Today I Learned...

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  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL Martin Short, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks have regular ‘colonoscopy parties’ where they prep together overnight and share one car on the ride to get their colonoscopies the next day.

    Speaking of Steve Martin, hes a rally good banjo player, even won a grammy for best bluegrass album. I did not know this.

    https://youtu.be/CbA9JHkkaAk

    Oh man, I still remember his banjo routines from "Let's Get Small". The bit about Nixon and how you can't be sad when you're playing the banjo. Actually I remember SO much of that and the "Wild and Crazy Guy" album.
  • BrandNewMan1970
    BrandNewMan1970 Posts: 373 Member
    2 things both sports related.

    Mariano Rivera gave up 11 runs in post season in his entire career. More men can say they walked on the moon than can say they scored a run on him in the postseason.

    Tom Brady (goat) has been in the afc championship game over 75% Lebron shoots free throws at 72%. You are more likely to see Brady in the AFC championship game than see Lebron make a FT.

    Now hate away haters #stillhere
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    2 things both sports related.

    Mariano Rivera gave up 11 runs in post season in his entire career. More men can say they walked on the moon than can say they scored a run on him in the postseason.

    Tom Brady (goat) has been in the afc championship game over 75% Lebron shoots free throws at 72%. You are more likely to see Brady in the AFC championship game than see Lebron make a FT.

    Now hate away haters #stillhere

    1. Labron is injured. I'm not sure if he is still out or not.
    2. The frequency of Labron going to the free throw line is much more common then the amount of AFC championship games in 1 year. Since Labron goes to the line an average of 4 times a game, and makes 74% of them, and has played 1177 games so far, and there are 82 games a year in the regular season. It is statistically impossible to see Brady go to the AFC championship game more then watch Labron drain Free throws.
  • BrandNewMan1970
    BrandNewMan1970 Posts: 373 Member
    Thanks for Graham’s number. My mind is officially blown. We used arrow notation in an upper level math class in college. In a video the guy explains Graham’s number as a number i can’t even begin to grasp. Good lord.
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  • Iscah13
    Iscah13 Posts: 1,954 Member
    There is an actual Cadbury world you can visit. Dreams do come true.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    edited January 2019
    cee134 wrote: »
    2 things both sports related.

    Mariano Rivera gave up 11 runs in post season in his entire career. More men can say they walked on the moon than can say they scored a run on him in the postseason.

    Tom Brady (goat) has been in the afc championship game over 75% Lebron shoots free throws at 72%. You are more likely to see Brady in the AFC championship game than see Lebron make a FT.

    Now hate away haters #stillhere

    1. Labron is injured. I'm not sure if he is still out or not.
    2. The frequency of Labron going to the free throw line is much more common then the amount of AFC championship games in 1 year. Since Labron goes to the line an average of 4 times a game, and makes 74% of them, and has played 1177 games so far, and there are 82 games a year in the regular season. It is statistically impossible to see Brady go to the AFC championship game more then watch Labron drain Free throws.

    Agreed math is all wrong on the original post. Just because he has a higher percentage doesn't mean you are more likely to see him.

    For example, if a player goes to one super bowl and wins it, he has won 100% of the super bowls he's been to. Yet, you are more likely to see Tom Brady in a super bowl even though his win percentage is lower.

    That said I've seen Lebron drain more free throws in a game than Brady has been to AFC Championships.

    Correction: Math is right, logic is wrong.

    Correct. The odds of lebron making any single free throw are less than the odds that Brady makes the AFC championship game in any single season (assuming lebron is shooting the free throw and Brady is playing that season).
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that in 1946, a trapped moth caused a malfunction in the early computer which resulted in the term 'bug' to be coined for all software errors.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that in 1946, a trapped moth caused a malfunction in the early computer which resulted in the term 'bug' to be coined for all software errors.

    But wouldn’t that be a bug in the hardware?

    ETA: also, I think it’s a phrase that predates computers.

    Ever wondered where the term ‘bug’ came from? Well, on September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found a moth between the relays on the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on. In those days computers filled (large) rooms and the warmth of the internal components attracted moths, flies and other flying creatures. Those creatures then shortened circuits and caused the computer to malfunction.

    The term ‘bugs in a computer’ had been used before, but after Grace Hopper wrote in her diary “first actual case of bug being found” the term became really popular, and that’s why we are still using it today.

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    https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/18/the-very-first-computer-bug/
  • RomaineCalm
    RomaineCalm Posts: 3,972 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that in 1946, a trapped moth caused a malfunction in the early computer which resulted in the term 'bug' to be coined for all software errors.

    But wouldn’t that be a bug in the hardware?

    ETA: also, I think it’s a phrase that predates computers.

    Ever wondered where the term ‘bug’ came from? Well, on September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found a moth between the relays on the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on. In those days computers filled (large) rooms and the warmth of the internal components attracted moths, flies and other flying creatures. Those creatures then shortened circuits and caused the computer to malfunction.

    The term ‘bugs in a computer’ had been used before, but after Grace Hopper wrote in her diary “first actual case of bug being found” the term became really popular, and that’s why we are still using it today.

    a90la4k7prpc.jpg

    https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/18/the-very-first-computer-bug/

    She loves it when you cite your sources.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL that in 1946, a trapped moth caused a malfunction in the early computer which resulted in the term 'bug' to be coined for all software errors.

    But wouldn’t that be a bug in the hardware?

    ETA: also, I think it’s a phrase that predates computers.

    Ever wondered where the term ‘bug’ came from? Well, on September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found a moth between the relays on the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on. In those days computers filled (large) rooms and the warmth of the internal components attracted moths, flies and other flying creatures. Those creatures then shortened circuits and caused the computer to malfunction.

    The term ‘bugs in a computer’ had been used before, but after Grace Hopper wrote in her diary “first actual case of bug being found” the term became really popular, and that’s why we are still using it today.

    a90la4k7prpc.jpg

    https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/09/18/the-very-first-computer-bug/

    Yeah, I read that in wiki just now, but I still think it was a new application of an old word

    Check out etymology section. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

    You are correct but:
    The term ‘bugs in a computer’ had been used before, but after Grace Hopper wrote in her diary “first actual case of bug being found” the term became really popular, and that’s why we are still using it today.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL in the 1960's the Sugar Industry funded and selectively picked skewed studies that helped blame saturated fat with causing heart disease instead of sugar.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL that most oxygen actually comes from the ocean as opposed to trees. (70%)

    https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankton-breathe-freely/
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TIL: Japan had issues with crow nests on electric infrastructure, so they went and destroyed all of the nests....which prompted the local crow population to just build MORE nests, far in excess to what they actually needed.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    TIL: Japan had issues with crow nests on electric infrastructure, so they went and destroyed all of the nests....which prompted the local crow population to just build MORE nests, far in excess to what they actually needed.

    Is a crow a bird of prey or are they just scavengers and is there much of a difference and if I built an electric infrastructure in my yard will it attract crows to build nests there and do they eat moles?

    The American crow is omnivorous. It will feed on invertebrates of all types, carrion, scraps of human food, seeds, eggs and nestlings, stranded fish on the shore and various grains. American crows are active hunters and will prey on mice, frogs, and other small animals. In winter and autumn, the diet of American crows is more dependent on nuts and acorns.

    American Crows are very social, sometimes forming flocks in the thousands. Inquisitive and sometimes mischievous, crows are good learners and problem-solvers, often raiding garbage cans and picking over discarded food containers. They’re also aggressive and often chase away larger birds including hawks, owls and herons.

    So you don't want crows you want owls and hawks which crows would scare away. You need a good owl tree.
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  • SirMxyzptlk
    SirMxyzptlk Posts: 841 Member
    People have too many facts on crows.
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  • rickylee60
    rickylee60 Posts: 3 Member
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  • SirMxyzptlk
    SirMxyzptlk Posts: 841 Member
    People have too many facts on crows.

    And yet not enough on owl trees. The current school system amirite?

    Too true.
  • SirMxyzptlk
    SirMxyzptlk Posts: 841 Member
    Interesting to gauge just 100 years of currentl change, compared to the 1000's of years of change before.

    Neat video to demonstrate this: NY 1911

    https://youtu.be/aohXOpKtns0