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Leaving the post unaltered below for context. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/smarter-living/word-on-the-tip-of-your-tongue.html Udhay On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > So here's a little life hack I use. I keep a list of easily forgotten >

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On Thu Feb 20 2014 at 12:49:53 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: what are *your* easily forgotten phrases? Empirical Tabasco Hasselblad Dunning Kruger effect Dunbar number Ambergris Sapir-Whorf Fermi Problem I've been updating a list of such words/phrases for the last 5

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Empirical Tabasco Hasselblad Dunning Kruger effect Dunbar number Ambergris Sapir-Whorf Fermi Problem Hasselblad? Ambergris? One learns all the time! And you forget Tabasco? What's the false positive your mind turns

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On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote: Mine would have (in addition to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the name of which I keep forgetting): I suspect both of us think that our knowledge of this phenomenon is higher than it actually is. Udhay -- ((Udhay

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I see what you did there, Udhay. On 2 March 2014 08:12, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote: Mine would have (in addition to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the name of which I keep forgetting): I suspect both

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On 20-Feb-14 9:02 AM, Thaths wrote: That is a great life hack. I've had countless times when I've had trouble recalling the exact term, but could describe the concept in general terms. Interesting thing I came across today that seems connected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethologica Udhay

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On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 13:21 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote: I'm trying to get my head around that as well. I suspect that it is only a matter of perspective but standing on my head is not helping (as yet.) LOL. Might be easier if you lived in Australia. Or Argentina maybe. I am reaching the

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On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 13:21 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote: On 23 February 2014 13:13, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: If that is correct, what is the real world significance of the unit km/l which can be broken down to the reciprocal of area - i.e. 1/area I'm trying to get my head around

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On 23 February 2014 18:55, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: So what is force per unit area. If you work that out using the same mathematical logic used for liters per 100 km you get the following unit: Cue the Einstein, Newton, Pascal joke - Up in heaven, three great physicsts were playing hide

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On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 19:00 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote: Up in heaven, three great physicsts were playing hide and go seek: Newton, Pascal, and Einstein. It was Einsteins turn to seek, so Einstein closed his eyes and counted to 10 while pascal and newton went to hide. Pascal hid behind a

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On 24 February 2014 08:56, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: Did you just make that one up? if you did it's brilliant. I only wish I had. This has been doing the rounds on the interwebs for a while. -gabin -- They pay me to think... As long as I keep my mouth shut.

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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:18 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: Which countries specifically speak of liters per 100 km?. Here's a start point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_automobiles#Units_of_measure Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

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On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 08:46 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: The length/height of the column is exactly the distance the car travels. The area referred to above gives the other two dimensions. That is the problem. If there are 3 dimensions, it is not area If the column has a length/height as

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The reverse for cars and bikes, mileage in kmpl (kilometers per liter) is the usual answer to kitna deti hai?. Curiously enough no one says kilometrage. --srs (iPad) On 23-Feb-2014, at 11:18, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 10:45 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote: While it

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On 23 February 2014 11:26, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: That is the problem. If there are 3 dimensions, it is not area If the column has a length/height as well as another two dimensions it is not an area, but a 3D structure. In terms of units, what Charles wrote is perfectly correct, it is

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On 23 February 2014 11:26, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: Imagine a car with a fuel scoop continuously sucking up fuel as it drove. The area above is the diameter of the column of fuel it would have to suck up in order to be just enough to keep moving. A column of fuel with some area

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On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 11:48 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote: Consider the cross sectional area of the column to be the minimum amount of fuel that the vehicle consumes to move an infinitesimal distance. To do this, the vehicle consumes a sliver/wafer of fuel. In reality, this area would probably

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On 23 February 2014 12:44, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: So does this real world area represent the area occupied by a one molecule thick layer of fuel needed to make the car travel some unit distance? As far as I can figure out it does. Pretty much. :) -gabin -- They pay me to think...

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On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 13:07 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote: On 23 February 2014 12:44, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: So does this real world area represent the area occupied by a one molecule thick layer of fuel needed to make the car travel some unit distance? As far as I can figure out it

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On 23 February 2014 13:13, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: If that is correct, what is the real world significance of the unit km/l which can be broken down to the reciprocal of area - i.e. 1/area I'm trying to get my head around that as well. I suspect that it is only a matter of perspective but

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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: With respect to Fermi Problem two things. First MIT is offering Street-Fighting Math

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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote: the fuel efficiency of a car is often expressed as litres of petrol per 100km, right? litres of petrol per 100km is length^3/length = length^2. What is the real world significance of this area? It's the area of

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It's the area of the column of fuel necessary and sufficient to keep the car moving. Imagine a car with a fuel scoop continuously sucking up fuel as it drove. The area above is the diameter of the column of fuel it would have to suck up in order to be just enough to keep moving.

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On 21-Feb-14 4:51 PM, Charles Haynes wrote: the fuel efficiency of a car is often expressed as litres of petrol per 100km, right? litres of petrol per 100km is length^3/length = length^2. What is the real world significance of this area? It's the area of the column of fuel necessary and

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On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 21:21 +1000, Charles Haynes wrote: It's the area of the column of fuel necessary and sufficient to keep the car moving. A column is always 3 dimensional. Area is 2D. How high would that column be? One molecule thick/high? The other point is, fuel consumption is usually

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On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:37 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: A column is always 3 dimensional. Area is 2D. How high would that column be? One molecule thick/high? The other point is, fuel consumption is usually measured as km/L and less commonly as liters per 100 km km = length liter =

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On 22 February 2014 08:37, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: The other point is, fuel consumption is usually measured as km/L and less commonly as liters per 100 km While it is indeed common in India to measure mileage in km/l many (if not most) countries do measure consumption in l/100km. -gabin

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Just recently I was having trouble recalling the word scalded with respect to milk (I was making yoghurt.) But I have a solution that works better for me than Evernote. I asked my amanuensis. What's the term for heating up milk just below boiling? Scald? Thanks! You're welcome. Hm. Maybe I

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Hm. Maybe I should try asking Siri. Or Google Voice... I think you mean Google Now. Google Voice is that virtual phone thingy. -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com

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With respect to Fermi Problem two things. First MIT is offering Street-Fighting Math http://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-6-sfmx-street-fighting-math-1501: Teaches, as the antidote to rigor mortis, the art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving. as a MOOC (free!) starting in March.

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Second, my favorite dimensional analysis problem: you presumably know that the fuel efficiency of a car is often expressed as litres of petrol per 100km, right? Well, litres of petrol are a volume measure, and 100km is a length measure. Volume is length^3, so litres of petrol per 100km is

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Second, my favorite dimensional analysis problem: you presumably know that the fuel efficiency of a car is often expressed as litres of petrol per 100km, right? Well, litres of petrol are a volume measure, and 100km is a length measure. Volume is length^3, so litres of petrol per 100km is

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what are *your* easily forgotten phrases? Empirical Tabasco Hasselblad Dunning Kruger effect Dunbar number Ambergris Sapir-Whorf Fermi Problem I don’t understand the bottom half at all. Besides ambergris. Great idea! If I look at words I “thozhuvu-fy” for (Tamil word meaning

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: With respect to Fermi Problem two things. First MIT is offering Street-Fighting Math http://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-6-sfmx-street-fighting-math-1501: Teaches, as the antidote to rigor mortis, the art of

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So here's a little life hack I use. I keep a list of easily forgotten phrases in Evernote [1] - you know the ones I am talking about, the ones that are perpetually on the tip of your tongue and drive you to distraction trying to remember them, usually because you remember a similar phrase and your

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On 20 February 2014 09:49, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: So here's a little life hack I use. I keep a list of easily forgotten phrases in Evernote [1] - you know the ones I am talking about, the ones that are perpetually on the tip of your tongue and drive you to distraction trying

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Empirical Tabasco Hasselblad Dunning Kruger effect Dunbar number Ambergris Sapir-Whorf Fermi Problem Now I will have to google some of these. I always thought Hasselblad was cameras, and have never heard of 4, 5,

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: So here's a little life hack I use. I keep a list of easily forgotten phrases in Evernote [1] - you know the ones I am talking about, the ones that are perpetually on the tip of your tongue and drive you to distraction

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: The above causes pain for me too. My brain refuses to index this word for some reason. One other I can recall from the top of my head (Because of the nature of the problem with these words, I cannot easily recall a list of these

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Which is why the Evernote list makes sense. As and when you remember a phrase, put it in the list. :) If there is a pressing need to absolutely recall something, I agree, having crib notes is the way to go. But why

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote: Much easier to admit the word escapes us and leave it at that. No struggle to recall the word; just respect for the brain and acceptance that it is busy with something more important, or needs the rest. As Deepa

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: You know what else detracts from the subject of the conversation? Sermons. :-) I sense anger :) In all honesty, this wasn't intended to be a sermon, apologies if it sounds so. I am quite happy to share what little I know, is

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: You know what else detracts from the subject of the conversation? Sermons. :-) I sense anger :) Annoyance and mirth, yes. Anger, no. In all