Cancer Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 Quote Category talk:Fictional mad scientists From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Question: Why is it necessary to include fictional in front of mad scientists? Is there a list of real ones? And if so, how do I put myself on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 I've known some pretty irate researchers, myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 45 minutes ago, Cancer said: Question: Why is it necessary to include fictional in front of mad scientists? Is there a list of real ones? And if so, how do I put myself on it? Don't worry, I'm sure you're already on several lists by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 There is definitely real “mad science”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 5, 2021 Report Share Posted February 5, 2021 I'm not a mad scientist, I'm just really concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 5, 2021 Report Share Posted February 5, 2021 Why have so many of the videos I have Liked on YouTube been taken down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2021 Report Share Posted February 7, 2021 Huh. Friend of mine just sold a copy of Avengers #1 on eBay for $4200. (It was one he had bought when it first came out and he'd hung onto it all these years.) Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 About six inches of snow on the ground in my end of Seattle, still lightly snowing off and on. And my bird feeder is insanely busy. The varied thrush showed up today for the first time this winter. All the other regulars in higher-than-usual numbers., from flickers and jays down to chickadees, bushtits and wrens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 35-foot waves on the North Shore today. Spectacular, but not as big as the 50-footers a month ago, which we went to see. It's kind of unnerving to see waves that size hitting the shore where we snorkeled in the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 More monsoonal rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 The funniest thing about this is the reaction of the 18-month-old cat. We had no heavy snow last winter, and she was too small to be introduced to it anyway, so she'd never seen snow before. Last summer we started letting her out in the yard. When I opened the door for her (and the older cats, neither of whom wanted out in it, but they had seen it before) this afternoon, her reaction to six inches of snow on the deck was something like shocked, horrified fascination, not daring to step out into it, craning her neck to see as much of the disfigured landscape as she could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 We've got snow sticking to the roads for the first time this season. In other news, the latest water report shows that the area's snowpack this winter is 62% of average, and last month was the 7th driest January on record for the state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Still some six inches of snow on the roads, so between that and the pandemic restrictions Valentine's dinner will be here at home, and I'll make chicken pie. I did get to a store this morning and bought a cake. We have wine in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 x = x + (not x) ie X can be its thesis & antithesis at the same time. illogical? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 Example: Kindness is both kindness and unkindness. Thus you can be unkind and call it kindness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 3 hours ago, Bazza said: x = x + (not x) ie X can be its thesis & antithesis at the same time. illogical? Not at all Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 4 hours ago, Bazza said: x = x + (not x) ie X can be its thesis & antithesis at the same time. illogical? This works just fine if (not x) = 0. /literal /pedantic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 4 hours ago, Bazza said: x = x + (not x) ie X can be its thesis & antithesis at the same time. illogical? I believe that is valid Python syntax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 5 hours ago, Cancer said: Not at all How about the law of non contradiction which Stanford's online encyclopedia defines as: " It is impossible that the same thing can at the same time both belong and not belong to the same object and in the same respect, and all other specifications that might be made, let them be added to meet local objections (1005b19–23). ps: I'm genuinely curious. And thanks for the link, never heard of that before. I can see its applicability with a set of 1, however am also curious to your response to LNC. 4 hours ago, Pariah said: This works just fine if (not x) = 0. /literal /pedantic THat's just it, as we are talking about existing things. Can an existing thing essentially be its opposite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 Well, I'd heard of Russell's paradox, but I've never worked with it; I have no training in working with formal logic, mathematical or otherwise. It interacts with Gödel's incompleteness theorems in possibly relevant ways. What a Real Mathematician would say in response ... I have no idea what they'd say. The non-contradiction law seems like an axiom to me, but the others are theorems, and Godel's work indicates that a set of axioms from which theorems are constructed must be either incomplete (i.e., there exist true things which cannot be proven) or inconsistent (i.e., there exist false things that nevertheless be proven true). (I assume it is possible for both to hold.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 That is very similar or identical to the book I’ve recently finished about debating. Which reminds me, I have to follow that up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 39 minutes ago, Bazza said: That is very similar or identical to the book I’ve recently finished about debating. Which reminds me, I have to follow that up. No you don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 Yes I do, it it lead the the de-certitude of knowledge, which lead to science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 Guess I should have put a smiley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 Wouldn’t have mattered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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