Showing posts with label testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label testing. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Pi Day: fun with numbers: 'fixing' pi (π)

Quest for Pi solved with polygons 🥧 - 22/7=pi (3.14...) since ancient architects calculated it.
Pi as a fraction? It's possible #shorts #math - Visualization of pi being irrational

Worship the number, Kids, like in dumb religion
At UC Berkeley, my roommate Nathaniel and I used to mull over the Big Questions -- rebirth, telepathy, PSI, ultimate reality, physics, infinity, the nature of space, psychic powers, black holes, UFOs, the meaning of life, the futility of death, and the importance of birth control, in addition to debating whether reading fiction (like
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) could serve any practical function. Those were the salad days, under a powerful red light in a half-mannequin lamp in otherwise very hippie digs, there was no question we would not tackle. I came at things from mysticism, literature and psychology, whereas he was the numbers man, practical engineer, and theoretical physicist.

Douglas Adams' fictional book about a Guide
He loved sports, I loved music. He did homework (problem sets) with all his free time, and I meditated at the Berkeley Zen Center and more or less gazed at my navel the rest of the time. He was much smarter, but I got better grades. We were in school to be schooled and went on to grad school to continue the cat and mouse, chasing GPAs and glory of a most trivial and nerdy sort. Because what college really gives a person of privilege is the leisure to think, philosophize, question, debate, foster intellectual creativity, and expand. How sad that so many people spend it drinking or doing all the things they missed out in high school from having to study so much to get into a place like Cal, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, or Yale in the first place. We were sober for our discussions.

If only I had done more math, if only he had taken a real philosophy class (instead of accidentally landing himself in a course on logic), what might have been? We'd be two doctors having this debate:
  • Natty, my good man, let me propose a problem for analysis.
  • Yeah-yeah, Dawg, wassup?
  • As you are a privileged white male in our society, having undertaken a full and rigorous course of mathematics up to and including calculus, I have a thought experiment for you.
  • Aw, Man, drop that b*tch, and let's hear it.
  • Would you mind, Friend, dispensing with the urban diction?
  • The whuh?
  • The Ebonics or whatever manner of slang you're currently employing.
  • Say whut, Nugs? I be talkin' like I always be talkin! Word!
  • You never talk like this! Anyway, if it's what you prefer, it's just that you're making a mockery of these proceedings.
  • Ahh, yeah, lemme git da redlight! Sounds like an all nighter to wax on 'bout.
  • Here it is. I say pi (π3.14159...) is stupid because it is, as you say, "irrational." I want it to be rational rather than go on forever. And I think I thought up a way to do it.
  • Do whut, Dawg?
  • Get it to end, get it to be rational, get it to divide cleanly (without remainder), get all the measurements in order, from say a perspicacious, anal, or OCD drive in me to make better pyramids, architecture, and other low-to-no margin of error constructions by making the calculations in the blueprints better.
  • "Better"?
  • They'll be better in that they come out without infinite remainders of trailing digits beyond the decimal point.
  • No need, my Brutha.
  • This has never been about a need. This is pure science with no (apparent) application, research for its own sake, and you're just the man to do. Take this back to your professors and put it to them. They may see the wisdom of such a pursuit in building, calculating, and approaching the verities of life in a perfect simulation/world.
  • Pi can'ts bee evenly divided; it stays irrational.
  • I know. But I have a way to evenly divide it and make it rational, that is, to turn it from an odd number to an even number.
  • Ain't gonna happen, Bruh.
  • That's what the purpose of this thought experiment is! I'm going to make it happen. See if you don't agree, as my mind is not bogged down with all the math knowledge, rules acceptance, and numerical assumptions you labor under, I think I'm onto something. It's very easy in theory. How it would be proven, that I leave up to you. I'm the visionary madman making a creature. You are a white lab coat wearing functionary in this thought lab.
  • STEP 1: Switch from Base 10 to another base, such as Base 11 (or 13, 22, 7, 28, 60, 364, or 365). We'll start with those first.
  • STEP 2: Calculate pi. I bet it will break even without all those digits after the decimal.
  • Aww, ai don't think it'll work, Dawg, ai'ight?
  • STEP 3: Keep plugging in different bases until it does work.
  • Whut's da use? If it ain't workin, how's swtichin gonna work it?
  • I suggest we try Base 11.5 or Base 5. Then Base 10.66 or 10.67. See Base 10 is even, and I think that's the fundamental problem, so let's switch to an odd base.
  • "Odd base"?
  • Yes, something that is not even like 10.
  • Ya may be onto sumthin.
  • I know. And I need you to prove it. Otherwise, I'm going to have to resort to Mathletics, AI, Chat GPT, Grok, and other demonic entities to work it out. And you know they can't, for all they can do is tell me what a genius I am and how I just invented a new math system, and all that other back patting and feelgood replying they do to sincere saps who resort to such compliments when, in fact, they need pushback.
  • I ain't sure Texas Instruments calculators can handle this job cuz, internally, they might be juzz as jacked as math books in publik schoolz, ya hear?
  • Yeah, I hear. We may have to use a computer or supercomputer for this one. Doesn't your physics class have a lab with just such a program or IBM, Apple, or Hewlett Packard device?  
Supporting mixed-level math learning: Mathletics success story from elementary
(Kristina Gobetti, Feb. 19th, 2026) Categories: Educators
Int'l Day of Women and Girls in Science
In classrooms where students read at different levels, teaching math becomes a double challenge: helping students understand both the mathematics and the questions [word problems] themselves.

Teaching a split class in rural Alberta, Canada, Jennifer Doherty at Alder Flats Elementary School needed a program flexible enough to support all her students.

She found that solution in Mathletics, an online math program for schools that has become an essential tool for building numeracy [the number version of literacy] skills and confidence. Watch Doherty explain how Mathletics works in her classroom every day, from audio support to clear progress reporting. More

Monday, December 29, 2025

China's great empire before religion


(Audio Point) How ancient China survived without a single holy book. Can a human society survive Freedom from Religion?
A woman was able to rise to supreme power?
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara Clan who had de facto but periodical control of the Chinese government in the late Qing Dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her passing in 1908. Selected as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor in her adolescence, she gave birth to a son, Zaichun, in 1856. After the Xianfeng Emperor's passing in 1861, his 5-year-old son became the Tongzhi Emperor, and Cixi assumed the role of co-empress dowager alongside Xianfeng's widow, Empress Dowager Ci'an. Empress Cixi ousted a group of regents appointed by the late emperor and assumed the regency along with Ci'an. Cixi then consolidated control over the dynasty when she installed her nephew as the Guangxu Emperor at the death of the Tongzhi Emperor in 1875. Ci'an continued as co-regent until her death in 1881. More

Monday, November 24, 2025

DMT laser experiment: Life's a simulation!


(Erik K Swanson | Documentaries) Inside the DMT laser experiment: A search for the Simulation's source code.

If a laser let's us see the source code of the simulation on DMT, can it make me beautiful?


Friday, October 17, 2025

Shroud of Turn: Face is NOT human


Shroud of Turin analysis concludes face is not human
Why don't you do some miracles, M'Lord?
(Amaze Lab) The Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth imprinted with the faint image of a [undistorted] man’s [face and] front and back.

Housed in [Catholic] Turin, Italy, it has long been venerated as [a holy relic and] the burial shroud of Jesus [the Nazarene] Christ.

One of the Veronica's Sweatcloths
In 1898, the artifact gained international attention when photographer Secondo Pia developed a negative image that appeared startlingly lifelike. That haunting face helped spark global fascination, turning the cloth into both a religious relic and a scientific mystery.

But what is this image, and could modern science finally unravel how it came to be? [Was an artist hired to create it? Did some faithful servant of the Church fabricate it to deceive the world and his fellow ci-religionists?]
  • What state is biggest? Tallest? Flattest?
    EDITOR'S NOTE: The Number 1 problem with this cloth and image is a very simple and straight forward fact. If one drapes a 2D cloth over a 3D object, what gets imprinted on the cloth will be distorted, monstrous looking when laid flat again. It is just like asking, What is the biggest state in the US's lower 48 (which means not counting formerly-Russian Alaska) if all states were first rolled flat? One might think it's giant Texas, but it is actually Colorado. Why? Colorado is enormous in 3D (length, width, and height) and only comes in seventh in terms of length and width. Similarly, lay out a cloth and draw on it, and the image will look like what was drawn. But put ink on a body then spread a white cloth on it, and when that cloth is flattened out again, the image will be entirely distorted and bigger than its 2D measurements. But remember, this is "God," so it's magic, and therefore it doesn't need to make sense.
The battle to prove the Shroud’s origin
Church would never fabricate relics
Since its discovery, the Shroud has been fiercely debated. Early forensic studies pointed to blood patterns and wound markings that seemed to mirror Gospel accounts of crucifixion [a Roman form of torture to cause suffering and a slow death by drowning in one's own fluids within a week].

But in 1989, radiocarbon dating published in Nature dated the linen between 1260 and 1390 AD [far short of the 2,025-years-old], placing it firmly in medieval Europe.

This revelation sparked backlash, with critics claiming the tested area may have come from a repaired section.

As more sophisticated tools became available, researchers renewed efforts to determine whether the Shroud was a miracle or a masterwork of medieval craftsmanship. More
  • Ava J, Amaze Lab, Oct. 17, 2025, via MSN.com; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Cloud-seeding Texas floods: Cause?


How bad could a flash flood be?
Confirmed: CEO of weather modification company (Rainmaker) reveals cloud seeding operations were conducted in Texas two days before deadly flood. Oops

Perhaps this is not [to the level of] "Weather Warfare" [the U.S. secretly practices], but it's cloud-seeding nonetheless.

The CEO of a weather modification technology company has confirmed cloud seeding operations took place in Texas just two days before the deadly central Texas flood occurred.
NBC News reported that CEO Augustus Doricko of Rainmaker, a weather modification company, said planes had released silver iodide into the atmosphere in Texas two days prior to the fatal Texas Hill Country (Guadalupe River) floods that have claimed over 100 lives.

Now, what are we to believe? Doricko claims the cloud-seeding operations did not cause the flooding in Texas.

According to Doricko, Rainmaker flew a brief 20-minute cloud-seeding mission in southcentral Texas last Tuesday but suspended all operations that same day due to abnormally high moisture content in the air.

The two clouds seeded during the Tuesday flight would have dissipated after a few hours and would have had no effect [whatsoever] on the floods several days later, he added.

Cloud-seeding involves using chemicals, often particles of silver iodide [or other particulate matter as is used in chemtrail aerosol campaigns that feature barium, aluminum, red blood cells, and secret ingredients to amplify EMF and microwave signals from H.A.A.R.P.], to trigger the formation of ice crystals or droplets from water that’s already present in a cloud but not being efficiently turned into rain.

Though the technique has been studied for decades [refined by American war criminals during the US War on Vietnam to flood the jungle and root out Viet Cong soldiers with 50 or so inches of rain to inundate specified areas during war], it remains difficult to predict the additional rainfall that cloud-seeding operations can generate, with estimates ranging widely from 0% to 20%.

What’s clear is that the technique [so far admitted to] would not have been able to generate the record-breaking rainfall seen in Texas. So much rain fell that the Guadalupe River at Kerrville, one of the epicenters of the floods, rose some 26 feet (8 meters) in less than an hour overnight on Friday [while campers slept while celebrating the 4th of July weekend or attending Christian girls summer camp].

"Based on the meteorological evidence, the Texas floods were caused by a powerful natural weather system, with thunderstorms fed by very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico," said Andrew Charlton-Perez, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading in the UK.

In a post on X (Twitter), Doricko shared: "The last seeding mission prior to the July 4th event was during the early afternoon of July 2nd, when a brief cloud seeding mission was flown over the eastern portions of south-central Texas, and two clouds were seeded."

Further: "The clouds that were seeded on July 2nd dissipated over 24 hours prior to the developing storm complex that would produce the flooding rainfall."

Final thought: Rainmaker may not be at fault, but this is an interesting development, indeed. Source: Confirmed: CEO of Weather Modification Company Reveals Cloud Seeding Operations Were Conducted in Texas Two Days Before Deadly Flood – Def-Con News

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Li'l Latin genius born near Los Angeles



Humans will never excel my math!
There used to be Indigo and Crystal children being born into the world, communicating telepathically with one another like some extraterrestrial race of Lyrans or Pleiadeans. Gregg Braden was aware of them and mentioned it in his breakthrough book, The Isaiah Effect.

In those days, those sorts of children were referred to as Indigo.

Mensa in Spanish means "fool" or dummy: Irony
The next generation of prodigies or children with preternatural powers (that used to be inherent in nearly all humans) were Crystal children. What they would be today in the Age of Autism, Dumbing Down, and Idiocracy is anyone's guess: adamantine diamond Vajra?
Genius born near LA 
Landon Castillo accepted into Mensa with Einstein-
ian IQ at the tender age of 8, reports ABC7 News.
Move over, Kids, there's a new genius in town
Possibly part Black, curly-haired UK genius boy gets into Mensa at 2, making him youngest.
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THIS JUST IN (May 27, 2025): The youngest person to join Mensa is just over 2-years-old. The "extraordinarily gifted" boy from the United Kingdom (England) spoke his first word at the age of seven months. At the age of 2-years-and-182-days, Joseph Harris-Birtill, born on Nov. 23, 2021, has officially been accepted into the group, setting a new record for the youngest male Mensa member. Mensa is an exclusive [honor] society for those with very high intelligence quotients (IQs). One must have an IQ of at least 132 and be in the Top 2 percent to be eligible for the elite club, according to The NY Post. Joey's extremely proud parents, Rose and David Harris-Birtill, hope he will look back on this accomplishment with pride when he gets older [and that the other boys won't bully and beat him too badly as he longs to fit in with the knuckle draggers]. More: 2-year-old UK boy Joseph Harris-Birtill becomes youngest member of prestigious high-IQ society Mensa
  • Joey has surpassed Isla McNabb, who was 2 years and 195 days old in 2023 when she was crowned the youngest-ever female Mensa member.
Los Angeles toddler with an IQ of 146 accepted into Mensa
(FOX 11 Los Angeles) May 25, 2021: A local toddler (making her the youngest member ever) has been accepted into Mensa — the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. Nashe Quest is the youngest in American Mensa. She is 2-years-old, going on three, with the IQ of 146. The average IQ in America is 100. Subscribe to FOX 11 Los Angeles: @foxla. Watch FOX 11 Los Angeles Live: foxla.com/live.
  • ABC7 News; Fox 11 News Los Angeles; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, February 28, 2025

Holy Ramadan, month of Fasts/Feasts

Beauty bound in a burka? Free in hijab (dreamstime.com)

Hey, don't you mean FASTING? Yes, but David Wood (below) assures us it's actually FEASTING that will be happening all of this Muslim-month, with lots of sleep and deluded back-patting of how "pious" and "holy" we're being in observance of sacred traditions.

The many benefits of fasting
The same happens in Buddhism, where monastics observe a daily "fast" (not eating after noon or before dawn) but may overeat the rest of the time, often developing diabetes, cholesterol problems, and all kinds of diseases of modernity as a consequence. Saudi Arabia has many people suffering from overeating, not starvation, during the Ramadan "fast."

It seems even more ridiculous in Holy Roman Catholicism, at least the American version, where asking good Catholics to "fast" -- abstain from eating dead animals in the form of "meat" -- was just too much to ask. Forty days without dead fish? How is McDonald's supposed to make money? (Are fish animals? We thought they were).

Eat all the seed-bearing plants and fruit in the world, which the good God hath made: Genesis 1:29 quotes the God as saying, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. But that's not good enough. We need to kill animals, or pay people to kill them for us, even during Lent, a 40-day period of abstaining and austerity, abandoning all kinds of bad habits. Does Protestantism advocate fasting? Sort of.


Bhagavan Bhakthi (Hinduism devotion)
Maha Shivratri
– celebrated in February/March, the Great Honoring of the Trinity Component God Shiva is a solemn Hindu festival that occurs towards the end of winter, before the spring. It is marked with rituals such as fasting (vrata) and meditation (dhāraṇā and dhyana). The holiday occurs on the last night of the waning moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna or Magha. What do Hindus consider "fasting"? Six important fasts or vrats Hindus should keep and why
  • Fast fast (take nothing but air)
  • Water fast (just drink lots of water)
  • Juice fast (just take fresh juices, but be careful of the natural sugar content separated from its healthy fiber)
  • Fast all day (24 hours)
  • Fast part of the day (from 12 noon to about 6:00 am)
  • Fast all night (like when sleeping, avoiding after dinner snacks)
  • Fast part of the night (like during Ramadan, after the giant feast dinner, staying up all night to digest before ruining that digestion with a big breakfast, before the recovery-sleep done all of the rest of the day)
  • Food? Give it a rest and clean house, as fasting allows the body to clean itself like a self-cleaning oven, the energy-consuming organs of digestion.
  • All forms of fasting are good for the body, if undertaken correctly. It may seem scary because we overeat and are sugar addicts with diabetes, prediabetes, and all sorts of metabolic syndrome conditions, which fasting would eventually clear
  • Who's healthier and more alive than someone trapped for a time without food, finding all the senses heightened and fully alert?
Ramazan begins with crescent moon, how official start time can still vary around the world
(WION) Ramazan (aka Ramadan), the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is one of the holiest periods for Muslims around the world. In 2025, the world's Muslim community anticipates a rare alignment in the moon sighting for the beginning of Ramadan. Watch to know more. #Eid #Ramadan #worldnews

Fasting, the Islamic way: FEASTing

The REAL Ramadan rules we never knew existed
(Acts 17 Polemics#Ramadan is typically described as a month-long "fast" (period of not eating). Yet, the entire month is filled with "feasting" (periods of eating).

Indeed, binge eating during Ramadan is causing a health crisis in Muslim countries. So why is gluttony and excess portrayed as strict discipline and self-control in Islam?

Is there a spiritual component to Ramadan? Christian critic David Wood explores the issue and uncovers the disturbing truth about Islam's holiest month.

Articles cited:
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Alaska has a massive Dark Pyramid (video)


US government employee exposes secret alien pyramid in Alaska | The Alaska Triangle

Russia is a few miles from USA
(DMAX UK) The Dark Pyramid in the state of Alaska, USA, is a solid black stone, measuring 550 feet from base to capstone. Discover Alaska's secret buried pyramid, which is larger than Giza's and investigated in secrecy by the US military.
  • There is an equally curious Egyptian mystery, the strange case of the missing "black pyramid" from the Giza plateau. How can this be? An ancient visitor wrote about and drew depictions of the pyramids, but one is now missing. Was it teleported? It almost certainly wasn't deconstructed with cranes, trucks, and laborers then reassembled elsewhere.
Alaska pyramid behind US nuke (eutimes.net)
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