Gregg R Thomas

In The Washington Post, Amanda Katz noted that Kennedy had terminated his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, “ending a dilemma for voters torn between their love of deportation camps and their love of measles.”

🙂

@_Robert_
I lived (in sin, haha) with an electronic engineer in the early 80’s.

There are two memorable elements of this story

1. He had one contract building circuit boards that would used in a satellite by the Ministry of Defence in the UK. I had to sign the Official Secrets Act in case he talked in his sleep. Anyway there was a time p…[Read more]

Thanks Strega, have a colorful day 🙂

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week!

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

–Jidda Krishnamurti

Here’s another weird number from mathematics. It’s called “i” (the letter between h and j in the standard alphabet). I wasn’t absolutely sure mathematicians consider it a number, so I asked the Gemini AI “is i considered to be a number in mathematics?” and got this reply:

Yes, i is considered a number in mathematics.

While it might seem unusual…[Read more]

@unseen Pi is like a long Chinese dragon. The three is a lead strong red. The 1 is white but then 4 green and 2 yellow. Effectively colours tailing off into the distance.

@Jake I like the weirdness.  I met someone who has sound synesthesia and listens to music whilst she watches colours dance.

It’s a fun oddity

Strega wrote:
For me, numbers and letters all carry specific colours, shades and textures. Z is dark blue and velvety. No idea why, but it is.

If I give you the number Pi, what color comes to mind?

I have colour synesthesia :).
Something like 40% of people have it in a small way.

If you’d like to check whether you are in that 40%, ask yourself “What colour is Wednesday?”

You will either have no idea what this question even means, or you will have a specific colour that comes to mind. The latter are those with at least a touch of colou…[Read more]

I knew someone who claimed to have synesthesia but I think it was just a pigment of their imagination.

Simon Paynton wrote:
It looks hard. Does it have any practical applications?

I seem to remember something related to the Riemann hypothesis.

Okay, I have changed my mind and I will pick the other half of the box 🙂

@_Robert_  The system is really “out of the box” thinking. Or in the box. Well, let’s just use half a box.

If I was doing some acid I would have trouble deciding which half of the box to use 🙂

It looks hard.  Does it have any practical applications?

Unseen wrote:
However, when I stumbled onto Laws of Form, it blew my mind.

Why did it blow your mind?  I’ve heard it said it’s like an LSD trip for mathematicians.