"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." [anon, often attributed to Albert Einstein]
Murray Bourne
@bourne2learn.com
Interests in mathematics, science, politics. Born on a blue day. Is there intelligent life on Earth? Stuff I'm working on: https://bourne2learn.com
"I think, therefore I am." [Rene Descartes, French mathematician]
"Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything, and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way." [Norton Juster, US academic, architect, and writer, b. 1929]
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." [Hans Hofmann]
Interactive parabola graphs (learn concepts, formulas): https://www.intmath.com/plane-analytic-geometry/parabola-interactive.php
"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." [Lou Holtz]
They’re using AI to justify slashing and offshoring even more Australian jobs and the Government is standing by and watching it happen. Ask yourself who profits from this? We need a system that delivers for the 99% who need jobs not the 1% who live off profits.
A "rational" number can be expressed as the ratio of 2 integers. For example, 5/3 is rational, while pi is not.
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." [Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." [Albert Einstein]
World population is increasing by about 1.2% each year, down from the late 1960s peak of 2.1%. See https://www.intmath.com/exponential-logarithmic-functions/world-population-live.php
"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself." [Pietro Aretino, 1492-1556]
Happy birthday, John Venn (British mathematician, born 4 Aug 1834, d. 1923). Venn Diagrams named after him.
"It's really important to be one that's constantly raising the bar, not bumping into it." [Geraldine Calpin]
10 Futurama Jokes That Will Make You Smarter https://io9.gizmodo.com/10-futurama-jokes-that-will-make-you-smarter-1676659998
#Auspol And get Palantir out of Australia. Palantir have military grade facial recognition in all Coles supermarkets in Australia. Palantir have been investing in Australian health insurance and collecting our data. Palantir have top secret government contracts which need to be ended. Stop Palantir
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4d ago‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Learn how Binomial Theorem works using these interactives: https://www.intmath.com/series-binomial-theorem/4-binomial-theorem.php
"If you can't measure it, you probably can't manage it...things you measure tend to improve." [Ed Seykota]
"If it doesn't challenge you it won't change you." [Anonymous]
5 free calculus books (well, 3 of them are good) https://books.slashdot.org/story/04/03/04/028253/Five-Free-Calculus-Textbooks
The "range" of a function is the values that y takes. For example, the range of y = sin x is all the values -1 to 1. See https://www.intmath.com/functions-and-graphs/2a-domain-and-range.php
UN Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger We still have the obese West consuming - and wasting - way too much food, while many millions still go hungry.
Current world population (live) https://www.intmath.com/exponential-logarithmic-functions/world-population-live.php Also see what growth was like in times past and future.
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." [Arthur Schlesinger Jr]
Mobile makes up almost 40% of YouTube's global watch time. https://www.youtube.com/about/press/
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." [William Bruce Cameron, sociologist]
"Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of." [Angelina Jolie]