Paul's Frivolity
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The Basic Workup The standard blood workup takes more than 30 measurements and can go on for more than four pages. All sorts of things can turn up in the report; the challenge for physician and patient alike is to find the signal within the noise. Make It Easy Listing various “reference ranges” on the right of the page, separate from the results, forces the eye to scan back and forth as you evaluate the numbers. We add charts that depict clearly and succinctly where you fit along the spectrum.
Blood Test Gets a Makeover
Atomic Rockets: Life Support
" Pegasus to Acheron ," he replied. "I have three hundred passengers aboard. I cannot hazard my ship if there is danger of an explosion."
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However since Santa does not visit children of the Muslim, Hindu or Jewish religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million. Santa has about 108 million homes to visit and 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels from east to west. This works out at 967.7 visits per second.This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him and get on to the next house. Hitting a plane is nothing compared to the mess Santa would make if he existed
The Real Santa
In 1986 I made a computer model of coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks and fish schools. It was based on three dimensional computational geometry of the sort normally used in computer animation or computer aided design. I called the generic simulated flocking creatures boids . The basic flocking model consists of three simple steering behaviors which describe how an individual boid maneuvers based on the positions and velocities its nearby flockmates: Each boid has direct access to the whole scene's geometric description, but flocking requires that it reacts only to flockmates within a certain small neighborhood around itself.
Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model)
The Boids have been around for many years - and of course, many interesting developments have happened from the seed programme. by Dec 18
very interesting, passing this on to our programmers by Dec 18