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[WWGD]

Pure'ish serendipity, or possibly my tinfoil hat's sprung a leak : I googled for "Lester Telser" and that came up as an alternative spelling.<tl;dr> Issa joke </tl;dr>
It stems from the anachronistic trope "men are useless", which was popular in the (19)70s/80s, pervasive in family-oriented TV/movies : husband/dad's a klutz and the wife/kids have to compensate : hilarity ensues.

The kernel of truth is that women are better at multitasking (I won't posit biological andor cultural) : the underlying message promotes the idea of women in the workplace.

Yes, there is a difference in brain wiring and I guess form follows function ( and vice versa).

 

[hmmm27]

Yes, there is a difference in brain wiring and I guess form follows function ( and vice versa).

That'd be something for actual Science(s) to weigh in on in anything but a speculative manner. But, it's probably safe to say "millions of years of biology, reinforced by tens of thousands of years of culture". Just don't say it in the wrong place/time, or pretend there isn't a long list of caveats.

 

[WWGD]

That'd be something for actual Science(s) to weigh in on in anything but a speculative manner. But, it's probably safe to say "millions of years of biology, reinforced by tens of thousands of years of culture". Just don't say it in the wrong place/time, or pretend there isn't a long list of caveats.

Of course, I use it in an oversimplified way in this casual subforum , giving the Reader's Digest version.

 

[fresh_42]

How hot is it in the states?

 

[fresh_42]

That's wrong with the world we live in:

Brian Harold May is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and astrophysicist.

Brian Harold May is a British guitarist, composer, singer, astrophysicist, non-fiction author and animal rights activist.

 

[fresh_42]

I have an asian restaurant nearby. But I never figured out what kind, i.e. where from Asia. Not japanese, that's all which was obvious. Today I found out. It took a Coronavirus and a heat wave to gain sufficient evidence.

Because of the Corona virus, they had installed an extra temporary counter further away from the cooking place. This made someone necessary to transport (and translate) the order. Thus they had a young lady who normally isn't there to do the job. And I guess she is the only one who speaks the natives' language well enough. Moreover we have currently a heat wave here: $\approx 90\,°F$, and the young lady ran around like she would probably do at home: both, in her asian as well as in her local home: shoes and XL t-shirt. This left only one plausible option.

 

[nuuskur]

Nifty little reading by Underwood.

What to do when the trisector comes?

 

[etotheipi]

San Francisco vs Blade Runner (2049)

 

[Rive]

Got a new task: the 'specification' is a simple page of schematic without additional data, with many serious problems.
No changes allowed, must be done within a day or two.
My first time for GIGO
Gotta' get a beer once done. And wait for the fireworks to start.

 

[DennisN]

I found this texbook the other day in a second hand shop, in a shelf next to a book about astrology.
I hadn't planned to get a book on quantum optics, but the price was only half a dollar (!), so I got it.
I guess it was written in the stars.

I also got a book on chemistry for half a dollar:

 

[nsaspook]

 

[fresh_42]

Does anybody know how the minimal distances of english words of a given length are distributed? Or what is the minimal word length where the minimal distance is at least two?

 

[Tom.G]

Does anybody know how the minimal distances of english words of a given length are distributed? Or what is the minimal word length where the minimal distance is at least two?

Not sure just what you are asking here, but Hamming distance comes to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance

That was found as #4 of 74,500,000 hits using:
https://www.google.com/search?&q=minimal+distances+of+english+words+of+a+given+length

(Seems like a rather large search space!)

 

[Keith_McClary]

Hamming distance comes to mind.

Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

 

[WWGD]

Interesting article on the FT on how while most creative people are in larger cities, they are usually born on smaller ones. The dullness of the smaller towns compel them to find and create their own entertainment to avoid ending up bored to tears. City dwellers, by comparison, have ready-made entertainment by just driving and walking around. Article by Janan Ganesh, who's written a few other interesting ones.

 

[Frigus]

I think people on PF can be broadly classified into two categories:-
1. Who don't want their brain to stop working
2. Who want their brain to start working.

 

[etotheipi]

I think people on PF can be broadly classified into two categories:-
1. Who don't want their brain to stop working
2. Who want their brain to start working.

I think you missed...

3. Who are using PF as a procrastination mechanism

 

[DrGreg]

I think people on PF can be broadly classified into two categories:-
1. Who don't want their brain to stop working
2. Who want their brain to start working.

I think you missed...

3. Who are using PF as a procrastination mechanism

But these aren't mutually exclusive categories.

 

[etotheipi]

But these aren't mutually exclusive categories.

Point taken, though if you're procrastinating perhaps that means you don't want your brain to do any work... or maybe you actually do, but you're actively suppressing it... that's quite philosophical, isn't it ☺

 

[WWGD]

And those of us trying to figure out what you're %#!$ talking about in the above discussion ;).

 

[WWGD]

After reading a 500+ post thread on another site on why people who put the cereal on the bowl before the milk are idiots, with insults galore, even a few death threats, I feel greateful again for PF!

 

[fresh_42]

After reading a 500+ post thread on another site on why people who put the cereal on the bowl before the milk are idiots, with insults galore, even a few death threats, I feel greateful again for PF!

I knew I'm an idiot. However, you shouldn't smoke the hard stuff if you are prone to bad trips (pun intended).

 

[hmmm27]

Any rewards for 3/3 ?

 

[WWGD]

3/3=1??

 

[hmmm27]

3/3=1??

earlier post(s) "PF members can be broadly categorized..."

 

[Ibix]

After reading a 500+ post thread on another site on why people who put the cereal on the bowl before the milk are idiots, with insults galore, even a few death threats, I feel greateful again for PF!

What were you reading? The Facebook local page for Lilliput?

 

[WWGD]

What were you reading? The Facebook local page for Lilliput?

I lost track of it. Let me look it up.

 

[WWGD]

Pretty cool map:

 

[WWGD]

What were you reading? The Facebook local page for Lilliput?

All I know is the name Laputa ( La puta) did not do well in Spanish-speaking countries.

 

[fresh_42]

Pretty cool map:
View attachment 271758

This is only the stereographic projection. The map should be clued to a sphere, as you can see on combinatorics and probability. And algebraic geometers did their best to combine abstract algebra with calculus, and algebraic topologist to do the same with topology. Mathematics is path connected but not simple connected. Mathematicians keep an eye on it, so that it won't become 0-homotope.

 

[WWGD]

A way of throwing off a conversation: " What do you think about eating disorders?"
A: " I have trouble seeing how you can eat something abstract like a disorder"But I am not hungry anyway.

 

[Tom.G]

" What do you think about eating disorders?"

A: "I have no trouble consuming disorders. Do you?"

 

[Ibix]

What do you think about eating disorders?

Waiter, I didn't order dis, I ordered dat.

 

[DrGreg]

" What do you think about eating disorders?"

I suppose that's the opposite of eating orders after you've read them?

 

[Keith_McClary]

eating orders after you've read them?