The pure Cannabidiol (CBD) arrived today. Lab tested at 99.58% purity. Will be perfect for the chemistry experiment i had been planning to do for everyone to demonstrate the semisynthesis of CBD to THC. I just need to check to make sure i have enough hexane and i should have the supplies needed.
This is a really excellent discussion and a background in mathematics is pretty much helpful in *any* field.
If I could recommend one more book, it would be "Concrete Mathematics", co-authored by Knuth (the TAOCP guy). It's written for programming and is pretty much a companion to TAOCP. I only have it on digital but I really enjoyed it. It starts off by turning very simple algorithms into mathematical equations. It's not only informative and concise, it's *fun*!
A good read, something Ir ead when it was first published (check out the actual study if you can) and it has had me thinking about it ever since.
If there was intelligent life on earth in the distant past, would we even know about it?
People dont realize just how little we know about our past. Dinosaur fossils give people this impression that we have some evolutionary map going back to the beginning of time, but the truth is that it is a very very small percentage of the actual life on earth.
To put it into perspective just how mind boggling old the earth is and how much time there was for civilizations to rise, fall, and get lost again, consider Pangea. Many of you probably think the earth started as one big super content, Pangea, and it split up, thats the whole story. But the surprising truth is supercontinents like pangea form in cycles, every 300 - 500 million years the continents come together to form a super content like Pangea, then split and form again over and over again. In fact as far as we know there have been at least 8 cycles so far of super continents (one big land mass) and pangea just happened to be the most recent iteration. In that time a hell of a lot of fossil evidence is destroyed.
While I wouldn't say that past intelligent life existed on earth the truth is intelligent life could have existed dozens of times before and there would be little to no evidence left today to let us know about it.
https://www.livescience.com/62338-intelligent-life-on-earth-before-humans.html
I really miss #Dutch women right now...
Putting aside the fact that they are of course very beautiful, I miss their down to earth sweetness and accessibility.
Once a week I would often go into the city and find a coffee shop to sit down in and practice my calligraphy in a corner somewhere. Usually one to three times some beautiful angel of a women would come up and sweetly compliment my hand writing or start up a conversation.
American women are almost confrontational and many try to be "untouchable" and are offended if you even say hi to them...
I miss the Dutch.
Had an idea, controversial, but what you all think?
project idea : Sniper Week
contents : posts all over the place, open to Fediverse, and tagged with a proper tag (to be decided).
* bio of famous snipers.
* cool arms used
* written materials (I have a German Snipers training manual, WWII vintage)
* photos, links to videos on different places.
And all done in the interest of #History, #Technology and general #Knowledge.
Without attitude. Without offending anyone, hopefully. CW if needed.
Thoughts? Thank you!
@design_RG
>There is clearly reasonable and unreasonable CW requirements
That's because you're a reasonable person but many people aren't. Just like those in the instance you mention.
As it's been said the CW requirements currently running on Qoto serve a practical purpose, no sensibilites in play there.
What I say is that if you protect a particular sensibility you're opening the gate to endless discussions.
It's way more easy to defend a 'no sensibilites protected' policy than discussing why A yes but B not with many 'unreasonable' people or groups.
That said, I'm here to have a good time, not to offend anybody and I'll gladly put a CW if I post controversial content.
@freemo Ah, the Oceans!
Time for a BlueWhale protocol extension. Here's a couple, with a Trainee as well.
This last week ive been trying to cut out a lot of habitually bad habits, including my eating habits. Today is the first day its getting easier and the stress is going down a lot, especially with the diet.
I am tempted to start cutting back on tv too. Its usually in the background and i am fairly productive when its on. But i think it is adversely effecting my mental state and limiting deep thought im used to having. In the past when ive cut out the background noise my mental insights seem to improve, so i think it might be a good next step in personal self improvement.
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and willingly to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
~ Aleister Crowley
This quote becomes more important every day.
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