My Dad bought a pyramid to sharpen his razor blades, I can still hear my Mum shouting at him 'idiot' (they didn't swear back then). 🙂
I dunno, man... We ingested a LOT of illicit substances over there (with no control group to speak of, heh). I'm afraid the test data was kinda skewed. What a fun hangout though - always something going on at Reet's place.
A mind is a terrible thing. 😛 And a group of them can be downright embarrassing sometimes.
I actually have a book talking about pyramids that mention this feature, but I recall it maintains sharpness rather than sharpen. Since I use a different method, there was no need to explore personally. Interesting through.
I can imagine maximizing the difference between bit identical files is a tough job.
I think the files are quantum entangled with files he keeps... So, he can alter the files he sends us by observing the ones he keeps.... 😀
(I used the magic word quantum, so you know it must be true)
(I used the magic word quantum, so you know it must be true)
You do know that was a repeat? I saw that last year. Prof Jim is a nice change from Ubiquitous Cox, but the over dumbing down on horizon since the early 90s means you get 5 mins of interesting out of 45 mins of programming.
Summary of the previous 1302 pages
All snake oil theories work
(because of their psychological nature)
All snake oil theories work
(because of their psychological nature)
The frustrating thing about modern science programmes on TV is that someone who knows (or knew) the science being described/demonstrated can have significant trouble identifying exactly what effect is being described/demonstrated. Last week he did a laser experiment to test Bell's inequality but all we got by way of explanation was a silly card game played against a demon. As a result these programmes are useless for everyone; I suppose they are just intended to be mindless entertainment yet ticking the 'science box' for a public service broadcaster.billshurv said:
I do understand that and I have read that there are continual arguments between the directors and the scientists to try and get more science in. His series on electromagnetism at least had a blackboard with Maxwell's equations on.
As anything quantum can only be properly explained with mathematics they are on a losing run. It's best as a pointer to where some cutting edge research is being done that one can then go off and google for.
Aside: They have been doing some '40 years of' horizon programmes showing how ideas have changed. Watching academics over the deacdes try and explain general relativity with a sheet of elastic in front of the camera was very amusing.
As anything quantum can only be properly explained with mathematics they are on a losing run. It's best as a pointer to where some cutting edge research is being done that one can then go off and google for.
Aside: They have been doing some '40 years of' horizon programmes showing how ideas have changed. Watching academics over the deacdes try and explain general relativity with a sheet of elastic in front of the camera was very amusing.
I thought it a nice touch in the Cox program when he commented that there may be a young girl in the audience that was so inspired she would go on to change the world
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