not a great date for an anniversary, but it made for some gnarly wedding photos.   Edit: Grammar tnimark has a new favorite as of 23:36 on Jun 23, 2013 |
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Pick posted:Holy poo poo, that's Yeah, it sort of looks like something out of a horror movie. Blacked out faces don't help either. Still, those are pretty awesome wedding photos, and they're definitely pretty unique.
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