Tag: rant
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Mathematical Nihilism
Lets say you have a bowl filled with 100 rocks. 1 is painted red, 1 is painted green, and 98 of the rocks are unpainted. What percentage of the rocks in the bowl are painted? This is a fairly standard math problem for teaching percentages – and the answer of course is 2%. Conversely, if…
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Drones
For the past Month or so, there has been excited/panicked talk about Drone sightings in New Jersey and surrounding states in the North-eastern portion of the USA. I live in a completely different part of the country but I’ve caught my co-workers talking about it and debating how serious it is and “who could be…
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Sky Isn’t Blue
Have you ever actually bothered to look up at the sky? More than 50% of the time in any given location – some more than others – it is NOT blue! Even when it is partly/mostly blue there are generally other colours up there! And even when it IS entirely blue, on a perfectly cloudless,…
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Follow-Up on Lies
My semi-recent post on compulsive liars wasn’t my best writing, went off the rails, and was kind of a rambling mess. This one probably won’t be much better, but meh. Maybe we’ll manage to stay a little more on topic here at least, we’ll see. Anyway as you may have guessed the previous post was…