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[Bystander]

Google "early 20th century american astronomers" with the quotation marks. Sehr interessant.

 

[fresh_42]

What do you mean? I know that my English punctuation isn't the best

 

[Bystander]

What do you mean?

I really was looking for early 20th century American astronomers, not grammar lessons.

 

[fresh_42]

What about good old Wiki?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Astronomen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomers

 

[WWGD]

This guy asks me directions in the subway. I repeat patiently for almost 10 minutes. Then he just walks out of the station ?

 

[Bystander]

good old Wiki?

American. Here I've finally accepted that computers/search engines can do my sorting for me, and I have to do it? It seems like an appropriately constrained inquiry/search, and such an incongruous result. Perhaps it's a function of political correctness.

 

[WWGD]

American. Here I've finally accepted that computers/search engines can do my sorting for me, and I have to do it? It seems like an appropriately constrained inquiry/search, and such an incongruous result. Perhaps it's a function of political correctness.

Remember that Google customizes searches using your search history.

 

[fresh_42]

The English page has a one-click sort function and on the German one can use the browser's find function for "USA". No big deal. And Google had far better results for astronomers+USA+19th or was it 20th? Anyway: https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-astronomers-from-united-states-of-america/reference

 

[Bystander]

astronomers+USA+19th

Still forgetting the "plus" syntax; get a whole different set of results. Use it all the time for "imdb."

 

[Bystander]

And/or to find the name of their favorite artist: actor/singer, etc. Do a search for any name ; when you enter a first name, Google will most likely suggest the last name of an artist. Similar for searches of any sort. EDIT: Re reinforcing prejudices, you have Google contributing to that: it tracks your search history and gives you results that somehow " best fit" your previous searches. It then keeps you in a small neighborhood of your experience set, of your previous searches.

Remember that Google customizes searches using your search history.

Always make a point of moving past Google's "lazy/customized/assumed" approach.

 

[WWGD]

Always make a point of moving past Google's "lazy/customized/assumed" approach.

How so? How do you do it? EDIT: Other than using a different search engine?

 

[Bystander]

How so? How do you do it?

Keep typing until it's no longer offering the auto-completions.

 

[WWGD]

Keep typing until it's no longer offering the auto-completions.

I always thought of how far down the answer you are looking for as a measure of how close to the mainstream you are: If what you are looking for is in the first listing, you are _the_ mainstream. If you repeatedly need to scroll down, you are pretty far away from the mainstream.

 

[fresh_42]

I always thought of how far down the answer you are looking for as a measure of how close to the mainstream you are: If what you are looking for is in the first listing, you are _the_ mainstream. If you repeatedly need to scroll down, you are pretty far away from the mainstream.

I regularly use Google as a connection test. Therefore I use words which guarantee me answers. Not the words I'm usually searching for.
My reputation at Google is definitely ruined.

 

[Bystander]

There are obviously as many ways "to google" as there are "googlers."

 

[WWGD]

I am remembering a nice sequence that generates all composites: S_n := 1+2+...+n ( Not easy to see without the closed form).

I remember I tried to determine a while back whether $10^n+1 ; n>2$ was always composite. Can't remember if I did or whether it is true. EDIT/UPDATE: True thru around n=45. My programming is too primitive to even do this. This means that in lazy, impatient Math, it _is_ true. EDIT2: It seems to be an open problem.

 

[WWGD]

There are obviously as many ways "to google" as there are "googlers."

I most often " Duck-Duckgo" instead of Googling. But I tend to get poor quality results from Google searches.

 

[dkotschessaa]

darnit. I forgot to be no PF again.

hello

 

[dkotschessaa]

I regularly use Google as a connection test. Therefore I use words which guarantee me answers. Not the words I'm usually searching for.
My reputation at Google is definitely ruined.

BTW a word or phrase for which there is no google result is called a Googlenope

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Googlenope

I just got one with "effervescent peach berries"

One for which there is only one result is called a Goolewhack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack

I don't know even where to start...

 

[jim hardy]

Googlenope du jour -
the YAHOO spammers that are harassing me "honanmolviantebeauties.com"

i'm about to set an email filter to automatically forward them all to CEO of Yahoo's parent company Verizon, one Lowell McAdam

 

[Ibix]

darnit. I forgot to be no PF again.

hello

Hello! Life getting in the way of important stuff like PF?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Had a surprisingly bad night (woken several times by acid indigestion) a couple of nights ago. Today my wife picked up a magazine off the the coffee table and a ranitidine tablet fell off it, somehow having been hidden in the illustration on the front. It's good to know the explanation for the bad night; medication works better if you actually take it.

 

[Bystander]

medication works better if you actually take it.

No kidding?

 

[WWGD]

Would be nicely isomorphic if Demetrius' younger brother was called Decentimetrius. I offered to name my brother's son Denefiu , given the daughter ( my niece) was called Denise. Denise and Denefiu. I think I would never forget their names.

 

[WWGD]

They claim the word "paying" in "paying attention" is used because the process of attending uses up resources ( so one must pay with resources). But why, then, is the word "pay" or equivalent not used in all languages?

 

[fresh_42]

They claim the word "paying" in "paying attention" is used because the process of attending uses up resources ( so one must pay with resources). But why, then, is the word "pay" or equivalent not used in all languages?

It's cheaper here. Unfortunately there is no good English word for "handover a present" so I can't translate it. In a sense, it is also an act of paying something, we just skip the buying process before we give it away for free.

 

[WWGD]

It's cheaper here. Unfortunately there is no good English word for "handover a present" so I can't translate it. In a sense, it is also an act of paying something, we just skip the buying process before we give it away for free.

Germans are more attentive/ focused?

 

[jim hardy]

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/388584/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-pay-attention

old jim

 

[fresh_42]

Germans are more attentive/ focused?

Before or after ADHS has been invented?

 

[fresh_42]

pay (v.)

c. 1200, "to appease, pacify, satisfy," from Old French paier "to pay, pay up" (12c., Modern French payer), from Latin pacare "to please, pacify, satisfy" (in Medieval Latin especially "satisfy a creditor"), literally "make peaceful," from pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see peace).Paid; paying.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/pay (Douglas Harper)

 

[WWGD]

Before or after ADHS has been invented?

IDK. "Blondes have more Fun" sounds better than " Germans pay more Attention". ( And I guess German Blondes pay more Attention _and_ have more fun".

 

[fresh_42]

IDK. "Blondes have more Fun" sounds better than " Germans pay more Attention". ( And I guess German Blondes pay more Attention _and_ have more fun".

We don't pay for attention, we give it as a present (Aufmerksamkeit schenken). But as said, there is no English word for schenken, only more or less bad substitutions as give or present which mean something completely different in the first place. Schenken is something you do with a birthday present for somebody else.

 

[WWGD]

We don't pay for attention, we give it as a present (Aufmerksamkeit schenken). But as said, there is no English word for schenken, only more or less bad substitutions as give or present which mean something completely different in the first place. Schenken is something you do with a birthday present for somebody else.

But you're not answering my question: " Do German Blondes have more fun ( while giving you attention)"?

 

[WWGD]

Don't shanken too much attention, I am monkeying around.

 

[fresh_42]

But you're not answering my question: " Do German Blondes have more fun ( while giving you attention)"?

While giving me attention? Of course, natürlich, bien sure, naturalmente! However, I'm not a fan of Blondes. Do you know the yellow strip between the lanes on a country road? That's my list of bad experiences with Blondes. So, maybe they have more fun, but I don't hope so.