> Most of us tend to think of randomness as being “well spaced” … genuinely random distributions seem to contradict our inherent ideas of what randomness should look like.
Speaking about the toes of Italy, one hundred years ago some people around there used to say 'eighty' as quattro-vinti (like the French quatre-vingt, yay!) or pendinta-tranta (a greek-italian mix, 'fifty-thirty').
Italiot Greek, also known as Italic-Greek and Salentino-Calabrian Greek refers to two varieties of Modern Greek spoken in Italy by the Griko people.
Italiot Greek refers to the Greek varieties spoken in areas of southern Italy, a historical remnant of Magna Graecia. There are two small Griko-speaking communities known as the Griko people who live in the Italian regions of Calabria, the southern tip of the Italian peninsula, and in Apulia, its southeasternmost corner. These varieties too are thought to have developed on the basis of an originally Doric ancient dialect, and have preserved some elements...
> Chicago denounces gun violence after 109 shot, 19 fatally, during Fourth of July weekend Experts have said gun violence often surges during the summer months as temperatures rise and large groups gather for activities.
@CowperKettle Chicago has a lot of festivals over the summer: neighborhood festivals (centered around a commercial center (usually a confluence of two or more main streets), social festivals (eg ethnic pride parades (Puerto Rican, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Dominican, Chinese, etc etc etc etc way too many to enumerate), or gay pride parades) or huge city-sponsored festivals: Taste of Chicago (a whole bunch of restaurants have special food stalls in Grant park), the Jazz festival, the Gospel festival
I could go on and on. Summer is a big outdoor festival time in Chicago.
At least that's how I interpret 'large groups gather for activities'.
That could easily be referring to lots of outdoor house parties. Most of the tings I mentioned are not big draws for violence (guns or not).
Chicago (like LA or NYC) is humongous... there is a little town center every 8 blocks or so (in both north south and east west directions). Also, it has a huge immigrant population so lots of ethnic groups overlaying in complicated ways.
If you look at a map, Chicago looks like this boring grid with a handful of diagonals. But it can change from block to block.
@M.A.R. I have a proposal. We give a gun to every felon on their release from prison, so that they can stay safe as they rebuild their lives and reintegrate into society.
Also: provide free ammunition at every corner store so that people don't need to make dangerous trips to gun stores. It's called "harm reduction."
@vikas I have another question about something I've seen in 'Panchayat' (no spoilers): about the bindi (red dot in the middle of the forehead). 1) is it mostly a adult female thing? (I've rarely seen children or men having them but I'm not in India)
2) Is it just a decoration (religious or beauty)? Or is it a chosen as a sign to mean something socially (married? has a child? what religion or caste? etc)? Is it mandatory or just some people like it and some don't?
3) I've seen that some people put a red mark up near the scalp, sort of like a bindi but moved up higher. Is this called a bin…
It's flattering that you thought I had any material to start with.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel? There's no barrel.
More of a hole in the ground.
Has anybody here watched or read 'The Three Body Problem'?
People seem to like both a lot.
(it's by the guy who wrote the short story that the movie 'Arrival' was based on)
I sort of saw the series. By 'sort of' I kept falling asleep, and then waking up towards the end of an episode and wondering what the hell happened.
And now I'm trying to read the book and... holy crap it's really -three- volumes... I don't know if I have the patience for that!
Too many words!
Get to the point man!
Also for some reason I can't get around the sciency part and how it is implausible.
I know I know, it's science -fiction-.
Like I read 'Dune' as a kid and it was great and all. But now when watching the movie, I can accept the faster than light travel, the Bene Gesserit mnd control, how spice gives you powers but... but I just can't get aside from the implausibility of the ecosystem that supports those gigantic sand worms.
Those worms are too big! There's no way the desert, even as large as a planet, could support organisms as big as them.
I'm being told through my earpiece that twitter, instagram and facebook patented the blipvert idea, deployed it a decade ago, and people are already getting tired of it. It's not fast enough.
The voice in my head (the one that isn't mine) is telling me that the infinite scroll UI of microblogging is just the stream of consciousness of the transcendental oversoul.
In other words, no big deal.
Hold on... the error message on my Kindle is telling me that it smells burning toast.
Is it having a stroke?
I am in fact burning some toast at this very moment.
But you can't rule out logically that my Kindle is not having some sort of malfunction by that fact alone.