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  • Katy Perry was real life 30 Rock's Jenna Maroney. Here are some of her literal quotes while in space

    "It's not about me, I'm here to talk about the world."

    She then sings

    "We're going to put the ass in astronaut."

    "for the benefit of Earth."

  • Skeletons are hilarious. They always look like they are smiling and having fun, regardless of what they do. You see a human skeleton inside crocodiles mouth and they are still laughing and having a blast.

  • When you say the first element of a matrix, first implies one and not zero. This is how linear algebra was invented (on paper, by a human mathematician), taught, and passed down to fellow humans.

    Starting indexes at zero stem from the lineage of C programming and binary nature of computer. For example,

    Computer memory addresses have 2N cells addressed by N bits. Now if we start counting at 1, 2N cells would need N+1 address lines. The extra-bit is needed to access exactly 1 address. (1000 in the above case.). Another way to solve it would be to leave the last address inaccessible, and use N address lines.

    This is why, math and physics people who learn linear algebra and matrix calculus learn to index at 1 (on a piece of paper) while computer science programmers index at 0.

  • MATLAB is for matrix calcs. Matrix indices start at 1, fight me. Given a matrix X of m x n size, you write

    Matlab has many issues, amongst other accessibility (which can be remedied by piracy), closed-software, but as a program designed to do computational matrix manipulation, starting at index 1 is literally correct. This is how you learn matrix indices in intro linear algebra. How is it make sense then you use a software to assist computation and start indexing at 0, while you write the equations and indices on a piece of paper you start at 1. CS majors go home.

  • What's funny about that newspaper excerpt is that it is word-for-word plagiarized from a picture caption in earlier article in Popular Mechanics, March 1912

    The reporter for Rodnen and Otamatea Times must've been on tight deadlines!

  • Elijah Orlandi makes deliveries for Grubhub in the evening after his 9-to-5 job.

    “There are scenarios where people have the right to be upset,” said Orlandi, who lives in the Bronx and has been making e-bike deliveries for Grubhub — in addition to his 9-to-5 job — since October. He has seen e-bike riders “swerving in between cars and all that kind of stuff.” But Orlandi is also hoping for compassion. “People got to understand, we’re working,” he said. Delivery apps, he noted, keep track of how quickly workers make their drop-offs — and ding them if they take too long. “Sometimes you’ll be going somewhere and Grubhub will send you another order, and then no matter what you do, you’re going to be late,” he said. “So that’s why you’ll see a lot of people rushing.”

    Surely the problem here this dude's e-bike. Not that people need to do gig job on top of 9-5 work day, unaffordable rent, inflation, and exploitative gig economy platform

  • https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/116385390

    HOBART; An official sighting of the Tasmanian tiger, feared extinct for 48 years, was reported yesterday by the State National Parks and Wildlife Service. The tiger was seen 18 months ago by a ranger in forest country in the northwest of the State, according to the service's chief wildlife officer, Mr Rod Pierce. Mr Pierce said the ranger had been "parked in his car at night doing some other work when he saw it in his spotlight. "It wasn't a fleeting glimpse - he had long enough to have a good look at the animal." Mr Pierce said it was one of a number of good sightings of the tiger over the past few years, but it was the only one by a ranger.

    Mr Pierce said the service would not disclose the name of the ranger who made the sighting, nor would it specify the area where it was made. "The tiger must have as much protection as possible." he said. "We don't want all sorts of people going out and looking for it." Rangers have searched along creek banks and through muddy areas looking for footprints. If its general location becomes known, rangers will set up infra-red cameras in the hope of capturing it on film. But Mr Pierce said the search had so far been fruitless and no tracks had been found. "The project will run until the end of summer, and then it will be reviewed," he said.