Stanford mathematicians have discovered a new property of prime numbers. Admittedly, without proof, but they tested it across 400 billion examples. It turns out that the odds of a prime number ending in 9 being followed by a number ending in 1 are 65% higher than the odds of it being followed by another number ending in 9.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy/
Landscapes in “The Garden of Words” and reality. Illustrations by Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters per Second, Beyond the Clouds, The Garden of Lost Voices).
In Shinkai’s anime, the landscapes are meticulously drawn, against which the actors are deliberately depicted simply. Interestingly, both are done in regular Photoshop. At least, that was the case in 2008, when Shinkai was interviewed after “5 Centimeters per Second”.
A week ago, I ordered some used sheet music from Washington (it’s 20 minutes away from me). The delivery date is set for mid-April. I’m in no hurry. Somehow they bought new ones and are waiting for them to be used down to 30% of their original price before sending them to me.
Notes about school and kindergarten. About emergency drills at school
http://beinginamerica.com/2016/03/15/alarm-school-kindergarten/
Notes on shops in the USA.
Today during English class, Christopher showed me a cool video – a rap about Rasputin-Lenin-Stalin-Putin-Gorbachev. A fantastic source to study various conversational snippets. By the way, ERB has a whole series – Terminator vs Robocop, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and all that. Quite funny if you listen/read closely.
But the most valuable thing is the Genius service – anyone can comment on any piece of text, for example, to show what’s behind the words. For instance, the linked video http://genius.com/1693390 has detailed comments at the link provided. They comment not only on songs – there are also news articles, like http://genius.it/8797890/www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11181450/fcc-chairman-tom-wheeler-interview-5g-internet-net-neutrality
Very interesting.
Presented in a captivating manner. So much so, that the reader doesn’t even question why Lugovoi and Kovtun haven’t yet died of radiation sickness?
After all, didn’t they spend several days eating, drinking, sleeping, and traveling while embracing radioactive material? Carried it in a lead casing to avoid irradiation? But why then did polonium wreak havoc everywhere possible, yet didn’t affect the carriers? They write about extreme radiation and multiple contacts of Russians with polonium.
What interests me here is only the physical-biological aspect of the matter, not the politics. Are there any sensible explanations? Quote: “…a bath towel emitted 6000 pulses per second, or 130 thousand becquerels per square centimeter. Initially, the hand towel showed 10 thousand pulses per second, but a repeated test displayed an incredible 17 million becquerels per square centimeter.
To make it easier to understand: a radiation dose ranging from 10 to 30 million becquerels, when entering an adult male’s bloodstream, would lead to death within a month.”
https://meduza.io/feature/2016/03/12/samoe-radioaktivnoe-polotentse-v-mire
(to programmers) I can’t keep it to myself
I’m looking at the code of an extension from a very large payment system.
Actually, these are auto-generated sources. But it’s still funny)
It’s unusual when the official airline magazine starts with an article by the president stating that their radar is outdated and all hope rests on Congress. I’m more accustomed to seeing reports about “how great we all are”.
This is a park. I specifically checked; there is a road and houses behind the back fence.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 