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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Making Turtle pictures with Numbers made from Numbers

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The post Random Walks with Number Digits looked at pictures made from the digits of numbers. Go through each digit in turn. If it is 0 ta...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Random Walks with Number Digits

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Say you took each digit of a number and used that to decide which direction to take a step. What path would you follow? Similar to last pos...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Pi Digits High Low Game

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Suppose you take a long number and for each digit if it is bigger then the previous one increase a counter by one. If it is less then the pr...
Friday, April 07, 2017

Your child will live in your car parking space

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When autonomous cars become mainstream what will happen to our parking spaces? Most experts think car ownership will become rare when auton...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

Will Automation Related Job Losses Increase?

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" The consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCooper is predicting that the U.K. will lose 30 percent of its jobs to automation in the next 15...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

The smallest tool we use

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What is the smallest individual object most people handle most days? I think it probably used to be a match. But people do not use them as ...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Elvis and Vaccines

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‘I want to remain apolitical because I don’t think it’s right for me to use my celebrity and fame to persuade other people' Elvis quoted...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Measures for a successful Trump

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What falsifiable metric could be used to say Trump was successful by his own and by Republican aims? Things he claims 1. Better healthca...

Immigration and Birthrate

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"Let’s talk about the link between immigration and low reproduction rates" This is a really weird article. It talks about how be...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Brexit 12 objectives

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These are the 12 objectives for Britain’s Brexit negotiations, as set out in prime minister Theresa May Issues Brexiters really care abou...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Irish Election Spending 2016

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In the Irish election 2016 who paid the most for each vote and for each seat? 8394832.89 total spending (report here) Electorate: 3305110 ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

The Name of the Youngest Ever Modern Olympics Gold Medal Winner is Unknown

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In the 1900 Olympics the Dutch rowing team were short a cox. They used a rower in the semifinal, Hermanus Brockmann, but decided his 60kg w...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Dying at Work in the US

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Dataset from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, OHSA , track workplace fatalities in the US. They have CSVs records of the...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Handpicked by amazon

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Whenever I check some product on Amazon for the next few days I get the product in the advertisements on Facebook Handpicked? Why would...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Can you Judge a Book by its Cover?

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"they've all got the same covers, and I thought they were all o' one sample, as you may say. But it seems one mustn't judge...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Maps to hide places

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Logaskino was a military base in Siberia. Over 30 years Soviet mapmakers moved it around maps to throw off enemies "How to lie wi...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

England's Temperature in 2015

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Nine days in 2015 were the hottest for that day of the year since 1772. This compares to three in 2014 , though 2014 had a hotter average te...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

In 2100 there will be a kilometer tall building

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I was in the Burj Khalifa last week. It is very big. But when will some bigger building be built? I want to look at the building height tre...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Is Netflix making us smarter?

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Vox has an article that mentions the artistic benefits of on demand TV viewing The first factor was the rise of the DVR, which has made it...
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Tiny Bits of Land People Fight Over #1 Rockall

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People will fight over any bit of land. "Rockall is about 25 metres (80 ft) wide and 31 metres (100 ft) long at its base[24] and rise...
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