"Below average" and "above average" are pleasingly symmetric.
June 1, 2024 at 4:52 AM
"Below average" and "above average" are pleasingly symmetric.
Hmm. The partial eclipses I saw in 1984 and 1999 were noticeable to the naked eye. On looking them up, from the places I saw them they were each about 85-90%. I can't comment on your experts. Certainly totality this time was a totally different experience, and well worth travelling for.
April 19, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Hmm. The partial eclipses I saw in 1984 and 1999 were noticeable to the naked eye. On looking them up, from the places I saw them they were each about 85-90%. I can't comment on your experts. Certainly totality this time was a totally different experience, and well worth travelling for.
The 2017 eclipse did seem weird in that respect though. I'd seen two 80%ish partial eclipses before that which were very noticeable at peak in terms of daylight changes, birds behaving odd, etc. The 2017 eclipse was hardly noticeable in NYC without eclipse glasses, which I found surprising.
April 19, 2024 at 2:47 AM
The 2017 eclipse did seem weird in that respect though. I'd seen two 80%ish partial eclipses before that which were very noticeable at peak in terms of daylight changes, birds behaving odd, etc. The 2017 eclipse was hardly noticeable in NYC without eclipse glasses, which I found surprising.
In Google's defence (and I do work on a related area of map search), if local cafes don't tell Google their holiday hours, it's not going to know.
December 31, 2023 at 10:12 PM
In Google's defence (and I do work on a related area of map search), if local cafes don't tell Google their holiday hours, it's not going to know.
You can just inspect the list of all past and future solutions and all legal guesses in the Wordle page's source code. (spoiler alert, obviously.) Your hypothesis was true of the pre-NYTimes-owned Wordle, and NYT has edited it a little, but likely still true.
December 30, 2023 at 9:18 PM
You can just inspect the list of all past and future solutions and all legal guesses in the Wordle page's source code. (spoiler alert, obviously.) Your hypothesis was true of the pre-NYTimes-owned Wordle, and NYT has edited it a little, but likely still true.
No, I don't think I've heard a convincing simple explanation either. It was a good example of a question profs used to lay traps for unsuspecting new graduate students, and catch them saying easily refutable nonsense. This constituted a big part of post-graduate education in my experience.
December 25, 2023 at 4:01 AM
No, I don't think I've heard a convincing simple explanation either. It was a good example of a question profs used to lay traps for unsuspecting new graduate students, and catch them saying easily refutable nonsense. This constituted a big part of post-graduate education in my experience.
That's a maths dept common room conversation I remember having a few times.
December 25, 2023 at 2:41 AM
That's a maths dept common room conversation I remember having a few times.