Well today was quite fun...I learned:
“Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniente. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo céntimo, es caro”.
“Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive.”
Séneca
If a man possesses any superiority, or thinks he does, if he is uninstructed in philosophy, he will, of necessity, be puffed up. For instance, the tyrant says, "I am master of all." And what can you do for yourself? Can you fulfill all your desires? How can you? Have you the absolute power of avoiding everything that would pain you? Can you achieve all your objects without error? How do you possess this power? You cannot do everything. When you are in a ship you trust to the helmsman. When you are in a chariot you trust the driver. It is the same in all other arts. So, where is your power? You say, "All men pay respect to me." Well, I also pay respect to my platter. I wash it and wipe it. For the sake of my oil flask I drive a peg into the wall. Are these things superior to me? No, but they supply some of my wants, and for this reason I take care of them. Well, I attend to my donkey. I wash his feet. I clean him. Do you not know that every man must look to himself? Some men regard you no more highly than their mules. For who has high regard for you? Show this person to me. Who wishes to become like you? Who imitates you as he imitates Socrates? "But I can cut off your head," you say. I had forgotten that I must regard you as I would a fever, and raise an altar to you as there is at Rome an altar to fever.
...Da wir so an viele Dinge gekettet sind, werden wir von ihnen beschwert und niedergezogen. Daher sitzen wir, wenn einmal Windstille ist, voll Ungeduld da und schauen in einem fort heimlich aus: was für Wind weht? "Nord" - Was geht der uns an? - "Wann wird Westwind aufkommen?" - Wann es ihm beliebt, bester Freund, oder dem Aeolus.
"Man mag nun die Natur dem Bereich des Geistigen entgegensetzen, als wäre das Geistige nicht auch im Naturganzen enthalten, oder man mag die Natur der Kunst entgegenstellen, letztere in einem höheren Sinn als den Inbegriff aller geistigen Produktionskraft der Menschheit betrachtet, so müssen die Gegensätze doch nicht auf eine solche Trennung des Physischen vom Intellektuellen führen, daß die Physik der Welt zu einer bloßen Anhäufung empirisch gesammelter Einzelheiten herabsinke. Wissenschaft fängt erst an, wo der Geist sich des Stoffes bemächtigt, wo versucht wird, die Masse der Erfahrungen einer Vernunfterkenntnis zu unterwerfen; sie ist der Geist, zugewandt zu der Natur." -- Alexander von Humboldt, Kosmos (STA), a.a.O., Bd. I, S.59
Venus orbits the Sun 13 times for every 8 Earth orbits. If you track the relative positions of Earth and Venus over an 8 year period, this is the resulting pattern.
1 litre boiled off water, 2,6g sodium chloride (1/4 teaspoon table salt), 13.5g glucose (dextrose or 2 tablespoons of honey), 2.9g Trisodium citrate (1/4 teaspoon baking powder) and 1.5g potassium chloride (100ml orange juice)
tar -xvf tixati.tar.gz
cd tixati
sudo pacman -S base-devel (choose default all, maybe you need binutils too)
makepkg -s3. sudo pacman -U tixati....pkg.tar.xz
"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe"
Actually all problems in probability are about quantum mechanics. So even the outcome of a coin toss is the result of QM since the Uncertainty Principle can be scaled to everyday objects. In the case of a coin toss, the quantum uncertainty in the position of neurotransmitter molecules in the nervous system of a coin flipper might translate into an uncertainty in the number of times a coin turns in the air before being caught, ultimately determining whether it is a head or a tail. They showed that the calculations come up with the same numbers as conventional probability theory does.We argue using simple models that all successful practical uses of probabilities originate in quantum fluctuations in the microscopic physical world around us, often propagated to macroscopic scales.
