Random Thoughts

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The Arctic Death Spiral describes events unfolding such that we have a feedback loop whereby the the increasing amount of ice melting over summer is reducing the “heat mirroring” effect of the arctic and allowing the planet to absorb more heat, which in turn melts more ice the next summer… For more information see: Arctic Death Spiral

I was entertained by Numberphile’s dice-based generation of an approximate of pi so thought I’d throw together a quick script to try this out: random_vals_pi The results look pretty good: $ for x in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do python random_vals_pi.py 100000000 100000; done 3.14130098162 3.13774230925 3.14174020697 3.13769082316 3.14274853819 The theory is based on having large integers, so reducing this reduces the accuracy of the approximation: $ for x in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do python random_vals_pi.py 10 100000; done 3.07962120525 3.0938112197 3.08601801522 3.08910857173 3.08599352408 And similarly reducing the number of samples does the same: ...

Marvin once said: Life, don’t talk to me about life But really, what was the problem. Life’s not so bad and after all : there are puppies, and fish, and ponies, and food, and walks in the forest, and walks through the grass, and cycling, and talking, and meeting and travelling and all those other things without which Life would not be Life. So here’s a soothing image instead: Soothing Image No. 123132512233