Monday Open Thread: March 18 is Goldbach's birthday
March 18 is the 81st day of the Gregorian Calendar year
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And let us not forget 13.0.6.5.18 by the Mayan Long Count
"Every even integer n greater than two is the sum of two primes". An unproven conjecture that has spawned many others. The great "open problem" in math. I've used this clip once before, "but such is life", as the man said. (Bushranger Ned Kelly, upon the Gallows)
So that references the prime number theorem, and if you'd like a refresher on that, here are a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ezziaEeNE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKfdRks8oMI , or you could simply accept that the number of primes less than some number x is ballpark equivalent to x/ln(x). Alternatively, of the first x integers, about 1/ln(x) will be prime, or, the probability that any number less than x is prime is roughly 1/ln(x).
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
On this day in history:
0037 – The Roman Senate tossed out Tiberius' will and made Caligula emperor. Smooth move, idiota..
1834 – Six people from Tolpuddle, England were exiled to Australia for forming a trade union.
1871 – The Paris Commune began.
1922 – Mohandas Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience.
1938 – Mexico expropriated all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities and made them into Pemex.
1942 – The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was created to send Japanese Americans to concentration camps.
1959 – Hawaii was made a state. Aloha
1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, became the first person to walk in space.
1970 – US backed Lon Nol, a brutal dictator, ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. Bookends with Caligula
Born this day in:
1690 – Christian Goldbach, mathematician, famous for what he coldn't prove
1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, bot, composer
1846 – Kicking Bear, tribal leader, fought at the Battle of the Greasy Grass
1848 – Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, naval architect and engineer
1858 – Rudolf Diesel, engineer
1922 – Seymour Martin Lipset, sociologist
1927 – George Plimpton, journalist
1932 – John Updike, writer
1934 – Charley Pride, country singer and musician
1941 – Wilson Pickett, singer and songwriter
1943 – Dennis Linde, singer and songwriter
1947 – B. J. Wilson, drummer
1951 – Bill Frisell, guitarist and composer
1952 – Will Durst, journalist and actor
1963 – Vanessa L. Williams, model, actress and singer. First black Miss America.
1964 – Courtney Pine, sax and clarinet player
Died this day in:
1956 – Louis Bromfield, environmentalist and author
1978 – Leigh Brackett, author and screenwriter
1980 – Erich Fromm, psychologist and philosopher
1988 – Billy Butterfield, trumpet and cornet player
2001 – John Phillips, singer, songwriter and guitarist
2003 – Adam Osborne, engineer and businessman
2017 – Chuck Berry, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Transit Driver Appreciation Day
Music goes here, iirc, well,
Charley Pride
Wilson Pickett
Dennis Linde
B. J. Wilson
Bill Frisell
Vanessa Williams
Courtney Pine
Billy Butterfield
John Phillips
Chuck Berry
Image is Goldbach Comet by no_typographic_man (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
It's an open thread, so do your thing
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Good morning, el.
I just drafted a post about Tiberius's will and the weird California case of Lucas v. Hamm. (Beneficiaries of a will invalidated by a court sued the lawyer who drafted the will for malpractice. The plaintiffs' lawsuit wasn't weird, but the court's decision was.)
As I was was adding a bit about the Wagner Act and the Taft Hartley Act, the page on which I was typing somehow turned into my email's home page, which I reflexively closed. Yadda, yadda, I was not able to recover my post in the making. Sigh. Malpractice in posting. And, of course, like all my posts that vanish irretrievably into nowhere, it was the best post that I've ever written and its disappearance is not only my loss, but a loss to all of humanity. (-;
I nonetheless wish you and all Caucusers--oh, heck, everyone, a good Monday, oh heck, week, month, year, life. (Why be a chintzy wisher?)
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Good morning HAW, sorry that we have lost the opportunity
to peruse your masterpiece. Remind me when I redo my will not to make any references to the acts of actions of the probate court, not that I intended to. Yet another perpetuities trap. I seem to recall that t be an area where courts have been known to cut drafters of holographic wills a bit of slack, but even if that is a correct recollection, that was also a half century ago. My wife and I expect no Jarndyce v Jarndyce, but, then again, who does.
Have a great day and week.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Proud grandma has to share or burst....
#1 grandson just got a fully funded, three year scholarship to the London School of Economics for his PhD in Environmental Policy and Development. And..as if it could get any better...his employer in Sweden is recommending him for a promotion, a raise, and giving him leave to go. His plan is to continue working part time for his org in Sweden and to go to class in London for at least the first year when he has to take classes. Apparently commuting between countries is all the thing nowadays for overachieving millennial ex-pats. He's really happy, and we are all really proud of all of his hard work. So glad to see it paying off.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Very cool. Congrats!
Never figured you as a grandma. Live and learn.
You should be proud....
Good morning DK, el, and c99ers. It's a little early for me to digest the number theory, but I'll try again later. Excellent news about the grand DK.
Spring is coming on strong here. Hope something is flowering wherever you are. Have a good day all!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning dk, and thanks for reading. Congrats mucho
and the best of luck to the "youngster". Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good Morning Proud G' Ma
Congrats! Sounds like his employer really values his work. Job well done!
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
That is really wonderful !
He will make a fabulous career and you and your family have all the reasons in the world to celebrate.
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For all the children and their proud grandmas.
Cheers!
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RIP Dick Dale
King of the Surf Guitar.
Saw him play at Toad's Place in New Haven back in the 90's when he was on his pulp fiction tour. He laid it out solid for a good 2 hours. He and Tito Puente were the two best live performances I have ever seen by far. What an amazing performer.
Long live the King.
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RIP Dick Dale
He used to play around Orange County CA when I lived there. I got to see him play as the opening act at a few shows I worked. As a former resident of Huntington Beach. I can say he will be missed!
PS: I hate Toads place! Been there way too many times while working on tour.
Good morning jbob. Thanks for the clip. RIP indeed.
Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I was a major fan of surf music and still am. I never had the
chance to See Dick Dale live, unfortunately. The song posted, pipeline, one of the classics, wasn't written by him, but by the Chantays, but I'm sure you probably know that. I see that it has SRV - I stumbled across a clip of that duet years ago that had them both performing in the video, but also a lot of interspersed background action that was pretty much unwatchable - some sort of promo for some sort of beach movie.
He will be missed.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Interesting
link
big defeat in Afghanistan
Taliban
Thanks for that news item.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Interesting, I knew it was huge, but not that huge. It's been
on my mind recently because I've been thinking about TV's two purposes for existence, propaganda and marketing, and what a vast amount of resources we spend promoting consumerism.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
morning el
et al
my favorite chuck berry evah....
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and Greta for Nobel prize...
Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for climate activism
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47568227
not new news but oh-so-exciting
thanks for the ot and have a good one...
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Good afternoon, magi, thanks for reading and for dropping
by. Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --