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As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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ohnonotgmail

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Horse is hippos in latin

you have that somewhat incorrect. Hippopotamus is greek for river horse.

New Home

I know, but ursus in Latin sounded like horse in English. Sea --> Maritimus, hence sea horse.

Are you still under the illusion that my brain work normally, Ted? :rolleyes: :pac:

(Hippocampus is actual the name of the fish, and it's also the name of a part of the brain that is said to resemble it).

Ted_YNWA

My bad hippos is Greek, equus latin.

Too many bits of languages getting muddled up.

ohnonotgmail

Oddly enough the closest living relatives to hippos are whales and dolphins.

storker

Fourier wrote: »

How Quantum Computers work is that they take advantage of these coincidences. To simplify a bit, if they encode some mathematical problem in one bunch of particles, the answer is guaranteed to coincidentally be found in another bunch of particles, allowing them to skip actually working out the answer.

Fascinating stuff, but how can scientists know the answer is correct if they don't know how it's been worked out?

Ipso

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Equus?

Watch your p's and q's!

ursa actos

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Fourier wrote: »

Ha! Class! Thanks ursa actos (fitting username!)

Nearly. Ursus arctos is the brown bear (Kodiaks and grizzlies). The polar bear is Ursus maritimus.

That there is a typo in my username is something most people probably didn't know before now. I did alas, and 'tis a think wich trivially annoys me.. (double-topic win)

Fourier

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

you have that somewhat incorrect. Hippopotamus is greek for river horse.

You're chastising him for his use of a greek root, isn't that a bit hippocritical?

Ted_YNWA

Ah it's grand, we're only horsing around here.

Fourier

storker wrote: »

Fascinating stuff, but how can scientists know the answer is correct if they don't know how it's been worked out?

Basically QM predicts the correct answer will be found in the second set of particles. So you either trust QM or not essentially. Tests of quantum computers show the principle working quite well, although they can't do much yet, the record is factoring 56,153 into 233×241.

You are right though in that QM itself doesn't tell you how the answer arrives in the particles or what is actually working out the result for us, just that the answer is worked out and where to find it. The explanation depends on which of the different interpretations of QM one accepts (these interpretations are proposed explanations of what is really going on).

For a little bit of extra info:
If you know computers or coding a bit you'll know they often make use of OR statements, i.e. trying to work out if "A or B or C" is true. Of all the basic operations a computer does, Quantum Mechanics can only really help with that. There's also the issue of loading information into them, which is a bit trickier than a normal computer. So whether they are faster or not depends on the problem.

Examples of things where we suspect they'll offer no advantage are Google page ranks, your Amazon recommendation lists (or sorting anything really). There are also serious doubts it will speed up Machine Learning used in AIs.

They would be good for simulating chemistry, so a big boost for finding new medicines and gene treatments and they have essentially unbreakable security.

So ordering on Amazon would be safer but not faster.

mzungu

All that talk of Greek got me thinking about Grease.

Henry Winkler turned down the role of Danny Zuko because he was too similar to Fonzie.

Marie Osmond turned down the part of Sandie because she did not want her kids thinking you had to turn all bad to attract a fella!

Producer Allan Carr wanted Andy Warhol to play the art teacher, however studio execs did not want him to be associated with the movie in any way, shape or form so it was scrapped. In a somewhat more surprising casting choice, Carr also wanted porn star Harry Reems to play Coach Calhoun and offered him the part after a screening of Casablanca at Hugh Hefner's gaff. Unsurprisingly, execs removed him from the cast list. Carr felt bad about it and wrote Reems a personal check for $5000.

A lot of the cast were waaaaaaaaaaay too old to be playing characters that were still in school. Stockard Channing (Rizzo) was 34 when the film was released. Newton-John was 29. Jeff Conaway (Kenickie) was 27. Travolta was 24. Jamie Donnelly (Jan) was 30 during filming, and had to dye her hair from her premature grey to black. Her hair grew back so quickly that her roots had to be colored in with a black crayon every day.

Capt'n Midnight

Fourier wrote: »

You're chastising him for his use of a greek root, isn't that a bit hippocritical?

Speaking of roots, i is the square root of -1 , its an imaginary number.

As we all know the squaw on the hippo is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.

Fourier

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

As we all know the squaw on the hippo is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.

:eek: (it physically hurts)

What's the first step in joining your fan club?

Water John

Why did I spend my time in maths using it if it doesn't exist? Or does it exist except we only imagine it?

Realt Dearg Sec

Water John wrote: »

Why did I spend my time in maths using it if it doesn't exist? Or does it exist except we only imagine it?

There were times in the run-up to the Leaving Cert in the year 2000 that I wished maths didn't exist.

Grayson

Water John wrote: »

Why did I spend my time in maths using it if it doesn't exist? Or does it exist except we only imagine it?

Would it make you feel better if I told you it was wrong too?

Grayson

Chewbacca wrote: »

Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) from Only Fools and Horses was a physical training and Jungle Warfare instructor in the British Army during WWII.

Just googled him and he was a "child boxer" according to wikipedia.

His efforts to stay fit could be traced back to his time as a child boxing star in the 1930s. He was British schoolboy champion in 1936 and Southern Command army champion in 1945.

sbsquarepants

mzungu wrote: »

Stockard Channing (Rizzo) was 34 when the film was released. .

Stockard Channing is a woman:eek:

For god knows how many years I've thought he was the auld fella from Dynasty:P:P

Google has just informed me his name is John Forsythe!

Buford T. Justice XIX

https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1047871467764031488?s=19

Water John

Channing was also The First Lady in The West Wing.

retalivity

The 3 Bee Gee's (as kids) and kylie minogue's mother all emigrated on the same boat from southampton to Australia in August 1958

New Home

Eurasian wrynecks bend and twist their head from side to side, often while hissing, to imitate a forest snake when spooked.

https://i.imgur.com/BnyzA98.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAXQCjx2NHk

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/woodpecker-wryneck-impersonate-mimic-snake-animals/

mzungu

The Bee Gees were mentioned above, so here comes some Saturday Night Fever......

Saturday Night Fever was rated R when it was released, so theoretically this meant that its target audience would not be able to watch it (I'm sure they did regardless!). Anyways, they decided to release a PG version with all profanity, sex and violence downplayed or deleted altogether. This version took in another $8.9 million (about $30 million at 2016 ticket prices), bringing the film's U.S. total to $94.2 million. Both versions were released on VHS and laserdisc (ahhh, remember those?), though the R-rated cut didn't become widely available on home video until the DVD upgrade.

The story was based on a 1976 article about urban teenagers on the Brooklyn scene written by British journalist Nick Cohen. The central figure in the article was Vincent, "the very best dancer in Bay Ridge," whose name was changed to Tony Manero for the movie. Only problem was he confessed a few years later that the article was all balderdash. He was new in town at the time and did not have a clue about the scene, and so he based Vincent on a mod he knew in London.

The Bee Gees had zero input into the movie. In fact, the shoot of the movie was nearly over by the time they were asked to write a song for it. They also repurposed several songs they'd been working on, including "Stayin' Alive," a demo version of which was prepared in time to be used in filming the opening "strut" sequence. (You'll notice Travolta struts in sync with the music.) So if the movie's signature songs didn't come until later, what were the cast members listening to when they shot the dance scenes? According to Travolta, it was Boz Scaggs and Stevie Wonder.

Disco was dying a death when the movie came out and ended up extending its lifespan by giving more mainstream exposure.

Tony's now iconic white disco outfit was originally meant to be black, as men's suits tended to be at the time. Costume designer Patrizia Von Brandenstein convinced them it should be white, partly to symbolize the character's journey to enlightenment but also for practical reasons: a dark suit doesn't photograph very well in a dark discotheque.

Buckfast W

Apparently Dan Akroyd and John Beliushi made the blues brothers movie because they didn't like disco music

Buckfast W

Apparently Dan Akroyd and John Beliushi made the blues brothers movie because they didn't like disco music.

New Home

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DocOQ5AVsAAay7X.jpg

humberklog

The famous Pony Express mail delivery company only operated for 18 months (1859-1860) and was a financial disaster for lots of reasons.

It got to live on in public imagination because of Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows (which travelled internationally and was a huge event). The show needed to story board the stunts and escapades so used The Pony Express for part of the show.

puppieperson1

the amount of imported meat we consume in ireland is huge despite the fact that we produce a lot of meat. imported chicken turkeys pork etc and prawns tiger prawns and fish all from china and chile YUCK

mzungu

The longest bout of hiccups ever recorded was 68 years from 1922 to 1990. George Osborne's hiccups started when he was weighing a hog for slaughter. From his recollection, he bent over to pick up the hog but instead fell down. The doctor told him he burst a blood vessel tin his brain, and in doing so damaged a part of his brain that inhibits the hiccup response.

At the start, he averaged about 40 hiccups per minute, but this gradually tapered off over the decades and he was reduced to 20 hiccups per minute when they eventually ceased in 1990. Somewhat annoyingly, as he aged and became slower at eating, his food had to be blended in order for him to eat properly. This was because he was unable to properly eat his food in-between hiccups.

At a rough estimate, he hiccuped over 430 million times in his life.

He died a year later in 1991 at the ripe old age of 97.

retalivity

Jesus christ...how did he sleep??
Id have ended it all long before my 90s!!