private

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
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.” 🙂

That guy is a conspiracy genius.  Listening to him talk is worse than nails on a chalkboard. Tras…[Read more]

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.”

🙂

Strega, that’s cool your prints are in orbit! Yeah, toasters are not my forte either. I did fix an old radio for a friend’s boss. The problem was so basic (broken power wire), I didn’t mention the issue and he got some free brownie points.

The list of non-religious candidates is just a list of members of the congressional ‘Freethought cacus’. It’s disapointing, has only one humanist and NO open atheists.
Still, they are all Democrats, NO Republicans. So I guess that’s good enough, for now.

The house is a little more promising with 7 open non-religious Democrats running against…[Read more]

@_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!

Unseen wrote:
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 s…

[Read more]

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]

Strega wrote:
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…

[Read more]

Strega that is a great description of pi.

I read a book about synesthesia. It is an interesting attribute. I can well imagine most people who have it see it as a gift. I was only jabbing free willers.

@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

If you have synesthesia in color association or otherwise and you are unhappy about that simply exercise your free will to eliminate the weirdness.

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.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Okay, I have changed my mind and I will pick the other half of the box 🙂

It certainly has a form that lends itself to folks who are naturally visual.

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 🙂