> even if all the chimpanzees in the world were given the entire lifespan of the universe
Seems to me like a flawed “study” if the baseline assumption is that chimpanzees would type randomly even when given lifespans through the heat death of the universe, which is estimated at 10^100 (googol) years!
This is so freakin’ cool! Love the animated screenshots and whole retro vibe. I hope the tech behind this will enable you or (through licensing or open source) others to build more immediately playable, cross platform games.
Tesla leases those parking spots to only be used by Tesla owners. Your non-Tesla vehicle can legitimately be towed away if you park there. They aren’t merely a convenience, but are in fact an essential piece of infrastructure for some Tesla owners who count on being able to charge there. While some Tesla owners enjoy free supercharging, most need to pay for it. In fact, they charge Tesla owners idle fees if they block a supercharging spot after being done charging.
Thanks. I looked for reference to this but couldn't find any. I did see an article saying that Tesla pays for the installation of the gear but doesn't pay for the spot. I also saw an older post saying that T posts signs inviting non-tesla drivers to park there (presumably if no other spots are available).
Imagine the sphere’s surface is divided into one million little rectangles. Their total area is meant to approximate the surface area of the sphere. If each one of those were projected onto the cylinder, and we showed that each of those projected rectangles has the same area and that they don’t overlap, then the total area of all million of the projected rectangles would be there same as those on the sphere. Therefore, the cylinder has the same area, since it is comprised of all those projected rectangles.
Thanks, so it's the overlapping issue I'm left struggling with (sorry, I elaborated on this in an edit after you'd already started replying, by the looks of it). It's not obvious to me they don't overlap, if the 'light' is at a different point for each one.
You're intuition is correct that the rectangles would overlap if projected by a light like shadow puppets. Instead, imagine a series of lasers up and down the vertical axis positioned so that their beams are parallel to the plane that contains the sphere's equator. And imagine that the lasers spin 360 degrees around the vertical axis but their beams always stay parallel to the plane of the sphere's equator. That's the projection being described here.
Right. Effectively, we're projecting every horizontal slice of the sphere laterally to a fixed distance from the vertical axis. It's a stack of 1D projections, not a single 2D projection.
I realized after the fact that the more useful terms would be “orthogonal projection” and “perspective projection”. The novelty of the orthogonal projection at hand is that it’s projecting (flattening) in a cylindrical space.
With an orthogonal projection, you can usually think of it as taking two planes and squashing whatever object your want to project between them. In the scenario here, the ambient space has been wrapped up, so one of these squashing planes has been wrapped into a cylinder, and the other has been wrapped into a line (the degenerate case).
In either event, an orthogonal projection is indeed a collection of orthogonal projections of one dimension less. But that’s not really the whole picture.
Well said. I've used and depended on Dash almost every day for years, and I've followed its development closely. I know the developer has absolutely no reason to manipulate reviews, and that this allegation is false and unsupportable. I also know from firsthand experience how impenetrable the App Store review system can be, and unfortunately was forced to leverage a connection to get my Mac app unstuck and onto the Store. I sincerely hope Apple does right by this developer and the many others I'm sure who are being wronged. This has got to change.
That would be really neat, but the core technology of Realm is written in native code. Somebody in the community could certainly create a Realm-like API for web local storage. If you (or anyone else reading this) is interested in building it, I would suggest building it on top of localForage (https://github.com/mozilla/localforage), and definitely hit me up if you'd like to further discuss implementation details!
I don't have a link to further into that story, but after being screwed by the Russians on the price (they did a bait and switch, increasing the price four fold when he arrived), he asked on the plane ride home "How hard can it be to build a rocket?".
EDIT: To add to this, the US government created sanctions against Russia, causing the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin to say "Use a trampoline to get to the ISS then" [1], which prompted Elon to unveil the Dragon Mk2 crew capsule: "Sounds like this might be a good time to unveil the new Dragon Mk 2 spaceship that @SpaceX has been working on w @NASA. No trampoline needed" [2].
I love how Russian dishonesty led to SpaceX's success in a significant way. It almost like we've had a people who go about things the absolutely wrong way to for everyone else to learn from (Communism, Stalinism, Putinism, etc).
I guess I was so caught up in the fact that he was trying to buy an ICBM. I didn't really think about the timing as well. This would have been within 30 days of 9/11 happening. Hard to imagine even thinking about doing something like that.
Seems to me like a flawed “study” if the baseline assumption is that chimpanzees would type randomly even when given lifespans through the heat death of the universe, which is estimated at 10^100 (googol) years!