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Manual exposure, this one - with no conscious calculation; rather just "feeling" what would work. I'm rather pleased.
These gears pass some the energy provided by the operator turning a crank to the rear section of Tide Predicting Machine No. 2, a special purpose mechanical analog computer for predicting the height and time of high and low tides.
The U.S. government used Tide Predicting Machine No. 2 from 1910 to 1965 to predict tides for ports around the world. The machine, also known as “Old Brass Brains,” uses an intricate arrangement of gears, pulleys, chains, slides, and other mechanical components to perform the computations.
A person using the machine would require 2-3 days to compute a year’s tides at one location. A person performing the same calculations by hand would require hundreds of days to perform the work. The machine is 10.8 feet (3.3 m) long, 6.2 feet (1.9 m) high, and 2.0 feet (0.61 m) wide and weighs approximately 2,500 pounds (1134 kg). The operator powers the machine with a hand crank.
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Three photo shoots this week, at least one more this weekend, all new folks. Which is a big part of why I do this whole thing. And so far all these new people have been awesome, as you'll see.
I have a whole shitload of shots already scanned, but with Katie here, I'm posting out of order, because, well, she's smoking hot and I wanna leave all y'all who don't check Flickr on the weekend a nice image of gorgeousity (it's a word, NOW) to do your weekendery with.
Yes, I'm making up words left & right. I am amazing. Be jealous.
Next week, great photos, even better stories.
Oh, just a bit of story for ya, as I'm saving the lion's share for next week: Katie here is Rutabegabunny's cousin. I've gone from shooting friends, to stealing other people's friends to shoot to shooting Flickr friends to STEALING THEIR RELATIVES.
SEND ONE MILLION DOLLARS, RUTABEGABUNNY, OR YOU'LL NEVER SEE YOUR COUSIN AGAIN.
I KID. HALF A MILLION'S FINE.
Go out there this weekend and do something you'll regret in the morning.
What's folks' plans for the weekend?
And holy shit, it's PAYDAY.
That means you can totally afford to buy my book today. Do it fast, before you come to your senses.
(More musings from my dairy).
When my grandmother was a young woman, she met some young deaf men in Saint Kilda, Melbourne Australia. They drank beer and had a party. There may have been a board walk involved.
I try not to follow politics to much, you must do so many calculations to be involved in any real and meaningful beneficial way.
A couple of years ago senator Pine raised cutting back on university funding. I had relied on it to study computer aided biochemistry and saw red at the possible outcomes. I tempered my language and said that it would change the fabric of Australian society. The unedited version went along the lines, “l used to have a deaf friend, and she would probably be happy not to have heard that have heard that sh#t”
That might be close to saying l have black friends, but it is not.
She once wrote on a piece of paper, because my signing was so bad, that even if she could be cured of her deafness she didn’t want to be. She didn’t want to hear.
Sometimes l can’t blame her.
I once caught up with her and her brother at the Saint Kilda MacDonald’s, she was in an 80s tube dress. She had a smouldering hourglass figure and had Grecian hair that was wonderfully wild. If l had of been single and she asked me out, I would have worn a Santa hat and a present ribbon if that would have made her smile.
I brought her up in a conversation with a teller at the bank while doing a transaction. The teller was missing her hand. She was very pretty but too young for me, but l was always interested in what her story may be. l asked her one day what happened to her hand, I said l hope l am not being inappropriate. She said it was fine and that she was born that way, she said it was not very interesting, I said l doubt that. l replied, l once had a friend who was Greek, she could not hear from birth, and that I thought Aphrodite had cursed her, because she was jealous. I have never forgot her 80s tube dress. I was not flirting with the teller, she was at work and that would have been inappropriate, but it was a consideration of my friend from years earlier, and a principle that my grandmother had taught me.
At Uni we were discussing the Vietnam war at the time, and agent orange children came up in conversation. I considered if the teller was a consequence or a victim of that war, or possibly a victim of thalidomide . Her age kind of matched up to that of a Vietnam vets’ child. I was constantly being prompted to be political at university, and I was very annoyed at the political side stepping, done when abuses of feminism were raised. Applications of feminism that had in my opinion damaged the feminist movement. I had said multiple times, l need a little red book to be here. I couldn’t recite any political mantras. And years latter l still can’t.
So, l thought of doing something political. But not as prompted by other students. It is not that l didn’t have time for their cause, they had no time for me. The discussions we had on war produced a consideration of doing a piano performance.
We had discussed woman who wore red dresses and shaved their heads when they got married. I had no idea what it signified, and I told the class I always get stuff wrong. I thought that it could symbolize, red for blood, or the uterine lining that carries the baby when a woman is pregnant. But in the end l had no idea.
I had wanted to do a performance with the teller. I knew it would be profoundly affecting for her, if she was physically incapable of carrying a baby, dew to the effects of agent orange. But l wanted to remind everyone of the cost of war. A friend of mine affected me once, she went to Vietnam and volunteered in a children’s shelter for those suffering deformities from agent orange. It produced vivid visuals when she recounted the condition and conditions of the children. Innocent Victims of a war they were never involved in.
I considered something that others may see as radicle, l considered wearing a red strapless dress and playing piano while the teller stood there looking at me.
I had been lifting weights, had a shaved head, muscular thighs like a body builder and large arms. So, the dress might have looked comical, but my physic looked quite brutal. My body would have contrasted the gentleness that l can sometimes play a piano with. It was not to symbolize a supposed submission to her, as some in class had interpreted the wearing of the red dress and the shaved head. It was not intended to exploit her. It was to emphasise the fact that l had no children of my own. One way or another l had also been a victim of a war fought with chemistry, the result being that l would never have children.
Back to my grandmother, who also never had children. l had thought about it for years, what could have happened at that party at Saint Kilda, the one with the deaf young men. I concluded that the only regrettable thing that could have happened is that they never heard her. I had considered writing breath heavy, but it seemed inappropriate. Ironically, I am sure my grandmother was more than appropriate. She always said they were very nice young men. My grandmother isn’t around to berate me for it though. She had quite a presence, she used to wear trousers and walk into the workers, or men’s bar, if she felt like it, in an era when that would have been quite shocking. My grandmother was physically beautiful when she was younger, with a composure that never left her. Go Nan : )
The old slide-style fire escape on the side of the Merseyside Maritime Museum at the Albert Dock, Liverpool, England.
A bit of experimenting with the Photoshop "calculations" tool at work here. Plus some curves work and some brightness/contrast with selective masking.
1on1architecture group's PHOTOS OF THE WEEK [POW] 17/10/08
[[[NOTE: All of the calculations in this post, and the film samples that I shot to try to confirm them, are WRONG. For what I believe is the correct analysis, please refer to the later post at
www.flickr.com/photos/rick_oleson/54891332091]]]
(A little background: All of these lenses, made for the Contax rangefinder, will mount on the Nikon camera, but they do not focus correctly. The mount is identical, but, according to a study by Henry Scherer, the lensmount-to-film distance in the Nikon is 0.31mm shorter than in the Contax. This series is an effort to find a reasonably convenient and practical way to make Contax lenses perform acceptably on a Nikon.)
Here is the formula that I used for the correction, and the resulting distance number for each lens.
You can see that the approximation of the f/8 DOF mark is very close (as nearly as you can visually judge the scale) for the 85 and 135 but it is not quite in agreement on the 35mm and the 50mm scale on the camera body. (the 135 and the Nikon are marked in feet: 58.9M is 193 feet for the 135, 8.1M is about 27 feet for the 50)
On the lenses above, I've created an alternate focus index by setting the lens to the distance calculated above and making a small yellow dot at the point where infinity falls on the index ring (Since posting this photo, I've moved the yellow dot on the 35mm lens to correspond to the 4.0M result referenced above). This index mark will then serve for all distance settings with that lens, when used on the Nikon camera.
You can also see that scale focusing is not a razor-precise task, especially on the longer lenses where the distances are very close together on the scale and the DOF is shallow.
This all also assumes that Henry Scherer's investigation and my calculations are both correct. I think they're probably close enough for practical service to make occasional use of a mismatched lens with predictable results.
I will make a set of better controlled test exposures using all 4 focal lengths, and post the results when I have them - but that will take a while longer.
Photography- is a great concept of science, psychology, and calculations of math hiding behind the scenes. It all depends from what angle of view you are looking at it because perspective could shape your further opinion. When I was told that photography worked in terms of capturing light, I was fascinated and in my further experiment I've tried to find out if it was actually true.
Setting up my camera on “Slow Shutter Speed” mode for sixty seconds using tripod I've actually captured the waves of light. The funniest thing was that in order to actually capture the light I had to first turn off the light and work in the pretty dark environment. Time was a limit; creating top and bottom part while moving around a hand with a flashlight involved skills and precision. However, results turned out not bad.
106/365
The final shot in my 10 stop ND Filter experimentation. I like the results
of these, but i found the setup tedious, im not a big fan of tripods and
exposure calculations!
I may do some more in the future, perhaps next time a visit the coast
somewhere.
[100|100]
Hmm.. I've been thinking of what to write here.. for like AGES. Believe me. I had the whole thing planned out; how it would look, what I would talk about, whom I would thank, blah blah blah. But the thing with me is that.. I forget. :D
Gawsh.
A whole 100 Days are over.
When did I start this project? Wait, Lemme check.
Ahh.. 20th of September.
100 Days project ended on the 4th of January.
Wait, is that a full hundred days?
Gawh, I'm bad at math, so I'll leave that calculation to the Einsteins in here :)
What I've realized is that even though there are times when you just wanna throw away your camera just because you feel you're not good enough for it or because the pictures you take suck.. Doesn't mean you gotta give up. What's that everlasting saying about trying?
"Try and try until you succeed."
Well, I didn't so much as succeed as blow myself to death.
But I did learn, right.
There are so many things, ways, pictures that I have tried out, by just looking staring, at YOUR awesomeness!
1. I've tried light leaks. here and here and there are a couple more scattered around my stream.
2. Over exposed something and made it look presentable.
3. Tried Light Painting.
4. I've given a sort of "burnt" feeling to one.
5. Underwater feeling to another.
6. I've rotated a picture in a weird way.
7. Did a photoshoot on Friendship <3
8. Put text on a photo in a different dancy way.
9. I've had my friends turn into models and taken portraits of 'em.
10. Given that sorta "Aurora" look to one and total bokeh to another.
11. Tried out close up macro shots for the first time of droplets.
12. Gotten a Black&White photo with grain.
13. Taken a shot of an animal.. first time ever! :D
14. Gone bubbly
15. Ventured into the Fog.
16. I've been wacko with Sun flares <3.
17. I went on so many Roadtrips and looked at countless landscapes.
18. Done a total SOOC Push.
19. Taken a total horror and creeepy picture.
20. Played with Mirrors.
21. Held a Print Giveaway
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And so much more.
But most of all, I've met you Flickr-roos.
Dang you guys.
You have no idea how much you all have helped me over here. Yes, all of you.
You, you and YOU.
So much.
Seen me through thick and thin, and congratulated me on winning our Photography Contest.
And damn, just being there and showing your existence.
Flickr made me share so many other things other than just my photos. I've heard music from different parts and loved them, met challenges. But mostly, I've changed so much, as a person. I've made friends, gotten wacko flickr-mails. And even met people on Facebook and had humongously extraordinary chats with them! :D I've realized how I much I love taking photos of people. People laughing, crying, playing and even dancing! I've been in awe at the landscapes all around me. Tried out new things and liked some of them and thrown the others down the dumpster.
100 Days doesn't seem to be such a big thing and maybe thats because its a.. well, a Hundred Days. But I feel like I've accomplished something. Something that has taken me higher, given me a sort of, position in my life. It feels good to have known that I finished a 100 days, without stopping or just coming to a halt or something like that.
I could've started a 365 instead of the hundred days, but the problem was that I couldn't get a Pro account. So in the end, I had to settle for the 100 Days. Maybe in the future, maybe later, who knows when, I might just ask my dad to get me a pro account :]
Sigh.. I just re-read this description again and dang.. It feels.. awkward!
Meehhh..
Anyways, I wanted to thank my friend, Adeeti (I think I've mentioned her quite a lot now! :D) who risks everything for me. She sat on the edge of our terrace and basically dangled her feet in the mouth of death ( -___- ). No. Seriously! Gawd, I love that girl! <3
Oh oh oh oh and omg omg omg.
We went to Muscat yesterday. To the beach, to be more specific. And damn, I love the editing I've done to the pictures I captured here. OMG, I just wanna go crazy and upload all of them right now! Mehehe :D But that won't work, obv! You guys need some suspense to keep you hanging!! xDD
I love all of you, believe that. And I'm so thankful to be on Flickr and to have made friends with You guys. To have talked with you, checked you out (xDD), stared in awe at your pictures.
And someday, I hope to be as good as you <3
`Nikita. <3
Ps. Now that the 100 Days are over..
Shit. WHAT AM I GOINA DO NOW?!?!?!? o.O
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Although a bit slow, Brian's natural flare for the slide rule enabled him to perform calculations with a grace and elegance that were the envy of his fellow science classmates with their electronic calculators.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Back in the Day'.
No snails or slide rules were harmed in the making of this photograph.
Rangefinder camera for 35mm film , made in Japan , in the 1960s . With Selenium light meter (still responding) . Exposure calculation assistance on top , around the rewind knob .
Reddy is an amateur volcanologist. By his calculations, Mt. Rainier should blow during his lifetime. Reddy figures he will have about 5 seconds to capture the blast before pyroclastic rocks pepper him. Or, he may luck out and the explosion will result in lahars (slurry of mud and boulders), in which case, Reddy should get some pretty good footage. It really doesn't matter to Reddy as long as he witnesses something!
Gig Harbor, Washington 2017
Sometimes, I make some calculations about where and when I should be to see something special. The moment I am there, and it happens exactly as planned, gives me a wonderful thrill. In this case, it's a great emotion that pierces the world all the way through, to other side of the world...
Emozioni d'occidente
Qualche volta mi piace fare dei calcoli su dove e quando andare in un posto per vedere qualcosa di speciale. Nel momento in cui sono lì, e capita esattamente come previsto, provo un brivido profondo di soddisfazione. In questo caso, è un'emozione che trafigge il mondo da parte a parte, verso Ovest.
In 1975 MG produced an anniversary edition of the MGB GT . Unfortunately they were 2 years late in their calculations. This fine example was spotted in the main street of Ashover , Derbyshire.
A fag packet calculation suggests that Johnson Brothers and sister company Redfern Travel still have approaching 30 step entry deckers in service, with around a third of these being Scania N113s and the rest Leyland Olympians. On the first morning for a while when the weather actually felt like May, the immaculate former Kentish Bus Olympian G511SFT was captured as it climbed through Tibshelf whilst operating the 11 from Newton to West Nottinghamshire College in Mansfield. This vehicle, which will turn 32 in September, was the only one from its batch to join the Redfern fleet, though several similar vehicles of differing lineages continue to be operated.
" Big surprise.
Has a clear calculation of more than 30 came to Vancouver to visit! "
Already 5 years not yet back to Great Vancouver area!!
We have maintained very good safe distance. Want to continue to keep safe.
How and when will also allow them to feel safe to stay much longer.
However. Hunting season has still here! ugh..
Have a great day,week,time.........
Trent and Mersey Canal
Most canals had mileposts for the calculation of tolls. Originally The Trent & Mersey had basic stone posts. In 1818 the canal company decided they wanted something better. They commissioned these cast iron ones from a company called Rangeley & Dixon, who like the canal company were based in Stone, Staffordshire. They installed these posts in 1819. The 93 posts covered the 92 miles between Shardlow to Preston Brook.
The mileposts stood for 120 years until World War II. In 1940 because of the fear of German paratroopers landing, they along with other signs were removed to various safe places, and some it turned out not so safe.
Move forward in time to the 1970’s, when the Trent & Mersey Canal Society had been formed, it was decided then to track down and replace the mile markers. Following an extensive search most of the markers were found in all sorts of conditions, 33 of them were missing. A few were later found painted in different colours in people’s gardens, farmers fields, in the river etc etc, some were damaged beyond repair and had to be replaced.
To tackle the problem of the missing ones a canal society member from Stoke made a new pattern and core box, these are now on display at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port. The differences from the originals are the makers mark which reads T&MCS 1977 (Trent and Mersey Canals). The new ones are heavier than the originals. Most were cast at The Victoria Iron Works in Derby.
This is one of the original mile markers, obviously with a new paint job, but looking very smart and close the the Anderton Marina, also quite close to the edge of the canal which is inches away behind me.
Info from The Trent and Mersey Canal Society Milepost Campaign.
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"Now to what phenomenon did I give primary concern in designing the Tower? It was wind resistance. Well then! I hold that the curvature of the monument's four outer edges, which is as mathematical calculation dictated it should be (...) will give a great impression of strength and beauty, for it will reveal to the eyes of the observer the boldness of the design as a whole."
Gustave Eiffel
Half way between Paris and Bristol, sun is coming down. It's time to check if everythings is going normally about fuel consumption.
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Another mis-calculation. Caught flat footed without a flash unit. Arriving late at Charlottesville VA. A portion of a week and 13 train changes from St.Paul to Newark,NJ. Put together with Official Guide, my list was handed over to CB&Q Psgr Ticket Agent. Took 2 1/2 coupon books stapled together, including the return via NH,Boston and 20th Century segments and 3hrs time. Q had great service. Here after sunset stepping off this train from DC was a treat. On top of the E-Units was this torpedo F3-model. The only non-rail link was Charlottesville-Richmond via Trailways bus. The worst food I ever experienced travelling was at the Trailways depot here. Hot roast beef dinner. Well, not bad if you like beef with the consistency of pressed lard with a greenish hue and a glass of mashed potatoes. Did survive this to make my connection with the Silver Meteor to Newark. As cool as the RF&P E8's were, the lay you back in the seat acceleration behind the GG1 was without peer. As bad as it is, glad the event was captured.
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Several friends and I went to NV to view and photograph the Annular Solar Eclipse from the centerline.
After weeks of calculations to determine the best spot to be on the centerline, and be doable in a day we had a couple of choices and nailed down our final choice Sat. Thanks to Rico's, Phil's, and Andy's awesome calculations we were spot on the centerline.
As the afternoon wore on more photographers, and Eclipse viewers gathered around us to view the celestial show.
It was work for me. I don't own a motorized tracker so I had to manually track the sun, making adjustments every 1-2 minutes for the entire 2.5 hours of the Eclipse.
It was worth the effort, and a fun and challenging day.
Thanks Anne, Dali, Phil, Steven, Andy, and Rico for a great day!
This is the first time I've tried to work with so many layers! It's a bit uneven forgive me! I couldn't get my guides to work in my Photoshop workspace. I'm amazed I got this far really.
The left is the beginning of the Eclipse with the Ring of Fire in the Middle and the final phases of the transit on the right. Thank you for looking!
Nikon D300s| Nikkor 80-200mm + Tamron 1.4x TC| Manual Priority| Tripod| various shutter speeds ranging from 1/1000s ,1/500s, 1/250s, and 1/125s| ISO 400| f11|Orion Solar Filter
Millenium bridge, south bank. Shot on film using a Olympus Mju ii with Fujicolour film converted to mono using Photoshop 'Calculations'.
Although the female was in perfect position to make the catch, the horizontal flight of the starling threw of her calculations. This frame shows how quick and acrobatic peregrines are, as she tries to adapt to the changing dynmaics.
A quantity introduced in the first place to facilitate the calculation, and to give clear expressions to the results of thermodynamics. Changes of entropy can be calculated only for a reversible process, and may then be defined as the ratio of the amount of heat taken up to the absolute temperature at which the heat is absorbed. Entropy changes for actual irreversible processes are calculated by postulating equivalent theoretical reversible changes. The entropy of a system is a measure of its degree of disorder. The total entropy of any isolated system can never decrease in any change; it must either increase (irreversible process) or remain constant (reversible process). The total entropy of the Universe therefore is increasing, tending towards a maximum, corresponding to complete disorder of the particles in it (assuming that it may be regarded as an isolated system.) (Pamela Zoline)
臺灣首廟天壇 - 一字匾 / 千算萬算不如天之一畫
Tian Tan,Tian Gong Temple - One word tablet / Thousands of calculations are not as good as the ones of the god
Tian Tan, Templo de Tian Gong - Tableta de una palabra / Miles de cálculos no son tan buenos como los del dios
台湾の第一廟の天壇 - 1字の額 / 千は万が計算して日の中の一つの絵に及ばないをの計算します
Tian Tan, Tian Gong Tempel - Ein Wort Tablette / Tausende von Berechnungen sind nicht so gut wie die des Gottes
Tian Tan, temple Tian Gong - Tablette à un mot / Des milliers de calculs ne sont pas aussi bons que ceux du dieu
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
管樂小集 2017/07/01 台南孔子廟 Confucian temple Tainan performances 1080P
{View large size on fluidr / 觀看大圖}
{My Blog / 管樂小集精彩演出-觸動你的心}
{My Blog / Great Music The splendid performance touches your heart}
{My Blog / 管楽小集すばらしい公演-はあなたの心を心を打ちます}
{Mi blog / La gran música el funcionamiento espléndido toca su corazón}
{Mein Blog / Große Musik die herrliche Leistung berührt Ihr Herz}
{Mon blog / La grande musique l'exécution splendide touche votre coeur}
Melody 曲:JAPAN / Words 詞:Sheesen / Singing : Sheesen
{ 夢旅人 1990 Dream Traveler 1990 }
家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
©JoyGerow
Year after year we who have the privilege of seeing the beauty that autumn brings also can hear the symphony.
Some texture by flickr.com/photos/liek/sets/72157604633907740/
Brushes by Obsidian Dawn
If you were born on February 29, 1924 you would be 100 years old today.
BUT you would be only 25 years old in LEAP DAY YEARS!
photo rights reserved by Ben
The Ekolari Market in Stepantsminda, Georgia, is a small, local shop where locals and travelers can buy groceries and traditional Georgian products. In an increasingly digital world, one thing stands out: the woman at the cash register still uses an abacus to calculate amounts. This adds a nostalgic and authentic touch to the shopping experience and reflects how some traditional methods are still used in remote areas. Such markets play an important role in the community, not only as a place of trade but also as a social meeting place. Local products such as fresh bread, cheese, honey and herbs can often be found here, along with basic necessities for daily life.
An abacus, also known as a counting frame, is one of the oldest calculating tools in the world. It consists of rows of beads that can be moved along rods to perform addition, subtraction, and even multiplication and division. While it has been largely replaced by digital calculators and computers in many parts of the world, it is still used in some regions, especially in small markets, traditional shops, and by older generations who grew up using it. In countries like Georgia, Russia, and China, the use of an abacus is still occasionally seen, particularly among small traders who find it faster and more reliable than an electronic cash register. It requires skill and practice, and experienced users can calculate incredibly fast. The fact that a woman in the Ekolari Market in Stepantsminda still uses an abacus offers a charming glimpse into how traditional methods continue to play a role in daily life, even in an increasingly digital world.
De Ekolari Market in Stepantsminda, Georgië, is een kleine, lokale winkel waar inwoners en reizigers terecht kunnen voor dagelijkse boodschappen en traditionele Georgische producten. In een wereld die steeds digitaler wordt, valt hier iets bijzonders op: de vrouw bij de kassa gebruikt nog een telraam om bedragen te berekenen. Dit geeft een nostalgisch en authentiek tintje aan de winkelervaring en weerspiegelt hoe sommige traditionele methoden in afgelegen gebieden nog steeds worden gebruikt. Dergelijke markten spelen een belangrijke rol in de gemeenschap, niet alleen als handelsplek maar ook als sociale ontmoetingsplaats. Lokale producten zoals vers brood, kaas, honing en kruiden zijn hier vaak te vinden, samen met basisbenodigdheden voor het dagelijks leven.
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
~ Dr. Emmett Brown
Back From the Shadows Again:
BTTF Delorean shot at the Hollywood Car Museum Las Vegas:
These two GJs were captured by the Gemini Observatory cloudcam on July 24, 2017. The reference stars I used for the calculations are circled. The code I used for the calculations was sent to me by Jozsef Bor.
This view looks at one end of a trial portion of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1, which is one of the earliest automatic calculators and a celebrated icon in the pre-history of the computer.
Charles Babbage was a brilliant thinker and mathematician who devised the Difference Engine to automate the production of error-free mathematical tables. In 1823 he secured £1,500 from the British government and employed an engineer to construct the device. However, the project collapsed in 1833 when the engineer left the project.
By that time the government had spent £17,000 on the project, the equivalent then of the cost of two major warships. Recent research has shown that the engineer's work was adequate to create a functioning machine and that the project actually collapsed because of economics, politics, Babbage's temperament and his style of directing the enterprise.
After the attempt at making the first difference engine fell through, Babbage worked to design a more complex machine called the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine marks the transition from mechanised arithmetic to fully-fledged general-purpose computation. It is largely on it that Babbage's standing as computer pioneer rests.
Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815-27 November 1852)) was the first to recognise that the Analytical Engine had applications beyond pure calculation, and published the first algorithm (to calculate Bernoulli numbers) intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of a "computing machine" and the first computer programmer.
Seen in the Science Museum, London.
According to scientific calculations and assumptions, Stone Wedding started forming 40 million years ago. At that time the territory of Eastern Rhodopes today was located at the bottom of the warm, shallow sea. There the relief continuously changed under the influence of active volcanic activity.
The name, Stone Wedding is given for several rock formations in which a good imagination can be assimilated. On the natural wonder of the Stone Wedding there is a beautiful legend, which tells of an unhappy love affair.
The story tells of a young man who loved a girl from a neighboring village. He was enchanted by her lovely eyes that were blue as the sky.......
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Copyright © 2011 Slavina Bahchevanova
"Let your beauty manifest itself/ without talking and calculation./ You are silent. It says for you: I am./ And comes in meaning thousandfold,/ comes at long last over everyone." ~Rilke
Yesterday Frank opened three-double-yolked eggs in row. What are the odds?
I don't know. I dropped college statistics because my beret-wearing professor at Northwestern decided he'd raise the learning curve by requiring that we all use slide rules to do all calculations. Yes, it was the 70s, but electronic calculators suitable for statistics had been around for a while. What a jerk.
What are the odds that I'd discover an online article about the odds of getting three twin-yolked eggs in a row? Let's stipulate they're incalculable and move on to the story.
Six Yolks from Three Eggs: What Are the Odds of That?
Making breakfast one recent morning, a colleague cracked an egg and BOOM! A double yolk came out. He cracked another. SHAZAM! And a third, BOOYAH!
Three double yolks in a row, what are the odds of that?
It turns out, that number is easy to calculate: In general, one out of every thousand eggs is a double, which would calculate the odds at 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000, or one in a billion. Before we all went out and splurged on a pack of scratch tickets, however, we delved a little deeper.
It turns out that doubles turn out more frequently among young hens than older birds, and that flocks of hens tend to be the same age. The chance of a young hen laying a double-yolked egg are roughly 1:30. So, three in a row would calculate the odds at one in 27,000.
So which is, one in a billion or one in 27,000? You can see how, if this were a business case, whichever assumption is in error could have enormous implications on your financial modeling, response rate forecasts or whatever you are trying to predict.
On reflection, both of these calculations seem to me to be erroneous. If, in general, one gets a double every 1,000, then it strikes me the odds of the first egg being a double is 1:1000. Once you get one, assuming the "all eggs in the carton came from a flock of young hens" rule, the chances of a second would be 1:30 and the third would be another 1:30. So, our best guess of the odds of getting three in a row are 1,000 x 30 x 30, which is one in 900,000.
Why is this important? Because probability, statistics and math are hugely important to so many of our business processes. And more often than you might think, folks distort the assumptions that go into statistical modeling for a wide range of reasons, be they political, emotional, or to align conclusions with an expectation of the outcome.
Science and math by their nature seem factual, to be taken at face value. We need to remember that most scientific modeling comes with built-in assumptions, and these must also be factual or the whole conclusion can be suspect.
In this small example, we might have pointed to the 1:1,000,000,000 odds to make the point that something truly extraordinary had just happened.
Our friendly competitor might want to tear us down a notch and challenge our assumptions, coming up with the 1:27,000 number.
Yet, a balanced calculation results in a more nuanced conclusion, with the most accurate prediction of the likelihood of a six-yolk breakfast from the crack of three eggs being somewhere just short a million to one.
If you want to challenge an argument, find the assumptions that are used to justify it and delve a little deeper. You'll be surprised at what you might find, and how your predictors might become more accurate.
Update: The next morning, he cracked three morning and got three more doubles! Now that's extraordinary!
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Note: This calculation is incorrect. Frank was using jumbo eggs, and experience suggests the likelihood of finding a double yolk is 1:15. If we use the formula the author used above, the odds are 1:225,000.
According the first calculations before 2007 the building should cost about 77 million €. By 2013 the cost for the taxpayer amounted to 789 million €. The project should have been finshed years ago, but it still is under construction.
"Did I ever tell you about the time I stumbled on a pre-colonization Life ship? If you want to hear it then you're buying the next round of drinks. Okay, so me and Gerrick and the old gang are drug running in the Far Rim (you know that fuck-off lawless shitehole in the outer galaxy?) and we're avoiding all the main trade routes in case we get picked up by rival privateers or worse - ITO. Anyway, we staying way off the beaten track and suddenly our scanners reveal this object in our way. The boys reckon it's just a destroyed fuel depot or something but we disengage from Warp Drive to check it out just in case. As we pull up in front of it, two things click in my mind. First of all, this fucking thing was big. Not as big as a destroyer or Dreadnought but certainly larger than your average run-of-the-mill space junk. Secondly, it has all these strange acronyms and markings on it like "NASA-CNSA". That's when we knew it was old-ass tech. We boarded it to find out more.
And that's where things got real creepy. Through the airlock was, like, this long corridor. It went on into the dark in either direction because only a few of the lights actually worked. I take Allers, Johanne and Crazy Dave down the left hand corridor; Gerrick takes the others down the right. As we walk, our torches keep passing over these tube-like machines. Sort of like cryostasis pods but more crude. So far they've all been empty or misted up or whatever but as we reach this one pod, I can make out a shape in it. We get near to it and what we see makes me totally freak the fuck out. A human corpse. Like, not a skeleton. Just a partially decayed body. Now, I've seen some shit during my time with the Red Fists but nothing this... eerie. The poor bastard is still in his space suit. And the thing looks brand new, not a trace of damage anywhere. On the chest it had "NASA" printed in large text, and underneath:
"Life Ship Geneva - Mission Commander".
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In case you don't know, the Wait Calculation is the idea that "continued growth will inhibit setting out for the stars because travelers expect to be overtaken by later travelers who have faster speeds at their disposal".
With the fuel problem resolved, Soundwave found that he could take the necessary time to focus on his other tasks. He was surprised to discover that his super computer would soon, relatively speaking, solve its wormhole-travel equation. The computer actually made the necessary calculations before Soundwave had cracked the code to his upgraded body, a fact that both pleased and frustrated the Decepticon at the same time. This forced Soundwave to shift priorities, for his super-computer was programmed to initiate the wormhole protocol as soon as the equation had been resolved. Soundwave's new body would have to wait.
The journey through the wormholes came at a higher energon expense that Soundwave had expected. This high fuel expense led to further frustration felt by the Decepticon Communicator as he regularly had to stop his ship as it exited a wormhole. Time after time, Soundwave would exit the wormhole, then exit the ship and transform to his satellite alternate mode to refuel. These frequent stops were cause for alarm due to the nature of the travel. At each stop, Soundwave was extremely cautious, scanning nearby space for signs of the Vok or worse, signs of the last of the Time Lords. Soundwave did not consider travelling through wormholes to be a method of time-travel per-say, it was merely a shortcut between two points in space. However, Soundwave was not feeling completely confident with his own appraisal of the method of his travels and felt the need to ere on the side of caution.
After a considerably longer period of time and a good deal more effort than he had expected, Soundwave eventually arrived at his destination: Cybertron. After exiting the final wormhole of his journey, Soundwave intentionally came to rest beyond the reach detection from the Cybertron's early warning systems. It was here that Soundwave chose to wait, to analyze data gathered from his sensors on the activities from Cybertron's surface and to continue work on the construction of his upgraded body. To further ensure that his vessel was not detected, Soundwave initiated his ship's stealth protocol, a function lifted directly from the schematics of his own comrade, the Decepticon Saboteur, Ravage.